On 10/2/05, Phroziac <phroziac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Anthony DiPierro wrote:
The easiest way to stop delete wars would be to desysop the admins who
get
involved in them.
I'm talking about
the kind where users are repeatedly making attack
pages, or some other type of vandalism, hoax, or CSDable material..
Judging from the large number of these pages, the kludge of a "solution"
doesn't seem to be working.
I'm not sure why people do it (protect blank
pages), all I
know is it helps make it damn near impossible to
collect deleted pages
so
they can be distributed on another site. From
what I gather legitimate
speedy deletion has been expanded beyond just nonsense pages as well, so
without any support from an admin or a developer I'd be fighting a
losing
battle.
It helps for the reason I just
mentioned. Why does it make it impossible
to collect those pages?
It contributes, along with a number of other things. It makes it difficult
to know whether or not a page is deleted, and it makes it difficult to find
what the page looked like before it was destroyed by an admin. The only way
to get the deleted pages, without being an admin, is to download every
single revision of every single page as the revisions happen. It's too much
work to get around something which would be much better solved in another
way.