Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 10/13/05, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
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.
Surely there are other ways to approximate compliance with the GFDL other
than the history maintained by Wikipedia. But in any case, the edit history
of deleted articles is already available.
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?