It's just logging the pre-existing behavior. Better paper trail On Saturday, August 27, 2016, Huji Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > Formrely, when you moved a page to a new title that is a redirect with no > other history, the history would move over and the first page would become > a redirect. > > Recently I noticed that this results in *deleting* the target page first, > i.e. a deletion log is created. It is interesting that users without delete > right (i.e. not sysop) can also do this and generate deletion logs. > > Is this a new change? I cannot backtrack it in code. I am not sure if > letting non-deleters generating delete logs is a good idea. > > Huji > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
