At 10:59 PM 9/23/02 -0700, you wrote:
On Monday 23 September 2002 07:55 pm, Fred wrote:
No misunderstanding and no apology. But I do
think putting deleted material
in history should solve the problem. As to evalating exactly what you have
done, that is your responsibility, Life is just too short to follow someone
around.
Fred
Do you ever have anything positive to say here or do you just enjoy
insulting
people you don't like (mostly me)? Name calling is
a childish game played by
children and those with weak minds in an atempt to cheaply "win" an
arguement
they feel they would otherwise lose.
Setting up a few straw men to knock down and a big smokescreen of
obfustication is not much good either. I suggest you leave legitimate short
articles alone and continue to deal appropriately with problems such as you
mention below.
Fred
With that said, I wouldn't at all mind the replacement of the deletion
function with a de-linking from the database function; When a page is
de-linked from database then all links to it would be replaced by an empty
link and the de-linked page would be listed on a log page (this would be
similar to Microsoft's Recycle Bin).
Then all the micro-stub lovers could pick and choose at their leisure the
micro-stubs they wish to turn into stubs and the history of who first typed
the epic prose of "fill in", or "Pete Rose was a ball player. Jesus
rules!"
or my favorite "I am the bomb and you all know that i am the bomb and you
all
know that i will always be the bomb regardless of what
anyy of you have to
say about the fact that i am the bomb and about the fact that i will always
be the bomb" will be preserved.
But then there is the problem of badly named pages that resulted from
typos or vandalism, such as the hypothetical [[DON QUIOTE LIKES CARROTS]] or
[[When Derams May COme]]. It would be silly to keep a page history, even one
hidden under an edit link, for a page title that will never become an
article
or even a redirect.
There is also the problem of copyright violations that need to be removed
for
legal reasons.
So unless the developers or the software itself periodically clears-out the
recycle bin by permanently deleting old de-linked pages, then there are
significant draw-backs to this plan.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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