I am sorry? Who encouraged merging? There is no consensus behind that. Merge was proposed as a compromise to the mass deletion/inclusion war but it was never commonly accepted. If it was I want to see the evidence of that consensus. - White Cat
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a message dated 1/7/2009 11:35:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Just like "deleting" a merge requires admin tools. You are welcome to file > a > bugzilla on this.>> > > > ------------------------ > It's not at all like it. > In this case, anyone can do a merge. You simply cut and paste the text > and > then redirect the page. This is open to any editor. However, some > commentators are stating that doing this violates the license, and the > *sole* way to > do it without doing so, would be to use tools that some editors do not > have. > > So we set up a situation, where we allow and encourage merging, and then > when editors actually do it, we threaten them with a copyright infringement > lawsuit. > > That is not acceptable. I'm not going to file a "bug report", because > this > is an conflicting interpretation of what we can, should, may, or might do. > I > don't personally think we need the history in order to fulfill the license > requirements. But I'll strenously object to anyone trying to use that to > clobber mergers when we are allowing and encouraging them to do exactly > that. > > Will Johnson > > > > **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making > headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
