On 10/2/05, Phroziac phroziac@gmail.com wrote:
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Anthony DiPierro wrote: The easiest way to stop delete wars would be to desysop the admins who
get
involved in them.
I'm talking about the kind where users are repeatedly making attack pages, or some other type of vandalism, hoax, or CSDable material..
Judging from the large number of these pages, the kludge of a "solution" doesn't seem to be working.
I'm not sure why people do it (protect blank pages), all I
know is it helps make it damn near impossible to collect deleted pages
so
they can be distributed on another site. From what I gather legitimate speedy deletion has been expanded beyond just nonsense pages as well, so without any support from an admin or a developer I'd be fighting a
losing
battle.
It helps for the reason I just mentioned. Why does it make it impossible to collect those pages?
It contributes, along with a number of other things. It makes it difficult to know whether or not a page is deleted, and it makes it difficult to find what the page looked like before it was destroyed by an admin. The only way to get the deleted pages, without being an admin, is to download every single revision of every single page as the revisions happen. It's too much work to get around something which would be much better solved in another way.