Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Combining this with the discussion of defamation, and Wikitruth, maybe there is a simple solution. Give Danny and other agents of Wikimedia special powers which can't be overridden by admins. Let them protect pages in a way that they can't be unprotected by admins, and let them delete defamatory information, copyright violations, and other legally problematic material, permanently, in a way that the information can't even be read by admins.
In cases where it's necessary to remove information this way, the case is forwarded to me and I trim the revisions manually. Either it's *extremely* rare or Danny isn't telling me about such things.
A wiki-accessible version of this is partly implemented but incomplete (currently it doesn't mix properly with regular page deletion.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)