Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell(a)gmail.com) [050331 07:10]:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:23:32 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo)
Wales
<jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Is every editorial disagreement a test of
"moral rightness"? I really
don't see it that way. Maybe the communication difficulty we are
having surrounds your use of that phrase?
No, it's only a test of moral rightness if that is the basis behind an
editors decisions.. We can't always tell from the outside, but we can
ask. If there is no justification from the large set that we consider
valid reasons for changes to the article that can be discussed, then
we must assume that the reasoning is based on good/evil judgements.
Indeed. I really, really doubt that all the people claiming the
autofellatio pic MUST be a copyright violation therefore MUST be deleted
NOW would get away with that level of copyright paranoia about *anything*
else on Wikipedia, and oddly enough I suspect them of other motivations.
Particularly since, as I understand it, despite much searching no-one has
actually found anything it's actually a copy of.
Assuming that there is a proper owner, I wonder how the courts would
view an action over copyright infringement for use of that picture.
Ec