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*'''Scope''' The Encyclopedia Westarctica is an encyclopedia about, well, [[Westarctica]]. It is not an encyclopedia about Brazil or peptides or Maundy Thursday. We ask that our editors add only content that is within our project scope. If you submit an article about your garage band, unless that band has either performed in Westarctica or has a bass player who is a citizen, the article may not be retained. Unlike Wikipedia, we do not hold deletion discussions. If one of our admins identifies an article or content that is outside of our project scope, that content may be removed without explanation. If you performed an edit and that edit now appears to have been deleted, you are welcome to contact the deleting administrator and ask for an explanation (though we do not police our site with any express strictness, and we are much more concerned with having not enough content rather than too much of it, so this part of our policies is not likely to be well enforced). | *'''Scope''' The Encyclopedia Westarctica is an encyclopedia about, well, [[Westarctica]]. It is not an encyclopedia about Brazil or peptides or Maundy Thursday. We ask that our editors add only content that is within our project scope. If you submit an article about your garage band, unless that band has either performed in Westarctica or has a bass player who is a citizen, the article may not be retained. Unlike Wikipedia, we do not hold deletion discussions. If one of our admins identifies an article or content that is outside of our project scope, that content may be removed without explanation. If you performed an edit and that edit now appears to have been deleted, you are welcome to contact the deleting administrator and ask for an explanation (though we do not police our site with any express strictness, and we are much more concerned with having not enough content rather than too much of it, so this part of our policies is not likely to be well enforced). | ||
*'''Copyright''' In most respects, our encyclopedia provides for a looser editing environment than many, but not with regard to copyright. Your own textual contributions are automatically freely licensed the minute you save them, but you are not welcome to add previously copyrighted material unless you are the owner of that copyright. This policy relates to text as well as any visual or audio files (all of which are considered "works"). You may not add works which are protected by copyright unless those works are freely licensed and only so long as you abide by its licensing terms. For example, if you upload a picture created by | *'''Copyright''' In most respects, our encyclopedia provides for a looser editing environment than many, but not with regard to copyright. Your own textual contributions are automatically freely licensed the minute you save them, but you are not welcome to add previously copyrighted material unless you are the owner of that copyright. This policy relates to text as well as any visual or audio files (all of which are considered "works"). You may not add works which are protected by copyright unless those works are freely licensed and only so long as you abide by its licensing terms. For example, if you upload a picture created by an artist or photographer whose license has restricted that work to the "share alike" conditions on reuse, then you must be sure that you indicate this fact by selecting the corresponding "share alike" license at the time you perform the upload. You are not permitted to upload any work that is fully protected by copyright by someone else unless you are able to provide a suitable "fair use rationale" for doing so (see Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_use_rationale_guideline page] for more information about fair use and what it means) or unless you yourself are the copyright holder. <br><br> | ||
:Also in a significant deviation from Wikipedia's and Wikimedia Commons' restrictions on content, you are welcome to license your OWN visual works under more restrictive and non-free terms, if you so choose. If, for example, you upload your own work and would like to restrict that work to only non-commercial reuse, you are welcome to do so. You must understand that the Encyclopedia Westarctica does not enforce such licensing restrictions, however: if you find that an image you submitted and licensed this way has been reused by someone else in violation of your license terms, you must contact the reuser yourself and arrange for a solution. We are not an intermediary in such disputes, we merely allow YOU to indicate how YOU would like to license your own work, including the option to indicate that one of your creations is fully copyright protected. We will host the image and its license, but we have no duty nor ability to enforce your copyright claims against some other party.<br><br> | :Also in a significant deviation from Wikipedia's and Wikimedia Commons' restrictions on content, you are welcome to license your OWN visual works under more restrictive and non-free terms, if you so choose. If, for example, you upload your own work and would like to restrict that work to only non-commercial reuse, you are welcome to do so. You must understand that the Encyclopedia Westarctica does not enforce such licensing restrictions, however: if you find that an image you submitted and licensed this way has been reused by someone else in violation of your license terms, you must contact the reuser yourself and arrange for a solution. We are not an intermediary in such disputes, we merely allow YOU to indicate how YOU would like to license your own work, including the option to indicate that one of your creations is fully copyright protected. We will host the image and its license, but we have no duty nor ability to enforce your copyright claims against some other party.<br><br> | ||