On Mon, 26 May 2003, Anthere wrote:
Hum..."reverting" on sight is one thing. Anyone really wishing to work on one of his article can go dig it up.
However, "deleting" on sight is another matter. Would you (that is a plural you, not you specifically Tannin) consider please, blanking his articles instead of deleting them. Then, either list the blanked articles on the vfd in case anyone would wish to work on them, or let them blank (which would make them appear next time the "short pages" is working again).
I think it is more respectful to do this way. And blanking them hardly take more time than reverting other articles with history. Plus, blanking them is an action everybody wishing to help 'yous' can do, while deletion on sight is necessarily a unilateral decision from a sysop.
That sounds sensible to me. I think it's best if we stick with reversible actions, so that if anyone is interested they can go back through the article histories to see if anything can be salvaged, after Michael has gone.
Oliver
+-------------------------------------------+ | Oliver Pereira | | Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science | | University of Southampton | | omp199@ecs.soton.ac.uk | +-------------------------------------------+