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Jimmy, I sincerely and personally regret that you have suffered personal abuse here. And I regret that VCML advocates are trying to abuse the Wikipedia to prop up their legitimacy. Both unfortunate situations are a discredit to the good name of Wikipedia, which ought to be both a community of goodwill and a reference worthy of respect. I will do all I can to encourage the discontinuation of both practices. I invite you to join me. [[User:Hawstom|Tom]] - [[User_talk:Hawstom|Talk]] 17:55, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC) |
Jimmy, I sincerely and personally regret that you have suffered personal abuse here. And I regret that VCML advocates are trying to abuse the Wikipedia to prop up their legitimacy. Both unfortunate situations are a discredit to the good name of Wikipedia, which ought to be both a community of goodwill and a reference worthy of respect. I will do all I can to encourage the discontinuation of both practices. I invite you to join me. [[User:Hawstom|Tom]] - [[User_talk:Hawstom|Talk]] 17:55, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC) |
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== Article Licensing == |
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Hi, I've [[User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project|started a drive]] to get users to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the [[Creative Commons]] Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 [[Creative Commons License|License]]s or into the [[public domain]] if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the [[GFDL]], but it allows '''other projects''', such as [[WikiTravel]], to use our articles. Since you are among the [[Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits|top 2000]] Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: |
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*[[User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ|Multi-Licensing FAQ]] - Lots of questions answered |
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*[[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|Multi-Licensing Guide]] |
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*[[User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project|Free the Rambot Articles Project]] |
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "'''<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>'''" template into their user page, but there are other options at [[Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace#Licensing Templates|Template messages/User namespace]]. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page: |
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:'''Option 1''' |
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:<nowiki>I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:</nowiki> |
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:<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki> |
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'''OR''' |
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:'''Option 2''' |
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:<nowiki>I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:</nowiki> |
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:<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki> |
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "'''<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>'''" with "'''<nowiki>{{MultiLicensePD}}</nowiki>'''". If you only prefer using the [[GFDL]], I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my '''[[User talk:Ram-Man|talk page]]'''. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- [[User:Ram-Man|Ram-Man]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]| [[User talk:Ram-Man|talk)]] |
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Revision as of 18:22, 11 December 2004
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Jimmy, I sincerely and personally regret that you have suffered personal abuse here. And I regret that VCML advocates are trying to abuse the Wikipedia to prop up their legitimacy. Both unfortunate situations are a discredit to the good name of Wikipedia, which ought to be both a community of goodwill and a reference worthy of respect. I will do all I can to encourage the discontinuation of both practices. I invite you to join me. Tom - Talk 17:55, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)