[WikiEN-l] Someone wants the history of an article about himself sanitized

Wed Jul 20 00:19:35 UTC 2005

On 7/20/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> The initial edit, by an anonymous editor, seems to be a vicious
> "outing", none of it sourced. I see no reason the article and its
> history should not be removed and an apology made to Allan Jenkins.
> 
> Advising someone to edit an article on themselves is not wise. Nor
> would it be wise for him to try.

Normally, I'd suggest selected deleting the problematic versions, but
since the current article is a derivative work of the first
vandalistic edit, that can't be done without violating the GFDL.
Perhaps it would be better to rewrite the article from scratch since
VfD has claimed the person notable enough for an article. Could a new
one just be formed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Jenkins/Temp
and moved to [[Allan Jenkins]] when finished?

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sam_Spade/_-_archive/Juli_2005_2#allan_jenkins
the current article contains inaccuracies since these have been kept
from the first revision even though they have no sources.

If that can't be done, perhaps correcting the article to only contain
sourced information, and telling Allan Jenkins that the history
versions are not Googlable might suffice.

Angela.