Hey there! Good catch, Isla. All of the versions we released have the appropriate licensing (YouTube, Commons, etc.), but you're right that Mark Angel's upload has a different license.
Zack is out today, and I haven't been involved in the nitty gritty on this, but we'll follow up with more info soon. Anne On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Isla Haddow Flood <[email protected]> wrote: > True Flo, but if they are important and notable within Nigeria, then that > would allow for some weight behind them being notable to the community …? > If they are just minor Nigerian celebrities, then not. > > On 02 Oct 2017, at 6:59 PM, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Le 02/10/2017 à 18:52, Isla Haddow Flood a écrit : > > Hey Zack, > > Thanks for the clarity … that completely makes sense - I don’t think that > anyone has a problem with them being paid to do an excellent job (at least, > I don’t) - I was just wondering about the licensing on their release of the > video. Perhaps you could ask them to change it, unless it is not what they > agreed to? And if they are claiming the video, they should mention that > they were commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation or whoever to do it. > That would tick all the attribution boxes, and keep with the licensing, yes? > > With regards to whether that makes them notable enough to have a Wikipedia > article, then that is for the Nigerian community to decide. But it should > be because they are notable in their own right, and not because they did a > Wikipedia video. > > > One correction. It is not for the Nigerian community to decide. It is for > the Wikipedia community to do so. > > Florence > > > > *Isla Haddow-Flood* > Co-project Director > Username: Islahaddow > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > -- *Anne Gomez* // Senior Program Manager, New Readers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers> https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate <http://donate.wikimedia.org>. *
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