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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by incompatible on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:51PM (#19640490)
I thought that the history is supposed to be available for legal reasons. It's the only way that contributors to the article are attributed, as required by the Creative Commons licensing.

Edit: quite a bit of the history is unavailable, but the names of the contributors can still be seen. Perhaps that's sufficient. https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Waibel&...

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by jpatokal on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:40PM (#19640811)
If all of somebody's contributions are removed, there's nothing to attribute to them.
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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by incompatible on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:47PM (#19640856)
They didn't just take away the infringing contribution, but everything prior to 2018-09-28.
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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by jacques_chester on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:33PM (#19640767)
Courts typically have power over licenses.
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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by incompatible on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:40PM (#19640810)
I doubt that it's intending to take away any attribution rights, in this case. Wikipedia could use some other method of attribution, if the history was entirely unpublishable.
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