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Revision Deletion is a function now built into the MediaWiki software that allows individual lines to be deleted from both logs and page histories. This deletion is simple to accomplish and is highly flexible, with options to hide all of the line, or just parts of it (like the summary, user and revision text itself) and unlike the currently utilized administrative method of hiding revisions, it does not remove the revisions from the history, merely greying and striking through them.
Special:RevisionDelete (RevDelete) is currently being used by the oversight group as an alternative to the Special:HideRevision feature (the old oversight), which is very destructive to page histories and near irreversible. Oversighters also received the ability to suppress the normal revision deletion log message that normally accompanies a RevDeletion action and to prevent non-oversighters (admins, in this situation) access to the deleted revision, features that would not be provided to the admin community.
This report details the pros and cons of the Revision Deletion function, as well as some bugs and usability issues found while testing the function. All these issues have been found on the Wikipedia testing website, http://test.wikipedia.org/, and have taken place on various sandbox pages I created to test these functions.