"Mark Gallagher" m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote in message news:440861A5.1000005@student.canberra.edu.au... [snip]
Anybody with sysop privs can see a person's deleted edits by looking at deleted pages known to have been edited by that user. Assuming that the current policy of admins being allowed to see deleted edits is one we want to keep, then what's wrong with allowing admins to see a user's deleted contribs through the Contributions page rather than the Undelete edits page?
If the new system is to be used for all deletions, then nothing. Under the present deletion system, quite a lot.
At present, revision of deleted pages are actually moved to a separate table, and it would be a lot of work to recover them simply for a contributions list.
If however Brion's new feature (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bitfields_for_rev_deleted) gets working, it would be feasible to do all deletions the same way, in which case those revisions would become accessible.
HTH HAND