User:DiltsGD/Sandbox 3

= Help:Citing licenses and permission =

Wiki permission status
All words, images, recordings, videos, and other material added to the Wiki MUST BE either used fairly (fair use), be in the public domain, be appropriately licensed for use, and/or expressly have been permitted for use in the Research Wiki by the copyright holder.

Contributor's responsibilities
It is the responsibility of each contributor who adds Wiki material to understand and to help document the permission to use that material as a contribution to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.

Any words, ideas, images, or other material originating from from someone other than the contributor should be identified as such. Moreover, it is the contributor's responsibility to demonstrate such material is either in "fair use," in the public domain, appropriately licensed, or used in the Wiki by permission. Assume ALL material from anyone else has copyright protection and is therefore inappropriate for use in the Research Wiki until you show otherwise.

The Research Wiki assumes a contributor's own words are donated to the Wiki for genealogical educational purposes with the agreement those words therefore are placed in the public domain (unless described as "fair use" material from a non-Wiki source). A contributor's own images, recordings, or video files must be declared in the public domain, or appropriately licensed for the Wiki at the time of contribution.

Source footnote citations (references). Source footnotes are appropriate and always encouraged. It is the contributor's responsibility to cite the source of ideas which are not worldwide "common knowledge," and which are not the contributor's own. Quotes should always be sourced. Even the source of ideas which you paraphrase or reword should be sourced—about one source note per paragraph is normally fitting.

Permission citations. Non-text contributions such as images, recordings, or video files MUST have a documentation page describing the original source, and citing the license(s) and/or other permission allowing their use in the Research Wiki.

Citation format
importance of citing source well enough it can be found even if link breaks

Other permission restrictions
attribution see NY Public Library and RR bridge or Tongan Weslyan any other conditions

Please help me either document or find the documentation for our Wiki’s policy regarding various Creative Commons licenses, GNU, and public domain licenses for uploading images to the Wiki. On the Wiki FamilySearch Wiki:Copyrights page the second sentence starts “Before placing any copyrighted material on this site be sure to review the Creative Commons license and. . .” with a link to a “Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States” (cc-by-nc-3.0-us). The implication is material in the Wiki must meet the criteria for this particular Creative Commons license. However, in almost all other places, including the bottom of each Wiki page, the Creative Commons license cited for the FamilySearch Research Wiki is the “Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States” (cc-by-sa-3.0-us). Is this discrepancy intended or accidental? Which is the correct FamilySearch Research Wiki license in which situations? What is our Wiki policy about these types of Creative Commons licenses?: •	NC NonCommercial •	ND NoDerivatives •	SA ShareAlike

•	Generic vs. geographic portals •	CC0 Universal public domain dedication For example: •	Attribution alone (by) •	Attribution + NoDerivatives (by-nd) •	Attribution + ShareAlike (by-sa) •	Attribution + Noncommercial (by-nc) •	Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives (by-nc-nd) •	Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike (by-nc-sa)

Images with which of the above Creative Commons licenses can or cannot be used on our Wiki? Are there any other Creative Commons licenses that are NOT acceptable in our Wiki—if so, which?

What is our Wiki policy regarding the variety of GNU licenses? What is our Wiki policy regarding the variety of public domain licenses?

May I add the answers to the FamilySearch Wiki:Copyrights and the adding images pages for the Wiki?