[WikiEN-l] I will be leaving the project

Wed Jun 22 01:23:29 UTC 2005

On 6/21/05, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:
> > CoolCat made the important claim of being the copyright owner, yet
> > refused to supply critical pieces of data to support that claim.
> 
> So what do you expect someone to provide to substantiate a claim of
> original authorship?  A copyright regiserted with the copyright
> office? ... right.

>From a quick reading of the article's talk page, CoolCat would not
provide anything except the assertion of authorship, claiming a desire
for anonymity precluded anything else.  The pointing out that
associating yourself with being the author of another site's article
could ruin that anonymity anyway didn't produce any results.

The largest reason, I think, why CoolCat's assertion did not help was
that this user has been found to have violated copyright before. 
"Assume good faith until burned", I guess.

-Matt