----- Original Message ----
> From: David Gerard <[email protected]>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 3:36:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Huge soapbox on foudantion-l tl; dr at bottom
> (was:
>Criticism of employees (was VPAT)
>
> On 18 February 2011 01:25, Birgitte SB <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > interests being trampled without much thought was David Gerard's posting
his
> > take on the copyright considerations at en.WS with regard to the UK law
> > prohibiting Fox Hunting link to the foundation-l archives. Of course
>everyone
> > at en.WS thought he was someone kind of official from the foundation, that
>the
>
>
> Fox hunting? I have *no* idea what you're talking about here.
>
>
> - d.
That is because it wasn't you. Some other David. In fact was a bit on a
conflation of three seperate rounds of copyright discussions over a year and a
half. And the first one regarding the work I mentioned was actually very
uncontroversial; although it was quite incorrect. Strangely someone actually
pointed out the correct argument against deletion in that first (and as far as
I
can tell only the first) discussion but that explanation wasn't absorbed and
was
treated as and novel revelation two years later leading to restorations.
I am an idiot for posting such specific recollections of something that
happened *six* years ago without researching it. I spent about an hour
thinking
"five more minutes of revising and then I going to bed and will read it again
in
the morning" and five minutes thinking "Forget it; I am not reading this one
more time" And of course the latter thought was implemented. I am sorry for
involving your name so carelessly (and obviously incorrectly). As they say
"competence will excuse almost anything", but even if it had been accurate I
would still have been wrong to be so careless. Sorry
Birgitte SB
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