I wouldn't consider either of those to be private pieces of information,
given that every single word of non-deleted edits is available for
public review. It's unclear that the previous legal issues are
privacy-related. There may be issues about publishing edit summaries
which contain personal or copyright information, or something.
-B.
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 09:48 -0700, Annabel wrote:
Imho it is best if this option is not enabled.
The whole world does not need to know if someone created a lot of
pages that are subject to copyrights or if someone is a vandal. This
is a matter of privacy and privacy law is totally different in e.g.
the US and Belgium. Therefore, I do not really like this option. It is
not really necessary anymore, because sysops can now obtain a list of
deleted contributions using the special page
[[Special:DeletedContributions]]