On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:59:58AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
Yup, I've seen, but
neither are even close to what I'm suggesting. And
they both add needless complexity imho.
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 (That's how it's done
at Wikimedia anyway; I don't care too much about other people running
mediawiki for this proposal), which currently needs a devel I think.
If that's going to be a problem we'll need to change how we handle it
in valid articles with copyrighted material in them anyway, so we
might as well use the same mechanism for "virtual deletions" as we use
for them.
Anyway, I intend to preempt all these obvious comments in a proper
proposal if it turns out to be technically viable. I'm posting to
wikitech-l to find out if there are _technical_ problems to the setup.
After that we can fight out the legal, philosophical,
interface-practical and what have you stuff on wikipedia or meta.
So, again: Does anybody foresee any major technical problems with
this?
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