[Foundation-l] Huge soapbox on foudantion-l tl; dr at bottom (was: Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

[Birgitte SB]

----- Original Message ----
> From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 3:36:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Huge soapbox on foudantion-l tl; dr at bottom (was: 
>Criticism of employees (was VPAT)
> 
> On 18 February 2011 01:25, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>  wrote:
> 
> > interests being trampled without much thought was David  Gerard's posting 
his
> > take on the copyright considerations at en.WS with regard to the UK law
> >  prohibiting Fox Hunting link to the foundation-l archives.  Of course  
>everyone
> > at en.WS thought he was someone kind of official from the  foundation, that 
>the
> 
> 
> Fox hunting? I have *no* idea what you're  talking about here.
> 
> 
> -  d.

That is because it wasn't you. Some other David. In fact was a bit on a 
conflation of three seperate rounds of copyright discussions over a year and a 
half.  And the first one regarding the work I mentioned was actually very 
uncontroversial; although it was quite incorrect.  Strangely someone actually 
pointed out the correct argument against deletion in that first (and as far as I 
can tell only the first) discussion but that explanation wasn't absorbed and was 
treated as and novel revelation two years later leading to restorations.

  I am an idiot for posting such specific recollections of something that 
happened *six* years ago without researching it.  I spent about an hour thinking 
"five more minutes of revising and then I going to bed and will read it again in 
the morning" and five minutes thinking "Forget it; I am not reading this one 
more time"  And of course the latter thought was implemented.  I am sorry for 
involving your name so carelessly (and obviously incorrectly).  As they say 
"competence will excuse almost anything", but even if it had been accurate I 
would still have been wrong to be so careless.  Sorry

Birgitte SB