Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 10/13/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
die, who knows? And since the contents of the deleted article were fine I intend to use that text as a basis for the recreation, which means the GFDL requires that the edit history be restored along with it.
Surely there are other ways to approximate compliance with the GFDL other than the history maintained by Wikipedia. But in any case, the edit history of deleted articles is already available.
I suppose I could include attributions for the various contributors using edit summaries, HTML comments, or on the talk page. But this seems like an awful lot of extra effort to go to to fulfil the letter of AfD's "law", what would be the point when I can just undelete the thing and have the edit history back in full?