Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Ray Saintonge
Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Incidentally, britannica.com removed the seal today from their article on the > FBI. > > http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/203351/Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation > > You can see the edit in the "Article History". However, at the time of > writing, the seal is still

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Indeed. I should have written "The Office of the Director of National Intelligence", because that's who www.dni.gov belongs to, according to its banner. A. --- On Wed, 4/8/10, Dan Rosenthal wrote: > To be fair, the DNI is a relative a > friend of mine and I am pretty sure he > does not persona

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Oliver Keyes
Another cease-and-desist, perchance? Hopefully the Streisand Effect will take hold and every news organisation reporting this will reproduce the seal in loving, high-definition detail. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Incidentally, britannica.com removed the seal today fro

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Incidentally, britannica.com removed the seal today from their article on the FBI. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/203351/Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation You can see the edit in the "Article History". However, at the time of writing, the seal is still included in the "Media" section o

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Dan Rosenthal
athan wrote: > > > From: Nathan > > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia > > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" < > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Date: Tuesday, 3 August, 2010, 23:45 > > > > > > The story has now

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
-- On Tue, 3/8/10, Nathan wrote: > From: Nathan > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > Date: Tuesday, 3 August, 2010, 23:45 > > > > The story has now been picked up by other news > agencies from the

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Nathan
> > The story has now been picked up by other news agencies from the geeky > http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100803/00013910465.shtml to the > mainstream http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10851394 all of which > pointing out this delightfully snarky letter. I for one discovered this > story n

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 3 August 2010 13:54, David Gerard wrote: > On 3 August 2010 14:33, David Gerard wrote: > > On 3 August 2010 14:31, Nathan wrote: > > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html?hpw > >> The FBI sent a cease & desist letter to the WMF demanding the removal > >> of the FBI seal from the

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread David Gerard
On 3 August 2010 14:33, David Gerard wrote: > On 3 August 2010 14:31, Nathan wrote: >> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html?hpw >> The FBI sent a cease & desist letter to the WMF demanding the removal >> of the FBI seal from the English Wikipedia; Mike replied with, in the >> words of

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread David Gerard
On 3 August 2010 14:31, Nathan wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html?hpw > The FBI sent a cease & desist letter to the WMF demanding the removal > of the FBI seal from the English Wikipedia; Mike replied with, in the > words of the New York Times, "a primer on the law." Well do

[Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Nathan
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html?hpw The FBI sent a cease & desist letter to the WMF demanding the removal of the FBI seal from the English Wikipedia; Mike replied with, in the words of the New York Times, "a primer on the law." Well done, Mike. ~Nathan ___