The reason why it is not ok in this case is because the admin in question posted text that he does not own the copyright to. Provided the text is not a copyright violation on its own, this admin has violated the GFDL by not giving credit to the original author.
On 1/7/09, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/8 Scientia Potentia est bibliomaniac_15@yahoo.com:
Agreed. This is an absolute travesty.
Questionable. What deleted content wikipedia admins can hand over has always been something of a grey area. Deleted stuff that the author wants is fairly widely accepted to be okey but other areas left clear. Admins using the ability to see deleted material out of curiosity certianly happens a fair bit and not unknown for admins to comment in a manner informed by the information. Dirrect copy any paste however is unusual however it does happen. Saw it happen today in fact (okey so that was a completely harmless issue related to so interface stuff).
While I would oppose it that is mostly because it doesn't look right rather than my being able to find an armored plated policy reason as to why that is the case.
-- geni
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