[Sent both the wikiEN-L and directly to sannse.]
sannse wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
For one thing, your solution destroys the edit history. Also, only admins can even view the text that they want to copy and paste (although that point is not relevant to current issue, since it is only about relative numbers of administrators).
In short, undeleting by your method is not as good as undeleting by software. That is one reason why undeleting shouldn't be unduly restricted.
If undeletion were made unrestricted then I think we would also have to allow everyone to view the text of deleted articles. Otherwise we would have people undeleting in order to view the text and (unless deletion was also unrestricted) being unable to delete again once they had done so.
I can also see a big increase in "deletion wars" if the ability to undelete is general.
I'm not saying that I think the ability to undelete /shouldn't/ be opened up, just seeing a few problems that should be looked at first.
I think that you may be interpreting my remark out of context. The "undue" restriction on undeletion that I'm arguing against is to increase the requirement from 1 administrator to 2, ''while at the same time'' keeping deletion at only 1 admin.
I'm ''not'' suggesting that undeletion be ''completely'' unrestricted, while keeping deletion restricted. Although in another post, I mentioned the ideal of making ''both'' of the operation unrestricted, I do believe that this would require some software changes. At the moment, neither deletion and undeletion is handled very smoothly.
-- Toby