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From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 3:36:59 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Huge soapbox on foudantion-l tl; dr at bottom (was: Criticism of employees (was VPAT)
On 18 February 2011 01:25, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
interests being trampled without much thought was David Gerard's posting
his
take on the copyright considerations at en.WS with regard to the UK law prohibiting Fox Hunting link to the foundation-l archives. Of course
everyone
at en.WS thought he was someone kind of official from the foundation, that
the
Fox hunting? I have *no* idea what you're talking about here.
- d.
That is because it wasn't you. Some other David. In fact was a bit on a conflation of three seperate rounds of copyright discussions over a year and a half. And the first one regarding the work I mentioned was actually very uncontroversial; although it was quite incorrect. Strangely someone actually pointed out the correct argument against deletion in that first (and as far as I can tell only the first) discussion but that explanation wasn't absorbed and was treated as and novel revelation two years later leading to restorations.
I am an idiot for posting such specific recollections of something that happened *six* years ago without researching it. I spent about an hour thinking "five more minutes of revising and then I going to bed and will read it again in the morning" and five minutes thinking "Forget it; I am not reading this one more time" And of course the latter thought was implemented. I am sorry for involving your name so carelessly (and obviously incorrectly). As they say "competence will excuse almost anything", but even if it had been accurate I would still have been wrong to be so careless. Sorry
Birgitte SB