https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69380

Isarra <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Isarra <[email protected]> ---
Requiring being able to edit a page to delete it doesn't make a whole lot of
sense in core: default MediaWiki comes with no situations in which anyone would
be able to delete anything they can't edit, and few MediaWiki installs will
have much reason to change the default structure in such a way.

Of course in some cases it is possible that system administrators may add
configuration where this may occur, and the use cases there could be something
to look into, but really if this comes up, shouldn't they be using extensions
in order to properly fine-tune the permissions?

I think what this really concerns is extensions. Extensions are what will
change the behaviour (unless we actually get some kind of consensus otherwise),
and also what will be affected by such changes. Any extension that adds an
interface where a user will not be editing a page directly could run into
problems depending on how it is implemented (is there any standard?), because
while editing can take a lot of different forms, some less direct than others
(from using a special form to using a bot), deleting does not. Consider the
example of talk pages - extensions such as LQT provide a new frontend for
these, where users do not edit the base talk pages directly. But as I recall,
it's the same old interface as ever to actually delete a LQT board, because
it's still just a page underneath.

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