For sysops, the rename function has since a few weeks also a function to suppress the redirect. Of course, this is a useful function, but I have seen there are some serious security problems in this new feature.

On the originally page where the page was, nothing can be seen that the page is renamed. When they rename a page with the supressing option, they are easily able to let a page disappearing, and it's very hard to see who did this and where the page actually is, esecially on a larger wiki such as nl.wikipedia (many moderators, logs etc.)

In the deletion logs of the page, there should be visible that the page has been renamed without redirect, so it's possible to see who did this and to see where the page is now. But now it's almost impossible when a page dissapeares, to see who dit this and where the page is!

This is a pretty serious security thread, which should be fixed very soon (or set it off until there is a fix)!

(this bug should also be added to the Mediawiki category)

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