On 6/16/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
6/16/06, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
And what if they've moved an article from the main namespace to their userspace? How would you prevent users deleting real articles in this way?
Ordinary users can move articles into their userspace???
Not only that, they can even wipe out entire pages or replace them with ASCII porn. ;-) Besides page moves, there are other problems, such as user pages used as collaborative work areas, new methods of trolling, and a possible incentive to use someone else's wiki as a temporary scratchpad for just about anything ("I'll just delete it later").
User pages exist to serve the community and the project, not the users. As such, I think we should de-emphasize the notion of personal page ownership, and preserve community review on such pages. Improving these review and deletion processes, both on the policy and the technology level, strikes me as a better way to address any currently existing bottleneck situations.
Erik