Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Dewey Decimal System
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[edit] Copyvio?
Is the list in the article (which might be better on a seperate list page) a possible violation of a database copyright (as the article itself says copyright is claimed on the system)? I think it could be fair use as it is difficult to talk about DDC in an encyclopedia without including a copy of the system. Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 12:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
- OCLC has a PDF on its web site that gives the DDC numbers for the first 3 digits of DDC. In their contract, they say that libraries can display the first 3 digits to the public, but no more. So I think this is the allowed portion and therefore there isn't a problem. LaMona 01:54, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
(It appears that we mistakenly deleted this page and its subpages for copyvio reasons). The Transhumanist 22:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Copyvio wasn't the only reason. It was also not particularly useful (as opposed to, say, our cat system) and not updated. >Radiant< 09:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
