On 22/12/2007, Ral315 en.ral315@gmail.com wrote:
These weren't deletes, they were merges.
Perhaps we should recognize that merges can be de-facto deletes and start treating them as such.
Merges *cannot* be de-facto deletes very easily. There's a significant question as to whether these can be done without violating the GFDL.
De-facto deletion in terms of "the material has been removed from any currently published page", and it is no longer there for a reader not explicitly digging into the history, rather than in the technical Wikipedia-specific sense of "we have chosen to perform the 'delete' action on the page"...