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LGBT WikiProject newsletter

This month's project newsletter (hand delivered as SatyrTN and Dev920 are away). Best wishes, WjBscribe 03:23, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Strong Female Role Model

I had just finished a short fantasy story (Catch of the Day by Jeff Grubb) and wanted to tag it as "Strong Female Role Model" over at www.isfdb.org. However, that tag would be far too long, most tags are one or two words. What I'm hoping you can help with would be a good place where I could ask what's a good one or two word tag for "strong female role model" that the average person would recognize?" Jessica Amanda Salmonson use "Amazons" for a couple of her anthologies though in my mind that's for female warriors. In the story I read the women are the captain and master of a ship (the remaining crew and passengers were male as far as I could tell) but they were not "amazons" but rather just competent people. I looked at http://wiki.feministsf.net but did not spot what seemed like an active talk page. Thank you. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 08:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

We don't have good talk pages at the FSFwiki, but feel free to start one ... I set up a page at the FSFwiki. However, the number of contributors is still relatively limited. ... You might try "strong female characters" or "female X" where "X" is the occupation? --lquilter 02:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you - I've replied on the FSFwiki. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 21:54, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Copyright question

If you don't want to answer this question for legal reasons, I would understand. Over here a few of us have been discussing the merits of having full lists of works on wikipedia for authors, artists, musicians, etc. The question has arisen, if one copies the list directly from a source (like I did at List of works by Joseph Priestley or at List of works by Mary Martha Sherwood), is that infringing on someone's intellectual property? In the first instance, I copied part of a bibliography in the back of a biography, so the main work was the biography, and in the second I copied the list from the second half of a book, the first half of the work was a biography and analysis of the author and the second half of the book was the bibliography. When is copying a bibliography plagiarism or theft of intellectual property? It never really occurred to me that it was. (Annotated bibliographies are an entirely different matter, of course.) Awadewit Talk 06:19, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

The case on these issues is Feist (1991), and it said that copying a telephone directory is not copyright infringement. The argument that it was copyright infringement was called the "sweat of the brow" argument and the US Supreme Court said clearly, in Feist, that sweat of the brow is not sufficient for a copyright; originality is required. Here's the generic analysis for this kind of issue: Copyright requires an original work of authorship, originality being the operative word. The items in a list of this nature are facts, not original expression, and so not copyrightable. What is copyrightable in such a list is a) selection criteria and b) organization scheme. Selection or organization can be thinly copyrightable, available for lots of fair use, if there is any originality involved. Selecting "all" of some obvious category (like an author's works) has basically zero originality in terms of a selection, and so there would be no copyright for a complete bibliography. Sorting by the obvious sort-keys, such as alphabetical by title, chronological by date, or the basic genre of works (articles; books; essays; etc.) is also not original, so no copyright. To imagine a copyrightable list of someone's works is hard for me, frankly. Maybe, if someone developed a unique theory of how the works hung together, and then sorted them according to that theory ...? In any question, copying a standard-issue bibliography is fine (and something librarians and reference work publishers and scholars of all sorts do all the time). --lquilter 14:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Do you mind if I copy this comment over to the debate? Awadewit Talk 14:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Nope. I edited it for clarity, so you can copy the current version. Please re-post a link here, though, so I can follow it when I get a chance. --lquilter 22:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Here is where I posted it. It is in the middle of a very long debate. Sadly, the debate is still going on. Thank you for your help. Awadewit Talk 12:44, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

MUGEN Mutant Mice Database

could please support the non deletion of MUGEN Mutant Mice Database?Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Afantitis (talk • contribs) 11:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive!

WikiProject Biography is holding a three month long assessment drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2007 – September 1, 2007.

Awards to be won range from delicacies such as the WikiCookie to the great Golden Wiki Award.
There are over 110,000 articles to assess so please visit the drive's page and help out!

This drive was conceived of and organized by Psychless with the help of Ozgod. Regards, Psychless Type words!.

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC). SatyrBot 16:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Helen Caldicott

Hi Lquilter,

I am looking for help with the Helen Caldicott article. About a year ago I used Wiki to look up Helen Caldicott and was "outraged" (LOL) with her article. Although I am an acomplished woman, I have never been comfortable when it comes to anything written or spoken, perhaps because my mother, father, and two sisters are/were such accomplished writers. I initially tried to get friends to "fix" the article but when that failed I decided to become a Wiki editor myself.

You can read my rationale for deleting the Criticism section in the discussion section. I also decided to "watch over" the Caldicott article and recently note that the criticism section is back. As I say in the discussion I am not against criticism, however I do feel that a pro-nuclear blog does not meet Wiki's standards for accurate information.

Almost a week ago I asked for help from the list of "helpers" that Wiki provides. Although he/she responded with "I'll take a look at it" the same day, I have not yet seen any input from that person.

Could you please take a look at the Caldicott article and give some input?

Thanks, gandydancer

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LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).