On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:52:41 -0700, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)joey.bomis.com>
gave utterance to the following:
user_Jamesday wrote:
Don't just delete the article. Keep it with
the requested
attribution until it can be rewritten. We don't want to destroy the
evidence of the Wikipedia complying with such requests. It'll be
useful for establishing a pattern of compliance in any future defence.
The mailing list archives serve that purpose well enough. It's better
to just delete it, because in the future someone might peruse the
history and think "Oh, look, this article used to say thus-and-so, and
now it doesn't, so I'll revive it."
Hopefully they won't if the history shows the comment "article removed at
copyright owner's request"
--
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried