Author: jamydlan
Description:
Simmilar to edit conflict resolution. If you are editing a page and it's deleted in
the meantime you get a warning when trying to save asking if you wish to recreate or
not. However the reverse seems to now apply. If you opened a page, and then click
the delete link you will not be warned if someone updated the page in the meantime.
I just had this happen to me on enWiki. I found an albumcover tagged as "no license"
in a more than 7 days old deletion category (speedy deletion criterea). So I edited
the image to add source description and license tag and removed the deletion
template. However 8 minutes later someone deleted the image as "no license" anyway.
What I guess happened was the admin opened all the images in the category in a lot
of different tabs in his browser and worked his way though deleting them, so as far
as he knew the image was still tagged as "no license" when he deleted it, and he
never knew the license issue had been fixed.
The solution seems to be to send the revision ID or last change date or whatever
along with the delete link so that if the admin for whatever reason linger long
enough on the page for someone to change it before he click the delete button he
will be given a warning that the page have changed since he last saw it and ask him
to review wether he still want to delete it or not. Same goes for when "executing" a
deletion I guess.
It's a fairly rare situation, but can be anoying when it happens.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23868