[WikiEN-l] Paper is not paper

Wed Oct 5 09:50:01 UTC 2005

On 10/5/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is one reason I think something like a pure-wiki deletion system is the
> > best way to handle deletion. If deletion is relatively easy to undo, then we
> > don't have to waste so much time making sure we get it right. Even if a
> > deleted article were only kept around for a week, or a month, for review by
> > any interested party, I think we'd waste a lot less time.
>
> Deletion is already easy to undo. It's called "VFU". All people need
> to learn how to properly pursuade people the original discussion was
> faulty or caused out of process deletion or that the situation
> regarding its subject changed.

Unless you're an admin, you don't even really know what's been deleted
without going through the process of petitioning someone else to see
what was there.  It's not easy to even know what's deleted, much less
get it undeleted.  If I wanted to go on a salvage hunt through
articles deleted, I'd have to find an awfully patient admin to handle
my stack of requests.

(Not to imply I like "pure wiki deletion, because I don't.)
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Michael Turley
User:Unfocused