User:WereSpielChequers/Integration of Wikimedia projects into the Galactic Encyclopaedia


 * Due to excess levity this discussion has been suspended (in this particular multiverse) whilst we communicate your disrespectful responses back to the Galactic editorial board..  If they are still willing to offer integration the discussion will be resumed, however there will be some delay as even Faster Than Light communication over these distances will require an interval of approximately 180 of your earth days in each direction. In the meantime the editor(s) whose minds we have subsumed to make this offer will be unleashed and returned to their prior state.

This request for comment is intended to resolve some of the anomalies involved in this offer made to Jimbo. Participants are asked to comment both as to whether Wikipedia should accept integration assimilation into a much wider project, and also on some of the practical, legal and philosophical implications of that integration.

Things you might be surprised need to go back into copyright
Most planets/cultures that acknowledge copyright limit it to life and a designated period thereafter. However this has implications for inventions, designs and artworks made by colony organisms, hence the longstanding dispute between your Security Council and the wider community over nuclear weapons The colony organism that holds copyright on the Atomic bomb is happy to license it to anyone, provided you pay them one of your culture's "peace symbols" physically delivered to their designated "office" - which is conveniently located just inside the Schwarzschild radius of your nearest super massive black hole

The Pyramids. Didn't our Erik warn you about that one? The architect is very much still alive and and holds copyright to her construction and all imitators. But the good news is that she is prepared to release her designs under CC by SA, provided they are repaired, properly maintained and the statue she left of herself restored and repainted. She also has some videos of the stones being transported, but isn't sure whether you'd accept them on Commons as the sponsor's logo is prominently woven into the transporters - though as its only visible in UV you could of course hide that if your compression technology omits that part of the spectrum.

Relativity and lifespan based copyright have some awkward interactions. Traditionalists and others who persist in using slow, just below lightspeed spacecraft have been known to dramatically extend artists lifespans. Most legal jurisdictions regard anyone voluntarily departing on a near light speed journey as being legally dead for copyright purposes, or at least consider it to be a crime for a literary agent to send an unconsenting client on such sublight interstellar journeys - the so called Kit Marlowe law. But unless your Governments amend Earth's copyright law to remove such loopholes, the works of Sun Tzu, Macchiavelli and [name redacted for privacy reasons] will also be going back into copyright.

Your Earth based laws currently don't make provision for the copyright implications of reincarnated or resurrected entities, or indeed new works by entities previously declared dead for copyright purposes (this is particularly germane for the works of some immigrants to Earth like the Michelin Man). Also those of your Governments that operate Freedom of Panorama arrangements really ought to determine whether they apply for objects designed to be viewed in four or more dimensions.

Articles that will need a bit of an update
Almost everything that claims it was developed on Earth, except of course for Gothic Architecture, pornography, Pokemon and Moai.

Things we have that you might want

 * Recordings


 * Videos of the last ice age breakup, the Gibraltar and Black sea dam bursts.


 * The compete set of performances at the Athenian theatre


 * All Elvis Presley's recent oeuvre - his entire Hip Hop and Grunge phases will soon be available PD for his Earthbound fans to download.. We assume you won't want his "couscous western musical" where he and John Wayne sing their way across the desert as two regular stetson wearing, guitar wielding, Bedouin camel drovers hunting for scud missiles in the Gulf War.


 * Documents - facsimiles are available for:


 * The insurance claim for damage from the Yucatan impact. Presumably of some interest to you, as this accounts for your planet's current status as an insurance write off, and consequent long omission from most aspects of Galactic culture.


 * The map Christopher Columbus was working from


 * The contents of the Great Library of Alexandria (minus those Ancient Egyptian technologies not permitted on worlds at your current cultural level)


 * Objet D'Art


 * Substantial collection of pre-reformation religious Art and sculpture of Northern Europe (some only as replicas)


 * Near complete collection of pre-Christian European religious Art and sculpture (not including the IOW and the Baltic states)


 * Fragmentary collection of the pre-Roman Art of the Mediterranean basin (excluding Greece, Switzerland and Carthage)


 * Oh and if John Lackland's heirs have kept the pawnbroker's ticket, there's a set of crown jewels to be redeemed - you didn't really believe that story that he'd lost them in the Wash did you?

Articles you might want transwikied from the Galactic Encyclopaedia
Please post any extrasolar transwiki requests below, not forgetting to prefix your request with a #


 * 1) Articles on the Intelligent species of the Galaxy. Yes despite local evidence to the contrary such things do exist. . It is rather unfortunate that what started out as a well intentioned program to accustomise humanity to other species, wound up being so offensive. The Daleks in particular were most upset over the sink plunger business, so very disrespectful to a species that holds plumbing in such high esteem. One possible solution would be to move most of your articles on extraterrestrial species to "in fiction" titles and transwiki in our articles instead.
 * 2) Per not soapbox, you may wish to replace your fancruft Earth article with the more reputable GE Earth version.

Things that we want from you

 * 1) The recipe for Stroepwaffels
 * 2) The rules for Mornington Crescent
 * 3) The truth about the JFK assassination
 * 4) The product of six and nine

Support

 * 1) It is time jfeivajvladkvjaa ##8 faidfj
 * 2) Make it so! EncycloSectorus the First 027:73 (MLT) 4/1/2013 (UTC)
 * 3) doooo eeeetttt. we need to stop only offerin an earth perspective, and instead present information in a galactic way. -- Aunva6talk - contribs  17:45, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) - I only 1/2 oppose. The other half I don't understand. User:Buster3.5 (Question: Elvis had a grunge period?)

Reassurances from Wikipedians of a non-Earth origin
Need I say more? ```Buster Seven   Talk  06:58, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Userboxen
There are various Userboxen available


 * For those who support integration


 * For those who'd rather stay independent


 * For those who are now prepared to declare a COI as extraterrestrial editors


 * For those who only edit NASCAR, Argentinian telenovelas or English canal restoration articles and won't be affected either way.


 * The above discussion is suspended and our offer is on hold. Please do not modify it. Discussion may resume in approximately one Earth year if we decide to renew our offer.