Auth for large deletions?

[Ian Weller]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:30:22AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> This was a vandal who deleted the entire contents of a page and
> replaced them with a tiny set of gibberish.  I reverted the change of
> course.
> 
> Is there a way to require authentication for large changes like this
> while still keeping a page editable by the public?
> 
Nope.

The best thing to do is watch pages that are editable by anyone and
revert them by hand as soon as possible.

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