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::::: On the cost of the vandalism, I'd still argue that you are wrong (but still in the context that the cost would be very minor), as if the edit removes 2000 words from a page and adds four, to use your example, the storage requirement is ''increased'', as the database still stores those 2000 removed words, as well as the four new ones.  This is obvious from the mere fact that you can view the history of the article and see those 2000 words in the history.  And from the fact that any editor can revert back to those 2000 words, thereby creating yet another record in the database (although whether that new record duplicates those 2000 words or simply points to the older record I don't know).  Even deleted pages and deleted ('oversighted') edits are still in the database taking up room unless specifically removed by someone with required rights.

::::: On the cost of the vandalism, I'd still argue that you are wrong (but still in the context that the cost would be very minor), as if the edit removes 2000 words from a page and adds four, to use your example, the storage requirement is ''increased'', as the database still stores those 2000 removed words, as well as the four new ones.  This is obvious from the mere fact that you can view the history of the article and see those 2000 words in the history.  And from the fact that any editor can revert back to those 2000 words, thereby creating yet another record in the database (although whether that new record duplicates those 2000 words or simply points to the older record I don't know).  Even deleted pages and deleted ('oversighted') edits are still in the database taking up room unless specifically removed by someone with required rights.

::::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 03:56, 5 March 2009 (EST)

::::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 03:56, 5 March 2009 (EST)

==Please un-archive the current discussion==

==Please un-archive the current discussion==