Bryce is apparently "extremely pissed". I'm not yet sure why. No policies have changed. But we can't have people sticking invariant sections with copyright notices willy-nilly throughout the site.

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From: Bryce Harrington bryce@neptune.net Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:15:26 -0800 (PST) To: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Subject: Re: [zoecomnena@yahoo.com: [Wikipedia-l] Oregon City, Oregon]

I am extremely pissed that the copyright statement was deleted. If the policy of Wikipedia has changed such that authors are not longer allowed to retain copyright of their work, then I want no part of this. Go ahead and delete my contributions. This is just wrong.

Bryce

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Jimmy Wales wrote:

Bryce,

I'm curious about this notice. Do you mind if we remove it? If not, I'm afraid the best choice for us is to simply remove your contribution completely from this page. But I know you're one of the good guys, so maybe there's something here that I haven't thought of?

Generally, I would say that posting separate copyright notices like this in the articles is something we can't have, simply for the sake of usability and simplicity.

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From: Zoe zoecomnena@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:28:03 -0800 (PST) To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Oregon City, Oregon

Bryce Harrington has attached a copyright notice to the [[Oregon City, Oregon]] page. Since the time of the copyright notice, Ram-Man's bot went in and added several paragraphs, making the vast majority of the article not part of Bryce's copyrighted material. There is nothing on the page which indicates which parts are copyrighted by Bryce and which are not.

Zoe

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