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etalab-2.0 license
Hi. I hope you don't mind a copyright-related question. I came across Joseph de Bouloc and noted that the Biography section is pretty much a direct translation of the source it is referenced to . There's no copyright notice on that page, but going to the base URL, it redirects to the Archives nationales d'outre-mer site, which has this at the bottom Sauf mention contraire, tous les contenus de ce site sont sous licence etalab-2.0
- that licence is I think this one, which by my reading allows use that is compatible with enwiki's licensing requirements. However, I couldn't find any previous discussion of that licence in project space. I suppose my two questions are:
- Is it OK to leave the translation as is?
- If it is OK, what kind of public domain template should I stick at the bottom. Is it the {{Source-attribution}} one, or is there a more specific one? I found this Commons one but I don't think I can use that on enwiki.
Thanks as ever for your help. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 11:55, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
- @SunloungerFrog the licence appears to be compatible - certainly there's a lot of stuff on Commons using it. I don't see a suitable attribution template, here on en:wp but it's quite a quick job to create one, if you're minded to. Nthep (talk) 14:43, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #702
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St Mary's Ticehurst
Hi Nthep,
Thanks for helping with our page at St Mary's Ticehurst! I am the vicar of the church and I have been trying to edit our wikipedia page. Yesterday, my edit was flagged for a copyright violation (unsure if it was actually a violation as while indeed I took significant portions from our website, I think that may be permissible since I believe I hold the copyright? Regardless, I edited it this morning and put it into my own words and, more importantly, added significant portions from my own hand updating the history for the wikipedia page using (and citing) several sources. It appears that shortly after I posted all the new material this morning, you deleted it? May I ask why? I do not think there is any chance of any copyright violation with what I posted this morning, is there? And, if so, can you please advise how I can recover that material for my own use? Regrettably, I wrote it directly onto wikipedia and if it's not going to be on here, I would like to use it elsewhere, e.g. on our church website, without having to rewrite and recite it all.
Can you kindly advise as to both?
Thanks again for your interest in St Mary's Church and your help with our wikipedia page!
Blessings,
Fr Jason Radcliff Jasonradcliff (talk) 15:01, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Jasonradcliff The4lines and I have to go on what we see which is a substantial amount of copying from the church website which is prominently noted as copyrighted material. That doesn't give us a lot of choice but to remove the material and hide it in the history.
- That leaves a number of choices:
- You can rewrite it in such a way that it is not infringing the copyright of the church website,
- You can alter the church website to licence some or all of the content in such a way that it can be re-used by others (this is called copylefting, see WP:DONATETEXT on how to do this),
- You can donate the text to Wikipedia, see WP:DONATE.
- To assist with 1) or for you to reuse elsewhere I'll email you the text removed. Nthep (talk) 15:56, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Brilliant, thank you for sending the redacted text - and for outlining the several options, I will see which one seems best and go from there. Thanks much! Jasonradcliff (talk) 16:00, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Hi again and thanks for your help. I believe I have correctly done the second option correctly on the home page of the church website - https://ticehurstandflimwell.church/.
- Can you confirm? And, if so, is there a way to revert my edits from this morning back? Jasonradcliff (talk) 16:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Jasonradcliff
- 1) Yes and no. The statement you've added is fine but clashes with the footer that says "© Copyright 2025 Ticehurst & Flimwell Churches. All rights reserved." and is going to cause confusion. Also, are you sure you want to make the entire website available under the Creative Commons licence which will allow anyone, anywhere the right to reuse the content for any purpose? You might want to apply it to just specific pages like https://ticehurstandflimwell.church/history/st-marys/ and https://ticehurstandflimwell.church/history/st-augustines/
- 2) Yes, I can when we've resolved 1). Nthep (talk) 16:23, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks again for the thorough and speedy reply!
- Good thinking, yes I think you're right. I have modified to just state it on those two pages - and I have modified the verbiage to override the copyright. Will that work? Jasonradcliff (talk) 16:35, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Brilliant, thank you for sending the redacted text - and for outlining the several options, I will see which one seems best and go from there. Thanks much! Jasonradcliff (talk) 16:00, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
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Precision Engineering Complex
Reverted redirect. Can we block now, please? Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 15:42, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Alexandermcnabb removing a redirect isn't grounds for a block. I'm not offering an opinion on whether or not Precision Engineering Complex is a notable topic on it's own, that's a matter for discussion on the talk page or at AFD. Nthep (talk) 15:53, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
- I would have thought persistent copyvio would indeed be grounds... Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 16:15, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
- The text I have added were individually written with no copyright violation. QINGSHAN XUE (talk) 16:16, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Alexandermcnabb The last version added by Qingshan Xue didn't appear to be a copyvio. Nthep (talk) 16:25, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
- I would have thought persistent copyvio would indeed be grounds... Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 16:15, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #705
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