Author: matthew.britton

Description:
It would be nice if an (sitewide) option could be set in MediaWiki that would reject attempts to carry out non-editing actions such as block, delete, protect and move without filling in the "comment" field, instead returning an error message with a friendly reminder that not filling this in is a PITA for the rest of us mere mortals.

Too often I've seen an innocuous-looking page title which on attempted creation presents the message "The page title you have tried to create has been protected from creation. The reason given is."; too often I've seen pages deleted with no explanation provided and have to find and ask someeone to send me the deleted text just so that I can see why it was deleted. Similar problems exist for other actions. Asking nicely unfortunately doesn't seem to work.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement