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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1: Sep 7th 2015 at 1:23:51 PM

A lot of people do this instead of using the Cut List. Can we have the server reject page blanking edits and submit instead a message "If you want to blank or get rid of a page please use the Cut List" to the editor, please?

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: Sep 13th 2015 at 8:09:57 AM

To whit, the rejection needs to occur whenever a page submitted to the server has no content at all. And the message should point both to the Cut List and a note about phantom wicks.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Nohbody "In distress", my ass. from Somewhere in Dixie Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#3: Oct 3rd 2015 at 6:44:17 AM

And if the replacement text is essentially "you're a poopyhead"? That is, technically, content, if useless for anything even remotely related to the wiki, and has been done in the past.

Or even, solely focusing on using page blanking as a substitute for the cutlist, "[deleted]" or somesuch.

edited 3rd Oct '15 6:45:03 AM by Nohbody

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#4: Oct 3rd 2015 at 7:47:21 AM

The scope of this idea is not so much to stop vandalism but to stop non-vandal blankings. The "deleted" thing happens as well but it's not as common as plain blanking.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#5: Feb 11th 2016 at 3:12:46 AM

Done, locking.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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