[WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

[Steve Bennett]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Dan
Dascalescu<ddascalescu+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aside from that, let's have a bit of common sense: does anyone
> sincerely think that if Martin Niemoeller were alive, he'd object to
> the image of that monument being on Wikipedia? Does anyone think that
> any of Niemoeller's heirs would object? WTF?!

Personally, I think Wikipedia made a big step forward when it stopped
expecting individual users to understand copyright law, and instead
just set policies that were always going to be within the law.

(So no, asking for "common sense" around copyright issues is not a
good idea, imho.)

Steve