Why were the vandalism edits deleted instead of reverting the page and leaving them in history Although I do agree with the need to prevent additional vandalism to this page the fact remains that the host of the show asked his viewers to vandalise this page which considering the viewership levels is a fairly major media stunt and the resulting edit activity may have had some interesting historical value By deleting those edits so they can t even be viewed in the page history it prevents any kind of analysis of that activity or info it contains One reason I have always appreciated Wikipedia is the fact that I can view previous edits and or vandalism that may contain politically racially etc charged options that can provide insight into various issues Why delete these out of the history they seem harmless considering the fact you can revert protect and control the content of the current revision This is the same reason why we timestamp talk page edits and such so we can look back and see the history activity mood opinions etc of various pages and issues