geni wrote:
On 6/2/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Then you should be able to show where the tag was put on each of these articles, and thus establish by the diffs that the tags were indeed there for several years.
There is a link to the GFDL and [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] at the end of every page.
Then why do we bother putting extra tags on images that are of disputed fair use status?
This whole copyright argument is really a non-starter. Even in the cases where there's _blatant_ copyright violation, as in a letter-for-letter copy and paste from a webpage with a clear copyright notice in flaming letters thirty feet high, the standard procedure as described on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems is to simply _blank_ the page and replace it with a {{copyvio}} template. The article's history remains intact and accessible for at least 7 days while the listing is on the copyright problems page.
The speedy deletion of BJAODN goes way beyond this process even though it should be vastly _easier_ to resolve any potential copyright issues. This is all stuff that was released under the GFDL at some point, all we need to do is confirm its pedigree.