Changes: PvXwiki:Copyrighted Content

Revision as of 17:19, 21 January 2009

This policy is only a proposal. If consensus is reached on the talk page, this proposal will become an official policy.

This is a policy set up to outline what content is allowed on PvX, to keep in-line with our License

Incompatible sources/Material

There are a variety of wikis, and web pages out there, unfortunately, not all our compatible with our wiki, and as such content cannot just be copied over here.

The official Guild Wars Wiki (GWW). This is because their GFDL license isn't compatible with our CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 License.
Any Creative commons License that uses the "No Derivative Works" (ND) condition.

Compatible Sources/Material

Original content, where the user contributing the work holds the copyright.
Content copied from compatible sources or Public Domain. Attribution should be given in the edit summary.
Factual information; only expression is copyrighted, not the actual content. Factual information from incompatible sources can be used, as long as they're re-expressed.
Content from incompatible sources is OK, as long as:
- The content is Dual Licensed (Under the GFDL alone is incompatible, but if it's under the Creative Commons license, or in the public domain, it's alright).
- Arena Net or Guild Wars related content.
Guild Wars content, where copyright attribution still belongs to Arena Net, e.g. In game, The Guild Wars website, manuals etc.

Dealing with Copyright violations

If you suspect an article of violating copyright (e.g. the content hasn't been properly attributed), go to the articles history, and fully revert it back to the last good version. If there are no good versions in the article (or if the article is an image), blank it and tag it with {{copyvio|reasons for suspected copyright}}, the reason can also be a link (in most cases this is better) to the site where you believe the original copyright is held.

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 {{proposed policy}}
-This is a policy set up to outline what content is allowed on PvX, to keep inline with our [[PvXwiki:Copyrights|License]]
+This is a policy set up to outline what content is allowed on PvX, to keep in-line with our [[PvXwiki:Copyrights|License]]
 ==Incompatible sources/Material==
-There are a variety of wikis, and web pages out there, unfortunately, not all our compatiable with our wiki, and as such content '''cannot''' just be copied over here.
+There are a variety of wikis, and web pages out there, unfortunately, not all our compatible with our wiki, and as such content '''cannot''' just be copied over here.
 *The official [[GWW:Main Page|Guild Wars Wiki]] (GWW). This is because their GFDL license isn't compatible with our CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 License.
 *Any Creative commons License that uses the "No Derivative Works" (ND) condition.
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 *Content copied from compatible sources or Public Domain. Attribution should be given in the edit summary.
 *Factual information; only expression is copyrighted, not the actual content. Factual information from incompatible sources can be used, as long as they're re-expressed.
-*Content from incompatible sources is ok, as long as:
+*Content from incompatible sources is OK, as long as:
 **The content is Dual Licensed (Under the GFDL alone is incompatible, but if it's under the Creative Commons license, or in the public domain, it's alright).
 **Arena Net or Guild Wars related content.