On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:07 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
The user thinks: Gee, I did all that typing thinking I was helping Wikipedia.
It's just like I designed a neat logo (W) for a charity only to find it thrown in the trash by them and then snapped up by McDonalds (M).
Yes, it's nice to see the logo get used, and yes I have no regrets putting a GNU copyright on it.
However, I thought I was helping the charity, otherwise I wouldn't have made the effort.
So I will think twice about helping that charity next time.
Many people want to contribute information we don't want to host, because it's not information that's appropriate for an encyclopedia, such as hate speech, severely biased opinions, corporate advertisements, personal attacks on living people, etc.
You are upset that (information we remove) can (end up elsewhere). The fact of the matter is that information we both keep and remove does already end up elsewhere, legitimate and illegitimate mirrors, people reusing content under GFDL, and sometimes someone like Kohs.
Sure, someone may object to the overall end result some time. But they're more likely to object to "Wikipedia removed my important {hate speech, severely biased opinion, corporate advertisement, personal attack}" than "It ended up elsewhere afterwards".
And being able to remove stuff which doesn't belong here is rather important.