Difference between revisions of "GargWiki:Copyrights"

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==Original work policy==
 
==Original work policy==
Since this is designed as a free and open fictional encyclopedia, we are opposed to seeing material taken from published works and other people's Web sites and posted here. Any entry posted on this site should be original material. Using other sites for research is fine, but the actual entry should only contain original material.
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Since GargWiki is designed as a free and open fictional encyclopedia, we are opposed to seeing copyrighted material posted on GargWiki. This includes material taken from published works and other Web sites. By sumbitting information to GargWiki, a user is implicitly promising that said information is original, or that they are the copyright holder. Using other sites for research is fine, as long as the actual entry is original work.
  
Wikipedia deserves a mention here. Although they freely permit copying of their material, it's still preferable that all entries on this wiki be original work.  
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Wikipedia deserves a mention here. Since GargWiki does not work under the GNU Documentation License (unlike some other wiki projects), it is not permissible to copy material directly from Wikipedia to this website. Brief quotes from Wikipedia may be allowed, if properly cited, but extensive copying will be removed. It is still preferable that all entries on this wiki be original work.
  
 
==Using material from GargWiki==
 
==Using material from GargWiki==
 
As long as you credit this wiki and provide a link to this site (http://gargoyles.dracandros.com) somewhere on your site, you can copy material from here freely.
 
As long as you credit this wiki and provide a link to this site (http://gargoyles.dracandros.com) somewhere on your site, you can copy material from here freely.

Revision as of 08:21, 30 June 2007

See the General disclaimer for copyright information about the material on the wiki itself.

Original work policy

Since GargWiki is designed as a free and open fictional encyclopedia, we are opposed to seeing copyrighted material posted on GargWiki. This includes material taken from published works and other Web sites. By sumbitting information to GargWiki, a user is implicitly promising that said information is original, or that they are the copyright holder. Using other sites for research is fine, as long as the actual entry is original work.

Wikipedia deserves a mention here. Since GargWiki does not work under the GNU Documentation License (unlike some other wiki projects), it is not permissible to copy material directly from Wikipedia to this website. Brief quotes from Wikipedia may be allowed, if properly cited, but extensive copying will be removed. It is still preferable that all entries on this wiki be original work.

Using material from GargWiki

As long as you credit this wiki and provide a link to this site (http://gargoyles.dracandros.com) somewhere on your site, you can copy material from here freely.