--- Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
Practical reason #1: The submit button and accompanying text referring to the licensing of submissions are identical. We'll have to change those.
And that would be hard??
#2: Inertia and lack of differentiation between user space and the rest of Wikipedia. People already expect to be able to take items from all of Wikipedia under GFDL license.
Why would reusers even want or need to also have user pages? Also, from my experience, users in general do not like to have their user pages on other websites. So keeping user pages in the same database dump that reusers use has no practical benefit to anybody except maybe the person who creates the database dumps (exporting everything and only having one dump is easier).
#3: License hell as described in the next paragraph.
If we make an arbitrary exception, I think it could ONLY apply from whatever point we choose going forward. Current content has already been submitted under the old terms.
The old terms, as you put it, do not allow any NC or special use images. So what is your point? Do you mean to say that all NC and special use images now marked for deletion be deleted regardless of what namespace they were displayed from?
-- mav
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