Bryan Derksen wrote:
Considering all the other more significant ways Wikipedia violates the letter of the GFDL with article merges and splits and even the occasional perversion of a "merge-and-delete" AfD result, does anyone honestly think we'd ever get in trouble for having hard-to-follow attribution for stuff stashed away on BJAODN?
It also just occurred to me that the same reasoning used for deleting BJAODN (that copy-and-paste moves inherently break GFDL compliance) may also apply to practically every talk page archive subpage on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page explicitly describes how to do copy-and-paste moves, and I've seen at least one bot out there that does copy-and-paste talk page archiving automatically.
Overly strict enforcement of detailed rules is a classic cause of unintended consequences.