David Carson wrote:
The state of the articles after your edits is
perfectly fine, but I
thought the whole point of the "rewrite on a /Temp subpage and delete
the original" policy was to avoid preserving copyright-violating
material in article histories?
Cases like this are a tricky issue. It's okay if the original author
rewrites on a /Temp subpage and the original is deleted. However,
copying material to a /Temp subpage and deleting the original is
problematic, because now you've lost the attribution history: it looks
like whoever created the /Temp subpage wrote that text, when it was
actually someone else, which is at least technically a violation of the
GFDL. The tension, of course, is that we'd want to both preserve
history *and* delete copyvios from the history in such cases, which only
developers can do (by deleting specific revisions from the history).
-Mark