Quoting Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca>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.