Hi there. We've got a problem on it.wikipedia. Recently a sysop tried to delete the page [[it:Football Club Internazionale Milano]] in order to hide a vandalism that should not be available on the history page (copyright violation, blasphemies, personal information, etc) but the page reached 5000 edits, so he got an error.
I tried looking all over meta for a precedent but I wasn't able to find any. We don't have an ''oversight'' user group on it.wikipedia, and as I can see from the discussions, the community doesn't want any. So, the problem now is: "how can we remove a certain vandalism from the history"? "Bingo, history splitting" someone said... We (literally) call this procedure "un-historizing" a page. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about, so I'll try to explain how it works. There is a page called [[ABC]] and it has a lot of versions. We move this page to [[ABC/History up to <DATE>]], block this page; then we manually copy the last revision to the [[ABC]] page and put in the "edit summary" box a sentence like: "This page was ''un-historized''. To see the old history go there: [[ABC/History up to <date>]]". This would be a great idea but, wait a minute... will this procedure be GFDL-compliant? I believe that the local community has to be free to decide about local policies, but when there is the risk that a local policy might not be GFDL-compliant, I think that asking before acting is a reasonable approach. Sincerely, -- FollowTheMedia (it-N, en-2) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
