, Peter
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On it.wiki we removed both this and "the only editor was..." which proved to be
misleadin
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> On it.wiki we removed both this and "the only editor was..." which proved
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If the reason for deletion was to suppress undesirable content, why would one
want part of it to remain viewable? Cheers, Peter
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On it.wiki we removed both this and "the only editor was..." which proved
to be misleading for newcomers, e.g. "I don't think that being the sole
editor is a valid reason for this deletion".
Vito
Il giorno lun 17 gen 2022 alle ore 15:19 Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> ha scritto:
On ro.wp, we empty the summary when the reason is "Obscene content"
and leave it otherwise. For me, it used to be useful as a quick check
on admins. However, now that many deletions are made through Twinkle
and the Infoboxes are ubiquitous (taking up from the displayed text),
this is less useful.
: Monday, January 17, 2022 4:03 PM
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: "content was" when deleting pages - is it useful?
Yes, that's what I imagine.
In the Hebrew Wikipedia, this feature is still active, and someone wondered
what is it actually good for. When I delet
Thanks for flagging this, Amir. You're right, the reasoning isn't
particularly well documented. I've commented on the ticket about the
reason English Wikipedia did this, which may be helpful.
Risker/Anne
On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 09:19, Amir E. Aharoni
wrote:
> Hallo!
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> There's an old
Yes, that's what I imagine.
In the Hebrew Wikipedia, this feature is still active, and someone wondered
what is it actually good for. When I delete pages, I definitely erase
things that may be in any way problematic. And sometimes I delete them even
if they aren't. If this feature didn't exist,
The problem with this feature was that when the deleted material was
libelous, offensive, etc., it would still automatically be copied into the
deletion summary, which served to defeat the entire purpose of deleting it.
Newyorkbrad/IBM
On Monday, January 17, 2022, Amir E. Aharoni
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