As to your question about my plans I think you are asking a hypothetical about something that has already been asked and answered My plans are really more an expectation one already stated that my discussion with the closing admin becomes moot As to your question about the purposes of restoring a Wikipedia edit history that sounds like something that could have its own WP page but I didn t see anything with a quick search It is a part of WP ATD and WP Editing policy where it is used with merger A restored edit history means that the edits of content contributors are no longer listed as part of the deleted edits count and non admins can research the diffs Attribution from the edit history is part of our licensing Scottywong At WP REFUND Amatulic has stated this page is for requesting uncontroversial restorations only Yet after five days he she has not closed the WP REFUND request as controversial It occurs to me there is another path forward which is a variation of my initial request Please consider reverting your closing and instead relisting the AfD Respectfully