Copying in Wikipedia articles

[Roger Travis]

What's our feeling about copying in Wikipedia articles about these historically-significant ancestors? It's a very frequent practice indeed, and I've been trying to leave one copy of each article (including usually the same articles in three languages) in the bio, but if I had my druthers we'd just have links to Wikipedia. I don't have a strong feeling, but I do like a clean bio. (I bet you could have guessed that.)

Cheers,

Roger

[Kathy Alvis Patterson]

I agree. I was not happy the first time I saw an entire article
copied. Facts do not have copyright; use facts with citation and no
more than a phrase or single sentence word for word.

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[Lindsay]

alink is cool with me just put a little blurb at least on the profile


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[Paulette Anderson]

Personnaly, I find their articles very interesting. Sounds good to me.   Elizabeth Anderson Books for adults and Children www.highandliftedup.com Kingdom'opoly The Paper Polycarp Evidence of Holy Spirit Tongues --- On Wed, 5/23/12, Roger Travis <rogert...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Tami Glatz]

The text of Wikipedia articles is copyrighted to the individual article editors, so cutting & pasting is not a good idea. Like mentioned earlier, facts are not copyrighted, so feel free to present facts in your own words, and also feel free to include links to other articles elsewhere, even to Wikipedia.

-tami

[Chris Whitten]

Actually, Wikipedia articles are "copylefted" -- contributors give up their copyrights; the protections that remain are all about keeping the content free.

But I think the bottom line is what Roger started this thread with: Why copy it when you can link to it?

Chris

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Tami Glatz <tgl...@gmail.com> wrote:

The text of Wikipedia articles is copyrighted to the individual article editors, so cutting & pasting is not a good idea. Like mentioned earlier, facts are not copyrighted, so feel free to present facts in your own words, and also feel free to include links to other articles elsewhere, even to Wikipedia.

-tami

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[Abby Glann]

Sorry, my phone sent this to just Chris the last time, so here it goes again...

I agree with a link, but also think putting some of that info in the bio in your own words is beneficial. I uave had internet sources change or go missing. It most certainly doesn't hurt. It doesn't make the bios look bad when they are well formatted.
Abby

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From: "Chris Whitten"
Date: Thu, May 24, 2012 5:33 am
Subject: [WikiEuroAristo] Copying in Wikipedia articles
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Actually, Wikipedia articles are "copylefted" -- contributors give up their
copyrights; the protections that remain are all about keeping the content
free.

But I think the bottom line is what Roger started this thread with: Why
copy it when you can link to it?

Chris

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Tami Glatz wrote:

> The text of Wikipedia articles is copyrighted to the individual article
> editors, so cutting & pasting is not a good idea. Like mentioned earlier,
> facts are not copyrighted, so feel free to present facts in your own words,
> and also feel free to include links to other articles elsewhere, even to
> Wikipedia.
> -tami
>
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Chris Whitten, WikiTreer-in-Chief
http://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Contact_us#Chris

[Martyn]

Copying WikiPedia articles is not a good thing I belief.

First of all, WikiTree is about Genealogy, WikiPedia is about encyclopedic knowledge and facts. Let the cobbler stick to his last. 

Second, anyone can change things on Wikipedia just as with open profiles on WikiTree. If someone corrects some fact on Wikipedia, this is not corrected on WikiTree. It is impossible to keep track of the changes. A link to Wikipedia would be better.

Sincerely,

Martyn

Op donderdag 24 mei 2012 16:20:35 UTC+2 schreef Abby Glann het volgende:

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