I do not have a personal war over fiction. I hardly edit the topic area. I should have no more than 10 edits in the past year plus. It is very distasteful to improve articles on fiction nowadays with the amount of crap you need to put up with. And this thread isn't only about fiction related articles and has a much broader range. As for your interest in this thread (intended point)... I think Geni is right in saying that our current practice of merging is in violation of GFDL. We cannot ignore any part of the GFDL license as it is legally binding. A solution to the problem can be achieved culturally (by altering our merge practices) and technically (by altering the source code - perhaps the creation of a [[Special:Merge]]). This isn't the first time GFDL has caused us pain and I do not think it will be the last. Please do not panic.
- White Cat On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:12 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a message dated 1/8/2009 12:06:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > 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.>> > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > I am not speaking of *your* personal war over fiction. > I am speaking of the broader issue of the merging of *anything* > in-project. > > We, as a community, encourage the merging of stubs. That has been the > case > since before I even started editing five years back. I myself have merged > some articles in the past, although only a handful. > > It would be sadistic if, the idea that merging, which in and of itself, is > a > seemingly innocuous edit, would carry as-well the *hidden hammer* of > copyright infringement. Wouldn't it? > > Here's how you merge... oh you've done it? Well good, now I can clobber > the > hell out of you. > That's not the spirit of the project. Therefore there is a contradiction > somewhere in the assumptions. > > 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
