Hi Declan Your criteria for immediate deletion seem to be the answer. Your concern and efforts for cleaning-up are very highly appreciated. Warm regards Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur <[email protected]> Reader in Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 College Phone: +91 11 2649 4544
Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 18:50 -0700, Declan wrote: > Hi Nellie, > > I like the changes; Good work! > > And I appreciate the other comments also. > Regarding care with weeding etc, I have suggested criteria for > immediate deletion: > > 1. Single-author pages requested by the author. > 2. Multi-author pages where all authors agree, or where the content > is largely blank. > > These criteria provide options for author-directed deletion. > > I'm not personally interested in policing copyright violations beyond > my own student group; I suspect such violations are generally > misunderstandings on the part of new users and I think the violations > are fairly uncommon. > > I think a gentler approach will generally bring folks around without > scaring them away. Personally I had used book covers on WE initially > based on my interpretation of local (US) fair use law. Others gently > pointed out that this is an international resource and applying a US > standard is ill advised (let's not reopen that debate; I pulled the > book covers). My point is that self policing leaves the power and > ownership in the hands of the users. My intent is to provide a simple > user-driven tool rather than something more top-down. > > Cheers, > Declan > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
