On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Eugene van der Pijll < eugene@vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
Ron Ritzman schreef:
The guy with the commercial project is not "our buddy". He's someone with a beef against Wikipedia. Nobody here is in cahoots with this guy.
He probably gets the articles by monitoring AFD for articles about businesses being considered for deletion and grabbing it before it gets deleted.
No, he requests and receives these articles from admins. See http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=16524 .
Nothing wrong with that.
Yeah. Kohs' problems with our no-paid-editing policies, and his repeated butting his head up against it and griping about WP elsewhere, are a minor problem (the wedge for a much larger problem, but his actual damage to or hostility to the Encyclopedia over time has been only marginal).
He's not our friend, but he's also not an enemy in the "out to get us" sense.
I agree that it's proper to request and receive copies of articles deleted by normal processes (other than BLP or other sensitive deletions). Many admins are open to doing so for anyone who requests a copy of a deleted article. Most people who request it are looking to see if they can recreate an article and fix its problems, but taking the data (under GFDL) and posting it elsewhere is also "legal".
I don't know if Kohs will end up with any noticable market out of doing this, but it's not evil.