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I wish there was an easier way to find deleted articles. You can see all versions of an article but if it's gone there seems to be no way to see anything.
by contravariant 3y ago
I wish there was an easier way to find deleted articles. You can see all versions of an article but if it's gone there seems to be no way to see anything.
- FuriouslyAdrift 3y agoThere used to be deletionpedia.org but it has gone dormant (again)
- duskwuff 3y agoThis is by design. A lot of articles, especially recently created ones, get deleted because they consist of material which is legally problematic (e.g. text which is a copyright violation, which is libelous, which violates someone's privacy, etc).
- mardifoufs 3y agoDoesn't that use a different deletion mechanism? Afaik you can still see "normally" deleted edits and articles if you have the revision link, but those who have been deleted for legal reasons are wiped from history and their revision or edit link are blanked out
- duskwuff 3y ago> Doesn't that use a different deletion mechanism? Generally not. There is a separate process called "oversight" [1] which behaves the way you're describing, but it can only be invoked by a very small number of privileged users, and is only used in extreme cases. [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy