[Wikipedia-l] [Fwd: Re: Wikipedia article: "Holocaust revisionism"]

[Neil Harris]

I wrote to Ken McVay of the NIzkor project for permission to use the 
Nizkor project's copyrighted materials under the GFDL. Here is my 
original message, and his reply.

Neil

--- My original message ---

Dear Mr. McVay,

The Wikipedia, an open content collaborative encyclopedia, has an 
article on Holocaust revisionism.

The encyclopedia is being written by volunteers, and has an open-access 
policy where any member of the public may edit articles. Hence articles 
"evolve" by multiple edits and contributions. As the Wikipedia is 
growing into one of the largest open-content resources on the Internet, 
it is unsuprising that Holocaust-related articles are, as you might 
expect, one of the major points of contention.

The Wikipedia policy in controversial matters is to use the "Neutral 
point of view" which fairly reports the opinions held by all sides of 
the argument, as well as any facts that are not in dispute. This is 
similar to your approach in Nizkor, which takes pains to fairly 
represent the arguments of Holocaust deniers, whilst refuting their 
arguments point by point.

At the moment the Wikipedia article lacks a thorough point-by-point 
debunking of the Holocaust revisionists' arguments.

I would like to be able to use material from your Holocaust FAQ in the 
article. Unfortunately, I cannot use verbatim content from the Holocaust 
FAQ as it covered by copyright, and all content in the Wikipedia needs 
to be licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.  This does not 
require the original author to give up their copyright, but instead only 
grants the right to others to distribute and use the material and to 
create derivative works covered by the same license.

If you were to grant permission for the Holocaust FAQ or other Nizkor 
material to be included in the Wikipedia under the GFDL, this would be 
very useful.

Alternatively, you may want to make your own contributions under the GFDL.

You can see the (evolving) Holocaust revisionism article for yourself at

   http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_revisionism

There is also a Wikipedia mailing list which is used to discuss the 
organization of the encyclopedia. (see

   http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

for details)

I invite you, and other Nizkor participants, to contribute to the 
Wikipedia.

Yours sincerely,

Neil Harris


-------- Ken McVay's reply  --------
Subject: Re: Wikipedia article: "Holocaust revisionism"
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:27:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenneth McVay, OBC <kmcvay at vex.net>
Reply-To: kmcvay at nizkor.org
To: Neil Harris <usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk>



You wrote:

Feel free to use any Nizkor FAQs or Nizkor Features you wish - i.e.
those that originated from our staff. That includes the FAQs,
Techniques of Denial, and the 66 QAR sections.

Ken