Well that clears some things up, but it appears I
confused two things -- my alteration of the [[The Wind
Done Gone]] page, with the [[Thomas Sutpen]] page --
the talk page being the place where the discussion
took place. I apologize for that. The Sutpen article
was clearly a vio.
But of course nobody gave any hint that they even read
the attached discussion -- let alone answer any of the
points made there --Centrally the one the Jim and I
seem to be in agreement with-- namely take a second to
create a Stub.
The secondary issue of purging the history of copyvios
seems paranoid and I wont comment further. IANAL, Im
sure this issue has been thought out -- it seems to
stop at the assumption that anything that "may
potentially cause a problem is bad." Certainly to be
lax might be the wrong signal to send, but a scrorched
earth approach to copyvios seems silly. (Pardon my
French ;)
While its not in anyones interest to maintain
copyrighted text, the automatic adding of boilerplate
and move to VFD -- if enough people get into "top cop"
mode and carry this to extremes, it will mean a
serious reduction in articles, (lets be realistic) and
lead new contributors (even autist ones) to leave.
Not to mention cause more people to drop from the
[[m:academic standards kick]] disease. So I called for
some reasonable moderateness.
My disagreement is not practical--IANAL (thus you
people with business degrees may not understand it)
but it was an attempt to correct an attitude that says
"lets copyvio text added by a repeat offender, (but
dont actually ban the repeat offender, nor ask anyone
else to) and do nothing about adding a stub because 'I
just dont know how."
Mr. "wrong-on-all-points",
~S~
"I'd love to be in a world where women grow penises
because its fashionable, or you can have an eye
replacement of a different color or from a different
species. All the adults will say, "Tut, tut, tut,
girls never had penises in my day." -Neil Gaiman
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