Back-up of deleted revisions

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Deletion_policy&diff=next&oldid=340788 I would actually be surprised if this was true even in 2006. I could see it being the case pre-1.5, back when deleted revision text was stored in a separate table, but that's 2004-2005.

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—Emufarmers^(T|C)‎10:29, 17 January 2012

I've checked the earliest deletion log entry at meta which is this and I can see content inside; however I can't say the same for very old images that once they were deleted they got lost forever (note there's no "file history"). Best regards.

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--Marco Aurelio (talk • meta)‎19:13, 17 January 2012

Well back in the day we didn't save deleted images at all. They were permanently deleted the moment the admin hit delete (Many a flame war was started between Commons and sister projects over images that were deleted, back in the day)

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Bawolff‎23:53, 17 January 2012