[WikiEN-l] Turn off AfD

Fri Dec 9 18:17:09 UTC 2005

Kelly Martin wrote:

>On 12/9/05, Jtkiefer <jtkiefer at wordzen.net> wrote:
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>>Yes but unfortunately as it is now edit summaries are always viewable to
>>anyone even when deleted which the vandals have figured out and are now
>>using to get away with slander and privacy policy violations which it
>>takes a developer to remove.  If something like this is implemented
>>admins should have the ability to also hide the edit summary from being
>>seen by non admins
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>Locked revisions would have their edit summaries obscured (it would
>appear as "(edit summary obscured for legal reasons)" or something
>like that).
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Why should revisions like that be kept at all? It sounds like what 
you're proposing is just a way to mix deleted revisions in with 
undeleted revisions in the article history, rather than having a 
separate group of deleted revisions you have to click a link to see.

Wikipedia's content is commonly mirrored. If these "hidden" revisions 
don't go along with the published databases they're as good as deleted 
anyway. If they do go along with it, then they're not "hidden."