On 7/20/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
The initial edit, by an anonymous editor, seems to be a vicious "outing", none of it sourced. I see no reason the article and its history should not be removed and an apology made to Allan Jenkins.
Advising someone to edit an article on themselves is not wise. Nor would it be wise for him to try.
Normally, I'd suggest selected deleting the problematic versions, but since the current article is a derivative work of the first vandalistic edit, that can't be done without violating the GFDL. Perhaps it would be better to rewrite the article from scratch since VfD has claimed the person notable enough for an article. Could a new one just be formed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Jenkins/Temp and moved to [[Allan Jenkins]] when finished?
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sam_Spade/_-_archive/Juli_2005_2#alla... the current article contains inaccuracies since these have been kept from the first revision even though they have no sources.
If that can't be done, perhaps correcting the article to only contain sourced information, and telling Allan Jenkins that the history versions are not Googlable might suffice.
Angela.