[Wikipedia-l] Another source of information

[Sean Barrett]

I am pleased to introduce another source of information.  I don't think
that simply dumping Mr. Phillips' work into the Wikipedia is a
particularly good idea -- he isn't writing encyclopedia articles.
However, we have his permission to incorporate his work freely.

Is there a place, perhaps in Meta, that we can preserve this note?

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 the Epopt

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Phillips [mailto:mike at cronab.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 15:32
To: Sean Barrett
Subject: Re: "Ships of the Old Navy" and the Wikipedia


Dear Sean,

I must apologise for the delay in answering, I have been away.

I am quite happy for you to use the Ships of the Old Navy pages on
Wikipedia and as an advocate of the free distribution of information I
approve of the GNU Open Licence.

One thing I must stress is that this is an ongoing project. I am
constantly updating entries and I am working, when I get the time,  on
extending  the starting date back from the 1780s  to eventually 1703 ,
the accession of Queen Anne. I also have a CD-ROM version which includes
maps and other additional material.

May I also draw your attention to my Primer on Sailing Warships starting
on
http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/gen1.htm
This contains three pages of facts, figures and definitions.

Regards

Mike Phillips

In message <000201c2506a$9177d3e0$6701a8c0 at ORGOCH>, Sean Barrett
<sean at epoptic.org> writes
>Dear Mr Phillips:
>
>I am one of the administrators of the Wikipedia
>(http://www.wikipedia.org), a collaborative project to produce a
>complete encyclopedia from scratch, which began in January 2001 and is
>growing rapidly.  One of my personal interests is naval history.  While
>researching articles, I discovered your "SHIPS OF THE OLD NAVY" Web
>pages (http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/INTRO.HTM) and was very impressed.
>
>Your work would be of great benefit to the Wikipedia project, and I
>would like to include it.  Wikipedia requires all contributions be made
>under the GNU Free Documentation License, which is a license for open
>content designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU
>project.  Would you be so kind as to review the GFDL at
>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html and determine if it meets your
>approval?  If it does, I would be pleased to include your research in
>the Wikipedia.  Or, of course, you could incorporate it yourself!
>
>I admire your work, and look forward to corresponding with you.
>
>Yours Truly,
>Sean Barrett
>sean at epoptic.com
>

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Saltash, Cornwall PL12 6LJ
England.