[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

Fri Sep 12 15:23:07 UTC 2008

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:19 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/12 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>:
>
>> 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?
>
> That's the way we usually clean up copyvios on en:wp. Severely
> libelous, illegal or personally dangerous content (home phone numbers,
> etc) may even be oversighted, so not even admins can see it. As long
> as all actual present content has its source attributed, the
> Foundation hasn't so far considered this problematic in GFDL terms.

The policy on fr.wikipedia is to keep all revisions but those that
(may) cause legal issues (copyvio, slander, etc.: routine) or that
require an oversight action (pretty rare).

-- 
Guillaume Paumier
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