The 'legitimate' reason for the complaint, I gather, is that the
images are marked copyrighted and explicitly deny the right to
redistribute outside Wikipedia. However, VfD is not the place to take
this. That issue is with the copyright status of the images, not the
appropriateness of the page. The page itself is about Wikipedia and
is in a User: namespace, so there are no problems there whatsoever.
However, I suspect the above is only the ostensible, not the actual,
reason for the listing. Given Anthony's history, he's trolling,
possibly to "make a point".
-Morven
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:31:59 -0600, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
This page is a bit of information and photos from the
Boston meeting of
Wikipedians. It is obviously in violation of nothing. What were you
thinking?
Fred
From: "Anthony DiPierro"
<anthonydipierro(a)hotmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:41:53 -0400
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Block #1
I find this amazing.
Raul creates a page, [[User:Raul654/Boston]], in blatant violation of
[[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]] (see #15). The page consists of a bit
of text and a number of images all of which violate [[Wikipedia:Copyright]]
("If you contribute material to Wikipedia, you thereby license it to the
public under the GFDL"). I list the page on [[wp:VfD]], stating that it
violates "Wikipedia is not a file repository", and I get blocked.
Yes, perhaps it was technically not against the rules for me to be blocked
(at least not provably so). But give me a break, this is just ridiculous.
Anthony
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