[Wikipedia-l] meta namespace?

[Larry Sanger]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> 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.

I totally agree, by the way!  There's no reason we shouldn't do this!

Larry