I got a request via email to purge the history records of our latest goatse.cx vandal, lest some poor unsuspecting wikipedian later come across them by accident. While there may be arguments for keeping such a historical record, I think in this case they are outweighed by the benefits of just deleting them. I did a database backup, just in case we get subpoenaed to produce them or something, and then I removed them. The banned IP list clearly shows what happened, when, and why, so we aren't losing that information, just 54 edit records that were all reverted (interstingly, he also seems to have made exactly one legitimate edit, which is still here).
I thought the list should know when things like that are done in case there's some serious objection to it.
lcrocker@nupedia.com writes:
interstingly, he also seems to have made exactly one legitimate edit, which is still here
Just out of interest, what was it?
I thought the list should know when things like that are done in case there's some serious objection to it.
Cunc?
On Thursday 29 August 2002 14:41, lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
I got a request via email to purge the history records of our latest goatse.cx vandal, lest some poor unsuspecting wikipedian later come across them by accident. While there may be arguments for keeping such a historical record, I think in this case they are outweighed by the benefits of just deleting them. I did a database backup, just in case we get subpoenaed to produce them or something, and then I removed them. The banned IP list clearly shows what happened, when, and why, so we aren't losing that information, just 54 edit records that were all reverted (interstingly, he also seems to have made exactly one legitimate edit, which is still here).
That means that if Shaw hasn't looked into my complaint, which gave the list of contributions page, yet, they won't see that anything happened.
phma
lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
I thought the list should know when things like that are done in case there's some serious objection to it.
Anyone who objects is required to open up http://www.goatse.cx and contemplate it for 10 minutes before complaining. :-)
When I first saw it, about a year ago I guess, I thought "O.k., that's it, we're done. Turn off the Internet, because there's nothing left to see."
--Jimbo
LDC wrote:
I got a request via email to purge the history records of our latest goatse.cx vandal, lest some poor unsuspecting wikipedian later come across them by accident. While there may be arguments for keeping such a historical record, I think in this case they are outweighed by the benefits of just deleting them. I did a database backup, just in case we get subpoenaed to produce them or something, and then I removed them. The banned IP list clearly shows what happened, when, and why, so we aren't losing that information, just 54 edit records that were all reverted (interstingly, he also seems to have made exactly one legitimate edit, which is still here).
Someday we will have a regular policy on removing copyright violations from the history, and it'll be a shame if this says "or pornographic" (or if the history is incomplete in unadvertised ways). So you can put me down as wanting these returned.
However, I can certainly see my way to accepting that they stay off until external images no longer work. We *are* going to stop those from working, right?
-- Toby
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