User talk:Digweed
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Creative Commons License
[edit]Copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Creative Commons License
I am the author of the site mentioned in this discussion. Although, I'm reluctant to allow full commercial use under the CC licence, I have no objection to text from my site being used on Wikipedia or any spin-off project because I support the principles upon which Wikipedia is based. Note that CC conditions can be waived with permission from the copyright holder. Hope that helps. digweed (talk) 13:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
- We have to make sure that you are who you claim to be, but that would solve the problem in this case. Wandalstouring (talk) 14:17, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
- Of course. There's a contact page on the British Civil Wars site.. digweed (talk) 15:17, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
So far I have identified these articles:
As can be seen above, in late 2006 User:Blue Buccaneer seems to have been through the biography list as the British Civil War site creating many articles. However some of these entries like that for Edward Popham uses the British Civil War site as a reference but AFAICT there is no entry on the site now (see search)
There is an article called Richard Lindon and on the talk page of that article is a template called {{ConfirmationOTRS}} (see also Wikipedia:OTRS). If User:Digweed is indeed David Plant then it would seem that he should be able to give permission for the use of some of his text via that mechanism if he so desired. --PBS (talk) 23:04, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
It would seem to me that if digweed is an Wikipedia alias name for David Plant of the British Civil Wars website, that you could initiate the necessary permission via Wikipedia:OTRS. Please could you let me know if you are going to do this or if I should start the task of stripping out all the copied text from the above articles.
On thought on giving permission: unless you are OK with Wikipedia editors hovering up the entire content of your web site, you are going to need to make clear is that the permission is only retrospective of the date you give permission and only covers the articles above. --PBS (talk) 12:01, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
- I received your email on 02/12/2008, thanks. At the time I was not sure what to do and decided to leave it. Recently I have been working on removing the copied text from the articles listed above. See User:PBS/BCWs copyright issues but for one article relicencing my prove to be a better alternative. Since the original copy of James Temple was taken from the British Civil War site, it has been extensively re-written by user:Rjm at sleepers and not surprisingly (s)he would like to keep the article. The copyright permission you would have to give is explained on Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. Would you be happy to give permission for this specific derived work to comply with the Wikipedia licence? --PBS (talk) 18:13, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Wars of the Three Kingdoms task force
[edit]FYI there is now a task force for the conflicts, Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Wars of the Three Kingdoms task force I'd be delighted if you would participate. -- PBS (talk) 06:29, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference
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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 20:17, 13 March 2011 (UTC)