Last modified: 2011-05-15 00:39:10 UTC
There are times in a diff where there is both good and bad content, so it must be easier to copy from a diff to paste somewhere. Unfortunately, this brings a lot of "-" and "+", return newlines, whitespaces when it is pasted. Wikimedia should have a feature that would have such formatting not copy over (only the newlines in the original source itself), because I honestly don't see what good it is to be copied over. Basically, I think there's some kind of function that would not have the formatting selected and I am wondering if the developers could put this in.
I would suggest you open the revision and click edit, then remove the bad bits, however to summarise for the benefit of those who haven't followed this: Request is to allow for viewing the wikimarkup of a particular part of a diff, accessible from the revision comparison page, in order to facilitate copying and pasting "good" parts of a diff.
What might be a general solution here is a feature to patch particular paragraphs of the *current version* according to the displayed diff. Sometimes there is a case of unnoticed vandalism, good edit, more vandalism. The easiest way to deal with this would be to revert, and then reapply the good edit. A tool that makes that easier would be good.
Fixed in RevisionDelete.
