[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia hierarchy (Was: New policy on edit conficts)

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen jheiskan at welho.com
Fri Dec 5 22:01:29 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 23:15, Jimmy Wales wrote:

    Toby Bartels wrote:
    > Undeletion should never require more official validation than deletion.
    
    And generally less, right, since after all a person can always 'undelete'
    by just starting the article over and copying and pasting the text?
    
    --Jimbo

Right. Got me. Although there is the possibility of putting something in
place of the deleted page and protecting it. So in that sense the most
powerful action a sysop can do (apart from blocking users) is to protect
and unprotect pages, and those are the crucial actions to concentrate
on.

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (aka Cimon Avaro)
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