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Every person who edits WikiChristian sees this notice on the edit page:
 
Every person who edits WikiChristian sees this notice on the edit page:
  
:Please note that all contributions to WikiChristian are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License (see [[WikiChristian:Copyrights]] for details). If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't submit it here.
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: Please note that general contributions to WikiChristian} are considered to be released under GFDL (see [[Project:Copyrights]] for details) and may be edited by any user. For special personal works that you do not wish to be edited, please see [[Project:Page Layout#Opinion Articles]]. Any work submitted may be redistributed at will.
:You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. '''DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!'''
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: By submitting any and all text you are promising that you either wrote it yourself or copied from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!
 
 
This is basically the default MediaWiki copyright notice.
 
 
 
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What ''should'' this notice say?
 
 
 
Some wiki mention
 
: "Please cite your sources so others can check your work.".
 
: "By submitting your work you promise you wrote it yourself, or copied it from public domain resources — this does not include most web pages."
 
 
 
Additionally, at WikiChristian, it is possible to submit your own work and ask for it to be protected. See [[Wikichristian.org:Opinion articles]] for details.
 
  
 
== About the GNU FDL ==
 
== About the GNU FDL ==
  
There are many other websites that have excellent explanations of the GNU FDL. Rather than write yet another mediocre description, we have supplied these links
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There are many other websites that have excellent explanations of the GNU FDL. We have supplied these links
 
* The official version of the GNU FDL is at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html .
 
* The official version of the GNU FDL is at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html .
 
* The terms of the FDL apparently require a copy of it in every work covered by it. Since WikiChristian is covered by it, it has a local copy (at [[GNU FDL]]).
 
* The terms of the FDL apparently require a copy of it in every work covered by it. Since WikiChristian is covered by it, it has a local copy (at [[GNU FDL]]).
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* An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL article at Wikipedia discusses the GNU FDL, its pros and cons, and a few alternatives.].
 
* An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL article at Wikipedia discusses the GNU FDL, its pros and cons, and a few alternatives.].
  
 
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Revision as of 10:44, 7 August 2008

Every person who edits WikiChristian sees this notice on the edit page:

Please note that general contributions to WikiChristian} are considered to be released under GFDL (see Project:Copyrights for details) and may be edited by any user. For special personal works that you do not wish to be edited, please see Project:Page Layout#Opinion Articles. Any work submitted may be redistributed at will.
By submitting any and all text you are promising that you either wrote it yourself or copied from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

About the GNU FDL

There are many other websites that have excellent explanations of the GNU FDL. We have supplied these links



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