User talk:Wildlifewarrior

please do not blank pages.
please don't blank Talk pages for articles or even your own. Thanks.

I moved your reply to my Talk page (you had mistakenly created a new article, User-talk:Bikeable.

I see two copyright problems that admins like User:Lucky_6.9 are trying to avoid. The first is that we don't have a way to tell who wrote the article and who you are; this is a pretty obvious problem, since it's not at all clear that "Wildlifewarrior" is "Professor Julian Bauer".

The second, and related, problem is that Wikipedia content is licensed under the GFDL. This means that you are giving up a lot of your exclusive rights by posting such an article to wikipedia. It means, for example, that I (or anyone) can edit your article on Ditabag, if we think it's wrong or should be changed. You may edit it back, but once the article is posted, you are just another editor, and no longer the owner of the article. This is whole idea behind Wikipedia.

So, if you want your article to be treated that way, and are happy to have it licensed under GFDL, then there is probably a way to get past the copyright problem. If you think the idea of others editing your article sounds terrible, then I would suggest that Wikipedia is not the place for it.

I see you have reinstated the article Dibatag; I don't think that's a great idea without having sorted out the copyright info, but I'll ask someone else to take a look. bikeable (talk) 20:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

No harm
Hi bikeable,

you wrote:

> please do not blank pages. > > please don't blank Talk pages for articles or even your own. Thanks.

Well, I guess I have a right to edit my own talk page - no? Or is the purpose of Wikipedia to just amass communication exchances in the backgroud?

> I moved your reply to my Talk page (you had mistakenly created a new article, User-talk:Bikeable.

Sorry, I am new with the whole system, but that move is fine with me.

> I see two copyright problems that admins like User:Lucky_6.9 are trying to avoid. The first is that we don't have a way to tell who wrote the article and who you are; this is a pretty obvious problem, since it's not at all clear that "Wildlifewarrior" is "Professor Julian Bauer".

Well, Lucky_6.9 could have written an e-mail to me and could have asked for clarification. That is the minimum respect and politeness I expect. Instead my text was deleted faster than the wind and I could not tell first if that was due to a computer glitch or what actually happened. And when I retried I was blocked without warning (the warning was placed only later) - which is highly unfair. After realizing the problem I wrote in addition an e-mail to Luck_6.9 and placed complaints with the helpdesk as well as on talk-pages, but didn't receive any direct response. Except if bikeable and Luck_6.9 would be the same person. In the meantime, I guess, it is pretty obvious, who the wildlifewarrior is.

In addition I believe you can appreciate that it is extremely expensive to upload texts to wikipedia from over here in Africa and it is prohibitive expensive to go into lengthy discussions over these talkpages.

> The second, and related, problem is that Wikipedia content is licensed under the GFDL. This means that you are giving up a lot of your exclusive rights by posting such an article to wikipedia. It means, for example, that I (or anyone) can edit your article on Ditabag, if we think it's wrong or should be changed. You may edit it back, but once the article is posted, you are just another editor, and no longer the owner of the article. This is whole idea behind Wikipedia.

Look, I do not mind if other authors add proper and valuable knowledge and if the article is used under the fair use agreement, citing the original source, which is my work on the Dibatag and which is not published here in full, thereby cannot be destroyed, vandalized or altered in an unagreeable way by others. If this abstract and compilation encourages other colleges to add, I will be most happy, because I believe that it only could help the survival of the species.

> So, if you want your article to be treated that way, and are happy to have it licensed under GFDL, then there is probably a way to get past the copyright problem. If you think the idea of others editing your article sounds terrible, then I would suggest that Wikipedia is not the place for it. > I believe there is no copyright problem for Wikipedia to deal with and if other authors want to add valuable information, well then this just is the idea of Wikipedia, isn't it? Nobody has all the knowledge for him or herself, but we all should share, is at least my opinion.

> I see you have reinstated the article Dibatag; I don't think that's a great idea without having sorted out the copyright info,

I do not think that either Wikipedia (Jimbo) nor I have a problem concerning any copyright issue. If others (admin.s or others have, please let me know and I can deal with it.

> but I'll ask someone else to take a look. bikeable (talk) 20:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

JB