On 6/22/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
I sound like I'm attacking a strawman here, but I honestly don't think I've seen a good reason why people think this tool is dangerous. Please, someone, give me a scenario where this could be used badly, where the ability to expunge deleted revisions is somehow harmful in a way that a public log would prevent...
Person A vandalizes a biographical article, replacing believable claims to notability with unbelievable ones. Person B, not realizing that the article was vandalized, lists it for deletion. Person C reverts the vandalism. Person A's edit is vanished.
At this point, to anyone looking through the article history, it appears that person B is attacking the subject of the article, trying to get that article deleted.