[WikiEN-l] DRV and WT:BLP

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca>:

> NavouWiki wrote:
>> Of interest to EnWP.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_December_9#Angela_Beesley
>>
>> There is also some related talk at [[WT:BLP]] regarding deletion discretion.
>>
>> I might duplicate the WT:BLP at village pump.
>
> Hijacking this thread slightly but on what I suspect is a related note,
> the history for [[Daniel Brandt]] has been deleted. This is not actually
> legal as far as I'm aware; the contents were merged into several other
> articles after the last AfD and the GFDL requires that the contribution
> history of GFDLed material be maintained.
>
> Though frankly, I expected this would happen eventually anyway. This
> issue is so deeply partisan that it doesn't seem like any "compromise"
> position is ever likely to be satisfactory. The reason for the deletion
> was "unneccessary redirect - privacy reasons" - is Brandt's very _name_
> now impossible to associate with Wikipedia? I notice that he's not
> mentioned on [[Criticism of Wikipedia]], though [[Wikipedia Review]]
> redirects there.

Oh, wow, that's wow. I've left a note on the talk page of the deleting 
admin. We
can't do that. The fact that Brandt isn't mentioned at Criticism of 
Wikipedia is
not good at all either. But violating the GFDL is a whole other level 
of bad. I
do wish people would just leave things alone.