Talk:Puccinia psidii

This text is non-copywrited and pulled from: http://www.hear.org/species/puccinia_psidii/

No information provided on the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) website (www.hear.org) website is copyrighted by the maintainer of the website. Therefore, anything on that site that is not explicitly attributed to some other source can be treated as "public domain." (It's maintained using federal monies, so copyright does not apply.)

If there's any way the wiki-bot can EXCLUDE www.hear.org pages from its auto-delete messages. By default, anything from www.hear.org SHOULD BE OKAY TO COPY to Wikipedia pages VERBATIM.

Thanks, philiptdotcom 08:30, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please note this is not the way it works. Works created by the United States Federal government and its agencies is put in the public domain (and therefore do not have a copyright at all), but work funded by the government (including work done on behalf of the government by a paid contractor) still gets automatic copyright protection for its author(s) unless explicitly placed in the public domain. In particular, the presence of any copyright notice implies the text is not in the public domain, by definition.

In this specific case, while The PIER subsection of the website confirms that PIER is a government agency, and has specific public domain attribution, even they take some pains to remind the reader that many parts of the site are not. I could find no such confirmation for the HEAR site itself (and, just to be annoying, the "about HEAR" link is broken).

Furthermore, web sites are only placed on the CSBot exclusion lift if all the contents of the site are compatible with the GFDL, so that copies can be vetted by human beings when there is some question about the copyright status. — Coren ^(talk) 14:11, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Although this reply is a bit late (a year!), thanks, Coren, for the info & clarification. FYI, *I* wrote that Puccinia-psidii-related text that was on the HEAR site, and so "I hereby certify that it's okay to use on Wikipedia." Aloha, philiptdotcom (talk) 08:21, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification, please

The article says, in part, ...and at least one important native forest tree. Is this a tree native to Brazil, or Hawaii? Clarification, please. --DThomsen8 (talk) 11:41, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It could be better phrased, but I think that it's referring to the Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha. Lavateraguy (talk) 13:56, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Australia

There was an outbreak of this plant disease on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia in 2010. http://bigpondnews.com/articles/National-Rural/2010/07/12/Diseased_plants_to_go_at_last_483750.html Swampy 203.48.101.131 (talk) 23:24, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]