On 6/3/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Excuse me, but I've been a quiet but steady campaigner against "merge and delete" AfDs for years now. I am well aware of the GFDL problems inherent in copy and pasting things from one page to another. In this case:
*The excerpts are generally short enough that fair use can be plausibly claimed. *For many of them the original authorship can still be recovered.
So no, it is definitely not clear. The fact that I'm disagreeing with you doesn't necessarily imply that I'm ignorant, that's a pretty basic logical fallacy.
You missed the only five principle authors need to be credited bit. A complete nuisance most of the time but it can come in handy.