Purpose of this page

is simply to store anything that might be useful re understanding the workings of Wikipedia.

Warning symbols

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Final warning

GFDL

Your contributions to Wikipedia remain your personal intellectual property.
Your contributions to Wikipedia have not been transferred to Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.
By licensing your contributions under the GFDL, you have neither given up your intellectual property rights, nor transferred them to another party. All you have done is specify a set of conditions under which others are free to use, copy and modify your contributions; one such condition is that your authorship must always be attributed. Anyone who copies your contributions without acknowledging your authorship, or otherwise without complying with the GFDL, has stolen from you in both a legal and moral sense.

Among other things this means that removing content from user space (e.g., sandbox) is illegal. So is cutting and pasting significant contributions into another article (e.g., the Ashes series syndrome).

Photograph Copyright

I have added a link to this picture to the page on Joy Liebert. The photo was clearly taken in 1934/35. The link says that the picture may be reproduced for research and study (which isn't enough for WP) unless permission is applied for and given. However, this link says that in Oz, copyright in piccis taken before 1 May 1969 only lasts for 50 years from when they are taken. This suggests the picci is already out of copyright in Oz. Does that mean I can add it to Wikicommons direct and add the picture to the article? jguk 18:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I think so. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Australia (and its talk page). Stephen Turner (Talk) 19:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

The Wikipedia template {{PD-Australia}}:

Public domain

This image was created in Australia and is now classified as being in the public domain because its term of copyright has now expired. According to the Information Sheet G023v17 (Duration of copyright) (Aug 2014), generally copyright has expired as follows: In 2015, 70-year copyrights under the AUSFTA start expiring.^{[needs update]}

Type of material		Copyright has expired in Australia if ...	As of URAA date material was PD in US if...
A1	Works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: (not photos)	published prior to 1 January 1955	Published prior to 1 January 1946
B1	Photographs (except B2 below):	taken prior to 1 January 1955	taken prior to 1 January 1946
B2	Photos published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown:	taken prior to 1 January 1955	Published prior to 1 January 1946
C	Artistic works (except A & B):	the creator died before 1 January 1955	the creator died before 1 January 1946
D	Published editions¹ (except A & B):	first published prior to 1980	first published prior to 1971
E1	Commonwealth or State government held² photographs or engravings:	first published more than 50 years ago, or if made before 1 May 1969, first made more than 50 years ago	Made before 1 January 1946 The government has declared that expiration of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide; use {{PD-AustraliaGov}}
E2	Commonwealth or State government artistic works (such as drawings)	first made more than 50 years ago	Made before 1 January 1946 The government has declared that expiration of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide; use {{PD-AustraliaGov}}

¹means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint.
²held means where a government is the copyright holder as well as would have held copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.

Australia

This file is NOT necessarily in the public domain in the United States because a non-simple image can only be in the public domain in the U.S.:

if it entered the public domain in Australia prior to 1996, or
when, after that date, its copyright term expires in accordance with U.S. law.

Information about the creation date and creator should be provided.

If the image is not in the public domain in the United States, in addition to the license tag for its status in Australia an appropriate fair use license and rationale should be provided, or the image should be proposed for deletion.

If the media is in the public domain in both Australia and the United States, it may be transferred to the Wikimedia Commons.

Note: If this image is in the public domain in the U.S., modify the end of the copyright tag from }} to |commons}}.
This will replace the preceding U.S. copyright notification with a nomination for this image to be moved to the Wikimedia Commons.

Because Australia has long-standing copyright relations with the United States, some Australian works might have a subsisting U.S. copyright. In such a case, the works in question are not in the public domain in the U.S. even if they meet the above conditions.

explains it in a bit more detail. Basically, copyright has expired on any photo taken in Australia before 1955. The NLA's notice is out of date. — Moondyne 02:03, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Re the above, that is fascinating. Does the same rule apply to photos taken in GB before 1955? If so, I will start downloading some. --BlackJack | ^{talk page} 09:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

No, unfortunately not, only photos taken in Australia. Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:56, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Pity. What is the rule re British photos? Is there a cutoff date or are they all subject to copyright for evermore? --BlackJack | ^{talk page} 10:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I have bookmarked this PDF — http://www.museumscopyright.org.uk/private.pdf — which (if accurate) suggests that it's 70 years after the death of the photographer, if the photographer is known, or else 70 years after first publication. So photos published before 1936 would be OK if the photographer is not known. Stephen Turner (Talk) 17:02, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

The real reference is the Copyright Act (as amended) and statutory instruments made under that Act (which in turn apply EU directives). I believe Stephen is right though - it's 70 years after the death of the photographer, if known - otherwise from 1 January following the date on which it was taken, if unknown (with this date changing to 70 years after the death of the photographer if you later learn who he was). jguk 18:32, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Maintenance Templates

see: Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates

A few useful ones are:

{{Template:Recentism}} – excellent for challenging those who think the world began in the last 10 minutes or so
{{POV-check|Good Article — NOT|date=October 2008}} – challenges neutrality
{{cleanup-reason|October 2008|loads of personal comment, reads like a fanzine, unencyclopedic language, etc, etc,}} – challenges tone
{{Article issues|peacock=October 2009|weasel=October 2009|refimprove=April 2008}} – challenges things that read like magazine articles and don't source anything
{{stats}} – challenges excessive use of lies, damned lies, statistics and New Labour
{{Citation style}} – challenges improper use of citations

Redirects

To set up a redirect page, create it via a red link and then edit it with:

{{#REDIRECT title of article}}

To fix a double redirect, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Double redirects

Use {{db-move}} if needing to release a redirected page so that the redirect can be reverted (e.g., had to release Ashton Cricket Club which had been redirected to Ashton CC). Otherwise ask for admin assistance.

Articles for Deletion

monitor new articles
category:Wikipedia maintenance templates contains all the tags needed (several categories)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion describes procedure and contains pre-delete tags
category:Articles for deletion is the full list of deletion proposals

Closing AfD

It isn't always necessary for an admin to close. See WP:NAC.

Consensus

See: Wikipedia:Consensus

How to archive a page

See: Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page

Speedy Deletions

See: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion

Categories for Delete/Merge/Rename

See: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Howto

How to merge pages

See: WP:MERGE

User:BlackJack/Archive 1

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