On 6/2/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, you *can* look through the article histories of deleted content. You're an admin, ain't you?
You forget the age of BJAODN. For the early stuff the deletion logs are gone. Additionally the credit needs to be public rather than admin only.
Also, massive number of BJAODN entries are clearly short enough to fall under any reasonable interpreation of fair use.
Since in many cases we use the complete work probably not.
One can be flexible in their interpretation of the GFDL; that is, our policy towards images can and should be different than that towards text.
That just sets up another set of problems. See in order to use such images we have to in effect argue that individual articles are aggregates.
Again, that's psychotic wikilawyering.
No we are talking about legally enforceable licences. Not wikilawyering.
We should. But this is absurd.
You can go back to the early days and see how I pressed Larry Sanger to have us do a better job of adhering to the GFDL, so this is particularly antagonizing.
The modern copyright person is somewhat different. Experience has taught them that anything less than zero tolerance tends towards zero enforcement at worrying speed.
To start with we are hoping to move towards the GSFDL which should have a lower degree of suck.