[FM Discuss] Deleting an unwanted book from My Manuals?

[Martin Kean]

Or similarly,

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/

So, is there a compromise between a permanent deletion and permanent keep?
Maybe a book or chapter could be tagged, or archived in a hypothetical 'unwanted-or-something bin'.
To the casual visitor it ought to be clear which books are meant to be on display, on the shelf, and which books are in the bin.

To take up Daniel's argument, I would rather argue for 'archive and replace' than deletion where a chapter or article suffers from destructive editing.
A bigger question then arises, what happens when opposing parties want to fight over contentious work? Multiple 'correct' versions on the shelf????

Martin

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On 28/09/11 6:34 PM, Micz Flor wrote:
> people have used their right to destroy their things.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms
>
> there is no simple answer to this question.
>
> my believe is that free means i am free to create to change to duplicate
> and to destroy.
>
> On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 17:28 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>>> lets say i wrote "How To Bypass Internet Censorship". The manual exists
>>> only on FM (for arguments sake) with no clones. I then decide for what
>>> ever reason (I'm drunk, i decide i dont any longer support internet
>>> freedom, whatever) to delete it...
>>>
>>> everyone happy?
>> I would be, the author doesn't have the ultimate right over their own
>> work otherwise. Think of those authors who would rather hide their early
>> attempts from the public.
>>
>> More controversially, I would also support the original author of a work
>> deleting a book that had been collaboratively edited. A really bad edit
>> can destroy the purpose of the original work, and yet the author's name
>> is still attached to that work. I've had it done to me a couple of times
>> with magazine articles that I would rather were never printed.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Daniel
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