Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:53:30 +0000, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
This seems a waste. Just because something hasn't been written about by the mainstream press doesn't make it worthless to people reading Wikipedia.
But it goes to the heart of what distinguishes an encyclopaedia from a directory. Transwiki is always an option, many of us will happily undelete history for that purpose.
While we can cut and paste a transwikied history to another project, that doesn't help if access to the diffs no longer works. It may satisfy the technical requirements of GFDL, but much information that might be useful in a new article is lost.
Ec