[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

[Anthony]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/9/15 Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com>:
> > Question. Didn't the practice of oversighting and deleting selective
> > versions previously cause prolems with misattributing who created the
> > adjacent contributions, by virtue of making the "removed" edits
> functionally
> > invisible?
>
> That's only an issue if the edit wasn't reverted. No edit should be
> oversighted/deleted without being reverted first.
>

This "should" you speak of - are you referring to an enforced rule on all
WMF projects or your own personal opinion?  Because, things *are*
oversighted/deleted without being reverted first.  It happens, and it will
most likely continue to happen.  Allowing it to happen in a way that doesn't
violate the GFDL would be a good thing.