On 6/21/05, Matt Brown morven@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. :-/