Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-28171460-20181116042937/@comment-28171460-20181119234059

Sorry for the long comment:


 * >If you had requested they do it for you on one page, you probably would be more successful.

They did say that this was an option! It's certainly not a terrible option, either. It just doesn't seem more efficient than the option you presented earlier (deleting the page and picking which revisions to undelete). To me, RevDelete just seemed like the most efficient method, but I suppose that's subjective.


 * >And you've got to give some good arguments as to why you actually need it.

I offered some, but they made it clear that RevDelete was a feature they did not offer to any individual communities.


 * >This is almost certainly not what they said.

The sentence regarding "trust" was an insinuation based on the following sentence, which was:

"Saying that admins would be far to[o] likely to misuse the feature." - my paraphrasing

"Generally, our experience says that admins will use RevDel far too liberally" - Fandom

Hopefully that clears things up.


 * >If you want to move off FANDOM, why don't you do it now? I'm sure export is available to you. Oh, you don't want to pay anything and the competitors are worse? So sad.

Moving hosts isn't a decision that one user should ever make instantaneously or without the council of their community. Then, we'd need to thoroughly weigh the costs/benefits. (Also, I'm not entirely opposed to paying out of pocket, but that would likely require me to run ads on the wiki; however, I don't know how I would feel about directly monetizing a community-driven fan-project.)

In the end, I was speaking personally. What's right for one community might not be right for every community. If you love using Fandom, then keep doing what you love! Whatever's best for your wiki.