On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/25/08, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
Ron Ritzman schreef:
The guy with the commercial project is not "our buddy". He's someone with a beef against Wikipedia. Nobody here is in cahoots with this guy.
He probably gets the articles by monitoring AFD for articles about businesses being considered for deletion and grabbing it before it gets deleted.
No, he requests and receives these articles from admins. See http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=16524 .
Nothing wrong with that.
Well, however it's done my point is that there is no grand conspiracy to delete articles and then offer to bring them back somewhere else for a "price" as the OP has charged. The OP needs to know that Greg Kohs is not affiliated with WP even if he does get deleted articles from admins the same way anybody else can. Deleted articles are not passed "under the table" to "a *buddy's* commercial project".
Yeah. Though we skipped over that at some level in most of the responses...
A lot of intellectual property related paranoia that people have doesn't apply to open content projects.
"You want to use it? Sure! You over there also want to use it? Sure! You in the back? Sure!"
Kohs can wrap it up and paint it pretty colors, the subjects of the article can blazon it all over their website, the Vogons can hold a spoken word reading of it, all within the licenses. Most of those are good things at some level.