When an author requests an article he/she wrote to be deleted, we should delete it imediatelly. Especially when nobody else has contributed into the article.
The possibility of a fake request exists. This is a serious consideration.
--Optim
--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Jimbo forwarded to Wikien-l what looks like an "official" takedown notice for the article about Easter Bradford -- a man who has been, from time to time, a contributor to Wikipedia.
See:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-January/009529.html
I'm not sure what we should do. If I still had ssh software on my PC, I would probably delete the pages from the database (just to be safe).
On the other hand, it might be a good idea to back them up them somewhere, accessible only to the head developer, in case the notice is either (a) faked; or (b) not something we have to comply with, even if it's real.
Cautiously,
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