[WikiEN-l] [iris.steineck at aon.at: donation to ferdinand porsche? article is not available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.]

Tue Oct 28 13:18:42 UTC 2003

I don't think this person's subject line makes any sense, but his
content claims are surely worth an investigation.

It looks from the history as though there's an ongoing edit war, and
so probably more eyeballs would be helpful.

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From: "Dr. Iris Steineck" <iris.steineck at aon.at>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:43:11 +0100
To: <jwales at bomis.com>
Subject: donation to ferdinand porsche? article is not available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Dear Mr. Wales,

My grandfather Erwin Komenda designed the VW-beetle and Porsche sport car
type 356.

I wrote this fact more than one times in the Wikipedia Ferdinand Porsche
Article.

([[pl:Ferdinand Porsche]]
'''Ferdinand Porsche''' ([[September 3]], [[1875]] - [[January 30]],
[[1951]]) was a [[Ethnic German|German]] automotive engineer born in
[[Vratislavice]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (now in the [[Czech Republic]]), who
developed the original [[Volkswagen]] and a prototype of the [[Panzer VI]]
[[tank]], which he nicknamed "''Tiger''".

In [[1928]], Dr. Porsche developed the first workable [[hybrid electric]]
car, proving it to be a workable concept.  Despite efforts by hobbyists,
this technology lay virtually unused by automotive companies until the
[[21st century]].

Dr. Porsche's son was [[Ferry Porsche]], the developer of the [[Porsche]]
automobile, which was based on the Volkswagen design. Both, the Volkswagen
and the first Porsche sport car, the Porsche type 356, were designed by
Porsche's longstanding chief designer [[Erwin Komenda]].

.[[Erwin Komenda]], the longstanding Porsche chief designer, developed the
car body
for the famous VW-beetle and Porsche 356.

External Link:
[http://www.komenda.at Erwin Komenda Porsche Designer]

But every time I  wrote this facts in the wikipedia article - the new
written text is cancelled immediately. I can’t accept this fact. Because on
the one hand Erwin Komenda developed the design of the famous cars and on
the other this is no more a free encyclopaedia. So I wonder how this is
possible. Have you got any donations for the Ferdinand Porsche article from
Porsche or the Volkswagen-enterprise, what is wrong with that site?

Best regards Iris Steineck

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