Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 6/20/05, Jim Trodel trodel@gmail.com wrote:
Reverting copyrighted material should not count as 3RR violation.
Eh, Coolcat says he wrote the text and we have no reason to disbelieve him. He has exhibited substantial personal knowledge on matters related to Turkey in the past.
As has been pointed out on the relevant talk page, having written something (if we choose to believe an unidentified pseudonymous user) is not necessarily sufficient to establish ownership. CoolCat claimed that text was prepared for a large offline (i.e. print) distribution. We have no way of knowing if that was work-for-hire, for example.
When it comes to copyright problems, all one has to do is anonymously claim "I wrote it" when it is found to have been published earier elsewhere? That can't be right.