[WikiEN-l] Meanwhile, AfD grinds on

Fri Oct 14 06:33:29 UTC 2005

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>On 10/13/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>Anthony DiPierro wrote:
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>>>On 10/13/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>>>die, who knows? And since the contents of the deleted article were fine
>>>>I intend to use that text as a basis for the recreation, which means the
>>>>GFDL requires that the edit history be restored along with it.
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>>>Surely there are other ways to approximate compliance with the GFDL other
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>>>than the history maintained by Wikipedia. But in any case, the edit history
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>>>of deleted articles is already available.
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>>I suppose I could include attributions for the various contributors
>>using edit summaries, HTML comments, or on the talk page. But this seems
>>like an awful lot of extra effort to go to to fulfil the letter of AfD's
>>"law", what would be the point when I can just undelete the thing and
>>have the edit history back in full?
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>Well, like I said, the edit history of deleted articles is already there. In
>case you didn't understand what I meant, when you click on "history" there
>will be a link which reads "View X deleted
>edits<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Ria_Fulton>?"
>and clicking on that will provide you with the history information (anyone
>can see the edit history, not just admins). Furthermore, history only
>undeletion is allowed without a vote anyway (at least, it was last time I
>checked, a few months ago). Finally, it's really not that hard to copy/paste
>the edit history into the talk page, and that approximately fulfills the
>GFDL requirements as well as any other system being used on the wiki.
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Those edit histories are pretty useless when they don't show who made 
what edit.  They're just a list of names and times.  They're added to 
the talk page of things that are transwikied to Wiktionary where it's 
just as well to do a fresh rewrite of the article and delete the 
so-called history.

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