QUOTE(Silver seren @ Mon 3rd January 2011, 2:08am)
Ah, I see. But our edits on Wikipedia aren't considered our own property, are they? Thus, there is no attribution that is necessary for a previous version of that Wikipedia article that someone had made on Wikipedia.
This attitude is exactly why I've tried (but largely failed) to clearly express over the years to people who don't realize it, how free licenses tend to erode the very foundation of scholarship and intellectual integrity. It's amazing to me that we've finally encountered someone who has so entirely abandoned the "attribution" portion of the various free licenses, that (I must assume) that he thinks "Wikipedia" is creating all of the content on Wikipedia.
Silver, will you please contact Sue Gardner at the Wikimedia Foundation, and ask her if you could make an appointment for a tutorial on licensing and copyright, with whomever they are now calling their replacement for the mysteriously-departed Mike Godwin? You are in dire need of some remedial education. Some of us are probably thinking your comment is so outlandish that it must be a spoof.