Without taking strong sides or making any kind of formal statement, I would just like to say that I feel that BJAODN is a delightful part of Wikipedia history and important for just the reasons that George puts forward below.
Surely a compromise can be reached.
On Jun 5, 2007, at 12:51 AM, George Herbert wrote:
On 6/4/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
What encyclopedic end would be achieved by someone trawling through this mix of discarded rubbish in a belated attempt to make it licence-compliant? Why should anyone make the effort? Let it go.
It doesn't directly help the encyclopedia at all.
It's a noticably well known and loved part of the community building the encyclopedia, and as we try to avoid being sterile SOBs who refuse to consider any community issues at all, perhaps we should consider that the flamage has a point.
-- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
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