[WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

[Wilhelm Schnotz]

By move on I mean take an action or not, but don't discuss it to death.

On 1/9/09, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilhelm at nixeagle.org> wrote:
> There may very well be a difference, but any way you look at it that
> admin did violate copyright. One thing I did notice is this happened
> over a year ago, as such I'm not totally convinced now that revoking
> the bit will do much good.
>
> Regardless I doubt there is much more to be said here, as there is a
> thread on this at WP:ANI or AN. I am not taking a part in the onwiki
> discussion as I think most of the valid views have been covered and it
> is time to move on.
>
> On 1/9/09, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>> Wilhelm Schnotz wrote:
>>> Bah forgive me, I was trying to be sarcastic. Did not work so well :S
>>>
>> People here can sometimes be victims of their own literalism.  One thing
>> about lynch mob members is that they believe they are ridding the world
>> of scum.  Such true believers do not understand sarcasm. ;-)
>>> To ray, you have a point, if it is a 3rd parties copyright, it is
>>> their fight. Generally though I don't like the thought of that ability
>>> being used to undelete stuff that is not helpful to this project and
>>> creates these sorts of distractions, but it is now his fight.
>>>
>> There's still a difference between undeleting material and taking
>> deleted material for use on an external site.  The Wall Street Journal
>> report is certainly a distractions, but volunteers who are driven by
>> their ideals to participate in the wikis tend to be more sensitive to
>> these distractions than is warranted.  Large organizations are
>> frequently subject to these critical reports, and soon learn that making
>> a fuss of them is a waste of everybody's time.
>>
>> Ec
>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz wrote
>>>>> Feel free to start one or someone else is likely to do it. After all
>>>>> lynching gets good drama ;).
>>>>>
>>
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