Well, like I said, the edit history of deleted articles is already there.
In
case you didn't understand what I meant, when you click on "history"
there
will be a link which reads "View X deleted editshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Ria_Fulton?" and clicking on that will provide you with the history information
(anyone
can see the edit history, not just admins). Furthermore, history only undeletion is allowed without a vote anyway (at least, it was last time I checked, a few months ago). Finally, it's really not that hard to
copy/paste
the edit history into the talk page, and that approximately fulfills the GFDL requirements as well as any other system being used on the wiki.
Those edit histories are pretty useless when they don't show who made what edit. They're just a list of names and times. They're added to the talk page of things that are transwikied to Wiktionary where it's just as well to do a fresh rewrite of the article and delete the so-called history.
The GFDL only requires the title, the name, the year, and the publisher, in the section entitled history. So yeah, they're useless, but they give some semblance of GFDL compliance.
Ec
Anthony