Even by tomorrow, it should be clear to the most zealous DMCA
supporter that attempts to keep the number hidden have been superseded
by events.
On 5/2/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/05/07, Philippe Beaudette
<philippebeaudette(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can we write the article without publishing the
string? Sure. So why do we have to do it, and potentially expose ourselves to liability?
If there's a way to do it, with no loss of academic integrity, why the heck
wouldn't we?
Well, it's pretty clearly a loss of academic integrity.
Would [[Illegal prime]] lose by not having the allegedly illegal
number quoted? Hell yeah.
See the snippet of L. Ron Hubbard's handwriting in [[Xenu]]? That's my
personal favourite piece of fair use on Wikipedia (yes, I put it
there). Could the article be written without it? Of course. Would it
lose something important? Hell yeah.
I expect we can put the number into the article that already exists. I
doubt doing it today will stick. I'm just glad we don't have to have
Wikipedia perfect on a second-by-second basis. Immediatism really gets
in the way of writing the encyclopedia.
- d.
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