Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Admins and patrollers/Diffs to deleted content

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Diffs to deleted content

• Problem: I want to compare deleted content to live revisions under the same title, or live/deleted revisions for a different title. This is especially useful to check whether a page is a substantive copy of the deleted content and is a key tell to determine whether the author is a sockpuppet. I could do this via Special:Diff or the API... but it is very difficult to discover the revision ID. There should also be associated UI improvements to page history, Special:Undelete and Special:Deletedcontributions to integrate this functionality.
• Who would benefit: Administrators
• Proposed solution: See above.
• More comments:
• Phabricator tickets: T30819
• Proposer: MER-C (talk) 17:02, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

Not opposed to this, but a better tool to this end would be to have a bot look at all articles created at previously deleted titles and note when recreated content substantially duplicates the previously deleted content. BD2412 T 19:43, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support Would be useful to have DannyS712 (talk) 18:00, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 18:01, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Sgd. —Hasley 18:35, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support H78c67c (talk) 18:52, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer (talk) 19:22, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Count Count (talk) 19:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:48, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Weak support Why not? MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 21:14, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support YFdyh000 (talk) 23:20, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 01:49, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Shizhao (talk) 02:44, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Xinbenlv (talk) 04:51, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 09:09, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Sakretsu (炸裂) 11:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ‐‐1997kB (talk) 12:31, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support MER-C (talk) 20:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support — WinnerWolf99 ^talk_{What did I break now?} 20:22, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 01:48, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - yona B. (D) 07:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support β₁₆ - (talk) 11:26, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support. Meiræ 15:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support KevinL (aka L235 · t) 00:59, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Strong support . BoldLuis (talk) 09:43, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Asartea ^{Talk (Enwiki Talk (preferred))} 15:59, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | enwiki} 16:23, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Szalax (talk) 16:26, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Noel baran (talk) 16:46, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Teukros (talk) 17:51, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Robins7 (talk) 22:00, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support DGG (talk) 00:35, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support enL3X1 ¡‹delayed reaction›¡ 05:38, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 11:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Conny (talk) 15:36, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Wostr (talk) 20:48, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 06:00, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- the wub "?!" 18:24, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:43, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Achim (talk) 08:55, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support. A diff or any other kind of permanent link would be helpful.—Teles «Talk ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 17:14, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 22:31, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 12:43, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Túrelio (talk) 19:50, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Đức Anh (talk) 05:12, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Dr-Taher (talk) 05:13, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support EvergreenFir (talk) 17:29, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Base (talk) 19:01, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Owleksandra (talk) 19:01, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Kocgs (talk) 20:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Geonuch (talk) 13:02, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Barkeep49 (talk) 15:47, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Schniggendiller (talk) 16:51, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support use of Support template under protest (I generally refuse to use template), as usual. — regards, Revi 16:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)