On 5/31/05, Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Indeed, I'm rather surprised at the glib and easy
way with which some
people suggest "refactoring" copyright violations rather than deleting
them when possible. Under normal circumstances, every revision of an
article is a derivative work of previous revisions going back to the
beginning. Simply rephrasing to avoid identical strings of words is not
sufficient to avoid this.
This bothers me as well.
It might be acceptable to 'save' sections added later that are clearly
not based on the copyright violation at all. However, all additions
and to the areas which began as copyright violations are suspect.
Wikipedia needs an easy method to delete copyvio revisions, for that
matter. Right now, copyvio additions to an existing article are often
not even brought to WP:CP; they're just reverted.
-Matt