Also, I will leave the link up for now, and if a mod asks me to remove it I’ll edit the post and start using PMs instead.
…yeah, that’s a bad idea around here. Delete the link.
I would also argue that it falls under preservation, as it is an original unaltered scene that was shot alongside the rest of the film.
It’s adding something from one official released version of a film to a different official version of a film. It’s a fan edit, not a preservation.
I would agree if the scene was loaded with CGI “improvements”, but as far as I can tell it’s exactly the same as it was back in 1977. My color corrections and sequencing revert the scene back to what it probably looked like when it was still included in early edits of the film during the post production process. Deleted scenes deserve to be preserved as well, because at worst they provide insight into the production of the film, and at best they contain something vital to the plot that should never have been removed to begin with (compare Blade Runner: The Final Cut to the original theatrical cut for an example of this).
If you took the scene on its own and restored the part that was cut from it (Red Leader talking about Luke’s father), and released that as its own thing, not incorporated into the film as a whole, that would be a preservation.
Not trying to be a jerk, this is a good idea and something I’m sure a lot of people will be interested in, but it’s definitely not a preservation.
And links, or links to links, are definitely against forum rules. Leaving it up risks a ban (temp or permanent).