On 6/4/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 6/4/07, Tony Sidaway
<tonysidaway(a)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.
Clearly BJAODN is not part of the main namespace.
Clearly it is an important part of Wikipedia's history and its ongoing
development.
It's not important. It was just a dumb idea that might have appeared
sensible one Friday evening after the pubs closed, back when there
were only a few hundred Wikipedia editors. Let it go.
Perhaps it was a dumb idea. I rarely look at it myself, but I would not
go so far as criticizing others for doing so. I do not feel bothered by
the idea that others might like different things than I, or consider
different things valuable. I was here when there were only "a few
hundred" editors, and recognize these pages as a part of our heritage.
Ec