[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's a job?

Matthew Brown morven at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 08:15:26 UTC 2007


On 6/1/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> It also just occurred to me that the same reasoning used for deleting
> BJAODN (that copy-and-paste moves inherently break GFDL compliance) may
> also apply to practically every talk page archive subpage on Wikipedia.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page> explicitly
> describes how to do copy-and-paste moves, and I've seen at least one bot
> out there that does copy-and-paste talk page archiving automatically.

For talk pages, it's not quite the same.  It's obvious which page
history to look in and during what dates, and furthermore talk page
posts should be signed.

-Matt



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