[Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copy&pasted books from Wikipedia

[Geoffrey Plourde]

The single best way to kill them is to reprint the exact same books, then sell them at the low low price of cost + 10%. When people start snapping them up like fruitcakes, Alphascript will be finished. 




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From: Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:08:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copy&pasted books from Wikipedia

2009/8/17 Jay Litwyn <brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>:
> Maybe there should be a [[:category:printed articles]]. It should ignore
> personal and educational use with a note at the top saying "Alphascript
> Publishing used this article in whole or major part for a commercial
> printing of Wikipedia.". It would be nice of them to create the category and
> make it complete.
>

Huh? The last thing we should be doing is advertising them like that,
especially in the encyclopedia.


Pete / the wub

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