[WikiEN-l] Deletion of articles, archival, etc.

[Harry Willis]

Personally, I'm against this in favour of the system that currently exists.
It is not difficult to request deleted material, and administrators are
(for the most part...) a helpful bunch. Administrators know when not to
grant requests for libellous or copyvio content, whereas with some kind of
tier system, all it would take is one slip by the deleting admin to allow
that content to be viewed by a vast number of users - given the number of
deletions that occur every day, this hardly seems statistically unlikely to
ever occur.

This proposal seems like a lot of extra legwork for the sake of unnecessary
change, and I can't see how that change would bring about any real benefit.
If every web user can view deleted articles about non-notable subjects,
then why delete them at all? The procedure's currently pretty simple, it
works, and hey... if it ain't broke...

- H


Flameviper Velifang [theflameysnake at yahoo.com] wrote:
> Perhaps some kind of "deletion tier" system is in order.
>  
> There would be different forms of deletion, each with its own access
levels..
>  
> Normal deletion: Non-notable material, prod etc. No requirement.
>  
> CSD: Advertisements, "zomg Todd is ghey", etc. Requirements:
Autoconfirmed and above.
>  
> BAD deletions: Unsourced BLP, etc. Requirements: Admin and above.
>  
> REALLY BAD deletions: People's phone numbers, etc. Requirements:
Oversight and above.
>  
> Just a thought, again, I'm open to suggestions, but this seems like a
pretty good way to separate the arguably good stuff from the bad stuff, and
the bad stuff from the evil stuff.