On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:28:21 +0100, Frank v Waveren
<fvw.wikipediaml(a)var.cx> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:59:58AM -0800, Brion Vibber
wrote:
The chief reason to be deleting something (as
opposed to redirecting it
to a more appropriate article or replacing it with a better one) is
that it includes copyrighted material that we don't have permission to
distribute. This necessitates not being able to have _just anybody_
come along and view or undelete it.
This is a problem, however my proposed system
is in no way different
than it currently is for existing articles/pages: If I paste
copyrighted material into an article, it'll just get reverted, and
only removed if the copyright holder complains
It was already proposed to allow non-sysops to see deleted articles [1].
There wasn't a consensus in favour of it. If you only want this to apply to
sysops, there doesn't seem to be much difference to how it is.
Kate.
[1]