--- Brion Vibber vibber@aludra.usc.edu wrote:
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Why in the heck is this thread still going on?
Have people lost all common sense and decency? You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Deletion of pages through the "delete page" function as we have it currently *is* unwiki, because only a relatively small number of people can do it, and only a relatively small number of people can undo it. As long as that state of affairs exists (VOLUNTEERS TO RECODE THE DELETION SYSTEM ARE WELCOME) it is only polite to make reasonable efforts to notify people[1] that pages are under consideration for deletion by putting a note *on* the page in question.
It would make sense to let anyone delete articles, but is all the history still available after an article is deleted and undeleted? And if we let anyone delete articles, I think a deleted article should have page history show up of all the past edits. Like you said, this would require a recoding of the deletion system, and I don't know PHP or /mySQL, so I couldn't do that. L
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