[WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 18/08/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>   
>> On 8/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Maybe, but that's no reason not to at least ask them :-)
>>>       
>> Sure, but ask them what?  The sentence was contributed anonymously, so
>> there's no one to credit.  I guess you could ask them to release the
>> box cover under the GFDL, and if there was actually some use to that I
>> think it'd be a good idea.  But it's just a box cover.
>>     
> I was thinking to at least credit Wikipedia, since the text was
> written by an anonymous contributor.
>   
>> I vote someone scans in the box cover and puts it up on in the [[Nokia
>> 770 Internet Tablet]] article as a GFDL image.  Then hope they sue,
>> just for the irony or whatever it'd be called.  :)
>>     
> The Wikipedia copyright police are a bit too humorless for that to stand :-)
And if it hasn't been reported elsewhere we'd have the 
no-original-research purists complaining about it.

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