Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/6/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
Did user A complain about the lack of history?
There were 31 edits to the page, not all made by user A. I don't really care why B deleted it, my issue was with C copy and pasting it, which should never be done.
Ok, I'm really not getting this at all. Lots of people contribute to proposal, presumably because they wanted that proposal to exist. Someone deletes it. Someone else recreates it but fails to properly acknowledge the original creators. You re-delete it, citing the interests of the unacknowledged? Surely common sense dictates that the original creators would prefer the proposal be recreated - acknowledge or not - than that it be deleted? It's a real stretch to assume that they would rather it be deleted than that it exist without their name on it. Also bear in mind that the recreator didn't have access to the history...but you did, and could have copied it to the new article's talk page, if it bothered you.
Maybe there were good reasons for deleting it, but that's a pretty strange justification for re-deleting something.
I have even sent an email to User:Thebainer and asked him to restore the history for me, but unfortunately I've got no reply.