We've got an undeletion policy that clearly allows for history-only undeletions. They don't need to be listed on DRV and they don't need to be kept for ten days if they are.

Accordingly I've undeleted the history of [[Thomasine Church]], earlier deleted by AfD and recreated as a redirect (and a very good one) to an article about the Nasranis, who sometimes use that term to describe themselves.

Unfortunately I have had to do this in the face of almost unanimous opposition along the following lines:

"That article was complete, unverified piffle on someone's homebrew website church. Even hidden in the history it would be detrimental to the reputation of Wikipedia"

"I agree with most of the above. this should be kept safely out of harm's way"

But original the material is not as toxic as the above statements seem to say, being simply an account of a US-based church that claims spiritual links to Thomas. As far as it goes, it's verifiable, but slanted somewhat towards the views of that church.

As this is a straightforward matter under the undeletion policy, I've gone ahead and undeleted.

As I've outlined before, DRV is even more prone to assumptions of bad faith than AfD. In a great example of instruction creep, it now purports to declare some material (not copyright infringing, not defamatory) unfit even for a history undeletion.