On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:11:23 +1000, David Gerard wrote:
Why do we delete pages that start as copyvios, rather than refactoring them?
To get the revisions out of the database while it's still easy to do so. The rewriting happens on [[pagename/temp]].
Yeah, that's what I thought. And I am also aware of the problems that keep us from completely purging copyvios from the revision history if they happen only at a later stage. It was my understanding that in those cases, we roll back and add the information back in a rewritten form.
_However_, some editors seem to think that even a rollback to the state before the copyvio is entirely unreasonable unless the copyvio was the most recent edit.
Check out [[en:Terrorism in Kashmir]] for a recent example, where many paragraphs (some 90% of the article at the time of the copyvio) were lifted literally from BBC News and yet my rollback was reverted.
I used to think we had a clear rollback policy for such cases, but the discussion here seems to indicate that I argue a minority position.
Roger