[WikiEN-l] Dead wikipedians and how to really make a project boring to death

[Steve Bennett]

On 7/27/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you are all missing Antheres point. Who cares whether it's
> fair use or not? Do we really have to be so anal about the rules that
> we will infact bring this to IfD, instead of just quietly ignoring the
> copyright issue in this very special unique case. We are people, for
> christs sake, not automatons! Sometimes, process is not that
> important.

You are really asking, is it ok for Wikipedia to breach people's
copyright when the chance of them suing is very slight? I would say
yes. Most would say no.

Steve