On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 08:59:02PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Patrick, Brad wrote:
To editors on en.wp in particular, don't hesitate to take action on copyvio. It is better to err on the side of caution and aggressively delete. The license problem is as much an educational problem as an actual systemic copyvio problem.
While I thank you for that statement, it's not yet sufficient.
Oh dear, in fact, I originally was going to make this statement somewhat stronger, along the lines of that people would respond "why should we listen to some lawyer on some mailing list" and basically ignore what you were saying.
I deleted that because I thought it'd be too inflammatory to seriously put on the list.
In the mean time however, reality has caught up with me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden...
See especially the comments by Mel Etitis, and also note Jkelly.
sincerely, Kim Bruning