From: "Ray Saintonge" saintonge@telus.net
3. The reference to GNU-FDL appears to be a red herring. Nothingin the discussion seems to be about this.
I think that the reference to the GNU-FDL is something that has been metioned, namely if someone makes a contribution to a GNU-FDL text and becomes a coauthor with others there is at least an implicit obligation (perhaps even explicit) that as a contributor one's text cannot be completely removed if it contributes in a useful way to an FDL text. Removing it is at least against the spirit of what a collaobrative contribution stands for, and the statement "your text will be mercilessly edited and redistributed at will" does not imply that your contribution can be unlaterally removed because someone disagrees with your contribution, only that it will be mercilessly "edited". There is a distinction there, no? One of the reasons there have been suggestions about changing the edit page text by mav and yours truly.
Alex756 (not Rosen)
Jimmy Wales wrote:
I don't think this person's subject line makes any sense, but his content claims are surely worth an investigation.
It looks from the history as though there's an ongoing edit war, and so probably more eyeballs would be helpful.
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From: "Dr. Iris Steineck" iris.steineck@aon.at
Subject: donation to ferdinand porsche? article is not available under
the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
Dear Mr. Wales,
My grandfather Erwin Komenda designed the VW-beetle and Porsche sport car type 356.
I wrote this fact more than one times in the Wikipedia Ferdinand Porsche Article.
[[Ferdinand Porsche]]
But every time I wrote this facts in the wikipedia article - the new written text is cancelled immediately. I cant accept this fact. Because
on
the one hand Erwin Komenda developed the design of the famous cars and on the other this is no more a free encyclopaedia. So I wonder how this is possible. Have you got any donations for the Ferdinand Porsche article
from
Porsche or the Volkswagen-enterprise, what is wrong with that site?
Best regards Iris Steineck
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