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A barnstar for you!

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	I've noticed your contributions around the project and wanted to commend you on doing an excellent job as an editor thus far! ––FormalDude talk 03:33, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia and copyright

It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, as you did at Microsoft Edge version history, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account. JBW (talk) 20:49, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I should've written that changelog...in my own, non-copyvio words. Look at Firefox version history, it has content copied from the official Mozilla website but I don't know if it counts as a copyvio... Purplneon486 (talk) 10:25, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That is one of the small minority of cases where copying from another web site does not necessarily infringe copyright, because Mozilla makes the material available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, whereas Microsoft does not freely license its material (surprise!). However, even to comply with Mozilla's licensing terms, the editors who copied it to Wikipedia should have given attribution to Mozilla. I hope they did, but I haven't put in the time and effort it would take to search through the editing history of the article to find out. JBW (talk) 18:16, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

But the release history still needs to be rewritten because it has the word "you", which is a violation of MOS:YOU. Purplneon486 (talk) 18:21, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Are you still talking about Firefox version history? If so, I can't find the word "you" anywhere in the page (except for the Wikipedia copyright message at the bottom of the page). JBW (talk) 18:52, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Purplneon486 (talk) 10:33, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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