[This answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/27737601/1585345), with 251 votes and a ton of useful discussion, was deleted because it contained a table lifted from someone's blog without attribution. That was naughty, but the content and discussion are useful, and the target of links elsewhere on the site, and much more findable than the blog post.

Had the answerer just linked to the blog post, he would have been told off for not writing a full answer. Could this answer not have been preserved, and the lack of attribution corrected?