And since
[[Draconity]] itself has already been recreated as a redirect,
what is the point of keeping the history deleted anyway? The article's
inaccessible to readers either way. As long as an article isn't deleted
for copyright or libel reasons, if we've got a redirect sitting there we
might as well preserve the article history in case something salvageable
is discovered in there one day.
I have restored the article history for [[Draconity]].
Unfortunately, I can already foresee people coming and arguing that "the
article has been up on AfD and the decision was to delete", and it
annoys me already.
Since there are potentially legal issues involved here (I'm not a lawyer
but the GFDL seems pretty clear on this matter), perhaps it would be
reasonably straightforward getting the deletion policy amended to
prevent this kind of history loss. Strict adherence to rules can work
both ways.