On 7/27/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Pan_Am_Fligh…
Something was removed in early June 2006. Anyone have a full history
dump from before then? I think I have one somewhere, gotta find it
though.
That's just regular deleting, not oversight. There don't appear to be
any deleted revisions, however (Special:Undelete shows no revision
history). It looks like Musical Linguist deleted the article and
restored all but one revision (or possibly a handful) to remove
personal information (I'm guess that's what PI stands for), and then
the next day Jayjg restored that revision(s) too (I guess he disagreed
about it being personal).
I dunno, I think a more likely explanation is that the regular
deleting happened first, and the oversight came later. Also take a
look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&…
which happened around the same time period.
If I get bored, I might take a look at their
talk pages for those 2 days and see what happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMusical_Linguist&…
of course
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&…
The only thing which lends any credence at all to the rumors is the
fact that some people are going to such lengths to cover things up.
Not that I buy the story as Brandt tells it - I would think a
government agent would do a better job of disappearing once eir cover
was blown.