On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
- Should we introduce some users with a "trusted" status? So some "old
hands" could do some maintnance, like permanently deleting obsolete pages, without access to the really crucial functions like direct database access.
One idea I had seems very doable and very useful.
One of the main reasons we want to delete some pages is so that underlined links go back to being questionmark links, tempting the reader to write something. (And also making the link show up on most requested, and so on.)
For that purpose, the side-effect of deletion, which is to delete the history as well, is just that: a side-effect. We don't really need it.
I totally agree, by the way! There's no reason we shouldn't do this!
Larry