[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Sep 16 00:53:59 UTC 2008


Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> 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.
So just remove the confidential information.  The subsequent edits can 
still be judged on their own merits.

Ec




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