User talk:Selfawareness

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Hello, Selfawareness and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Cind.amuse (Cindy) 18:19, 19 September 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Is there a way to get one contributor's permission to authorize an article for publication that has over 500 anonymous and robot authors?

{{helpme}} I am writing a book and I plan to use some information from Wikipedia. However, my publisher requires that I obtain authorization from each contributor to Wikipedia. Some of them are no longer valid usernames, robots, and anonymous editors who can only be identified by their IP addresses. Given the large number of contributors and the uncertain number of "valid" contributors, who exactly would I turn to for authorization? Is it possible to obtain authorization for the entire article from just one valid contributor?Selfawareness (talk) 21:51, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Well, I've never heard of that you have to include the username and IP editor's names in the book, I would think putting Wikipedia would be fine. You wouldn't be the first person to cite Wikipedia as source as seen here. SwisterTwister talk 20:09, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

None of the above. Your publisher cannot force you to do the impossible (which what they are asking you to do, is), nor can they rewrite our licenses to contain a requirement they do not have. To comply with our free copyright licenses, you must, when reusing any Wikipedia text, provide attribution under our licenses. How to do so can be found at Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content. Note that this is different from citing to Wikipedia as a source, as opposed to using its content. For that, navigate to the page you wish to cite, and then click on "Cite this page" from the dropdown toolbox on the left hand side of the screen,. See also Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:09, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

P.S. I had not seen SwisterTwister's post above when I posted my response: no offense to him, but that is not correct. Putting Wikipedia alone would not meet our attribution requirements at all.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:13, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Book project

Hello. Whenever someone makes an entry in Wikipedia, just above the "save" button there is this legal statement: "By clicking the "Save Page" button, you agree to the Terms of Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license."

Although I have made numerous edits in Wikipedia, Drug Lord is not one of the articles I had work with. I am sure I have no authority to legally represent Wikipedia and, in addition, I wish to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from drug cartels. I strongly suggest you contact a Wikipedia administrator for precise information.

I wish you the best in your research and your book project. BatteryIncluded (talk) 19:31, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Using Wikipedia Under Creative Commons/GNU License

I am writing a book and I plan to use some information from Wikipedia. I know that in order to re-use content from Wikipedia, it must be licensed under the CC-by-SA Share-Alike License or under the GNU Free Documentation License. However, I also know that if I license my material under this work, I would essentially be giving my book away for free. If I am only using excerpts from Wikipedia in part of my book, can I just license those chapters where the information is given or do I have to license the entire book regardless of whether the chapter has that information in it or not? Also, if I put the licensing information on the inside front cover of my book, would I be giving my entire book away for free? I don’t mind giving away the chapters where I use their material, but I can't give away the entire book. Selfawareness (talk) 21:33, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

I can't help, but I am intrigued by the prospect of a Wikipedian writing a book. What's it about? onyx³²¹ 11

55, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I put a semicolon at the start of the post. onyx³²¹ 11:56, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Actually, there are outfits that make up books of WP pages for sale. Legally. So far as I am aware, you don't have to license anything you have written when also quoting from WP. You do need to make the correct attribution of the quotes. Have a look at WP:COPYRIGHT. Text anyone writes here is licensed for free use elsewhere, and that's what you are planning to do, isn't it? I'll leave the helpme up in case someone wants to shoot me down in flames... Peridon (talk) 21:41, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

That's just taking advantage of kind people like you and me. And cheating the general public out of loads of money. Shameful. onyx³²¹ 11:58, 20 September 2011 (UTC)