Talk:Plane crashes into office block in Austin, Texas/suicide note

Fair use rationale

• Suicide notes are often held to be exempt from copyright protections

• This note is important from a historic perspective

• As a historic document, it is required in full in order to fully appreciate the context behind any quotes

• Since the FBI is forcing people into removing the letter, in violation of freedom of expression legislation, it is appropriate for Wikinews to maintain a local copy instead of relying on third-parties that may be intimidated into censorship.

Request page protect

Will an admin please protect this page? I expect it to be a target of vandalism. - Stillwaterising (talk) 21:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I sighted it; I hope vandalism will not be so heavy that FlaggedRevs can't control it. We don't have to escalate through various templates, which helps; on Wikinews admins can block at their discretion. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 21:03, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I see that Wikinews uses a more advanced form of edit revision than Wikipedia making things like page protection unneeded. Thanks. - Stillwaterising (talk) 21:19, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Source

This page was created from an archived version of the original web page saved to my hard drive 1747 UTC 2010-02-18 and from no other sources. - Stillwaterising (talk) 21:19, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Does anybody know when this version was uploaded to T35 Hosting? - Stillwaterising (talk) 21:54, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Format

It would be nice to format this as a quotation but I don't know the syntax. -Stillwaterising (talk) 23:09, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

moving this to Wikisource?

Since suicide notes are considered to be exempt from copyright, would it be a good idea to move this to Wikisource? --Ixfd64 (talk) 20:54, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I think it remains appropriate for us to maintain a local copy, but I don't have a strong opinion on that. Wikisource may want a copy too. So will WikiLeaks, when they're back up and running. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 21:03, 19 February 2010 (UTC)