I am pleased to introduce another source of information. I don't think that simply dumping Mr. Phillips' work into the Wikipedia is a particularly good idea -- he isn't writing encyclopedia articles. However, we have his permission to incorporate his work freely.
Is there a place, perhaps in Meta, that we can preserve this note?
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-----Original Message----- From: Michael Phillips [mailto:mike@cronab.demon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 15:32 To: Sean Barrett Subject: Re: "Ships of the Old Navy" and the Wikipedia
Dear Sean,
I must apologise for the delay in answering, I have been away.
I am quite happy for you to use the Ships of the Old Navy pages on Wikipedia and as an advocate of the free distribution of information I approve of the GNU Open Licence.
One thing I must stress is that this is an ongoing project. I am constantly updating entries and I am working, when I get the time, on extending the starting date back from the 1780s to eventually 1703 , the accession of Queen Anne. I also have a CD-ROM version which includes maps and other additional material.
May I also draw your attention to my Primer on Sailing Warships starting on http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/gen1.htm This contains three pages of facts, figures and definitions.
Regards
Mike Phillips
In message 000201c2506a$9177d3e0$6701a8c0@ORGOCH, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org writes
Dear Mr Phillips:
I am one of the administrators of the Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org), a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch, which began in January 2001 and is growing rapidly. One of my personal interests is naval history. While researching articles, I discovered your "SHIPS OF THE OLD NAVY" Web pages (http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/INTRO.HTM) and was very impressed.
Your work would be of great benefit to the Wikipedia project, and I would like to include it. Wikipedia requires all contributions be made under the GNU Free Documentation License, which is a license for open content designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. Would you be so kind as to review the GFDL at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html and determine if it meets your approval? If it does, I would be pleased to include your research in the Wikipedia. Or, of course, you could incorporate it yourself!
I admire your work, and look forward to corresponding with you.
Yours Truly, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com
-- Michael and Jane Phillips mike@cronab.demon.co.uk Cronabar, North Pill, http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/marit/htm Saltash, Cornwall PL12 6LJ England.