[WikiEN-l] Deletions snapped up by commercial organizations

[John Lee]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:16 PM,  <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
> The problem is people work hard to build up an article, thinking they
>  are helping to build Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
>
>  Then one day they find some sharpshooter waiting in the wings has
>  judged the time is right -- the article is ripe and juicy enough --
>  and hits the deletion button.
>
>  Then another sharpshooter with special access(?) to the morgue, passes
>  the corpse over into their buddy's commercial project.
>
>  So don't blame the user for now thinking "This is a stub, you can
>  help" etc., is all one big scam.

Our licence explicitly permits commercial use. If you don't want to
set your work completely free and want to add some additional
restrictions, don't submit content to projects that use a licence
permitting commercial use. You're not contributing just to Wikipedia
the project; you're contributing to the sum of copylefted human
knowledge. Even if Wikipedia the project doesn't think your
contribution merits inclusion, other projects might, and as long as
it's in the licence, they are perfectly within their rights to do so.

Johnleemk