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.
...
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.
Ec