Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Copyright violations on history pages. The discussion has concluded that a copyright violation in the page history of a previously uncopyrighted article does not require the article or the copyrighted version in the history to be deleted. However, the copyrighted version will be selectively deleted from the page history if a complaint is made by the copyright holder. Only developers with shell or root access or users with oversight have the capability to perform such deletions.

This page is no longer updated. Dates are from 2004.

Summary of current status (as far as we can tell) at wikipedia:page history

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