[Foundation-l] Wikipedia:Office Actions

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Defining office action as an instrument is not the same as using this
instrument itself. We have at the moment some 250 Wikipedias over 170
Wiktionaries and many other projects. You do not want to argue every time
when an Office action is to be executed for a first time. You want it to be
clear upfront with no discussions when an office action is executed.

As the logo was deleted and a new copy was uploaded after 30 minutes, the
situation IS broken.

We do a license that allows for the distribution of a logo under terms that
respects the restrictions that a trade mark implies.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 4/25/07, Peter van Londen <londenp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Again I will state:
>
> I don't understand that you want to repair something which is not broken.
>
> If there is a necessity (mainly the EN:WP) you formalize office-actions
> there. If there is not a necessity, because the community accepts
> authority
> from the Foundation (without a policy backing this up): you don't need to
> enforce it on all the projects.
>
> Apparently there is one project which needs this policy (EN:WP) and there
> might be 2 or 3 others; enforcing it project-wide is unnecessary and
> premature.
>
> Kind regards, Londenp
>
> 2007/4/25, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>:
> >
> > 2007/4/25, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org>:
> >
> > > Why is there a need for an office action in this case?  My understand
> is
> > > that office actions are for time-sensitive matters that are
> particularly
> > > unusual. Deleting copyright violations is a very normal thing that we
> do
> > > routinely; there's no need for some sort of Official Intervention to
> do
> > > so, and even Normal Wikipedians can request such deletions and have
> > > their requests honored.
> >
> > In my opinion an office action necessary to specify that this actually
> > is not a request but an order. If I ask for a copyright violation to
> > be deleted, the people from the wiki where I do the request may still
> > decide that in their opinion it is not one, and let the text or image
> > stay. Against an office action they would not have such a choice.
> >
> > --
> > Andre Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
> > ICQ: 6260644  --  Skype: a_engels
> >
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