Wikipedia talk:Reusing Wikipedia content

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[edit] Permission policy for linking to Wikipedia is needed

I think there should be a section on whether people can add links to Wikipedia pages on their webpages. I couldn't find any information on this anywhere in Wikipedia using simple Google searching. The answer is not obvious (I don't know, and I am a longtime editor) and deserves to be spelled out in multiple places in Wikipedia, IMO. David 16:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Crediting anonymous authors under GFDL

What is the procedure where the principal authors are not registered users? Should one credit "anonymous" and maybe add their IP address too? Or should one simply ignore the anonymous users and only credit the registered ones? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.170.239.110 (talk) 11:07, August 21, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reuse violation

There's a "book" on google books which is a dump of various wikipedia articles. It does not contain the text of the GPL. It can be found [1] here, entitled Terrorism & It's Effects By various. I almost used it as a circular reference.... -- 67.98.206.2 19:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll try reposting this at the help desk. -- 67.98.206.2 21:25, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non credit

There is a link to a Times article in the J. P. R. Williams article used as a source but it is broken. Some of the material which was based on that article was removed in two edits on June 9 of this year. While looking new for sources to cover the deleted material I came across this article: "The last line of defence February 19, 2007. The section on JPR cearly a copies some of the J. P. R. Williams article on 15 February 2007 and does not credit Wikipedia or mention the GFDL. Is there a place were these things are logged? Do we have a policy on this? --Philip Baird Shearer 12:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Where can I ask for help?

I noticed that this IMDb article is a copy past from Wikipedia. Can anyone find out if this is a copyright violation. --Steinninn 03:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Raids Magazine

User Russoswiss has scanned this page from the French magazine "Raids" January's edition article on the Finnish Defence Forces. As it seems they did credit the graphic to Matthieu Pleissinger... when in fact I created the graphic and published it under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 at commons - commons:Image:Finnish Army.png. Obviously Raids magazine violated this license as they did not "appropriately attribute it" neither to wikipedia nor me. What can - respectively should - we do now? I'm happy anytime anyone uses one of the 104 Order of Battle graphics I created, but only if they at least attribute it to wikipedia and do not claim authorship themselves! Thanks, --noclador (talk) 18:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I just wish to add that I've scanned the Page 37, of the #260 (January 2008). I have not found any credits to Wikipedia nor to the original artist in the article. I wish to add that the article was written by Pierre Razoux, Matthieu Pleissinger apparently only supplied the graphic. Russoswiss (talk) 21:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I think this page (for the CC portion) or this page (for the GFDL portion) might help answer some of your questions. As I understand it, both answers should apply to print violations as well. I'll be interested to know how this turns out...--DO11.10 (talk) 22:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I just wrote them a detailed letter lining out what the CC license demands, how they violated the license, what repercussions this might have, that they need to attribute the graphic correctly in the next edition of Raids magazine and that nonetheless they are welcome to also use the other 103 graphics I created, as long as they clearly and correctly attribute them. Any answer I will get, I will post here. --noclador (talk) 22:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cut and paste copyright violation

The following webpage is copied from Wikipedia's public domain page.

http://www.exampleproblems.com/wiki/index.php/Public_domain

No mention of the GFDL. I think this is very funny, myself. Sam nead (talk) 16:52, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Plagiarism of a wiki article

I've spent half an hour looking for somewhere where I can report copying of a wiki article by an outside site. I found a dozen ways to report Wiki material copying outside content but no way to report license abuse outside of wiki. Anyway -


www.squidoo.com/the-history-of-drum-and-bass

is blatant plagiarism of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_drum_and_bass

--Dustek (talk) 18:30, 21 May 2008 (UTC)