Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2017 April 29

29 April 2017

 * Balfour Declaration ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) page contains 40+ notes, many of which include very long verbatim quotes from copyrighted books. Some are multiple paragraphs and hundreds of words long. The page is apparently going for FA, so someone might want to have a look soonish.No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 19:55, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
 * These quotes are either reasonable sized fair use, or out of copyright. Please see discussion at Talk:Balfour Declaration. Oncenawhile (talk) 15:52, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Er, no,, as has been clearly pointed out to you, 37k of quotations in the citations alone is not by any stretch of the imagination reasonable, and edit-warring it back into the page is unlikely to get anyone very far. Please note that we do not have a fair-use policy for text here – our non-free content criteria are for other media. Anyway, all opinions welcome at that talk-page. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:15, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * We do have a fair use guideline for quotes - it is at WP:NFC: "Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea." This is protected under the Berne Convention's right to quote.
 * This is a question of style, and should be discussed at the article talk page. Oncenawhile (talk) 20:25, 6 May 2017 (UTC)