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Comment Re:Time will tell (Score 5, Informative) 71

This is a copyright issue. It's stupid, no doubt about that, but the outdated copyright laws are to blame in this case, not Wikipedia.

Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter: "If the original artwork remains in copyright a license from the artist is nearly always needed. Mere physical ownership of an original artwork such as a sculpture does not confer ownership of the copyright: that remains with the artist.
In some countries a 3D artwork that is permanently located in a public place can be photographed and the image uploaded without the artist's permission: See Commons:Freedom of panorama."

Commons:Freedom of panorama#United States: "Artworks and sculptures: not OK."

Comment Re:Game of Articles (Score 1) 161

... some guy owned the article ...

*25 threads about spelling on the talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yogurt/Archive_index)

*One move discussion with about 25 votes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yogurt/Archive_2#Requested_move)

*Another with about 50 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yogurt/Archive_6#Move_page_to_yogurt)

Obviously this one guy who owned the article -- probably an admin -- was a real lamer (but the tons of people who wanted to move the article were not lamers).

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