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wasn't added by someone who isn't multilicensing, and that it's also licensed into the particular flavour of CC code that you're using, etc., I am happy for people to use my contributions here under the GFDL, with the usual attributions (i.e. indicating that the page has come from Knowledge, and including any boilerplate text).
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The rationale for this is that my time is precious, just like everyone else's. I would rather spend it on adding information to an article, contributing to a discussion, or doing things In Real Life than resolving edit conflicts. So, if having tried to resolve the conflict twice I am presented with
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I believe that multilicensing creates too much work for those intending to use bits of WP at a later date. Rather than making contrived arrangements for people to be able to integrate parts of WP into CC-licensed works, but only when you've cleared every word that you're including to make sure it
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Then there are the hardcore mergists, whose ultimate goal is to merge and condense all of Knowledge into a single article, all less than 32kB of course. Unfortunately, there is little room for common sense in this 32k, what with there being more important topics to take into consideration.
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Generally, I find it useful to make a contribution that, while in itself small, leads to greater things. This includes things like creating substub articles in the knowledge that someone else knows better. Though, in doing this, I am mindful of not taking that first step when it's
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However, should Wikimedia need to change its license, I will not stand in its way. The single-licence nature of my contributions will make changing to another licence easier, as it willo only require the consideration of one set of contributions under one licence.
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Deletionists often post VfDs for pages which only marginally fail to meet inclusion criteria, often a small enough gap that someone can bring it up to scratch. This is as opposed to those VfDs for articles which blatantly
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regularly. It can be very annoying to have inserted large amounts of text into an article in various points, only to have to reinsert them later. Having done this repeatedly, I have started working to a personal
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For all the pedants that keep weaseling around things by claiming that their activity is supported or not technically outlawed by Knowledge policies, I offer this quote: "
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Inclusionists, when challenging a request for a page to be deleted, posit loose and flimsy reasoning, often with no ground in logic. Inclusionists will often vote
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Wikipedians who give the WMF permission to license their text into any copyleft license that shares the spirit of the GNU FDL
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Following from the previous point, if something can only pass a given test by relying on a technicality, it has
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of cleanliness. After the person has been cleaned up, shaved, and neatly dressed, you may remove this message.
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Over the time I've been here, as anyone else who has been here any great length of time, I have experienced
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to relicense my text and media contributions, including any images, audio clips, or video clips, under any
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When adding large amounts of information, if something goes wrong you have less work to do to fix things.
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What is written down on Knowledge is not the actual policy. It is a codification of the theory of it.
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a third edit conflict, I will ignore it and insert my version. Someone else (maybe someone who
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might not actually merit deletion. Similarly, something not meeting individual creiteria in
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In the case of edit conflicts, you need to fiddle with the "stored" version that much less.
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Wikipedians contributing under any copyleft license that shares the spirit of the GNU FDL
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on location articles, and am slowly on the way with articles covering the area of
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license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the
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This template appears to be broken when used with the customised Babel, so see
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three consecutive edit conflicts on the same page without a successful edit
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Increased edit-count is a side-effect. Make of that what you will (beware
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An important principle to remember when making any large edits is to
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I am neither inclusionist nor deletionist, preferring instead to be
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just had to wade through three edit conflicts) can resolve it.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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the stored version with that which I had tried to apply.
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As a commonsensist, I stand for the following values:
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