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Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Jul 10, 2005 08:25 AM UTC:
I am truely sorry, Andreas.  I thought it was you who had added the link
because I thought you were the most active editor of the page, and I had
reason to believe that you were active on brainking.

I am admitedly ignorant of the details of wikipedia.  Also, someone posted
a picture of ChessV playing a Gothic Chess setup, and this resulted in me
receiving a very threating email from the Gothic Chess inventor with the
implied threat of lawsuit because of this.  Said inventor, after being
confronted, blamed the incident on you.  I would have replaced the picture
myself, but I quite literally could not figure out how.  I am clearly
lacking in understanding, and I don't mind admitting that I am not a
technical genius, and would further mention that neither wikipedia's
policies, nor their proceedures, were well defined enough to allow even a
reasonably intelligent, native speaker of Engligh the information
necessary to understand how their site works, or to understand what was
required to defend one's work from being misrepresented.  This is but a
further reason that I am critical of their site.  I also freely admit that
I really don't care to study the ins-and-outs of wikipedia beyond a casual
inspection.  If I can't figure out what is going on in a few minutes, they
I don't care to waste hours studying it.  

The concept of the whole site is, in my opinion, really, really stupid. 
Their idea is to let anyone, incluciding the lowest common denominator of
human existance, to say anything they want about anyting.  This is a
really, really rediculous idea.  And, as you suggest, if problems arise, I
should contact them and ask for mediation.  This notion is unacceptable to
me.  I do not have time.  I should not have to spend one second defending
my work, WHICH IS TOTALLY FREE AND FOR WHICH I ASK NOTHING IN RETURN, AND
I DO NOT EVEN ACCEPT DONATIONS WHEN THE ARE OFFERED.  How much work must I
spend to safely, and without threat of legal action, release a completely
free product?  I do not need to know about wikipedia, and, as stated, I
will ignore it as a bad dream.

I am truely sorry, however, that I implicated you, Andreas, in this. 
Please understand taht this is only a result of my own ignorance.  I took
the word of a certain individual about your involvement in all of this,
and I should have shown better judgement than to accuse you upon his say-so, and I am truely sorry.  Please accept my appologies, and my thanks for removing that link.  I hope there are no hard feelings.