[WikiEN-l] Deletions snapped up by commercial organizations

[Ben Yates]

> wikipedia destroyed the original list

Not destroyed; put in a walled garden ("deleted articles") accessible
only to admins.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/03/2008, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM, George Herbert
>  >  <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >  I agree that it's proper to request and receive copies of articles deleted
>  >  >  by normal processes (other than BLP or other sensitive deletions).  Many
>  >  >  admins are open to doing so for anyone who requests a copy of a deleted
>  >  >  article.  Most people who request it are looking to see if they can recreate
>  >  >  an article and fix its problems, but taking the data (under GFDL) and
>  >  >  posting it elsewhere is also "legal".
>  >
>  >
>  > How do they deal with the issue of accreditation without article histories?
>
>  GFDL doesn't say anything about having a full wiki history for each
>  piece of text. A list of the authors who edited it available and
>  linked somewhere from the text should be fine, although wikipedia
>  destroyed the original list so it could prove somewhat troublesome for
>  them given the copyright owners who collaboratively authored the text
>  allowed wikipedia to destroy their contribution history.
>
>  Peter
>
>
>
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