On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> At least for old entries, the summary could contain information related
> to what is being hidden, where did it come from...

Certainly we couldn't automatically publicize old summaries.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Jason Schulz <[email protected]> wrote:
> When people know that rev X was removed at time Y, trolls go to the old xml
> dumps, find, and post the content, as I believe has happened in the past.
> It's much easier to do that with a public log.

This was arguably a legitimate reason for oversight, but for
rev_deleted it no longer works.  Anyone can get a list of the articles
and timestamps of all deleted revisions under the new system, logged
or no.  The only reason I could see to keep it secret is to prevent
people from easily figuring out who deleted which revision and when --
and I don't see any justification for that.

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