Talk:Commission E

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The huge extract from Jonathon Treasure's book seems highly inappropriate, and the page as whole seems to take a single opinionated stance on the value of Commission E rather than providing descriptive information about it. Danja 07:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

"Huge" is way too strong to describe four paragraphs of a 31K free download. Huge would be more than half. The extract also meets all the copyright fair use rules. Fair use is easy to decide when there is no effect on the market for the work. J. Treasure is not only not selling the work, but actively inviting people to make personal copies.

Commission E is controversial, and Wikipedia is supposed to describe controveries. Ok, that part is done.

The problem is, what is there good to say about a book that seems to be something that it is not, because it has been removed from its proper context in a way that its foreign government authors never intended? Perhaps that it earns money for its sponsor and publisher? How many people should Wikipedia persuade to buy it for that reason by rewriting the publishing blurb here? Somewhere in the Wikiguides, it says that one need not try to find good things to say about things that aren't good. Milo 09:26, 11 July 2007 (UTC)