Andrew Gray wrote:
On 22/06/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/21/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
The problem is that what we are removing is stuff like personal information or libelous statements that we really do want to vanish and not be repeated internally.
Then the log as viewable to the world at large should say something like '10:49, 22 June 2006 Fred Bauder deleted 1 revision(s) of "George W. Bush" (Personal information)'
An idle thought vaguely prompted by this... you know what would be nice? After a normal deletion, for the history to go from
- 12:13 2006-01-01 User:Adam m. (Fixed typo)
- 12.54 2006-01-01 User:Bill (Expanded biographical section)
- 13.17 2006-01-01 User:Vandal (...)
- 13:22 2006-01-01 User:NotAdmin (Remove defamation)
to
- 12:13 2006-01-01 User:Adam m. (Fixed typo)
- 12.54 2006-01-01 User:Bill (Expanded biographical section)
- 13.17 2006-01-01 User:Admin [Revision deleted (Defamatory material)]
- 13:22 2006-01-01 User:NotAdmin (Remove defamation)
rather than
- There is one deleted revision.
- 12:13 2006-01-01 User:Adam m. (Fixed typo)
- 12.54 2006-01-01 User:Bill (Expanded biographical section)
- 13:22 2006-01-01 User:NotAdmin (Remove defamation)
No. Absolutely not. If anyone apart from the oversight group knows that a revision has been deleted, they can just find a database dump that was taken before the deletion occurred, compare the history, and go post the deleted revision somewhere else on the internet.