"Matt Brown" morven@gmail.com wrote in message news:42f90dc00512040220l5885ed5bwdbe8a0b755a341c8@mail.gmail.com...
Where is this proposal listed? The problem with this is we already frequently bite the newbies with respect to people uploading stuff they own that's already published on another website. Being accused of copyright infringement and having the article blanked is bad enough for them; having them deleted will make people not come back.
I got bitten like this quite early on in my Wikipedia career.
I created [[Sharon Lee]] from material provided to me by the author, and her husband ([[Steve Miller (writer)]] and it was almost immediately torn down as a copyvio. I tried to point out that I had permission, and that the reason it was so similar to biographies on other websites, including that of the author herself, was that they all came from the same original source, to no avail. There was some delay in contacting the author because she was in the middle of a mad publishing rush. Not everybody works to Wikipedia's tight schedules: sometimes it can take a while to contact somebody.
I believe it's still a redlink. I might go back and try again some day...
The ironic thing is that Steve's article is almost, but not quite identical, and didn't get the same treatment: it's still there last I looked :-)