On 2/10/07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
However, the issue of access to copyvios increases with the number of admins. In my opinion this isnt solved with less admins, but by expunging copyvios completely or further restricting access to them.
I really don't think this type of "copyvio" is a serious enough problem to worry about. The major reason we don't want copyvios in the actual Wikipedia text is because it contaminates downstream content reusers. A small copyright mistake in Wikipedia can get reproduced hundreds of times, ending up in print. Once we've identified the problem and restricted it to access on the site by a smallish number of people, the scale of the problem is much smaller.
Once that happens, if some organisation is still unhappy about the state of affairs, then we could consider expunging those records. But you're talking about one or two deleted edits that might be viewed at most once or twice a day. The potential for legal action is vanishngly small.
Steve