[Wikilegal-l] [Wikipedia-l] GFDL, History, and Combining Documents (was "since we are on the subject")

[The Cunctator]

On 11/26/03 5:31 PM, "Martin Harper" <martin at myreddice.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> When a Wikipedian moves content from one article to another, this is covered
> under section 5: COMBINING DOCUMENTS. This requires that 'In the combination,
> you must combine any sections Entitled "History" in the various original
> documents, 
> forming one section Entitled "History";'.

That is not true. Wikipedia is the Document, not the individual entries.

> Clearly we don't do this. However, we might to be able to claim that we
> combine the 
> history "by reference" if we state "from [[X]]". Dubious?

We don't do this because it is NOT covered by section 5.