Wikipedia and a little piece of Python History

[John J. Lee]

"Paddy" <paddy3118 at googlemail.com> writes:

> On Mar 21, 8:20 pm, j... at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote:
> > "Paddy" <paddy3... at googlemail.com> writes:
> > > I just had a link to Tim peters first post on doctest:
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1c57cfb7b3772763
> > > removed fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctestas it doesn't fit
> > > their guidelines for external links.
> > > I wonder, could maybe the official website be persuaded to host a copy
> > > so that it could be linked to?
> >
> > > Tim, would you object?
> >
> > It (wikipedia) is a wiki, why not edit the page and paste it in?
> >
> > John
> 
> They have rules, and periodically trawl pages and clean them. I'd like
> to stay within the rules.

Which rule would pasting in the post break?

You've explained that *linking* to a non-permanent URL would break the
rules.  You haven't explained why *pasting in* the text of the post
would break the rules (I don't say it wouldn't break them, I'm just
curious).


John