Two ideas from December 2020

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Problem: If I move a page then update the redirect with {{R from}}, it takes an administrator to reverse the redirect.

Proposal:

Allow an editor to request that a bot delete all but one version of a redirect under the following conditions:

  • The version to be kept is the latest revision that does not contain the request for the bot
  • All revisions are by the requesting editor.
  • All revisions other than the revision requesting the bot to act are redirects with the same destination.
  • The page was created less than an hour before the request.

Possbile implementation: Have a special template based on {{db-author}} that would get the bot's attention. The bot would either delete the page or if it was outside the bot's narrow parameters, replace the template with a {{db-reason}} template with |reason=I am a bot, an editor as requested that all but one revision be deleted. Nominators comments: ...