On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:23:13 +0200, Pawe³ 'Ausir' Dembowski fallout@lexx.eu.org wrote:
When there is no page, I want to see red links, not blue ones, because some nonsense that was there was deleted.
Yes. Hence the need for a software feature that allows for "soft deletion", where any user can see the history of the deleted article; I don't think anyone is advocating just inserting a blank article in such cases. As I understand it, admins can already request the history for a non-existent page, and thus see those revisions that have been deleted; I'm not entirely sure how that interface works, and how it interacts with any non-deleted history, but if it works in a fairly sane way then it could presumably be extended to all logged in users.
On a quick side-note to which, there's probably going to be a more flexible permissions system in the software soon, so it ought to be possible to assign this ability to a subset of users distinct from the subset assigned general "admin" privileges.