Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Admins and patrollers/Remember previous deletion reason

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Remember previous deletion reason

Problem: When deleting a large amount of pages for the same reason by hand, having to open the drop-down menu and select the same reason over and over again is cumbersome and error-prone, especially considering that the deletion reason cannot be changed.
Proposed solution: Instead of always defaulting to "Other reason", the reason selected by default should be the one used in the previous deletion. This feature could be made opt-in so that it first has to be activated in one's preferences. The text box under "Other/additional reason" should keep being filled out the same way as without this feature.
Who would benefit: Administrators.
More comments: This feature could be generalized in order to pertain to more actions (such as moves or protections). The benefit is however arguably lower for those.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Fytcha (talk) 15:48, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

For a recent example, see this manual mass-deletion of unidiomatic number terms. Fytcha (talk) 15:48, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
My way of doing this is as follows (if not just using something like Twinkle batch delete):
1. Open all the pages you want to delete
2. Tab through each page, clicking the delete link
3. Tab through each page, copy-paste the deletion reason
--Izno (talk) 22:46, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not my problem. My web browser (Internet Explorer 11) automatically remembers 200 last reasons for deletion. And I like that. Taivo (talk) 18:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
agreed but i think it shouldn't be automatically enabled; same as other futures it should be optional that can be enable/disable on preferences. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 10:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
What I'd do instead is allow the current deletion reason to be "locked in" somehow and then reuse that until the locking action is undone. I had a user script for that once, but it was quite crude and I have no idea if it still works. --Tgr (talk) 02:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I would support this if it were an opt-in, but as stated it would be a permanent feature. I would only want it turned on if I was doing some kind of mass delete. For instance, when I delete a prod or a csd, the deletion reason is automatically copied from the proposal template. I would not want that to be overriden. Spinning Spark 11:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Goodlucksil (talk) 19:08, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support agreed Aboudaqn (talk) 20:18, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 22:42, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 22:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 00:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support This could be a huge QOL improvement. Fazart (talk) 00:36, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 10:25, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 11:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 11:50, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support That can be a mass-summary deletion. Thingofme (talk) 13:30, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support BSMIsEditing (talk) 14:59, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 18:18, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:05, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 ℣ 00:02, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gusfriend (talk) 00:08, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Agus Damanik (talk) 02:34, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. – Symphonium264 (talk) 02:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aire Azul (talk) 02:51, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ali Imran Awan (talk) 07:07, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 07:32, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Rocky Masum (talk) 09:51, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support N013i (talk) 14:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --g (talk) 14:31, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support daSupremo 18:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Basically we need a way to save results for all text input boxes in a wiki for deletion reasons, edits, etc. Lectrician1 (talk) 18:51, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bub's (talk) 20:25, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 04:58, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Eta Carinae (talk) 18:38, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shooterwalker (talk) 22:35, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support MONUMENTA (talk) 00:30, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Flyplanevn27 (talk) 12:54, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alain Artivalys (talk) 13:01, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Just encourages mass deletions. KingAntenor (talk) 05:50, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Downloader2282 (talk) 11:32, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Saad Nabbi (talk) 10:19, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose conditionally per my comment above. Spinning Spark 12:00, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Really great idea. Lol78231469 (talk) 14:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dsalerno (talk) 00:55, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Érico (talk) 15:13, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think Spinningspark's concerns are valid and should be considered. Otr500 (talk) 17:57, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 23:30, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nabla (talk) 19:23, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 19:52, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support RadiX ∞ 03:39, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Carlosguitar (talk) 23:57, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support We (nqowiki) needs an administrators who can help patrolling and protect against autobiography writers and blanking articles and vandalism and more... ߒߓߋ߫ ߝߏߝߣߊ߫ (talk) 09:04, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support BlueDesertCamel (talk) 10:40, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support good feature Shyam ^(T/C) 13:12, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 14:30, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support בקש (talk) 21:07, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support This will be very useful for mass-blocking sockpuppets under the same person Haycrendham (talk) 21:46, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nadzik (talk) 13:49, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jonathan5566^(talk) 14:43, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geonuch (talk) 15:00, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nehaoua (talk) 16:24, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]