Thread:Sannse/@comment-30514476-20170520054205/@comment-8-20170520201125

Hi MeohMy,

It is theoretically possible to remove edits so that only staff can see/recover them, but it's something we only do in serious cases. In this case there doesn't seem to be a strong reason, and it would be impractical to delete all her anonymous contributions - there are a lot, just from the quick look I took.

IPs don't give out much information - generally just the city and the ISP. For example, the IP I'm using at the moment will tell you no more than that I'm a Comcast customer living in San Francisco.

It's also unlikely anyone will connect the IP with the user account, unless the user tells people. As staff I have tools that can sometimes show me a link, but general users, including admins and bureaucrats, don't have that ability.

On the wiki side, it would cause confusion on various threads to remove parts of conversations. And picking out contributions on articles, which may have been edited many times since the IP edit, can be difficult.

Legal-wise, if you contribute to FANDOM you licence your contributions under a CC-by-sa license. That means you agree to let others use them, including by keeping them on the wiki.

So overall, removing all contributions by an IP would be time-consuming, difficult and would really achieve nothing. Which is a long-winded way of saying "sorry, but no."

Also, to clarify the other part of that thread - Wikia is FANDOM's parent company. Foss has no association with us beyond being a user of our service.

I hope that all helps