If I'm correct, you need to attribute the authors in the edit summary,
an HTML comment, or by any other means within the article. I do not
believe that a link to another external history page is sufficient for
GFDL attribution.

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 20:27 +0100, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: 
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2009/1/5  <[email protected]>:
> >> <<In a message dated 1/5/2009 3:48:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> >> [email protected] writes:
> >>
> >> Mostly  because from time to time they have actually moved
> >> content from one article  from another (the rest of the time you can
> >> nail them for persistently lying  in edit summaries). Given the format
> >> of the mediawiki software and the GFDL  it is pretty much impossible to
> >> do such merges without violating  copyright>>
> >>
> >> Could you explain a bit more why you think that merges violate  copyright?
> >> Thanks
> >> Will Johnson
> >
> > When you merge the wording of the GFDL requires that you preserve the
> > history (a really really bad choice of words). Can be done close
> > enough through a history merge but most users don't/can't do that.
> >
> >
> > --
> > geni
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> Won't it satisfy the licence just to point to the other articles
> history in the edit summary?
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