2005/11/19, Michael Crouch <creidieki(a)gmail.com>om>:
I'm trying to improve the English Wikipedia's documentation on article
moves, and I had a GFDL question. I hope this is the right place;
feel free to point me elsewhere.
Articles on En are often split in a cut-and-paste way, with material
from one article removed and put into another article. None of the
documentation (that I can find) mentions anything about maintaining
the necessary authorship information.
I've been told several times (on [[Wikipedia:Help desk]] and
[[Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)]]) to simply mention in the edit
summary "This material moved from [[Foo]]". Is this adequate for the
GFDL requirements? I know we might not have a perfect solution to
this, but I didn't want to add anything to the documentation without
making sure it was correct.
Simply speaking: No, it is not enough according to the GNU/FDL, but
Wikipedia is interpreting the GNU/FDL so freely anyway that adding this to
it does not differ much either.
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