Quoting Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca:
Anthony wrote:
I have a copy of the history and would be willing to extract the list of authors and put it on the appropriate talk pages, if that'd satisfy anyone.
I've got a copy too, though somewhat fragmentary since I got it back when the export function had a 100-revision limit. I don't recall ever making any substantial edits to the page so I've got no direct personal interest in the matter. I'm mainly just upset at the inability of compromise to "stick" even when it's mandated by the license we're using this material under.
Satisfying the GFDL by putting things on the talk page is highly questionable. And frankly, almost any Wikipedia article that mentioned Brandt is going to be highly ranked, he won't be happy with this. And he's not going to stop. We had something of a compromise among the community and this isn't it.
Furthermore, there's no justification under even the most broad interpretation of BLP to allow this deletion. We don't delete redirects simply to lower google page rankings. The material that was left doesn't talk about Brandt by and large and thus isn't subject to any BLP concern whatsoever. The notion that we would go out of our way to violate the GFDL simply to lower the page rank of a variety of pages is absurd.