[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

[Anthony]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> Thomas Dalton wrote:
> >> By the way, an example of a time when an edit *should* be
> >> oversighted/deleted without being reverted first:
> >>
> >> User A creates a BLP.
> >> User B adds confidential information about the subject of the biography.
> >> Users C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J make positive contributions to the BLP.
> >>
> >> Then the confidential information is discovered.  To delete the
> confidential
> >> information you have to delete the revisions created by users B, C, D,
> E, F,
> >> G, H, I, and J.  You could do this by reverting to the version by User
> A,
> >> but why in the world *should* you be forced to do that?
> >>
> > Fine, "undo", then. It doesn't matter what technically happens, what's
> > important is that no part of that edit is still in the current
> > version.
> So just remove the confidential information.  The subsequent edits can
> still be judged on their own merits.
>

The confidential information is in all the revisions.  The software doesn't
allow you to "just remove the confidential information".