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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Oct 1, 2023 12:39 AM UTC in reply to Ben Reiniger from Sat Sep 30 11:40 PM:

I imagine that the database and scripts using a deleted flag--rather than actually deleting the information--was a purposeful decision. I think it's a reasonably good idea to keep data around in case an author (or someone posting as the author, not that I expect us to be a large target for hackers) mistakenly or brashly deletes or vandalizes their pages.

David may have had something else in mind, as he added this feature before I programmed the 404 page, but I think the main use for marking a page as deleted is so that the 404 page can inform someone who goes to a deleted page that it used to exist. This makes sense for published pages, particularly those that have been around for a while. For unpublished pages, it seems like it would be fine to just completely delete the Item row.

Also, I'll note that David added this feature back when all pages were .html pages, and one field of the Item table was for the URL. So, keeping the row in the database would tell us that we once had a page at a certain location, and it would not deter anyone from putting a new page there. The issue now is that keeping this row for a deleted member-submitted page can prevent other members from creating a new page with the same name, ID and address.

I don't think it entirely too onerous to require asking an editor to purge the last remnants of a page

But if it is appropriate for an editor to delete an Item row, it could also be appropriate for a script to do it automatically under the right conditions.

I don't think GDPR applies except to the connection between author and content. But also I am not a lawyer.

I wasn't even thinking of this as a legal issue.


Gerd Degens wrote on Fri, Oct 6, 2023 02:52 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Sun Oct 1 12:39 AM:

@Fergus: I would like to verify a new email address. A message appears that a link has been sent to my new email address, which I should click on. I can repeat this as often as I want, an email does not arrive.
What can happen, what do I have to do?


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Oct 6, 2023 05:51 PM UTC in reply to Gerd Degens from 02:52 PM:

Our server email is not working, and I don't know how to fix it. If you want your email verified, send us or me an email from the email address associated with your account, asking for it to be marked as verified.


illizard@publicist.com wrote on Sun, Oct 8, 2023 05:38 PM UTC:

Hello! Cannot log in to my account - the site shows no warnings, just keeps showing the login in the menu.

(If this message appears, apparently the login works through the message form)


Ben Reiniger wrote on Tue, Oct 10, 2023 04:16 PM UTC in reply to illizard@publicist.com from Sun Oct 8 05:38 PM:

I believe that's the current behavior for an incorrect password, but could be any other error in logging in...the actual login page doesn't seem to produce a useful message either. @Fergus?


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jan 15, 2024 05:35 PM UTC:

I have removed Zied Haddad and Ola Sasserson as editors, because neither has signed in since 2021, and neither was ever active very much as an editor. Although Greg Strong has been inactive for several months, he is still listed, as he has previously been active as an editor, and he has been inactive for less time.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 16, 2024 10:09 PM UTC:

I have made these changes to the Contributors page, which is linked to from this page but has not itself been indexed.

  1. The SQL query is now sorted in the order of LastName, FirstName, PersonID.
  2. Each option is written in the form of "LastName, FirstName – PersonID" to align with the sorting order.
  3. The registered users list now includes all registered users, not just the ones who are not contributors.
  4. I added a new list for unregistered contributors.
  5. I moved up the registered and unregistered contributors lists to come right after the complete contributors list.

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