--- Brion VIBBER brion@pobox.com wrote:
Permanent deletion isn't supposed to be easy.
Right, mainly because it destroys history information. I have always felt somewhat uncomfortable with the fact that the act of deletion has come to be an almost normal everyday act, rather than an extreme exception as it once was, when it was still technically difficult to do.
I am wondering if we could go back to those old days: take away deletion rights from sysops and let only people with database access remove articles, and only in the case of copyright violations. Ordinary deletions are then simply done by deleting all the text of the article. Such an empty article would be displayed with red/question mark when linked to, but its history would still be accessible by clicking on that question mark and then choosing History.
Axel
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