He who controls the flow of information controls the “truth”. This is an abusable lever of power. If someone is being silenced, they can effortlessly be branded as a liar, because the arbiters of truth leave no lies behind. Welcome to the game.
Also, it’s not like Wikipedia deletes absolutely everything of an account because it’s blocked. If a page is deleted, the delete logs are there (iirc they can’t be modified).
If content from a page is there, attribution requires the page history to be always present.
He who controls the flow of information controls the “truth”. This is an abusable lever of power. If someone is being silenced, they can effortlessly be branded as a liar, because the arbiters of truth leave no lies behind. Welcome to the game.
Take screenshots. Use Internet Archive to prove it. There are so many options that would convince people that at least you tried, that it’s crazy.
How dare you expect them to have sources and proof!
Also, it’s not like Wikipedia deletes absolutely everything of an account because it’s blocked. If a page is deleted, the delete logs are there (iirc they can’t be modified). If content from a page is there, attribution requires the page history to be always present.