Talk:Fake book

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Thanks for kicking me out of the history :-) Mikkalai 22:04, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I apologize if I'm being dense, but I don't understand that comment. DavidWBrooks 00:42, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Mikkalai started an article at [[Fake Book]] about the same time as you started yours at [[fake book]]. 'Twere easy to get the two confused, especially since User:Stw copied a bunch of stuff from one to the other.
I've now merged the two articles. —Paul A 07:58, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The merged edit history is relatively easy to interpret, as these things go, because all the edits to [[Fake Book]] happened in an unbroken run between two edits to [[fake book]].

(cur) (last) . .   04:59, 22 Jan 2004 . . Stw
(cur) (last) . .   04:54, 22 Jan 2004 . . Stw
(cur) (last) . .   03:14, 22 Jan 2004 . . Salsa Shark
(cur) (last) . . M 03:03, 22 Jan 2004 . . Fabiform
(cur) (last) . . M 02:38, 22 Jan 2004 . . Mikkalai
(cur) (last) . .   02:32, 22 Jan 2004 . . Mikkalai
(cur) (last) . .   01:12, 22 Jan 2004 . . DavidWBrooks

The bold edits were made to [[Fake Book]], beginning with its creation by User:Mikkalai and finishing with User:Stw turning it into a redirect page for [[fake book]].

The italic edits were made to [[fake book]] - first User:DavidWBrooks created it, then User:Stw pasted in the text from [[Fake Book]] (but left the edit histories separate, so the edit history didn't show who'd written that text).

After that comes

(cur) (last) . . 15:47, 22 Jan 2004 . . Paul A

which is a dummy edit made by User:Paul A to mark the point where he merged the edit histories. From there on, all edits are straightforward edits of fake book.

—Paul A 08:24, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

  • You know, Wikipedia life would be a lot easier if there were no capital letters ... DavidWBrooks 14:26, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Copyrights

What exactly are the issues on copyright? I'd love to start a fake book over on wikibooks... →Vik Reykja 06:54, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It's more straightforward than you might think: folks wrote out the melody and chord changes to songs that were composed by other people, then bound them in a book and sold it without paying (or even seeking permission from) the composers. Lovely idea to kave a wiki fakebook, but the same copyright problems would apply, apart from a small number of very early jazz tunes that may now be public domain. The trouble involved in proving they were PD, though, would almost certainly suck all of the fun out of such a project ;-) Ornette

[edit] commercial ventures

I've taken out references to, and a link to, some guy selling music lessons. Please don't use wikipedia to support commercial ventures. I also removed some duplicate text, and a just-added link that went to a 404 dead page. - DavidWBrooks 18:01, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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