Deleting attachments on Help wiki is too easy

[Phil Bull]

It seems to be too easy for people to delete attachments on the wiki at help.ubuntu.com/community. Apparently, all it requires is for a user to log-in, click the Attachments link at the bottom of the page, and then click the Del button next to an attachment. (I'm an admin user, so I can't check that this is the case for non-privileged users, but someone reported this problem to me.)

Attachment deletion should be restricted to wiki administrators.

[Zach Kriesse (zkriesse-deactivatedaccount)]

Phil, I've noticed this back before I had obtained Wiki/Doc Admin status. I could just log in, find a page, delete attachments, rename a page, and even DELETE a full page...this is not a good think in my opinion...makes it a tad too easy for some malicious user or even an accident to cause delete of say, an Ubuntu team page such as the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam pages.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

I thought that deletion of pages and attachments was limited to administrators on help.ubuntu.com/community? Could someone without administrative rights please double check this?

I think that deletion of pages and attachments is not restricted on wiki.ubuntu.com, but that is a different site and different policies may be appropriate. That's not a question for the ubuntu-docs project at all.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Rejecting on ubuntu-doc project as this is not used for bugs, we use the distribution package for bugs.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

If I recall correctly, the site will present the user with the option to do these tasks, but when they try, it will fail and tell them that they don't have the proper permissions to perform that action.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]