Comment by palmotea

> Editing what is billed as an archive defeats the purpose of an "archive".

No, certain edits are understandable and required. Even the archive.org edits its pages (e.g. sticks banners on them and does a bunch of stuff to make them work like you'd expect).

Even paper archives edit documents (e.g. writing sequence numbers on them, so the ordering doesn't get lost).

Disclosing exactly what account was used to download a particular page is arguably irrelevant information, and may even compromise the work of archiving pages (e.g. if it just opens the account to getting blocked).