I agree entirely. Given that the devs are quite busy, perhaps something could be written up to allow this to be done with the developer flag (the one that actually shows up on Special:Listusers), so Danny could do it himself without having to either involve the developers each time, or go messing around in the database itself. A restricted access log (like the checkuser log) could be provided if desired. I have no idea if this is doable or not, but it seems like a decent proposal to me.
Essjay
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Mark Ryan wrote:
On 20/04/06, Kat Walsh mindspillage@gmail.com wrote:
WP:OFFICE is pretty much a invitation to every troll on the wiki to come and make noise -- and now, apparently, to grab the deleted material and post it elsewhere. It's been Slashdotted; we can't claim we don't know about it, and it's not exactly something we want. (Yes, good editors are questioning, too, but they are doing it sanely.) While it has been a good barrier to prevent admins from mistakenly undoing Danny's admin actions there, it has failed to be a means to handle potential problems in a discreet manner and instead only draws more attention to it. This seems to have been an attempt to try to minimize public attention and be sure the problematic material was not more widely distributed. It didn't work, but it was a reasonable attempt, though unclear.
Maybe Danny etc. need to start getting developers to remove revisions of WP:OFFICE articles directly from the database, if we continue to have the problem of dirty admins leaking deleted material.
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