Meta talk:Submission Standards

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And since that one was rejected for en for a wide variety of reasons discussed on its talk page, from locking the work up with the agency agreement to making you pay the bills for a mistaken false infringement notice, I've updated it with the less controversial one which might, eventually, actually go into effect at en. Maybe. The page on en is here with this history. Jamesday 09:05, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Remove the submission standards[edit]

I propose to cancel these submission standards, and only require contributors to agree to the GNU FDL.

The problem is that these standards are mentioned in MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning, as if you must agree to them before submitting content to Meta. However, the Meta:Submission Standards are written as if Meta was the English Wikipedia, which it is not. Meta is not "Wikipedia, the free encyclopdia (sic)", the same way that Meta is not the free library. Further, the English Wikipedia itself does not use such standards – see w:en:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning – and neither do most other Wikimedia projects – see Commons:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning as another example. --Kernigh 04:00, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There being no followup discussion, I've removed the link from the MediaWiki page and categorised this page to Policy proposals. // [admin] Pathoschild (talk/map) 23:40, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]