"Matt Brown" <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote in
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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 :-)
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Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]