On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:19 PM, ??? wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Most do. Most of the things we hold to be culturally significant are indeed paid. In fact wikipedia wouldn't exist if it was for the content in books, magazines, and articles that people had been paid to produce.
Seeing no real identifying information from your email address, I'm not sure if this is just troll-bait.
But you should read up on public domain, government sources, Creative Commons and their roles in Wikipedia.