On Dec 17, 2007 9:05 AM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
And possibly leading to massive violations of the GFDL. Retroactive modifications to the history of this sort are just a really bad idea.
Which is why the oversight thing is very limited in the first place.
Besides, any indicators of what stuff has been removed are bad; it's simply a red flag saying "Hey! Something got removed here! Look in the mirrors and dumps to see if any of them have it!". That's what happened when the oversight feature was first implemented, which is why the oversight log is no longer public.
-Matt