On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:52:07PM +0100, Lars Aronsson wrote:
<stuff about copyrights acknowledged>
In any case, when discussing the 1911 EB when it first became available on the net, it quickly became clear that the material from it is totally unsuited for cut-and-paste into Wikipedia anyway. Obviously much of it is totally out-of-date (read the article on "Calculating machines" for amusing speculation on the possibility of a completed Analytical Engine), the style is archaic, and even the stuff on historical figures has been invalidated by later research.
Use it for source material (with a good deal of care), but I would strongly argue *not* to cut-and-paste it in.