@Derivative, can you please not delete pages outright when you recreate them? We want the pre-existing edit histories -- in some cases we may be legally required to maintain them. Instead of wiping out a page and its history, just replace its contents with your new stuff.
Thanks!
@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak @Robkelk
I delete and recreate in order to get the boilerplates showing. Disregarding the original one-line Skarsgard article, the other ones I did today were just redirects IIRC, so there isn't much legal requirement to worry about.
It's easy to open a temp page using the Page Creator, and pick the desired boilerplate in it, then copy and paste. Or you can also do what I do, which is keep copies of all the common templates handy in a local directory to copy when I need them.
I should also point out my creation of the new Skarsgard article was based on Wikipedia and contained of the single line TVT article only the same phrase "is a Swedish actor", which also matches exactly with the Wikipedia article. There was zero plagiarism.
Wouldn't keeping them local be a much slower and painstaking process which also doesn't update when the boilerplates are updated?
If there's ever a case of me needing to restoring revisions when I delete and recreate, fine; but I don't think it was needed in this instance.
I have to agree with @Looney Toons here. I have been able to add boilerplate text to existing pages in the past - it isn't such a difficult task that the existing pages need to be deleted.
The only reason I deleted the page to do the boilerplate was that it was literally a one line and was the simplest and fastest method for me to solve the issue of making a bad creator page ATT-quality. The original revision of the page has already been restored by me, in case TVT decides "is a Swedish actor" is somehow worthy of a copyright suit. This was a very case-specific situation.