Well that clears some things up, but it appears I confused two things -- my alteration of the [[The Wind Done Gone]] page, with the [[Thomas Sutpen]] page -- the talk page being the place where the discussion took place. I apologize for that. The Sutpen article was clearly a vio.
But of course nobody gave any hint that they even read the attached discussion -- let alone answer any of the points made there --Centrally the one the Jim and I seem to be in agreement with-- namely take a second to create a Stub.
The secondary issue of purging the history of copyvios seems paranoid and I wont comment further. IANAL, Im sure this issue has been thought out -- it seems to stop at the assumption that anything that "may potentially cause a problem is bad." Certainly to be lax might be the wrong signal to send, but a scrorched earth approach to copyvios seems silly. (Pardon my French ;)
While its not in anyones interest to maintain copyrighted text, the automatic adding of boilerplate and move to VFD -- if enough people get into "top cop" mode and carry this to extremes, it will mean a serious reduction in articles, (lets be realistic) and lead new contributors (even autist ones) to leave. Not to mention cause more people to drop from the [[m:academic standards kick]] disease. So I called for some reasonable moderateness.
My disagreement is not practical--IANAL (thus you people with business degrees may not understand it) but it was an attempt to correct an attitude that says "lets copyvio text added by a repeat offender, (but dont actually ban the repeat offender, nor ask anyone else to) and do nothing about adding a stub because 'I just dont know how."
Mr. "wrong-on-all-points", ~S~
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