I would suggest that the potential "danger" of such a right is mitigated by
the following:
* It is not possible to delete change tags defined by an extension unless
the extension specifically allows it (which none currently do). That means
that active AbuseFilter tags, tags like `visualeditor`, etc. cannot be
deleted. The exception to this is OAuth, which should really be fixed not to
allow its tags to be deleted.
* The feature is currently limited to deleting tags used by <= 5,000
revisions. (This may change in the future.)
On enwiki, this would allow old, inactive AbuseFilter tags to be cleaned up
(like "michael jackson"). These tags are in most cases applied to old
revisions, and seeing as the intention of tags is to help patrolling of
recent edits, I don't think this is a big enough deal to require logging
every single revision to which the tag was (in many cases, probably
erroneously) applied.
TTO
"Jackmcbarn" wrote in message
news:CAOx5P=+gAkH_-k3uUAFF4fCTy16BQH9ibihV57t56x=h4QB=b...@mail.gmail.com...
Gerrit change 181958[1] was recently merged, which allows (among other
things) the ability for sysops to irrecoverably delete change tags. Since
irrecoverable deletion of anything from on-wiki is rather unprecedented, I
think we should stop granting it to all sysops in DefaultSettings.php, so
that wikis have to "opt-in" for this feature to be enabled. Thoughts?
[1]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/181958/
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