Make deleting the Main Page a permission like bigdelete which is simply not assigned by default
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	Apr 13 2008, 3:43 PM

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Author: mike.lifeguard+bugs

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Third-party users may want people to be able to (easily) delete the Main Page just like they may want people to be able to delete more than 5000 revisions. Please make deleting the Main Page a permission like bigdelete which is simply not assigned for WMF wikis.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:05 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-User-Interface.

• bzimport set Reference to bz13730.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Apr 13 2008, 3:43 PM

There's no restriction against deleting the main page in MediaWiki.

There's a custom extension installed on English Wikipedia for this.

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Make deleting the Main Page a permission like bigdelete which is simply not assigned by default
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