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Are images on Wikipedia copyright free?
You can use (free) images from Wikipedia on your own site, or anywhere you like. You can use images that are freely-licensed images, provided you comply with the individual image’s license terms. While all article text is licensed under the GFDL, free images have several free content licenses to choose from.
Can you delete information from Wikipedia?
Deleting a page is relatively easy. Basically, click on the “More” dropdown at the top of the page (the delete option will only appear if you are an administrator logged in to your account), enter a reason (or edit the automatically supplied reason), and hit delete. That’s all there is to it.
Is it illegal to copy from Wikipedia?
The text of Wikipedia is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by Wikipedia editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several liberal licenses. The licenses Wikipedia uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely.
When does an image need to be deleted from Wikipedia?
Images that have been listed there for more than 7 days are eligible for deletion if either a consensus to do so has been reached or no objections to deletion have been raised. Users may feel attacked or demoralized when a large number of their uploads are nominated for deletion all at once.
What are the criteria to delete a Wikipedia page?
This page in a nutshell: Under certain limited conditions, a page may be deleted by an administrator without waiting for any discussion. The criteria for speedy deletion ( CSD) specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus to bypass deletion discussion, at their discretion, and immediately delete Wikipedia pages or media.
How can I request a speedy deletion on Wikipedia?
Anyone can request speedy deletion by adding one of the speedy deletion templates, but only administrators may actually delete. Deletion is reversible, but only by administrators, so other deletions occur only after discussion, unless they are proposed deletions.
What’s the fastest way to delete an article from Wikipedia?
Besides speedy deletion, there are the following methods of deletion: Wikipedia:Deletion discussions ( AfD, CfD, FfD, MfD, RfD, TfD ), the normal method of carrying out deletion. Wikipedia:Proposed deletions, for nominating articles and files for uncontroversial deletion.