The motivation for hiding the history of deleted Wikipedia articles is to minimize legal complaints. E.g. if something is libelous or a copyright violation, the

The motivation for hiding the history of deleted Wikipedia articles is to minimize legal complaints. E.g. if something is libelous or a copyright violation, they want to remove it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_deleted_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_deleted_cont...