[WikiEN-l] re: Explanation of Tony Sidaway's block of Pioneer-12, who isn't doing anything wrong

Tue May 24 16:15:53 UTC 2005

OK, I took a week off to clear my head, let everything calm down, and see what happened with this... apparently not much here, though there is a good discussion on the village pump that I'd like to contribute to.... and I don't feel like having to create a sock puppet just to be able to communicate. That's not right.

I ask anyone with the power to do so: Please remove the block. Tony Sideway initiated it. Mr. Tony Sideway, I believe that you are trying to work for the good of Wikipedia, but blocking me accomplishes nothing good and only makes things worse. You've said yourself that I haven't done anything wrong.

As for Matt, aka Morven: I'm not a special case, unless you consider knowing copyright law to be a special case. :-) You want to test your copyright knowledge with me, bring it on. Send in every lawyer, scholar, and diplomat you can find, and I'll talk to them all in civil manner. But it will not matter in the end: The GFDL simply cannot apply to quotes. No license can change the law. Therefore, if I or you or anyone quotes something on Wikipedia, it is not GFDLed. I'm sorry if that shakes your faith in the GFDL, but that's the way it is. You can make whatever license you want, but you can't change U.S. copyright law.

My words are my own. And so are yours, unless you willfully choose otherwise. Get used to it.

- Pioneer-12