Template talk:TextLicenseFreeUse

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Shouldn't it be "to all my text contributions on Wikipedia" instead? --cesarb 09:41, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The other multilicensing template don't seem to do this, but it doesn't hurt to be explicit. I wonder also whether this should apply to talk pages. Deco 22:44, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Better now, but some things still have to be done:

Perhaps it should be changed to English Wikipedia (sorry, I thought about it 1 minute after leaving).
A topic somewhere in the Village pump or even on the recent changes header is probably needed (I don't think many people noticed Wikipedia:You can't grant your work into the public domain yet). Maybe the new legal mailing list could be involved in this too.
This template needs to be protected, like the older ones are.
And last but not least, somebody who is not afraid of flames should spam all the people with the "deprecated" templates (I know I would feel grateful for it if I hadn't noticed the discussion before, but some people might get annoyed).

--cesarb 23:43, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again for your advice. I'm not sure what section to drop a Village Pump note on — perhaps policy. I'm waiting for 4 days before deprecating the multilicensing PD templates, to give people a chance to complain. The image PD templates have already had a link to can't grant added, so I expect that to grab some attention. There are so many people using the PD image templates that I fear only a bot will be able to get in contact with them all, though. Deco 02:02, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please ignore the above. I no longer contend that it is impossible to release one's works into the public domain - I am not a lawyer and there is no legal precedent in this matter. Relevent discussion. Deco 05:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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I request that this template be moved to Category:Wikipedia copyright templates. It doesn't belong in Category:Copyright user templates it should only be for userboxes. Catfurball (talk) 17:14, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done @Catfurball: (consider this a BRD) - this is a user template, it is meant to be used by a user - to place on their own page. It is not for licensing media. That it is not in the shape of a traditional userbox doesn't make it any less user-specific. (Also combined all these to one request as it is all the same matter). — xaosflux ^Talk 18:32, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like there is actually a big sloppy mess of categorization going on here - so we should probably get a wider discussion going as to the best direction. Notably your requested 'to' category is not listed as a "userboxes" category. There certainly is use of categorizing these, and making it clear that there is a difference between templates intended to be used by a user on their own page, and templates to be placed on media descriptions. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:38, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Note, you will not need to reactivate all the individual ER's whichever way this goes, it can just be done once above). — xaosflux ^Talk 18:50, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think we just need better documentation on the two category pages. One should say "This cat is for templates that go on User pages" and the other should say "This cat is for templates that go on File pages." Or something like that, maybe with a bit more nuance of which I am not aware. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:13, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]