[WikiEN-l] Why AFD works Great

[Ray Saintonge]

MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

>On 10/17/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>geni wrote:
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>>>On 10/17/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikispam at inbox.org> wrote:
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>>>>1) allow
>>>>any user to view the content of deleted pages
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>>>Not legal.
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>>According to what law?
>>Ec
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>Articles are not only deleted for being crap, sometimes an article is
>also deleted for containing possibly libellous information or info
>that could violate someone's privacy. Access to such information
>should be limited to a minimum of people. Keeping it as historical
>evidence in case we need it in legal accusations so we can retrace who
>said what and posted what is essential to Wikipedia, which is why
>something is rarely completely purged from the database.
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Anthony's comments related to the general case.  Your point, and those 
since made by others about copyvios, are certainly valid.  The problem 
is that you are using those valid particular arguments to apply to the 
general case. 

Ec