[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/9/12 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If the edit has been reverted I see no reason why it would need to be
>> attributed to anyone since it isn't there any more. The GFDL requires
>> us to attribute anything we use but we don't have to use everything
>> that's posted.
>
> This is tricky ground though. Somebody could decide to selectively
> delete meaningful contributions from which the current version of a
> page are derived. The only edits you can selectively delete under the
> GFDL are those which did not serve as a basis for later derivatives.

Yeah, like I said, if the edit has been reverted there's no problem.
If the edit hasn't been reverted than obviously you can't just delete
it, but nobody has claimed you can.