where is in the policies the instruction to delete copyvios frm history hm i thought of wikipedia possible copyright violations where it says replace the article's text with new re written content of your own this can be done on a temp page so that the original copyvio version may be deleted by a sysop temp versions should be written at a page like page name temp if the original turns out to be not a copyvio these two can be merged i don't quite get the mccarthy reference and anyway my question was genuine i didn't want to upset you btw i can't delete and deal with copyvios myself i am not an admin mar utc