Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

2009-01-09 Thread Ray Saintonge
Joe Szilagyi wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Sam Korn wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Wilhelm Schnotz wrote: To ray, you have a point, if it is a 3rd parties copyright, it is their fight. Generally though I don't like the thought of that ability being used to undelete

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

2009-01-09 Thread Ray Saintonge
Wilhelm Schnotz wrote: Bah forgive me, I was trying to be sarcastic. Did not work so well :S People here can sometimes be victims of their own literalism. One thing about lynch mob members is that they believe they are ridding the world of scum. Such true believers do not understand

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

2009-01-09 Thread Wilhelm Schnotz
There may very well be a difference, but any way you look at it that admin did violate copyright. One thing I did notice is this happened over a year ago, as such I'm not totally convinced now that revoking the bit will do much good. Regardless I doubt there is much more to be said here, as there

Re: [WikiEN-l] From Private Eye

2009-01-09 Thread Charles Matthews
Carcharoth wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Angela Anuszewski angela.anuszew...@gmail.com wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but excatly what is Private Eye? I looked it up in a handy online encyclopedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye Hmm, the article seems a

[WikiEN-l] Most inept Wikipedia PR ever

2009-01-09 Thread David Gerard
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/01/bullshit_blue_monday.html - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l