[WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*

[Anthony]

On 8/17/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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...
>
> At the very least they could say "[Taken from
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature]". While not anywhere near enough for
> GDFL compliance, it's still much better than nothing.
>
How is it better than nothing?  Wikipedia didn't write the text, a person did.