User:JesseW/deletion thoughts
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[edit] Concerns about pure wiki deletion
We delete things for various purposes(note I'm not saying reasons, but benefical effects of the deletion)
- To prevent their access by the general public
- To allow history merging(i.e. moving a page on top of another page) and a few other technical fixes.
- To make sure article names with insuffient good material lead to red links.
If you know of more, please add.
Pure wiki deletion would handily solve #3, and #2 occurs very in-often, so the big issue is with #1. How would we remove things from general public access if "anyone could delete things"? JesseW, the juggling janitor 23:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
User:Ryan_Delaney says that some things would still go through the conventional process. So, here's a list to work on: Things that would stil be hidden from public view:
- Copyvios or otherwise illegal material
- Request by only author
- Attack pages
Recreated pages would be protected, as now, with {{deletedpage}}. What happens to their history is irrelevant.
