On 19 Sep 2006, at 06:05, Nathaniel Krause wrote:
The main downside of this process, seems to me, would be that one wouldn't be able to freely lift text from one article to another within the same wiki; you'd always have to check if the licenses match. Note that lifting text like this technically causes copyright problems already on Wikipedia, unless one is careful to provide authorship information.
I've had text moved from one article to another. The edit summary said where it came from, and the date made everything traceable. I think this is sufficient.