Sometimes, when something needs to be notified, this is where the letters to the press come in. In cooperation with Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines/In the press, I have decided to write some letters to the press that uses Wikipedia content without proper recognition. Take a peek!
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Letter to Inquirer Publications, Inc. edit
12 April 2024
Inquirer Publications, Inc.
C/O Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc.
P.O. Box 2353, Makati Central Post Office
1263 Makati City
Metro Manila, Philippines
To whom it may concern,
As contributors to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, we are delighted that your company uses Wikipedia content to highlight and illustrate information pertinent to the news content your newspaper, the Cebu Daily Times, is printing and disseminating to the Philippine populace, especially in Cebu. As per the free, open nature of Wikipedia, this is the type of application that this encyclopedia, as well as its contributors, wish to promote.
However, as per the policies of Wikipedia, please be advised that when Wikipedia works are published in a printed medium or when shown on a website, you are asked to place a link back to where the content used was taken, as well as a notice citing that the content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL. A verbatim of this license is as follows:
| “ | You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License. | ” |
Please be advised as well that when adding a GFDL notice, you are also asked to link back to the full version of the GFDL, which is available through this website: http://gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.
We hope that as your company continues to use Wikipedia content, the source(s) that you have used be acknowledged in your work(s). We hope that this be achieved through this request.
Sincerely,
Wikipedia contributors
Letter to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation edit
12 April 2024
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
Sgt. E.A. Esguerra Ave. corner Mother Ignacia St.
1103 Quezon City
Metro Manila, Philippines
To whom it may concern,
As contributors to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, we are delighted that your company uses Wikipedia content to highlight and illustrate information pertinent to the news content your news programs, such as Bandila, Magandang Umaga, Pilipinas and TV Patrol, are broadcasting to the Philippine populace and to the world at large. As per the free, open nature of Wikipedia, this is the type of application that this encyclopedia, as well as its contributors, wish to promote.
However, as per the policies of Wikipedia, please be advised that when Wikipedia works are published in a printed medium or when shown on a website, you are asked to place a link back to where the content used was taken, as well as a notice citing that the content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL. A verbatim of this license is as follows:
| “ | You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License. | ” |
Please be advised as well that when adding a GFDL notice, you are also asked to link back to the full version of the GFDL, which is available through this website: http://gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.
We hope that as your company continues to use Wikipedia content, the source(s) that you have used be acknowledged in your work(s). We hope that this be achieved through this request.
Sincerely,
Wikipedia contributors