[WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

[Wilhelm Schnotz]

If I were not on a cell phone and had time, I would join the angry mob
and start an RFAR :) I don't think he has any excuse for his actions
which knowingly violated our copyright rules.

Feel free to start one or someone else is likely to do it. After all
lynching gets good drama ;).

On 1/7/09, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's come up on ANI.  I await his reply before concluding how to proceed.
>
> -Durova
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilhelm at nixeagle.org>wrote:
>
>> And I imagine no way to get it unless views of deleted revisions is
>> logged somewhere that I don't know of.... I suspect this is rather
>> unlikely unless wmf has them privately.
>>
>> On 1/7/09, Soxred93 <soxred93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Unfortunately, we don't have the name of that particular admin.
>> >
>> > X!
>> >
>> > On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:04 PM [Jan 7, 2009 ], Wilhelm Schnotz wrote:
>> >
>> >> Who ever the admin is violated our copyright policies at the very
>> >> least as I am sure he did not give the original contributor credit
>> >> (that is assuming that the original contributor even has the right to
>> >> post that).
>> >>
>> >> For an admin to do that is probably a good reason to lose the bit.
>> >>
>> >> On 1/7/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123129220146959621.html
>> >>>
>> >>> "John Soong, 18, says that after he had failed to get jobs at several
>> >>> chains that use the test, he began to poke around for an answer key,
>> >>> driven by "altruistic, and maybe vengeful," motives. In a discussion
>> >>> section of a Wikipedia entry, he saw a mention of a set of Unicru
>> >>> statements and answers that had been posted there but removed. Using
>> >>> privileges as a volunteer Wikipedia administrator, which gave him
>> >>> access to deleted page histories, Mr. Soong, a University of Virginia
>> >>> student, was able to recover the answer key and re-post it on
>> >>> Facebook."
>> >>>
>> >>> - --
>> >>> gwern
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