[WikiEN-l] YouTube links

[Ray Saintonge]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>The huge amount of copyright violations on youtube is only one factor.
>Per WP:EL we avoid external links to content which would belong inside
>an ideal Wikipedia.
>
Is this the Borg theory of Wikipedia?  "You will be assimilated."  I'm 
sure we would receive complaints about less than notable details that 
appear on some of these sites.  These are perfectly respectable 
supplementary sources.  Some mega-corporations do like to buy out 
upstart competitors to restrict competition.  Being a mega-player in the 
information carries some major ethical responsibilities that we have yet 
to seriously explore.  .Ethics are not the equivalent to laws and rules, 
but rather the philosophical underpinnings to those laws and rules.

>Many of the non-copyright violating informative videos should be
>inside wikipedia. It is worth out time to get free licensed releases
>of this materal so that we can assure that the content will remain
>perpetually free for all purposes and that articles will not be
>stripped of this useful information by powers outside of our control.
>
We are not alone.  We can and must also rely on others to do some of 
that task. Keeping it free is only part of the task; another important 
one is making it free.  I commend those who avoid pusilanimity, and take 
the risks necessary to make it free.

>Wikipedia is not a web directory... We didn't get where we are by
>simply linking to content elsewhere. Every non-copyright-violating
>youtube video is a chance to expand our community of contributors.
>
:-D

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