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Page creator should be able to access the deleted page
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Description

A user can create a new page and the page may be deleted later because it lacks notability, merges into another page, is considered as advertisements, etc.

Users can ask Admin to review the deletion and recover it by proposing some reason. As users cannot see the deleted page, it is difficult for them to put forward specific and detailded evidence against the deletion.

Also, to respect the labor of the creator, I suggest that page creators can see their deleted pages


Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement

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bz48076

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 22 2014, 1:38 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz48076.
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Hi,
could you please clarify what you request here?

The bug report's summary is "Page creator can see the deleted page". Does that mean that you consider it a bug that the page creator can see the deleted page, or do you request that "page creator should be able to access the deleted page"?

(In reply to comment #1)

Hi,
could you please clarify what you request here?

The bug report's summary is "Page creator can see the deleted page". Does
that
mean that you consider it a bug that the page creator can see the deleted
page,
or do you request that "page creator should be able to access the deleted
page"?

Thanks. I have modified it.

We're also discussing this on zhwiki.

It's not relatively easy or obvious to find the "page creator" because of multiple deletions, page merges, complete rewrites or some other reasons. A technically feasible solution is to allow *revision* creators to view their own revisions, but this may allow patrollers (from practice instead of technology) to view almost all pages since they create revisions even when they're just adding a template.

Maybe there could be the possibility to give a user (it must not be the page creater) the right so see the page, by a sysop. This access could also be time limited, like protecting a page. I think this is more complex, but it could be more useful. What do you think? Greetings, Luke081515

DannyS712 subscribed.

Given the access to view revisions that have been deleted, tagging WMF-Legal for feedback.

Shizhao changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Nov 18 2019, 3:04 AM

This is a bad idea and would necessitate more suppression. Someone can create a completely inappropriate page, and if deleted there should be no expectation that a project continues to host that page for anyone, including whomever happens to be associated with the oldest deleted revision. While this could potentially have some use cases for general wikimedia users - I'd say it is completely inappropriate for WMF wiki's (which means that even if created it would likely be barely supported / qa'd / etc).