Ryan Delaney wrote > > This is coming into focus a bit, but how, specifically, do you think > this relates to pure wiki deletion? [[Wikipedia:Pure wiki deletion system]] says various things, including that it is unclear why deletion is not reversible. (I'd say that is clear enough.)
But however you formulate the discussion about blanking pages versus deletion, what you end up talking about is various databases within the database. The current "solution" is roughly that there are a public database "articles for creation" that is held outside the main namespace, and a database of deleted pages (histories in some cases purged by the OverSight tool) accessible by admins. My comment really was that if we had the further "database" of some millions of "blanked" pages, most of which was admittedly junk, and some of which would certainly be at least as troubling for BLP reasons as the live pages considering that it might concern many thousands of people who are not "notable" and yet about whom we make postings available, we might be having the discussion the other way round: wouldn't it just be easier to concentrate on what we are good at, making encyclopedia articles on topics that can support them? We now live on Wikipedia, I think, with a fuller consciousness of our finite if very large human resources, and (at least as I see it) the "pure wiki" approach is mainly a distraction from the mission "write the encyclopedia". Hence my use of the term "rationalisation" for the attitude that we should very much focus on the core mission. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
