[WikiEN-l] Help me!

[Kirill Lokshin]

On 3/16/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/16/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 3/16/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> > > > I'd say this one is going to close as no consensus:
> > > >
> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...For_Dummies_books
> > > >
> > > > So, friends, can you help me to find merit in this article?  To be
> > > > reconciled to the existence of what up to now I am unable to see as
> > > > anything other than an absurdity?  Or is Tony right, and AfD is
> > > > fatally borken?
> > > > Guy (JzG)
> > >
> > > Non issue. We leave Afd to have their fun that kill it like to copyvio
> > > it is. Takeing on the inclusionists head on will probably result in a
> > > dummies watch or something.
> >
> > It may be utterly useless garbage, but how is it a copyvio?  I was
> > under the impression that non-creative lists of facts (of which I
> > think this is an example) weren't eligible for copyright.
> >
> > Kirill Lokshin
>
> It is sorted. For example sorting the books into a "Handheld
> computing" section is argubly creative.

Well, it is prefaced with "Note that this list contains some
duplicates; some books are part of multiple ...For Dummies series." 
I'm not terribly familiar with these books; do they have something,
like a spine label, giving the series?  If that's the case, listing it
by these isn't particularly creative on our part.

Kirill Lokshin