Yep, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?action=delete yields:
"This page has a large edit history, over 5,000 revisions. Deletion of such pages has been restricted to prevent accidental disruption of Wikipedia."
On Feb 3, 2008 9:57 PM, Majorly axel9891@googlemail.com wrote:
On 04/02/2008, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Matthew Britton wrote:
Hi,
Remember the revision limit on page deletions that was hacked in to prevent Wikimedia grinding to a halt every time someone tried to delete a large page?
Well, give someone a feature and they will abuse it in ways you never thought possible. Bots are now being used to add thousands of revisions to pages to make them un-deleteable. See the history of the English Wikipedia's Main Page for an example.
Just thought you should know.
I'm going to block anyone who does this.
-- Tim Starling
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It has been done already. See the Main Page history on enwiki.
-- Alex (Majorly)
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