[Foundation-l] A letter to Wikipedia collides with the non-free content policies

[Chad]

And it's been handled. Tagged and deleted per enwiki's own deletion policy.

(CSD I3, for you policy mongers).

-Chad

On Jan 27, 2008 2:49 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008 12:35 AM, Remember the dot <rememberthedot at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm hoping for clarification by the foundation on whether or not
> > by-permission-only works like this may be used.
> [snip]
> > It's not that I'm whining that the foundation come to the rescue and tell us
> > what to do. It's that the foundation has given us an ambiguous statement on
> > when it is and is not OK to use non-free content.
>
> This issue has been explained to you on multiple occasions:  As far as
> project content goes "with permission" is nether sufficient, nor
> relevant to the acceptability of content on the projects.
>
> Checking in at [[Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content]] I do not see any
> indication of widespread concern or confusion.
>
> If there is a genuine confusion on the intention of the foundation's
> policy and specific guidance I suspect that someone will be able to
> get a detailed explanation so long as they don't waste everyone's with
> trifles and absurdities.
>
> For future reference, when privately peppering foundation folks over
> and over again fails to get you the results you want forum-shopping
> your way to foundation-l is also unlikely to bring you satisfaction.
>
> > This has actually happened in
> > the past:
> [snip]
> > and I would really like for it to not happen in the future.
>
> In this instance [1] and several times in the past you have found
> bizarre corner cases of EnWP's rules and have gone around enforcing
> these straw-man rule interpretations, which you don't agree with, in
> order to incite people into relaxing the content policy.
>
> This sort of disruptive behavior is expressly forbidden on Enwiki by
> its [[WP:POINT]] policy.
>
> If you'd like to avoid this in the future you can simply discontinue
> your own disruption.
>
>
> I've specifically avoided giving any suggestion or input here on the
> case you are complaining about. I'm quite confident that the rest of
> the enwiki community can find a reasonable enough way to handle that
> matter.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2008_January_22&diff=prev&oldid=187192145
>
>
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