David Mestel schreef:
No history section is required, technically, if a Document is written and then distributed only as a verbatim copy, but that's not the case with a Wikipedia article.
With "history section", you mean a section describing the history of the page? The GFDL does not discuss such a section.
Instead, it specifies a 'section Entitled "History"', which is defined as "a named subunit of the Document whose title either is precisely [History] or contains [History] in parentheses following text that translates [History] in another language." The original content of this section is irrelevant to the license; only the title matters.
An example of such a section Entitled "History" is for example [[London#History]]. If you create a derived work of [[London]], you have to include that section, and add your name to it (presumably under ===Rise of modern London===). And if you consider Wikipedia to be one document, you have to add your own name to [[History]], when republishing it.
That's what the GFDL says.
Eugene