[WikiEN-l] How lovely, someone deleted the Main Page again

[Bryan Derksen]

Blu Aardvark wrote:
> I really don't see an "immediate need". The worst-case scenario would be 
> an abusive user running a bot on an admin account and going on a 
> deletion spree at a time a steward was not readily available. This is an 
> incredibly unlikely scenario, as the bot would have to be smart enough 
> to unblock itself and remove autoblocks, in addition to having access to 
> an admin account in the first place. Even if this ever did happen, any 
> damage actually done would be temporary, as any admin action is reversible.

There's still history merges. In principle reversible, but in practice I
imagine it would take an awful lot of effort if done maliciously.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 250 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/attachments/20070507/c3ce1435/attachment.pgp