[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 15:23:38 UTC 2008


2008/9/12 David Moran <fordmadoxfraud at gmail.com>:

> I've never seen edit histories deleted for copyright violation, but I
> suppose it's not a crazy misuse of the admis tools.  I've seen histories
> deleted for BLP violations, and spam links that go to stuff like porn, and,
> if I recall correctly, personal attacks (esp. those that "out" our
> contributors).  So I guess there are circumstances where removing
> destructive edits doesn't qualify as a violation of the GFDL.


It should be applied very conservatively, but there is a place for it.


- d.




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