I think we should avoid storing *any* texts like these, including the
"Origin of Species" book which is still online at the pedia (and I say so
even though I am a biologist! ;)
Instead, there should be a link to another web page that has the original
text (like Project Gutenberg), and that is to be expected to be around for a
while.
Magnus
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What (if anything) is the present consensus on
including (short) PD
texts in
I don't know that we ever agreed on a single policy. Clearly,
there is sentiment against mere "data dumping". Just using
Wikipedia as yet another host for old online texts doesn't
really accomplish anything. But there's not really any reason
to /not/ include full texts along with articles about them,
especially if they are short things like poems, essays, etc.
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