[Wikipedia-l] meta namespace?

[Magnus Manske]

But:
* There's a good, extensive article in the 'pedia
* Some troll deletes it (leaving the history intact)
* To everyone, it seems that there is no article
* Someone writes a two-line stub, not realizing that there's a much better
article in the history
This would not be good, right?

I was thinking about the "page titles to be deleted" list, and some of the
empty or silly orphans. No need to accumulate that stuff in the database.

Magnus

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> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:48 PM
> To: wikipedia-l at nupedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] meta namespace?
>
>
> Magnus Manske wrote:
> > - Should we introduce some users with a "trusted" status? So some "old
> > hands" could do some maintnance, like permanently deleting
> obsolete pages,
> > without access to the really crucial functions like direct
> database access.
>
> One idea I had seems very doable and very useful.
>
> One of the main reasons we want to delete some pages is so that
> underlined links go back to being questionmark links, tempting the
> reader to write something.  (And also making the link show up on most
> requested, and so on.)
>
> For that purpose, the side-effect of deletion, which is to delete the
> history as well, is just that: a side-effect.  We don't really need it.
>
> Since any user can delete all the text anyway, it would not hurt for
> them to be able to delete the page, too.... that is, IF they don't
> also automatically delete the history.
>
> There can be reasons to delete the history, of course!  Sometimes the
> history will just be so very wrong that we must delete it.  Maybe it
> will be a copyright violation, or maybe it will be just really
> mean-spirited or something.
>
> But in most cases where we want to delete pages, they're just silly,
> and there's not much harm done in leaving the history.
>
> --Jimbo
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