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the lead of NFCC should instead say "The fair use provisions of United States law allow the use of brief verbatim textual excerpts from copyrighted or non-free media, properly attributed or cited to its original source or author, within the English Knowledge (XXG). Non-free media, which encompasses copyrighted images, audio and video clips, and any other media files that lack a free content license, must also comply with the 10 following criteria: There is no automatic entitlement to use non-free content on Knowledge (XXG), editors should consider whether the use of non-free context is appropriate for its planned context before adding it to Knowledge (XXG)." Our rules on fair use of text have never been as strict as with images, so we should stay along that idea, but still be careful.
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sentence quotations of non-free prose in userspace, but would disallow longer excerpts (except when present in drafts of articles, consistent with existing standards for non-free text in mainspace.) Since poetry, song lyrics, or similar material present exceptional copyright concerns, and could be problematic if so much as a single line is quoted, it's probably best to avoid any copyrightable lengths of such non-free content in userspace altogether.
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pitched in to support a change. Mindful to avoid "a repeat of the Userbox wars, in which a big hunt is carried out for every single one line quote in user space in order to remove it ... I'd like to see the NFCC clarified to be explicit that short (one or two line) quotes of prose are OK. ... I think
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Your writer has trawled the deletion debates opened and closed in the last week and presents these debates for your edification. Either they generated larger than average response, centred on policy in an illuminating way, or otherwise just jumped out as of interest. Feel free to suggest interesting
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WP:NFCC only applies to media files. I think I may have suggested saying "non-free media" within NFCC itself just to make it increasingly obvious that WP:NFCC only applies to files, and that text is judged under the "normal" fair use clauses, and not the stricter NFCC standards. To end this, I think
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pointed out there were viable uses for these templates, with a lenghty post that was summarised to point out that "future events articles have different verifiability concerns to most others, and at least in certain topic areas appear to have an unusually high risk of becoming inaccurate despite
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argued passionately against this change, saying "fair use has been interpreted to include anything around 300 words, but it is purposeful left vague. If there is no lawsuit about this, and to my knowledge there has never been a lawsuit. Therefore, future self-promoted copyright police, the vast
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does not clearly and concisely describe the circumstances (if any) under which non-free text is permissible in userspace. A change that I would support, and that I believe is reflective of current practice in all cases except the matter recently at MFD, would expressly permit short, one or two
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and related templates initially generated a consensus to deprecate these templates. However, despite best efforts the discussion did not reach all users of the templates. The attempted removal of these templates from articles caused further discussion, and the nature of that debate caused
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requested clarification of the policy on non-free content and its application in user space, especially with regards to non-free text such as excerpts from books. Erik9 felt such a move was necessary given the debate created by the deletion discussions regarding
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to request an RFC on the issue: "During this discussion, please be willing to try and find some middle ground. Perhaps changing the guidelines on the use of the templates, or changing what they actually say, rather than an all-or-nothing keep-or-delete."
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we need this clarification, the MfD showed us that the way the NFCC is written now leaves ambiguity that caused issues. The only question remaining to me is exactly what the best wording change should be."
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majority with zero legal education, should not dictate to other editors what should or should not be on their user page. This will cause a hell of a lot of contention for vague slippery slope arguments."
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to add "an additional, optional, parameter such as 'wikinews_obituary='. This would be to link to an appropriate obituary article over on Wikinews." The addition was made boldly by
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felt the templates should be deprecated, because they believed "the use of these templates stems from an understandable compulsion to tag articles based on categories." However,
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The following is a brief overview of new discussions taking place on the English Knowledge (XXG). For older, yet possibly active, discussions please see
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asks whether we should add a technological feature which would allow articles on cities to display the current temperature in that city, and
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joined the discussion, offering the opinion that "We should definitely not link to an obituary in a lead template". However,
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discussion on adding a different color to internal links for links to stubs, polling has developed through discussion.
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felt that policies and guidance did not bar the addition of the code, and summarised relevant guidance to show why.
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suggests having one article per day displayed on the main page near the Featured Article as that given day's "
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There is discussion regarding further limiting the use of YYYY-MM-DD date formats across Knowledge (XXG) at
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A number of Latvian football (soccer) players have been nominated for deletion on grounds of notability at
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A round up of polls spotted by your writer in the last seven days or so, bearing in mind of course that
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supported the proposal, noting that "I've been reading the arguments and it seems like a good idea."
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on the issue of whether to advertise for article editors. Although initiated as a discussion by
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offered a historical context on the forming of the current guidance to argue against the change:
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offered a potential solution to try to guarantee wide participation: "Why not just do a TfD?"
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A number of articles related to herbs (no, culinary) have been nominated at
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Further outbreaks of polling can be seen elsewhere at the village pump;
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Discussion continues on the optimum length of a lead section at
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version of a file is more in keeping with policy than a
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