[WikiEN-l] I will be leaving the project

[Andrew Venier]

Kelly Martin wrote:

>On 6/21/05, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>
>I've seen CoolCat repeatedly accused of copyright infringement but the
>ones I've reviewed I've found that those accusations lacked substance.
> He's involved in one of the more contentious edit wars (Kurd issues
>in Turkey) that we have running right now and there are some people
>who will stoop to underhanded techniques to "win".  Apparently,
>alleging copyright infringement is a very effective technique to
>silence your opponents.  And it seems that we're playing right into
>that strategy.
>
>Kelly
>
There's a very simple way to counter such an attack: don't copy and 
paste verbatim text from websites or other copyright sources and leave 
them unattributed.