Thread:Sakaros/@comment-1998339-20191220132107/@comment-1998339-20191220232411

Sakaros wrote: User A can get the content back via copy/paste... But what about getting all the relevant revisions back? Wikia's CC BY-SA licensing requires that all meaningful contributions to a page & the relevant attributions of authorship thereof be preserved in the revision history. A page is more than its text content&mdash;if a user wants a page restored, we have to ensure proper attribution is given by restoring all relevant revisions (ranging from content changes by page creators to Editing Policy-compliant fixes of grammar by other users), not just give them the copy-pasted text of the last revision. But therein lies the problem&mdash;MediaWiki automatically merges restored revisions into the revision history of the page at the original title, even if the page at that title has been recreated with new content. This is why I was wondering if subsequent recreations of a page should be moved to new titles if a previous page at that title is restored.