[WikiEN-l] Turn off AfD

[Andrew Gray]

On 09/12/05, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:03 -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
> > My idea is to treat article deletion like the rest of page editing.
> > AfD came about originally because deletion was not reversible, so it
> > was necessarily A Big Deal. Once deletion was made reversible (Brion?)
> > deletion didn't need to be a Big Deal.
>
> Its not quite reversible yet:
>
> 1. Only admins can see deletion history (required for legal reasons I
> believe so copyvios can be hidden).

Deleted *material* can only be seen by admins. The revision history,
however, is visible; all users can see dates, modifiers and edit
summaries of deleted revisions even though they can't see the content.


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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk