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On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 23:15, Jimmy Wales wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Toby Bartels wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Undeletion should never require more official validation than deletion.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>And generally less, right, since after all a person can always 'undelete'</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>by just starting the article over and copying and pasting the text?</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>--Jimbo</FONT></FONT></I></PRE>
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Right. Got me. Although there is the possibility of putting something in place of the deleted page and protecting it. So in that sense the most powerful action a sysop can do (apart from blocking users) is to protect and unprotect pages, and those are the crucial actions to concentrate on.
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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (aka Cimon Avaro)
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