Like I said... blocking TTN for an hour or two or even indefinitely wouldn't
solve the problem.
The real issue at hand is that we are at a forking road and we need to
decide which way we want to go:
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789354
The main problem is a lack of consensus. A solid consensus for or against
the mass removal of fiction related articles would suffice.
- White Cat
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Thedjatclubrock EnWiki <
[email protected]> wrote:
> If I'm correct, you need to attribute the authors in the edit summary,
> an HTML comment, or by any other means within the article. I do not
> believe that a link to another external history page is sufficient for
> GFDL attribution.
>
> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 20:27 +0100, Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 2009/1/5 <[email protected]>:
> > >> <<In a message dated 1/5/2009 3:48:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> > >> [email protected] writes:
> > >>
> > >> Mostly because from time to time they have actually moved
> > >> content from one article from another (the rest of the time you can
> > >> nail them for persistently lying in edit summaries). Given the format
> > >> of the mediawiki software and the GFDL it is pretty much impossible
> to
> > >> do such merges without violating copyright>>
> > >>
> > >> Could you explain a bit more why you think that merges violate
> copyright?
> > >> Thanks
> > >> Will Johnson
> > >
> > > When you merge the wording of the GFDL requires that you preserve the
> > > history (a really really bad choice of words). Can be done close
> > > enough through a history merge but most users don't/can't do that.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > geni
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> > Won't it satisfy the licence just to point to the other articles
> > history in the edit summary?
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