On 10/13/05, SPUI <drspui(a)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
edits<http://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
violations<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems>…
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
deletion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion>…
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."