--- Brion Vibber <vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu> wrote:
<rant>
Why in the heck is this thread still going on?
Have people lost all common sense and decency? You
should all be ashamed
of yourselves.
Deletion of pages through the "delete page" function
as we have it
currently *is* unwiki, because only a relatively
small number of people
can do it, and only a relatively small number of
people can undo it. As
long as that state of affairs exists (VOLUNTEERS TO
RECODE THE DELETION
SYSTEM ARE WELCOME) it is only polite to make
reasonable efforts to notify
people[1] that pages are under consideration for
deletion by putting a
note *on* the page in question.
It would make sense to let anyone delete articles, but
is all the history still available after an article is
deleted and undeleted? And if we let anyone delete
articles, I think a deleted article should have page
history show up of all the past edits. Like you said,
this would require a recoding of the deletion system,
and I don't know PHP or /mySQL, so I couldn't do that.
L
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