"Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com wrote in message news:20051214181232.9008.qmail@web51610.mail.yahoo.com... --- Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
Bad idea. I don't know about other admins, but I use rollback for things other than vandalism and linkspam, such as widespread implementations of bad ideas. Most recent case: someone had modified the wording of about three dozen stub templates in a way that implied that a particular wikiproject had ownership over the articles in question.
How is that a bad idea? The page history is for showing how an article developed. If a bit of text is no longer in the article due to a revert for any purpose, then the edit that added it and the edit that removed it need not be there forever. A week is long enough. In addition to removing vandalism, the above idea would also help to de-clutter page histories.
Am I right in thinking that we're not talking about expunging these history entries from the database, simply deleting them.
So they will still show up as "deleted edits" which admins could restore if necessary.
Would it maybe be possible to fix it so that "deleted edits" show up in user contributions, labelled in some way, with restricted access?