Page creation log should not display the content of deleted pages
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	Aug 13 2019, 3:40 PM

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vandal creates a page with abusive language (with no edit summary, as is typical for vandals)
page gets deleted
abusive content gets preserved in page creation log (which uses first N characters of the content as autosummary) and requires extra effort from administrators to remove

This is not ideal. We should customize the page creation log formatter to hide the summary if the page got deleted (but that seems like a potential performance problem as a I don't think we have a way to do a mass page lookup for a mass log record lookup), or revdelete the creation log comment automatically when the page gets deleted, or just not put the page content in the summary in the first place.

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Mentioned In: T261087: When deleting a page, give the option to also delete the page creation log
T248434: Deleted page creations are not removed from recentchanges results
T239012: Remove autogeneration of Deletion summary.
Mentioned Here: T24999: Article::generateReason returns wrong result when all users except one are hidden
T12331: Introduce page creation log

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Tgr created this task.Aug 13 2019, 3:40 PM

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binbot subscribed.Aug 13 2019, 3:48 PM

just not put the page content in the summary in the first place

I think this is the best option for simplicity. I'd also say that content shouldn't be put in the edit summary of page creation revisions or added in the deletion summaries for similar reasons.

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ToBeFree awarded a token.Nov 17 2019, 1:51 AM

Caused T24999 and probably other leakages

Change 552484 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ammarpad; owner: Ammarpad):
[mediawiki/core@master] Remove autogeneration of Deletion summary.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/552484

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 22 2019, 10:44 AM

Ammarpad claimed this task.Nov 22 2019, 10:44 AM

In T230425#5683962, @Ammarpad wrote:

Caused T24999 and probably other leakages

This task is in no way related to T24999 (which is about a bug in the deletion autosummary generation algorithm).

Ammarpad mentioned this in T239012: Remove autogeneration of Deletion summary..Nov 24 2019, 8:07 AM

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Trijnstel subscribed.Dec 17 2019, 10:28 PM

In T230425#5685013, @Tgr wrote:

This task is in no way related to T24999 (which is about a bug in the deletion autosummary generation algorithm).

No. Certainly not "in no way". If Article::generateReason/T24999 is not generating the reason at all (or if it were to be removed now) then this bug wouldn't exist in the first place.

Ammarpad removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 26 2019, 9:22 AM

Bugreporter merged a task: T249334: Set always a blank reason for page deletion as default.Apr 4 2020, 2:21 PM

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Framawiki mentioned this in T248434: Deleted page creations are not removed from recentchanges results.Jul 8 2020, 8:53 PM

Platonides renamed this task from Page creation log should not display the content of deleted pages to Recent changes new page entries should not display the content of deleted pages.Jul 9 2020, 10:09 PM

Platonides renamed this task from Recent changes new page entries should not display the content of deleted pages to Page creation log should not display the content of deleted pages.

Ammarpad mentioned this in T261087: When deleting a page, give the option to also delete the page creation log.Aug 24 2020, 7:33 AM

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