I just noticed that the original incarnation of this article was lifted verbatim from StarTrek.com by an anon contributer in January of 2005, and thus was a copyvio. There are still vestiges of that original article in the current version, most noticeably in the first sentence, but perhaps more importantly, the original copyvio is in the article's version history. What should we do about this? -- Renegade54 16:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I'd say an admin needs to remove the copyvio version from the articles history, and any sentences that still read as being from the original need to be re-written. At that point, it becomes only a paraphrase, not a copyvio. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 17:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

The problem is, if I understand correctly, you can't delete a version from the history. If you need to do that, you have to delete the whole article. -- Renegade54 18:54, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I have experience with this as an admin on another wiki. You delete the article, then restore it. When you restore it, you can pick and choose which versions get put back in the public history. In the end, all versions are still stored on the server, but only those that you pick will be accessible and visible to the public. This is the same vandalism is removed from articles' histories. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 19:20, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

However, that doesn't remove the content from the next version of the article in the history, it just removes the edit of individual who contributed it. All subsequent versions in the page history would still contain "illegal" text. If you successfully want to remove all copyvio content, or access to that content, you either need to start over from the last point of it not being a copyvio, or start over from scratch. --Alan del Beccio!

Whoops. Hadn't thought of that... --OuroborosCobra ^talk 19:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

And since the copyvio occurred in the very first version, the last point of it not being a violation is before it was created. I guess that would mean we need to start from scratch. :( -- Renegade54 21:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Tau Alpha C in Tau CetiEdit

This page says that it was a mistake when Crusher said: "You know that alien from Tau Ceti, the one who could control warp fields with his mind?" Based on what? Tau Alpha C is the name of a planet, Tau Ceti is a star system. Why do we not interpret this: Tau Alpha C is a planet in the Tau Ceti system? Why assume there is a mistake? --Pseudohuman 19:07, 13 July 2009 (UTC)