[WikiEN-l] Aneurysm

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 22:37:44 UTC 2007


Reviewing the text of one of the BJAODN pages Jeffrey O Gustafson deleted
and then wheel-warred to protect his action ([[Wikipedia:All Your Bad Joke
And Other Deleted Nonsense Are Belong To
Us<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:All_Your_Bad_Joke_And_Other_Deleted_Nonsense_Are_Belong_To_Us&action=edit>]],
it's clear that JOG's unilateral action is unsupportable. He claims massive
copyright violation, but the earliest entry to the page was Navigium
Flammae, whose history exists in the database.

If Jeffrey O Gustafson's intentions were pure, he would have done the work
to make the pages compliant with *his interpretation* of the GFDL by merging
edit histories.

Instead he deleted the page out of process. And since deletion with the
claim of copyright violation are protected from content review  (c.f.
[[Wikipedia:Deletion
review]]: "Note that only uncontroversial content should be restored — not
revisions deleted as copyright violation, potentially libellous content or
similar") his actions can't be easily reversed, even temporarily, so that
the general community may take action, instead of the small group of admins.


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