Talk:Honolulu Record

Conservapedia license

 * Hello, the Conservapedia license does not transfer copyright to Conservapedia. Copyright is retained by the author. What the license does is give Conservapedia an irrevocable license. It's not incompatible with Wikipedia, as evidenced by section 2. "By contributing information to Conservapedia, you irrevocably consent to the display, copying, reuse or editing of your information, edits and entries, with or without attribution". No restriction is placed on the author posting his content elsewhere. In addition, the spirit of copyright laws is to keep people from stealing the lawful property of others, not to bar them from using their own. Geoff Plourde (talk) 19:00, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that we are not able to retain content from Conservapedia because it is the opinion of the Wikimedia Foundation's attorney their license is incompatible. She rejected it on the basis of the fact that their license is revocable. (There is a brief list of compatible and incompatible Wikis at WikiProject Copyright Cleanup/Sources.)


 * I believe we can use content if the original author places it here, but unfortunately I cannot demonstrate that he is the original author. :/ I have searched through the internet archives, looking at every archived version of his userpage on Conservapedia (since it's now deleted, I can't access the history), but I can't find anything that acknowledges that he edits on Wikipedia as Nobs01. If we can prove that, we can retain the content. Unless we do, we can't publish it. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:00, 13 November 2011 (UTC)