Wikipedia talk:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Fully-protected edit request 7 April 2022
Please change the short description to "License for Wikipedia contributions"; the current one is over 40 characters and does not display properly (per WP:SHORTDESC). Thanks! 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 23:40, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 14:22, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

My late ww11 father records were restricted after searching 7 years. So still not listed . So I wanted to do a Wikipedia in his name. He passed away at early age. They don’t want to allow it?
This claim is because of me searching so long. He passed away in 1965 and later our home burned, So no records, still not listed. He was a sergeant and its took me years to get here. Am I being petty? Ww11sergeantbeam (talk) 21:24, 28 June 2022 (UTC)


 * @Ww11sergeantbeam My sympathies on the loss of your father, but that's not an appropriate use of wikipedia. See WP:MEMORIAL for more details. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:27, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Fully protected edit request 30 October 2022
Add the shorter shortcut WP:CCBYSA to the list of shortcuts in the page. WPEditor42 ( talk  •  contribs ) 22:32, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 16:12, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 19 December 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. This seems pretty uncontroversial, and I don't believe a relist is necessary here. I will start a fully protected edit request below. (closed by non-admin page mover) echidnaLives  -  talk  -  edits  00:15, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License → Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License – "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License" is a proper noun, so there must be a definitive article ("the") before it. This also harmoises this name with Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. --Matr1x-101 { user page - talk with me :) - contribs! }  12:33, 19 December 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Fully protected rename request 27 December 2022
To Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Per the above requested move. I don't think a relist is necessary as this seems extremely uncontroversial, but if others feel differently, please unclose the request and relist. Thanks, echidnaLives  -  talk  -  edits  00:20, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * any admin doing this must also update MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright. — xaosflux  Talk 02:38, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * And MediaWiki:Wikimedia-license-links. — xaosflux  Talk 02:42, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, make and fully protect the redirect. — xaosflux  Talk 02:44, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * As these two pages are in the MediaWiki namespace, I'll start an interface-protected edit request on both pages. echidnaLives  -  talk  -  edits  14:14, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I think the rename needs to be done first. I'll bring it to the interface admins noticeboard so someone can do it all at the same time. echidnaLives  -  talk  -  edits  14:16, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * — xaosflux  Talk 13:06, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 13:11, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Avoid colliding with a check process

 * "as this seems extremely uncontroversial"
 * Hi, legal team requires to make sure all wikis have the right legal text linked. We (operations) maintain an automated check that alerts when the expected text doesn't match the returned text. While I agree that adding of a "the" is not controversial at all, the change started alerting us (ops). I wonder how we could make this more streamlined so editors have the flexibility to modify it, legal keeps being happy, plus we can maintain an automated check making sure the text is there. Similar issues happened when Wikimedia-copyright was edited. Could you (or some other admin) please join the discussion at  to find the procedure or technical measure that works better for everyone: e.g. setup some kind of coordination or automatic system (e.g. minimal amount of change allowed before alerting) to handle that? Maybe the same exact text could be agreed among all wiki communities? Maybe just pinging a system administrator to update the check? I think we are all open to any solution that both ops, legal and the community agrees with, to make sure a correct text is always present. 0:-). Regards. --jynus (talk) 11:46, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the account confusion. I used my personal account to answer, while we are encouraged to use our WMF accounts for non-regular-editing, WMF-related matters. The comment above was done by me in my work as WMF Site Reliability Engineer. Regards. --JCrespo (WMF) (talk) 12:20, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @JCrespo (WMF) can you link to the procedure for updating your alert, and what on-wiki pages it pertains to? We certainly can add a workflow step for our project admins to complete the procedure. — xaosflux  Talk 14:12, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * So this is still an open question, there is no yet procedure at all- that is why I want to consult both the community and legal to see how we can do it right. So far the check is implemented at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/868037/2/modules/icinga/files/check_legal_html.py with a simplistic regular expression.
 * One option (very manual) would be to open a ticket when the resulting HTML output changes effectively so we can update the alerting code (we could even link that as a comment). Other would be to check for only more generic patterns (if legal approves) so no pinging is needed every time. That is why my intention was to start a discussion on the best way to handle this for each of us 3 (technical solution, editors, legal requirements) to ensure the check still exists, but avoiding false positives. --JCrespo (WMF) (talk) 15:13, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I want to repeat on wiki what I said on the ticket linked above. Thank you a lot for your feedback, as it was key to understand the flaws of the existing tooling (lack of content checking) and improve it so that, thanks to legal's flexibility, it can be more or less be freely edited in the future without removing any must-have section. Thank you a lot. I added a section to the check's documentation at which basically is "you shouldn't worry about the check at all", and just in the infrequent case legal has complains you try to help. Thank you again, and happy editing! :-) --JCrespo (WMF) (talk) 17:23, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

We need a form users can sign
If you want users to use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, then you need to add links so users can find it, for instance at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License.

OK. The link I want is to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Example_requests_for_permission.Please insert it on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License page.

Also add a link to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard

Reid1801 (talk) 05:13, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Add table of contents
Why doesn't this page display a table of contents? It should; that would make it much easier to read. Kk.urban (talk) 04:21, 30 September 2023 (UTC)