On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:22:04 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
<jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
But, it was a convenience and a custom, and since
there would of
course be universal consensus to move forward with a different scheme,
there was absolutely no reason to have an episode of civil
disobedience to change it. There was no emergency.
Oh, but don't you see?
There was! It was a Fair Use picture or
something like that and is therefore was inherently an evil heretical
tool of the Devil. All of Wikipedia was in most grave peril due to its
existance there. We're lucky that the FBI wasn't bursting into the
colo even as it was uploaded.
Or something to that effect, I think. Supposedly.