Quoting Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
On Dec 9, 2007 10:34 PM,
<joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
Quoting Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
I agree, but do you believe that having the
information in the history
of an article which redirects to the one in question does satisfy the
GFDL? And what about the part of the merge that went into a different
page from the one the redirect went to? How does that questionably
satisfy the GFDL? I don't see it.
That's actually a very good point. Is there anyway to merge page
histories into
multiple articles?
It *could* be done with the import function, but it'd be very very
ugly. The histories would be intertwined, such that doing a diff of
one version to the next would give you a diff of two different
articles.
Alternatively the closest thing is to copy and
paste the
list of difs into a dif on the article noting that in the edit
summary that it
has that there and then removing the list on the next dif (we've done this
before and somone I don't remember who commented that this was probably ok).
Honestly, I don't understand what that means.
Ok, say article X needs the first five edits of an article deleted for privacy
concerns. Admin Y deletes those edits, and makes an edit to the article with
the edit summary of something like "Look at this dif for list of authors who
had edits deleted" and in that edit append to the bottom a list of editors.
Then Y makes another edit to remove the list from the page.
A different, probably more acceptable variation is what was done at
Justin Berry
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Berry See the note at the end of the
article.
And again,
GFDL issues aren't my only concern.
Right, but as I said, I can't help you on your other concerns. I
haven't even decided my position on them. You're gonna have to argue
with someone else about that part :).
<whine> But I wanna argue now! </whine>
You mean you are slowly thinking about a position rather than going with your
gut instinct and defending it to the death? What kind of Wikipedian are you?