On 10/17/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
wrote:
geni wrote:
On 10/17/05, Anthony DiPierro
<wikispam(a)inbox.org> wrote:
1) allow
any user to view the content of deleted pages
Not legal.
According to what law?
Ec
Articles are not only deleted for being crap, sometimes an article is
also deleted for containing possibly libellous information or info
that could violate someone's privacy. Access to such information
should be limited to a minimum of people. Keeping it as historical
evidence in case we need it in legal accusations so we can retrace who
said what and posted what is essential to Wikipedia, which is why
something is rarely completely purged from the database.
Anthony's comments related to the general case. Your point, and those
since made by others about copyvios, are certainly valid. The problem
is that you are using those valid particular arguments to apply to the
general case.
Ec