[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 19:13:55 UTC 2008


> By the way, an example of a time when an edit *should* be
> oversighted/deleted without being reverted first:
>
> User A creates a BLP.
> User B adds confidential information about the subject of the biography.
> Users C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J make positive contributions to the BLP.
>
> Then the confidential information is discovered.  To delete the confidential
> information you have to delete the revisions created by users B, C, D, E, F,
> G, H, I, and J.  You could do this by reverting to the version by User A,
> but why in the world *should* you be forced to do that?

Fine, "undo", then. It doesn't matter what technically happens, what's
important is that no part of that edit is still in the current
version.




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