I agree that were this to become common practice it would get annoying, but in this case I think it was appropriate. Someone wants to use editor's material in another project, and is required by the gfdl to seek their consent. He is doing this in pretty much the only reasonable way I can think of.
If the licensing on WP wasn't broken, he wouldn't have to do it. The sooner we fix the license the sooner we can be done with all of this.
Mark
--- Fennec Foxen fennec@gmail.com wrote:
Hello. I'd just like to draw attention to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ram-Man#Spambot
a discussion about whether Ram-Man should be permitted to use rambot to send unsolicited bulk messages (soliciting participation in a "dual-licensing drive") to thousands of user-talk pages. The bot is currently blocked indefinitely, pending the resolution of this issue.
Ram-Man seems to believe that an implicit community consens exists and approves of his use of the bot in this fashion. Currently, he claims to have "over 70% support" of users who responded to the message, although I believe this figure to be skewed by the "users who responded" part. I therefore would appreciate it if otherwise uninterested individuals provide Ram-Man with a more concrete measure of the level of community support which exists regarding this message.
Others have expressed concerns regarding the precedent which this sets for distribution of unsolicited user-talk messages, and suggest that a more concrete policy be formed to deal with this form of userpage spam. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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