[WikiEN-l] The Register decries Wikipedia's "censorship" via OTRS

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 00:51:31 UTC 2007


Before complaining about this... why wouldn't you look to see what
user blanked it?
Don't fall for the register's irresponsible journalism without
checking your work.


On 7/7/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> As much as I hate to admit it, they have a point this time. We can't
> just accept every demand to take down a page and leave it down for a
> fortnight. I don't have access to OTRS, so I don't know what this was
> about, but from the talk page it would appear to be related to
> trademark issues. Since when have encyclopedias been restricted from
> using trademarked terms? We're not selling lava lamps, we're just
> talking about them - IANAL, but I'm pretty sure trademark law does not
> apply.
>
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