Friday, 16 September 2016

Normally I would say we should keep the character because we found pages from the creator’s Web site confirming the CC license, but it turns out that the license is not an open one but a non‐commercial one. I personally don’t feel we should keep characters with non‐commercial licenses because their source is not really open, but the founders of PDSH seem to have felt differently. (Is my response wishy‐washy enough?) (02:17)

I understand your wariness of deleting them, especially without input from their creators, so maybe we could create a non‐commercial category wherein we could corral them for the time being, with a note on the category page indicating we are considering giving them the boot. (02:31)

These conversations seem to be about categories rather than about specifying a license on a character’s page. In fact, the Creative Commons category page apparently contradicts the FAQ page by saying that specifying a license should be done in a note on a character page. (02:55)

If she’s not in the public domain in either France or the US, why would we restore her page here? (03:04)

The author’s name is misspelled, and we already have an Arthur Machen category anyway. (05:13)

I like ’em, even if they might technically be beyond the scope of the wiki. I wanted to expand them to include real places, like a page for the Great Wall of China, for example, that would list public‐domain adventure, detective, spy or fantasy fiction in which an event takes place at that location. I also thought we might additionally adopt the “Things” category from Comic Vine and thus give articles to fictional scientific inventions, magical implements, weapons etc. (We already have a Vehicles category.) (22:54)

Are those books themselves under Creative Commons licenses? Requiring that authors or illustrators who use the hero promote commercial products is not part of any free or open license (Copyleft, GNU Project {FDL}, Creative Commons etc.), so we should remove this character unless that stipulation is removed by the creator. (23:14)

Commentary

– I’m gonna live forever. I’m gonna learn how to fly … high. (03:51)

– Love the Viking barge hat. It’s almost Wagnerian. (04:49)