On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:28:21 +0100, Frank v Waveren fvw.wikipediaml@var.cx wrote:
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:59:58AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
The chief reason to be deleting something (as opposed to redirecting it to a more appropriate article or replacing it with a better one) is that it includes copyrighted material that we don't have permission to distribute. This necessitates not being able to have _just anybody_ come along and view or undelete it.
This is a problem, however my proposed system is in no way different than it currently is for existing articles/pages: If I paste copyrighted material into an article, it'll just get reverted, and only removed if the copyright holder complains
It was already proposed to allow non-sysops to see deleted articles [1]. There wasn't a consensus in favour of it. If you only want this to apply to sysops, there doesn't seem to be much difference to how it is.
Kate.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_deleted_articles