On 22/12/2007, Ral315 <en.ral315(a)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"...
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- Andrew Gray
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