On 26/03/2008, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that it's proper to request and receive copies of articles deleted by normal processes (other than BLP or other sensitive deletions). Many admins are open to doing so for anyone who requests a copy of a deleted article. Most people who request it are looking to see if they can recreate an article and fix its problems, but taking the data (under GFDL) and posting it elsewhere is also "legal".
How do they deal with the issue of accreditation without article histories?
GFDL doesn't say anything about having a full wiki history for each piece of text. A list of the authors who edited it available and linked somewhere from the text should be fine, although wikipedia destroyed the original list so it could prove somewhat troublesome for them given the copyright owners who collaboratively authored the text allowed wikipedia to destroy their contribution history.
Peter