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

[John Curwood]

With all this discussion I think a distinction needs to be made between 
works that an author has written for themselves and works that they have 
consciously written to contribute to free culture.

In some of the examples provided the writer/creator has delete something 
that they own. I think that once something has been given over to free 
culture, you no longer have ownership over it.

And therefore the decision is no longer yours as to whether the 
work/creation can be destroyed.

P.S. I also like Martin's idea of having some sort of holding bin for 
unwanted works so that they aren't cluttering the space in your My 
Manuals/Books page. I know about half the books I have in the My Books 
page in Booki and a few manuals in FM were either created specifically 
for testing booki or for writing an article on using Booki. It would be 
nice to remove them from my books page so that I see only books that I 
wish to actively contribute to.

Cheers,

John

On 29/09/2011 10:11 a.m., Martin Kean wrote:
> 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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