[WikiEN-l] I will be leaving the project

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 6/21/05, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> From a quick reading of the article's talk page, CoolCat would not
> provide anything except the assertion of authorship, claiming a desire
> for anonymity precluded anything else.  The pointing out that
> associating yourself with being the author of another site's article
> could ruin that anonymity anyway didn't produce any results.
> 
> The largest reason, I think, why CoolCat's assertion did not help was
> that this user has been found to have violated copyright before.
> "Assume good faith until burned", I guess.

Well for whatever it's worth, I've had a private conversation with him
and I find his story compelling.  I don't know if I can really offer
any more than that.

I would just like to reiterate that even if I am mistaken this is far
from the most likely disputed copyright claim on the project at all...
and I'd really like to know where all the 'ohh copyvio are bad' folks
are hiding every time I go up against a stuborn user whos feelings are
hurt that I want to delete their beloved google image search. :-/