Alphax wrote:
As has been explained a few times now (and will probably need explaining a few more, because it's such a crazy idea) you "delete" pages by blanking them. A vandal's paradise.
I don't see why this would be any more a vandal's paradise than the current setup, since vandals can already blank pages at will. We've survived so far. People would notice blanked pages and check the history to see if they should have been blanked or not, as they do now.
Of course, we could adopt the "pure wiki deletion system on wheels", where you delete a page by moving it and then blanking the redirect...
Why would we do that? There's no point to that extra step, it hides the edit history away somewhere useless and clutters the wiki with unnecessary extra pages.
I realize you're trying to be facetious, but in the process you're also implying that supporters of the "pure wiki deletion" idea are either irrational or in some way support vandalizing Wikipedia. Please assume good faith, enough people have proposed this technique at this point that I hope it's clear that it's not a result of raving lunacy.