[WikiEN-l] [Fwd: Re: Deletion of large pages]

[Thomas Dalton]

On 04/02/2008, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/08, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All MediaWiki pages are, I believe, admin-only. This adds a layer of
> > security-through-hassle, though ;-)
>
> Erm. So, any admin can delete the main page just by editing a page in
> the MediaWiki namespace first? So Tim's hack basically serves only to
> prevent accidental or other non-malicious deletion.

That's how it sounds to me. Might be better just to add an extra
confirmation page.