On 10/13/05, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Well, like I said, the edit history of deleted articles is already
there. In
case you didn't understand what I meant, when you click on "history"
there
will be a link which reads "View X deleted editshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Ria_Fulton?" and clicking on that will provide you with the history information
(anyone
can see the edit history, not just admins). Furthermore, history only undeletion is allowed without a vote anyway (at least, it was last time
I
checked, a few months ago).
And yet my request for a history only undelete of [[White Horse Circle]] a few weeks ago became a vote.
Just because admins *can* do something doesn't mean they have to. On [[Wikipedia:Undeletion policy]], it says ""History only" undeletions can always be performed without needing to list the articles on the votes for undeletion page, and don't need to be kept for a full ten days. Article histories that include copyright violationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problemsshould not be undeleted." Of course, this is the same page gives a reason for undeletion saying: "Article wrongly deleted (ie that Wikipedia would be a better encyclopedia with the article restored). This may happen because they were not aware of the discussion on Wikipedia:Articles for deletionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion(AFD) or Wikipedia:Miscellaneous deletion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellaneous_deletion(MD), or because it was deleted without being listed on AFD, or because they objected to deletion on *bona fide* grounds but were improperly ignored."