On 04/08/11 3:09 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
We will still have a niche in languages they aren't interested in, and among people who care about copyright. But my suspicion is that we are unusual, and that most potential editors are more annoyed by having their contributions rejected by deletionists than by something in the small print that says their words now belong to the website they've written them on.
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Other options would be for a site that ended the inclusionism/deletionism conflict by abandoning notability and concentrating on verifiability or aiming for comprehensiveness. That seems to work for IMDB but possibly you need to restrict this to specialist pedias - aiming for coverage of all films and their cast is one thing, but on a general pedia you need to set a threshold somewhere unless you are prepared to have articles for pet guinea pigs.
I'd like to see a Wikisource type project that accepts orphan works (subject to definition) that are supposedly still protected. They could easily be taken down if a legitimate owner materializes, but otherwise could accelerate the freeing of these works.
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