Talk:The Search for Alpha Trion

Hey, this story summary was awesome, especially back when I wrote it exclusively for the TFArchive. I'll ask Denyer if he minds that material I wrote for his site (well, not *his*, but he's the major contributor) gets reprinted here, but I discourage using the stuff without permission. If I felt like it was okay to use my summaries I'd have posted them myself. --DrSpengler 00:11, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Gah... yeah, the anonymous editor who posted this obviously hasn't read the help files. If Denyer's okay with it, you can vette this since you are the original author, but honestly we could also simply delete the article until/unless somebody wants to write something original. Especially since the pasted text isn't even in our standard format, lacks categories, etc.. We can leave it up to you, since it's your work. --Steve-o 05:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

We don't figure to own submissions (and'll take stuff down if people decide they really don't want it online with us, unless it's already licensed free-for-NC / public domain, etc) so with apologies to Spengs I'm gonna pass the question back.

As far as I'm aware, everything here has to be GNUFDL -- if material was given to a site to post first and then okayed for here, I don't think there'd be a problem as far as that angle went. If anything was used here first, it couldn't be posted to another site without GNUFDL coming along for the ride. (But assuming the original was somewhere else, further work on that would be derivative of the original rather than the virally-licensed document.) Am I right so far? I'm more used to the GNU software licenses, and prefer CC flavours for text because they keep people credited, it's easier to know who did what, and the authors can allow use in future (eg, in a club magazine) without it having to have an FDL release attached.

Whatever he wants to do, it's definitely a good idea to beat wiki newbies with a stick until they grasp the "don't just copy and paste content without asking authors" and "everything here is relicensed" bits... --Denyer 11:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• Ah, cool. Thanks for registering to talk about it. I suppose I'm more irritated the dude didn't ask for permission, but so long as *all* my summaries don't wind up here without me being asked at least once, it doesn't bug me. --DrSpengler 17:44, 2 March 2007 (UTC)