Hi, 2009/3/18 Russ Nelson <[email protected]>: > On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > >> On a number of occasions in the past I have linked to articles only >> later to find the 'censors' message at the end of a link :( and I know >> we have had this discussion in the past where other OSM contributors >> have found the same problem. > > This is a serious enough issue that it should be escalated to the > OSMF. They should make an arrangement with Wikipedia saying: that an > article linked from OSM to Wikipedia is by definition noteworthy, and > that that justification cannot be used to delete an article from > Wikipedia. There might be other reasons: for example that the > locations linked between OSM and Wikipedia are in fact not related, or > the *location* is not worth including in OSM. > > If we're going to cooperate with Wikipedia, then they need to > cooperate with us by not allowing any dangling links.
There are several reasons why this isn't possible, but the biggest one is the following: Wikipedia isn't controlled by the Wikimedia Foundation but by the community. With whom do you like to make an arrangement? It's pretty hard to make an arrangement with a community consisting out of constantly changing people. Bye, Tim. -- http://wikipedistik.de _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
