On 14 Jun 2007 at 00:19:49 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:

Meanwhile there's now discussion on talk:Daniel Brandt about deleting the article's history once the merge is complete, and when I pointed out that this would violate the GFDL I got a response from Slim Virgin that "This is no time to worry about the GFDL."

Funny... GFDL rules (and Wikipedians' interpretations of them) seemed to trump everything else, in some people's assessment, where WP:BJODN was concerned. It's interesting how policies, even ones based on real-world concerns like copyright law, are not considered important in themselves, but only as bludgeons to enforce whatever the enforcer wishes to happen for other reasons; when a particular policy is harmful rather than helpful to one's agenda, it's quickly discarded.