On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:16 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
The problem is people work hard to build up an article, thinking they are helping to build Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Then one day they find some sharpshooter waiting in the wings has judged the time is right -- the article is ripe and juicy enough -- and hits the deletion button.
Then another sharpshooter with special access(?) to the morgue, passes the corpse over into their buddy's commercial project.
So don't blame the user for now thinking "This is a stub, you can help" etc., is all one big scam.
Our licence explicitly permits commercial use. If you don't want to set your work completely free and want to add some additional restrictions, don't submit content to projects that use a licence permitting commercial use. You're not contributing just to Wikipedia the project; you're contributing to the sum of copylefted human knowledge. Even if Wikipedia the project doesn't think your contribution merits inclusion, other projects might, and as long as it's in the licence, they are perfectly within their rights to do so.
Johnleemk