On 16/01/2008, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/16/08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
How is this feature intended to work? Just being able to delete random revisions at will would mess up attribution.
The same is true for oversight. Obviously, don't delete revisions that will mess up attribution, or if you do, make sure the attribution is present in some other form. (This is perhaps an argument for storing revisions as diffs, but that was settled long ago.)
Actually, what is the point of this feature? It seems it's just a milder form of oversight. In which case, wouldn't it be better to add a feature to oversight allowing different levels of oversight (similar to protection)?
The issue of deleting large pages just needs a "delete last X revisions" button, which doesn't have any attribution issues.
Deleting individual revisions has all kinds of other problems too (there is a discussion on wikien-l), for example if Admin A deletes one bad revision, Admin B then deletes the whole page and Admin C undeletes it, the bad revision comes back. Using oversight at different levels would prevent that while still giving the same desired functionality.