On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Alex R. wrote:
Quaere: Is it possible to creat a function to delete
parts of a page's
history
if the history is found to have an infringement on it. That would be a
way to clean up the many infringements that are posted on previous page
versions (which are also listed as being released under the GFDL); though
if the fair use policy applies to the current versions; there is even a
stronger argument for fair use applying to
Individual revisions can be deleted manually, and if there's a need to do
it frequently, a function could be made for it. However there are broadly
three classes of things we'd want to remove:
* A newly created article that's cut-n-pasted from a non-FDL source
without permission. If no good material has been added it can simply be
deleted; if the cut-n-paste was _replaced_ bodily with good material, it's
simple to delete the 'bad' revisions off the beginning and let the 'good'
article's history stand on its own as if it were created separately.
* An existing article that has had cut-n-paste added to it, and
immediately reverted. Individual revision(s) can be blanked easily.
* A longstanding problem, where cut-n-pasted text has been intermingled
with original text over many revisions.
This third case is the tricky one. How best to handle it?
(Do we need a wikilegal-l list?)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)