Emanuele Casadio wrote: > 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,
I really recommend against it. Stewards can delete big pages (and perform oversights there if needed). Hopefully, we will have soon the per-revision deletion and that limit will go away. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
