Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 10/13/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 10/13/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
die, who knows? And since the contents of the deleted article were fine I intend to use that text as a basis for the recreation, which means the GFDL requires that the edit history be restored along with it.
Surely there are other ways to approximate compliance with the GFDL other
than the history maintained by Wikipedia. But in any case, the edit history
of deleted articles is already available.
I suppose I could include attributions for the various contributors using edit summaries, HTML comments, or on the talk page. But this seems like an awful lot of extra effort to go to to fulfil the letter of AfD's "law", what would be the point when I can just undelete the thing and have the edit history back in full?
Well, like I said, the edit history of deleted articles is already there. In case you didn't understand what I meant, when you click on "history" there will be a link which reads "View X deleted editshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Ria_Fulton?" and clicking on that will provide you with the history information (anyone can see the edit history, not just admins). Furthermore, history only undeletion is allowed without a vote anyway (at least, it was last time I checked, a few months ago). Finally, it's really not that hard to copy/paste the edit history into the talk page, and that approximately fulfills the GFDL requirements as well as any other system being used on the wiki.
Those edit histories are pretty useless when they don't show who made what edit. They're just a list of names and times. They're added to the talk page of things that are transwikied to Wiktionary where it's just as well to do a fresh rewrite of the article and delete the so-called history.
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