On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
> By the way, an example of a time when an edit
*should* be
> oversighted/deleted without being reverted first:
>
> User A creates a BLP.
> User B adds confidential information about the subject of the biography.
> Users C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J make positive contributions to the BLP.
>
> Then the confidential information is discovered. To delete the
confidential
> information you have to delete the revisions
created by users B, C, D,
E, F,
> G, H, I, and J. You could do this by
reverting to the version by User
A,
but why
in the world *should* you be forced to do that?
Fine, "undo", then. It doesn't matter what technically happens,
what's
important is that no part of that edit is still in the current
version.
So just remove the confidential information. The subsequent edits can
still be judged on their own merits.
The confidential information is in all the revisions. The software doesn't
allow you to "just remove the confidential information".