zetawoof wrote:
The GFDL doesn't require anyone to distribute the texts that it covers, and Wikipedia is no different from anyone else in this respect
- it's under no obligation to continue to distribute the articles
which are contributed to it. All that the GFDL requires of Wikipedia is that it keep track of who's contributed to the text that's available.
There is one significant area where deletion breaks this, cases of "merge and delete." That result should never be implemented, there should only be "merge and redirect" if merging is to be done.