I've just looked at the [[Ferdinand Porsche]] article, and would offer the following opinions 1. Dr. Steineck would help her cause tremendously if she were a registered user. Despite our ideals there is often a tendency to presume that anonymous users are wrong. 2. Dr. Steineck is an Austrian who's native language is presumably not English: She has used "donation" where the rest of us would tend to use "contribution". That's a perfectly understandable error. 3. The reference to GNU-FDL appears to be a red herring. Nothing in the discussion seems to be about this. 4. The Ferdinand Porsche article is probably not the place to dispute Komenda's claims; the claims are against Ferdinand's son [[Ferry Porsche]] and it would be more appropriate in the article about the son. 5. Although it is appropriate to make a familial link between the father and son, making a disputed claim as part of the link invites problems in that it opens the disputed claim to discussion in a place where it doesn't belong. This has been a big part of the problem in the recent [[Mother Teresa]] dispute.
I hope this helps Ec
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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