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[Toby Bartels]

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?

Not entirely.

For one thing, your solution destroys the edit history.
Also, only admins can even view the text that they want to copy and paste
(although that point is not relevant to current issue,
since it is only about relative numbers of administrators).

In short, undeleting by your method is not as good as undeleting by software.
That is one reason why undeleting shouldn't be unduly restricted.


-- Toby