[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

Fri Sep 12 15:21:31 UTC 2008

I've never seen edit histories deleted for copyright violation, but I
suppose it's not a crazy misuse of the admis tools.  I've seen histories
deleted for BLP violations, and spam links that go to stuff like porn, and,
if I recall correctly, personal attacks (esp. those that "out" our
contributors).  So I guess there are circumstances where removing
destructive edits doesn't qualify as a violation of the GFDL.

Ford MF

On 9/12/08, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> in the Chinese Wikipedia an administrator had deleted part of article
> histories. He deleted the article complete and then reversed the
> deletion of part of the historical versions. He did this in good faith,
> because he deleted vandalism edits and copy right violation content. I
> was the opinion that this is not a good idea because at first the GFDL
> requires the edit histories (also of the vandalism edits) and second
> because thus we lost part of the records about the vandals edits.
>
> What is the right way here?
>
> Thanks for any advise.
>
> Ting
>
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