On 6/4/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
What encyclopedic end would be achieved by someone trawling through this mix of discarded rubbish in a belated attempt to make it licence-compliant? Why should anyone make the effort? Let it go.
Clearly BJAODN is not part of the main namespace. Clearly it is an important part of Wikipedia's history and its ongoing development.
That's why.
I like the circular argument that because it is discarded, it should remain discarded.
The fundamental problem is that the justification for discarding in the first place was faulty.
I'D LIKE FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE IT LICENSE-COMPLIANT (even under what I consider a faulty interpretation of the GFDL).
But it's drastically difficult when one can't even restore a page without getting wheel-warred.
Grah.