Talk:Washington State symbols

Copyvio
Cryptic notes: (This was an almost word-by-word copyvio from http://castlescribe.hispeed.com/fam/wa-symbols.html; I'm redirecting to Washington state symbols.)

It's actually a copyvio of the page listed under External Links at the bottom, which is a state page. The other page is a copy of THAT. I don't know what the status of that copyright is to consider it a violation. In any case, I've added things off and on to this page so it's not a straight copy-vio and it would also be a pretty easy page to re-write and wikify. A straight re-direct deletes anything others have added. I'll re-write the other sections during the week. SchmuckyTheCat 04:03, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Unlike works by the federal government, works by state governments aren't automatically public domain. Of course, the state of Washington isn't going to send us a cease-and-desist, but it's still bad form.  The only differences between the originally-submitted version and the current are wikification and the addition of the Marine Mammal and External links sections.  When the page was originally submitted, we had already had the copyvio-free Washington state symbols for three months; any additions should take place there, or in the articles it links to, or both. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 05:55, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * dig it, I fixed articles that linked to this page to the other one and added the non-copyvio text to the other. Hopefully a little bit of write-up on the other page about why those symbols relate to WA can occur. SchmuckyTheCat 06:53, 15 August 2005 (UTC)