[WikiEN-l] Copyrighted material on Wikipedia

Sat Oct 4 22:30:32 UTC 2003

I'm assuming there's a really good reason this specific article is being discussed on 
the list rather than at the relevant talk page?

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Commodore_(rank)

And a similar reason why the issue of copyvios in article histories isn't being 
discussed at the cunningly named:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations_on_history_pages

And the complex process of asking GFDL permission is presumably something quite 
different to that discussed at:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Boilerplate_request_for_permission

And the current community-decided process for deleting possible copyvios is 
irrelevant to the process, so nobody should bother reading:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:votes_for_deletion/copyvio

Take it to the wiki pages. That way, you get to avoid rehashing tired old arguments 
that have already been discussed a million times before, and boring the stuffing out 
of me. Plus, there's a slim chance that way that comments will be based on the 
wisdom of the ages, rather than the whims of the moment.

-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper