[WikiEN-l] Deleting over 45000 items

[Ken Arromdee]

[[Wikipedia_talk:Spoiler]]

Is it really fair to delete 45000 spoiler warnings and claim that the failure to
undelete them is "consensus"?  (Especially when it turns out there actually
were hundreds restored, but they kept getting deleted anyway)

This is not the dead issue people have claimed it is, and 45000 is just the
last number anyone's bothered to count.  It seems blatantly obvious to me
that nobody's going to be able to restore 45000 spoiler warnings; deleting
them is easy, but restoring one is impossible without reading the whole
article to figure out where the right place for them is.  Particularly
without AWB-like software.  And creating "consensus" by unilaterally making
an impossible-to-reverse mass change should disturb anyone, regardless of
their opinion on spoiler warnings.