Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2005 September 8
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Editing to belatedly provide information regarding the creation of the page and the supposed 'special license terms' and such. The above note suggests adding such information to the article's talk page (inappropriate as it's deleted) or in an undeletion request (inappropriate as I don't wish to request that it is undeleted). Therefore I am adding this information here (WP:IAR). The issue of original research is a valid one, as is the better coverage of Ancient astronauts.
My recollection is that the writer ('a girl called Ben' from h2g2) released their work under the GFDL, and I imported it into Wikipedia. My contribution was merely to cut out the non-wikipedia-appropriate stuff. So it is simply not the case that the writer is "demanding credit" for "vanity" reasons. Rather, I added the credit notice because that is what the GFDL requires, and I didn't want to ask the author for special exemptions. It certainly wasn't a copyright violation as it stood.
It's sad that GFDL material is incompatible with Wikipedia without special exemptions, but the GFDL sucks, so I guess it's to be expected. Had I been around during the deletion process, I might have bothered to contact Ben and ask for those exemptions, but it's no huge loss. Martin (talk) 15:59, 9 January 2009 (UTC)