--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu>
wrote:
There are many copyright violations hidden in
pages'
histories now, and we are technically in violation of copyright for
having them, however unobvious it may be for somebody to get to
them.So we need to do this anyway, as has been suggested before.
Only sysops would be able to do this, with a "del" link
next to the "diff" and "cur" links in each page's history.
I agree with most of your proposal, but I'm not sure
of this part. I do agree with the need to remove
copyright violations. I am concerned, however, that
people may be too quick to use this function. We've
had many cases where one Wikipedian believed a text to
be under copyright, but it was actually contributed by
the copyright holder. If such a feature was put in
place, we would have to develop a fairly strict policy
on why and how to use it.
Unusable content in particular revisions can be plucked out manually by
a developer (currently me, Lee, Magnus) if the appropriateness is
established. For instance, see the history for [[New Jersey Turnpike]].
I'm dubious that it's something we'd want to do all the time, though.
Permanent deletion isn't supposed to be easy.
-- brion vibber (brion @