Last modified: 2013-12-09 15:54:08 UTC
If a link is deleted from the item, and the same link (=page) is deleted on Wikipedia, it should not be possible to restore those links to the item. E.g. at https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q14565806&action=history I reverted edit where was deleted one sitelink. But then I noticed that the article was deleted on Wikipedia. This should be make to be impossible.
This would require us to check too much in the moment a restore is being done (we already check too much). The idea of "restoring" a revision means to restore it to the version it was, not to reapply it and see which of it fits. This seems very counterintuitive.
Wouldn't a simple notice/warning do the job?
We'd still need to do that checks for that though of which Denny said we are already doing too many :(
