In response to my suggestion,
A cheaper solution would have been to wait a while, say a day or two, and then delete the problematic text after the user had forgotten about the page.
Rick writes,
<sarcasm> Sure. People don't EVER use their Watchlists to make sure the garbage they put on a page didn't get deleted. </sarcasm>
In this case, that wasn't happening. Reality is always the winner.
One might also first ask why a person feels compelled to babysit their own text on a collaborative work.
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