User talk:Wesalius

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Dum Multa

All works on Wikisource should display an appropriate license as to why the text may be hosted here, as well as identify the immediate source of the text or translation. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:37, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

EncycloPetey: Before publishing I checked other works (example) at Portal:Catholic Church Encyclicals and they do not state any special licence anywhere, why do you not place similar templates there? --Wesalius (talk) 19:41, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Older works are more likely to be nominated for deletion if a source cannot be found, and it is extremely time-consuming to manually check thousands of older contributions. I try to catch issues when works are newly added, because it is much easier to contact recent contributors for their assistance.

Also, some of the encyclical, such as The Reunion of Christendom were published as part of a larger work. In that case, the primary page for the work bears the license, not every part of the work. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:53, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

The source page is in the header template - The Holy See Also the header states date of publishing which implicates copyright expiration. If that is not sufficient would you care to make the edits so that I can follow the example and go on with other encyclicals? --Wesalius (talk) 20:00, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Without knowing what the suitable license is, I cannot assist with that edit. The license depends not only on the date of publication of the original item, but the date of death of its author, the date of the translation, and date of death of the translator. I do not know whether the translation is dated 1902, or just the original Latin. Nor do I know the identity of the translator, which may or may not have been Pope Leo XIII. Nor do I know Vatican law regarding copyright. All of this information lies upon the contributor to ensure that the contribution can legally be hosted here, and under what license. US law allows that anything published prior to 1923 is now in PD, but that only identifies the US copyright license, and only if this English translation was published in 1902.

As regards the source, linking is OK, but we prefer explicit source information, usually on the item's Talk page for works that are copy-pasted and for which no scanned text is available. You can use {{textinfo}} for the source information. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:06, 26 October 2018 (UTC)