[WikiEN-l] Re: More Seigenthaler fallout

Fri Dec 16 14:10:29 UTC 2005

Phil Boswell wrote:
> Am I right in thinking that we're not talking about expunging these history 
> entries from the database, simply deleting them.
> 
> So they will still show up as "deleted edits" which admins could restore if 
> necessary.
> 
> Would it maybe be possible to fix it so that "deleted edits" show up in user 
> contributions, labelled in some way, with restricted access?

I think a part of the resistance to being more aggressive about cleaning
up article histories comes from our inappropriate use of the term
'deleted' here.  The edits aren't actually deleted, they are actually
'unpublished' or 'hidden' or 'dark'.

--Jimbo