[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/9/12 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>:
> Hello folks,
>
> in the Chinese Wikipedia an administrator had deleted part of article
> histories. He deleted the article complete and then reversed the
> deletion of part of the historical versions. He did this in good faith,
> because he deleted vandalism edits and copy right violation content. I
> was the opinion that this is not a good idea because at first the GFDL
> requires the edit histories (also of the vandalism edits) and second
> because thus we lost part of the records about the vandals edits.
>
> What is the right way here?

If the edit has been reverted I see no reason why it would need to be
attributed to anyone since it isn't there any more. The GFDL requires
us to attribute anything we use but we don't have to use everything
that's posted.