On 8/4/06, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Many would prefer a clean technical soution. The simple way would be to add a new table to the database, listing the topics blocked from recreation.
Why not extend the protection mechanism to be applicable to deleted pages? That would be the most intuitive way, to my mind. See also http://bugs.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2919.