the United States Government

“ Speeches are a good example of something that "might technically be copyrighted, but we consider it a grey area, if the author has never indicated any intention of enforcing copyright, we host it" - but now that too is being taken away...Of the three unnamed editors I refer to, they have contributed one document to Wikisource in the past couple months, while deleting incredible amounts in the name of "libre". ”

“ Osama bin Laden's OPEN LETTERS, with public domain translations, were similarly deleted with no consensus...in fact nobody had even mentioned deleting those Osama works...but now Wikisource doesn't host a single text by him, and even the author page has been deleted. The trouble I see is a group of three editors who are obsessed with the belief that anything that doesn't fit inside their strict definition of "libre" doesn't belong on Wikisource, and they want it purged - and Wikisource suffers. ”

“ Insects It's unfortunate that there may be problems with this work (Insects, Their Ways and Means of Living) . I believed the work was PD because it had been scanned by the Canadian Libraries "high volume book scanning pilot project" and assumed they'd only be doing public domain books; it's published on archive.org; and it's 70+ years old. The copyright is complicated by it being published by the Smithsonian Institute, which is administered by the US govt. ”

“ Avoid Copyright Paranoia Hi, thought I'd tag you to let you know I was considering trying to draw up a Wikisource:Avoid Copyright Paranoia at User:Sherurcij/sandbox2 that would serve as an FAQ similar to your suggestion, to have a handy reference to which we would be able to point newcomers, when they ask why there seems to be discrepencies about how we handle copyright. ”

“ Unfortunately, I see this leading Wikisource to a point where we really do only host "Poe, Swift and Twain", and US Federal documents - the past two months have seen incredible strides taken in deleting every text that a "average internet user" might be searching for - and reduced us to what is largely a collection of Victorian literature and US Federal works. 'sour face - anyhow, I appreciate the advice - I just hate to think that in a year, we'll all look back and go "Wow, remember when we used to have thousands of speeches hosted on here? ”

“ But I think there should be a line drawn somewhere, and current political speeches are clearly out in my point of view. Why should we give politicians around the world a platform for their propaganda? It just doesn't make sense. Lupo 12:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Well I have seen two explanations on speeches. One was "I Have A Dream" which is limited to US pre-1979 and was regarding "limited publication". The appeals court ruled the prepartion was a limited publication and that the copies handed out to reporters did not grant copyright and then remanded the case back to the lower court. ”

“ I have visited all images at commons:Category:Snodgrass claimed to be in the public domain in countries where the copyright lasts for life plus 70 years. The instructions for copyright problems that you have not found are on the TOP of Commons:Deletion requests. ”

“ I don't know if this is just a difference in culture, but I find the idea of declaring broad types of works taboo outrageous. Offensive even; I am surprised how strongly I react to this. If we need to exclude something for editorial reasons, let us do this on a case-by-case basis.--BirgitteSB 15:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC) Talk page for WS:FTC Do you remember if Wikisource:Featured text candidates had a talk page? I deleted the vandalism that was on it (and the only entries in the history, as well) . ”

“ As for using all-uppercase titles, I can also adjust the topic titles, however the book does have all topics in uppercase, which means any proper capitalization (including proper names, and this book has quite a few) are lost. ”

“ Thanks AllanHainey 12:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Speeches & NPOV Hi Birgitte,
Two points:
On that copyright issue: I said I wasn't sure about how this worked. The phrase that nothing in copyright was ever absolutely certain (or even forever) is unfortunately rather unhelpful and dodges the issue. (And appears to be Brad's standard answer; I've seen it before.) If even prepared orations, for which there is some script that someone wrote, should not be copyrighted, I'd darn well like to see an explanation of the reasoning. If "oration" is to mean "impromptu speeches", I tend to agree. ”

“ Re: Tao te Ching This translation is actually mine, as you can see from the top of the page. I think we can translate stuff ourselves on Wikisource can't we? If you think I've not made it clear concerning the details of translation please contact me. Thanks. --User:Luthinya 17:44 18 January 2006
I've received your message and thank you very much for giving such good advices. Can you also help me on where I could find people who could give more 'graphic' advices concerning the translation of this sacred text and improve my understanding of it? ”

“ That sounds fine. Linking to the more modernized version from the older version (and vice versa) sounds like a good idea. And if you guys do it, a side by side version would be great, as well.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 19:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC) Aside from ThomasV, I don't know anyone who can script in PHP, so we might be stuck for a little while (maybe until the summer) . ”

“ Kind regards. Apwoolrich 07:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC) Here. So far no replies. Dovi 11:09, 21 March 2006 (UTC) Donne's Elegies Hi, Birgitte,
I noticed that you've been moving Donne's Elegies to pages like "Poems (Donnes) /Elegy I." I was wondering what naming convention you were referring to, as these poems are sort of stand alone, in that they are commonly known by their titles as Elegy I, Elegy II, etc., and not necessarily in connection with any collection or anthology of poetry. ”

“ Sherurcij (talk) (CRIMINALS ARE MADE, NOT BORN) 19:40, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
pgkbot changes needed: adapt the parsing of the ircfeed, the bot is not taking the complete url it seems, if it does take the complete url it's mangling it some place down the code. ircfeed gives: http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Henna&diff=277387&oldid=277383&rcid=227885 pgkbot gives: http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Henna&diff=277387&oldid=277383 you need the rcid parameter in the url to be able to patrol edits. ”