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		kens on May 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deletionpedia: Rescuing articles from Wikipedia's ... The motivation for hiding the history of deleted Wikipedia articles is to minimize legal complaints. E.g. if something is libelous or a copyright violation, they want to remove it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_deleted_cont...

car_analogy on May 8, 2022 [–]

Yet the vast majority of articles are deleted for reasons other than legal.

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