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User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt (view source)
Revision as of 18:00, January 4, 2015
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:: Thanks again for the advice. Sometimes at first I have been thinking of Categories more as as "Back" and "Forward" navigation bar (but that is what browser "Back" button icon is for), but this isn't a good way of doing it once I thought about it. Although technical, I am not an experienced MediaWiki editor. Recently, when tired I began cutting and pasting from my MS Word document list of categories and doing what you mentioned about looping some categories I have been creating. I will endeavor to be aware of it and keep a more logical container type tree trunk-branch-leaf hierarchy. Again, I appreciate the clarification. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 10:20, 4 January 2015 (EST)
:: Thanks again for the advice. Sometimes at first I have been thinking of Categories more as as "Back" and "Forward" navigation bar (but that is what browser "Back" button icon is for), but this isn't a good way of doing it once I thought about it. Although technical, I am not an experienced MediaWiki editor. Recently, when tired I began cutting and pasting from my MS Word document list of categories and doing what you mentioned about looping some categories I have been creating. I will endeavor to be aware of it and keep a more logical container type tree trunk-branch-leaf hierarchy. Again, I appreciate the clarification. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 10:20, 4 January 2015 (EST)
==Copyright==
Please try to listen to [[User:SamHB]], who has a valid concern about your approach. When someone writes an article or book, he automatically receives a copyright in that work. The author can give the copyright away (like the CC license on Wikipedia), but unless you actually see such a permission to copy, you must assume that the author has kept his copyright or sold it to his publisher.
The copyright is very broad to protect the commercial value of the author's work. It protects both the direct copying of the actual words and images and also the creation of "derivative works." If I write, "Time flies like an arrow," my copyright covers derivative works like "Like an arrow, time flies." If a CP editor copy and pastes a paragraph from another website or book onto a CP page, saves that page and then slightly rearranges a few of the sentences, the result is a "derivative work" that creates potential copyright problems for CP. Because all versions of each article are kept forever, it is clear to prove that the CP article was derived from the other website or book.
What we ask our editors to do is: find two or more sources and then sit down and write original text that is not a derivative work of any one source. Please add footnotes to the facts in your article that point back to these sources without copying them. The order of the ideas and the sentences should be your creation and should be more than a derivation of someone else's writing.
I know this is a slow and hard process. That is why it is taking so long to build the encyclopedia here. Many thanks. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 13:00, 4 January 2015 (EST)