Quoting Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
On Dec 9, 2007 9:49 PM,
<joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
Quoting Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca>ca>:
Anthony wrote:
I have a copy of the history and would be willing
to extract the list
of authors and put it on the appropriate talk pages, if that'd satisfy
anyone.
I've got a copy too, though somewhat fragmentary since I got it back
when the export function had a 100-revision limit. I don't recall ever
making any substantial edits to the page so I've got no direct personal
interest in the matter. I'm mainly just upset at the inability of
compromise to "stick" even when it's mandated by the license we're
using
this material under.
Satisfying the GFDL by putting things on the talk page is highly
questionable.
It certainly doesn't satisfy the GFDL. But then again, none of the
pages on the entire website satisfy the GFDL.
That argument has been made before and a number of lawyers have
considered it to
be incorrect. I'm not a lawyer so I won't comment too heavily in that regard.
The only thing that'd
satisfy the GFDL would be to create a section, ==History==, and put
the names there, along with the years, title, and publisher. If
that's what we want to do, I'll be all for it.
Er no, as I understand it (again, I'm not a lawyer) having an explicit link to
the history is ok because we treat them more or less as one document.
And in any event, there's an obvious good faith difference between
questionably
satisfying the GFDL and definitely not satisfying it. This is clearly in the
second category.
If, on the other hand, the reason you don't want
this deleted has
nothing to do with the GFDL, I can't help you.
I already listed the many other reasons not to delete this.