On 2/10/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gurch [mailto:matthew.britton@btinternet.com]
>Sent: Friday, February 9, 2007 07:47 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] expunging copyright violations (Was: Re: Admin burnout)
>
>John Vandenberg wrote:
>> On 2/10/07, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> I expect that this would require an "Request for Expunction" process,
>> which amounts to more bureaucracy, but if its creation allows for more
>> admins, the net effect is fewer backlogs.
>>
>> Is something like this possible with the current MediaWiki and dump
>> creation software?
>>
>> --
>> John
>
>This is pretty much just
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight, is it not?
I thought something like this should exist and went looking using
words such as "expunction"; I should have tried "expunged". I'll
go
read up on it now.
-Gurch
The mission of Oversight would need to be expanded to deal with copyright violations.
Right now it covers only posting of sensitive personal information. Currently copyright
violations are simply replaced, usually not even deleted. Oversight hides even from
administrators. Would that be necessary or appropriate?
WP:CP says that articles should be speedied if it cant be readily
solved by reverting. In the three cases that I have come across
copyrighted material that had a commercially interested source (e.g.
EB), the articles were deleted. I think it is fair enough as well;
the copyvio tag is essentially a prod, and if nobody does anything
about it, the article can always be rewritten.
--
John