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90: 369: 164: 117: 107: 33: 127: 87: 137: 97: 276:. At the time of writing, policy criterion #9 states, "Non-free content is allowed only in articles (not disambiguation pages), and only in article namespace, subject to exemptions". The initiator of the discussion pointed out that the policy criterion is vague and moot with regard to editing out violations versus deleting all history pages where the violation is visible. 252:. The legal team responded that according to United States copyright law, files from countries not in relations with the United States can be used as if they are in the public domain. However, the legal team did note that each editor is responsible for the usage of files according to their own country's copyright law, which may differ from the United States. Since 279:
The initiator outlined some proposals concerning how to deal with images that are in breach of the policy, including removing the image from being displayed and/or deleting the revision where the image was embedded. Discussion has been slow on this topic, but the consensus appears to be in favour of
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on the proposed cessation of selective delete (other than history merge fixes) and resulting changes to deletion policies, including the removal of a Revision Deletion criterion.
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A request for comment on how Knowledge should handle copyrighted files from countries without official copyright relations with the United States was
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where the file originates from and a disclosure that the file might not be in the public domain. A proposal presented by
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merely removing the image from being displayed when it is found to be in breach of the policy.
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Shortly after discussions began, the opinion of Wikimedia Foundation's legal team was
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about the assessment of community understanding of article title decision practice.
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Editors discussed various proposals on how to tag these types of files, including
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Discussions covered in the main body of the discussion report are not listed here.
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of the discussion report, were closed as "keep" and "no consensus", respectively.
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was the most favorably received, with twelve participating supporting it.
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has been opened. According to the complainant, the administrator,
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on candidates standing for 2012 Audit Subcommittee appointment
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Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states
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Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states
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