On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Andrew Gray wrote:
Incidentally, today's rather demoralising AfD: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surviving veterans of the First World War]]. Nominated on _Sunday the 13th of November_. Oh, the timing.
That beats my latest encounter with the AfD Zone: consider a group of articles cut-n-pasted from man pages that are part of the Debian distro of Linux, nominated for deletion. While some of the reasons offered for deletion were plausible, the nominator also added that these articles were suitable candidates because they were "copyright violations".
Maybe I'm just dense, but at least 2 other people agreed that they were copyright violations, and not one bothered to explain how they came to this counterintuitive conclusion. When I pressed for an explanation, a terse reply pointed me to a section of a Wikipedia article where it was stated that GPL was incompatible with GFDL. (No explanation, just a bare statement.)
Last summer when I was at OSCON, I met the guy at the Free Software Foundation who handles the legal questions about the GPL & GFDL. If I ever find his business card, I will email him to see if the hairs were split correctly in this case.
Geoff