User talk:KiwiNova
I reverted the content and citation you added to Taino because the source you cited was a self-published article uploaded to ResearchGate, which has been deprecated as unreliable. Some articles that have been uploaded to ResearchGate may be cited in a WP article if they have previously been published in a journal that has been accepted as a reliable source, in which case the citation is to the journal article, with a courtesy link to the ResearchGate copy of the article. - Donald Albury 16:34, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Donald Albury oh, sorry honestly, I just thought that research gate was like academia.edu and only hosted credible papers 😔 KiwiNova (talk) 17:02, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Nope. Anybody can upload anything to ResearchGate. It is still possible to find something useful there, but you have to verify that the article/book chapter/etc. was originally published in a reliable source. Another thing to watch for is copyright status. Some sites display content that is in violation of copyright, and we cannot link to such sites. Donald Albury 17:20, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Donald Albury Whoopsie. Btw, on the subject of copyright, a bunch of works on the first nations of the Caribbean and Florida have been added to the Florida and Caribbean open book series. Can figures from those works be uploaded to Wikimedia? KiwiNova (talk) 17:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Figures, maps, charts, etc that are in copyrighted works are assumed to be themselves under copyright, unless they are explicitly marked as being in the public domain or under a suitable free license. Reproductions of older works may be an exception. I have uploaded to Commons a copy of part of a facsimile of a map drawn by Bernard Romans in 1775, which was published by the university press in a book in 1975, but that was because it was an unaltered facsimile of a 200-year old map. If you have any doubt about whether a figure, etc. is under copyright, ask for help. You can create your own figures, etc., but they have to be your own work, and not a tracing or such of the original. I have done that a few times (see here), but I am not an artist, and am not familiar with graphics programs. Donald Albury 18:24, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Donald Albury Whoopsie. Btw, on the subject of copyright, a bunch of works on the first nations of the Caribbean and Florida have been added to the Florida and Caribbean open book series. Can figures from those works be uploaded to Wikimedia? KiwiNova (talk) 17:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Nope. Anybody can upload anything to ResearchGate. It is still possible to find something useful there, but you have to verify that the article/book chapter/etc. was originally published in a reliable source. Another thing to watch for is copyright status. Some sites display content that is in violation of copyright, and we cannot link to such sites. Donald Albury 17:20, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
