[WikiEN-l] Sourcing "popular culture" items

Fri Nov 10 17:30:30 UTC 2006

On 11/10/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2006, at 3:58 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> > This is an overreaction.  While there may be some basis for suspecting
> > that the image may be a copyvio, saying that about the text of the
> > article is a bit of a stretch.  There is not much information in the
> > article to start with.  It is a stub, but that is more an argument for
> > the proposed merge than outright deletion.  How can you say that
> > something is "likely a copyvio"?  Either it's prima facie a copyvio or
> > it's not.
>
> First of all, let me note that the current version is not the version
> that had the copyvio problems.
>
What about the version dated "27 September 2006"?  As Jimbo's email is
from November 7th presumably that was the version he was talking
about.  Is that the version that existed on that date, or is there
some new power to change other people's edits (not just delete them)?

Anthony