[WikiEN-l] Seriously, on BJAODN

[Philippe Beaudette]

<sigh>

This whole debate has me -->THIS<-- close to grabbing a spider man costume and buying a plane ticket to Germany.... 

Seriously, I know copyright is critical, but I can't help but think it was used as a means to the desired end in this case.

</sigh>

Philippe
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: The Cunctator 
  To: English Wikipedia 
  Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 6:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Seriously, on BJAODN


  On 6/2/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
  > On 6/2/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
  > > So going through the dreadful prose in that provision I find reference
  > > to blatant copyright violation which must also meet four further
  > > criteria.  It then goas on to add, "When tagging a page for deletion
  > > under this criterion, a user should notify the page's creator".  Is
  > > there a listing somewhere to show that these notices were in fact
  > > given?
  >
  > Can you show who the creator was?
  >
  > > We're talking about a 2007 series of deletions, not ones that happened
  > > in 2005.
  >
  > BJAODN is old. Some of it is taken from stuff deleted before 2005. We
  > do not have deleted revisions that far back.
  >
  Please god, let someone sue Wikipedia for a one-liner that appears on
  BJAODN for several years.

  Because the resultant mockery of the case would finally get you
  (maybe) to realize how completely insane this attitude is.

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