Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
No. Absolutely not. If anyone apart from the oversight group knows that a revision has been deleted, they can just find a database dump that was taken before the deletion occurred, compare the history, and go post the deleted revision somewhere else on the internet.
Couldn't they just compare pre- and post-deletion database dumps to find the "missing" revision anyway, if they're willing to spend that much effort? SQL is good for these sorts of searches.
It seems to me that attempting to come up with a "perfect" system for expunging all traces of an edit from existence utterly and without recourse is going to run pretty solidly against the fundamentally open nature of Wikipedia required by the GFDL. And at some point doesn't it become more the _other_ guy's responsibility if he's going to go to that much effort to dig libel out of old database dumps and republish it?