There's a lot of stuff that *IS* copyrighted. And even if the submitter owned that material they may not be knowing what they are giving up. Creating some polite template to use for such deletions may help pages get proper sources and educate people about copyright at the same time.
I think just speedying text from commericial content providers is not enough. IMDB is not commericial, but they clearly state they're material is copyrighted and they do not wish it to be duplicated and I'm sure there's enough webmasters who think the same. Keeping such material is blatant violation of copyright. We need to protect people from their copyright being violated not only by others, but also by themselves (without knowing what they are doing).
Deleting the material would actually be a favor in some cases.
Mgm
On 12/4/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/4/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Were can I find the extension proposal you're talking about?
It's on the talk page of CSD now.
And while it may be harsh, we really need something like that.
Why? Why do we *need* to delete material before a proper check has been made? Even a forum website would normally have a discussion between moderators before deleting material that wasn't an obvious copyright violation. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l