To see how Google handles this, take a look at
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT...
and follow the convenient link they provide to the takedown notice, which includes the content they have been asked to take down, effectively making it available again. That's approximately what the history pages here do, though I agree with your archive argument and suggest also that the history is a working document and not part of the current publication, which is the Wikipedia itself, not the history of every page in every version. That's well illustrated by the many sites making the Wikipedia but not the history available.
So, you think that court documents like that should be kept private? LDan
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