[WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*

[Andrew Gray]

On 17/08/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OMG COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
> >
> > :p
>
> Don't joke, that *is* copyright infringement. I can't see how
> lorem-ipsum text would qualify as fair use, and I very much doubt the
> Nokia 770 box is GDFL. While I have no real problem with people using
> our content in such a way, it would be nice if they would do so
> properly (at least giving credit).

It's a sentence and a half of essentially unremarkable text with no
easily identifiable author or significance. Good luck sorting out who
they ought to credit...

> On a lighter note, I know exactly what you mean about being able to
> spot Wikipedia text a mile off. I find the best clues are the words
> "neologism" and "portmanteau", I've never seen them used anywhere
> else, but one of them is in the first sentence of pretty much every
> Wikipedia article.

Yeah, our first sentences are the easy bits. "PAGENAME is an
(adjective) noun, contextual-phrase other noun"; restate the topic in
a really simple way.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk