On 12/13/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
My belief is that in general we should not remove things from page history so easily.
My belief is that in general we should be aggressive about removing vandalism from the page history. If there was an automated way to go through on a regular basis and remove reverted versions from the history, I would strongly support that we do so.
The problem is that what people normally request removed in this fashion does not fall under the category of simple vandalism.
I am not against the idea of removing simple vandalism completely from the history in principle, although I am worried about its potential for abuse.
Right now, we do not have the automated tools to make doing this practicable except in specific cases.
-Matt