If the reason for deletion was to suppress undesirable content, why would one want part of it to remain viewable? Cheers, Peter

From: Vi to [mailto:vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com]
Sent: 17 January 2022 23:45
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: "content was" when deleting pages - is it useful?

On it.wiki we removed both this and "the only editor was..." which proved to be misleading for newcomers, e.g. "I don't think that being the sole editor is a valid reason for this deletion".

Vito

Il giorno lun 17 gen 2022 alle ore 15:19 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> ha scritto:

Hallo!

There's an old MediaWiki feature: When an administrator deletes a page, a bit of its content is automatically added to an edit summary. This is later viewable in deletion logs.

If you edit in the English, German, or Italian Wikipedia, then you haven't actually seen this feature in years, because administrators in these wikis essentially removed it by locally blanking the system messages that make it work.

In many other wikis, however, this feature is still working.

Is it actually useful? Or should it perhaps be removed?

Here's a Phabricator task about it:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299351

If you have an opinion, weigh in there or here.

Thanks!

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