user_Jamesday wrote:
Don't just delete the article. Keep it with the
requested
attribution until it can be rewritten. We don't want to destroy the
evidence of the Wikipedia complying with such requests. It'll be
useful for establishing a pattern of compliance in any future defence.
The mailing list archives serve that purpose well enough. It's better
to just delete it, because in the future someone might peruse the
history and think "Oh, look, this article used to say thus-and-so, and
now it doesn't, so I'll revive it."