Talk:British Columbia general election, 1952
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[edit] Electoral history is public domain
I was the one who mined Elections BC for Wikipedia, inputting electoral data by hand and also inputting information from footnotes on Elections BC's online publication, which is not copyrighted (no copyright symbol appears, and electoral history/data by fiat is "public" in nature). I realize the text here is a pastiche of what's on the BC elections page, but other than rehashing the words/syntax/lexicon it can't really be left out because of the unusual nature of this election (the elimination ballot). If you like, check with Elections BC as to whether ALL their pages are under Crown copyright, but like Hansard, I doubt that they are (unlike many government publications, including sadly all the nice online topos from maps.gov.bc.ca). Still, the footnotes here are "part of the tables" and I could not have left out their contents; I could have taken more time to fudge around with the language but I was more concerned with the (complex) data formatting at the time of creation. This is an important election in British Columbia history and cannot be deleted.Skookum1 08:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
BC Elections Sources
Take a look at where BC Elections received their information.
Please sign your posts; I had a look at that link and none of the government reports listed are copyrighted. Electoral information SFAIK is in the public domain. The only material on these pages (including '53) that's debatable is the transposition of the footnote explaining the elimination ballot. Unless you're going to tell me that the election results themselves are copyrighted, which is just nonsense; also, many of the footnote informations in other electoral years are quotes from the Cariboo Sentinel and other local newspapers, or from the Province or Sun, so Crown does not have copyright on repeated/quoted stuff anyway; the only near-violation here I see is the explanation of the elimination ballot, but THAT came from a government brochure (see the 1953 talk page) published to educate the public. AGAIN something that's meant to be public domain and re-publishable without permission; only some things the government publishes have crown copryight, remmber that; the rest (particularly election results and election rules) are implicitly public in nature.Skookum1 20:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
- See my comments at Talk:British Columbia general election, 1953. dh ▪ 2¢ ▪ 01:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Temp subpage created as per instructions
A while ago, before other things caught me up and I couldn't come back, I made a temp page with the non-infringement contents on it, as instructed by the template; it may not be necessary if this one isn't deleted, as what could be done here is either a rewrite of the disputed section, or it could be cited as a quotation from Elections BC records; note that the Elections BC footnotes themselves are often pastiches/infringements of coverage in local papers; all in the public domain by now I suppose....but originally copyrighted....anyway, a rewrite or a cited quote would solve the problem, here as well as at 1953, wouldn't it?Skookum1 19:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
