On 8/8/07, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
On 0, K P kpbotany@gmail.com scribbled:
On 8/8/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 8/7/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Casey Brown wrote:
Perhaps you are thinking about her many archives? It would be crazy to remove that much of someone's contribution history for any reason. The devs would absolutely throw a fit! :-P
It would probably involve a lot of GFDL violation, too. Removing the edit history of a prolific long-time editor would potentially make thousands of articles into copyvios.
Whose copyright would be violated? If the long-time editor gives you permission, then I don't see how it could constitute a copyright violation.
I actually think it'd be a good idea to oversight all but the last 500 edits of any user upon request. But only if it's a service available to everyone equally. I feel similar about all this courtesy-blanking stuff. The top google hit for my name still contains an undeserved hate-fest by various Wikipedians from over 3 years ago. I've talked to OTRS, I've talked to arb com members, I've talked to some of the people making the malicious statements, and what courtesy do I get? So far none.
Become an admin, then you can oversight your user page at will.
KP
Stock admins don't get the Oversight power. (And for good reason!)
Are you guys saying 'oversight' where you really mean 'delete'?
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Nope, I'm talking about an admin who recently oversighted much of his talk page, then himself. And it's not the first time I've seen it happen. And courtesy oversights are done for users all of the time--and I don't mean "delete," unless by that you mean good-bye to the page's edit history also.
KP