[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

[Anthony]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

Well, there are many instances in the English Wikipedia where this has been
done.