On May 24, 2007, at 3:34 AM, Charlotte Webb wrote:
Generally speaking, that would violate the terms of the GFDL, which requires us to maintain documentation of all changes that are made.
Sometimes sloppy workarounds are used, such as pasting a dump of the edit history (really just a list of usernames/IPs, timestamps, and edit summaries) in a prominent location, such as the talk page (this is usually used for pages that get transwikied to another project).
For this reason, I advocate deleting and rewriting from scratch in cases where we feel some significant portion of the history is problematic.
We do have the ability to write an amazing amount of material really really quickly. The feeling that we have to carefully save every word forever is outdated.
--Jimbo