[WikiEN-l] Seriously, on BJAODN

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Jun 3 19:42:31 UTC 2007


Bryan Derksen wrote:

>Jeff Raymond wrote:
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>>Philippe Beaudette wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>Thank you for saying what I was thinking.  you've more than likely hit 
>>the nail on the head.
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>This is the problem with any policy that enables easy-to-make but
>hard-to-revert changes, it becomes a powerful bludgeon that is oh so
>tempting to misuse. There was a controversy over the use of BLP in this
>way just a little while ago.
>
One notable distinction is that the BLP debate involved deletions on a 
one-article-at-a-time basis.  The current situation takes it further 
into mass deletions.

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