QUOTE(Silver seren @ Mon 3rd January 2011, 2:25pm)
However, I don't know who the author is, so...not sure how that would work.
Edit: I suppose I could make a note on the talk page. That should be enough, right?
You know who deleted the article, right? You could have asked him. But, then again, you could probably figure it out from his
activity log. I mean, when he blocks a user within a minute of nuking the article, you can pretty much assume that they are connected by authorship.
I suppose a note on the Talk page would be more meaningful than nothing at all.
Does it give you great concern that when a Wikipedia administrator deletes CC-by-SA content by removing an entire article, he or she makes it very difficult to properly attribute that content, should it be used or restored somewhere else? That bothers me. But, then again, I had one admin use the deletion tools to deliberately plagiarize content and hide the true provenance of the text, so that he could pretend it was his own, and even boast about it. It took Jimmy Wales
about 15 months to finally admit that his admin had sullied the licensing terms on that content.
Silver, I think some of us have come to terms that the GFDL and the CC-by-SA attribution terms are often neglected. But you seemed ignorant that they even existed, which was a bit of a shock, even for some of us jaded old fellows.