[Wikipedia-l] Trademark, and policy for non-English Wikipedias (was: spanish wikipedia)
Axel Boldt
axelboldt at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 3 16:41:00 UTC 2002
Just to quickly echo two of Larry's points:
--- Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> If the trademark Wikipedia has some meaning
"Wikipedia" is neither a registered trademark nor a registered service
mark. As such, it enjoys at best common law status in the state of
California, but has no protection in inter state or international
commerce.
> needed, who knows the language and has the authority (from Jimmy) to
> tell people what the policy is, that they can join this list if they
> want to discuss the policy, and if they cannot accept this policy,
> then they must leave and start their own project.
This list discusses policy for the English Wikipedia. If I argue
against stubs on this list, I say precisely nothing about the
desirability of stubs in the French Wikipedia, nor do I intend to.
Axel
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