User:WMWillis/Test Area

There are several places that you may want to be aware of when you start working on this Wiki. Some of them can be visited by clicking the links in the adjacent "Navigation Menu", and some are unique to this site. They are all useful to those working the wiki.

• Guided Tour---a quick tour of the Genealogy Wiki, with a link to tours of other Wikis in the Wikia community

• Help---Somewhere to go to find answers to questions about using this Wiki

• Getting Started---Go here for some guidance on getting started on this Wiki

• The (New) Water Cooler---Somewhere to go to discuss activities on this Wiki

• Community Portal---Things Useful to Know about this Wiki

• Special Project Areas---Collections of articles built around a theme

• Current events---A place to note upcoming events of interest to those using this Wiki

• Administrivia---A place to present things you should know, but probably don't want to.

• Help:User page---Suggestions for setting up a user page.

• The Sandbox---A place to play with formating articles.

• Communications on the Wiki---A summary of the ways you can communicate with folk on the Wiki.

• Nameing Conventions---for those who want to jump right in, read this first

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[edit] Privacy

The records here are meant to form a historic record for the families concerned. Please do not include private information about living individuals without specific permission from the individuals. For more detail and reasons, please see our main privacy page.

[edit] Cultural sensitivity

Some cultures are sensitive to the recording of certain types of information. For instance, some tribes of Australian Aborigines forbid the viewing of images of dead people. Australian Aborigines request that pages with pictures of deceased Aboriginal people be clearly marked as such so that the user can choose if they wish to view the page. See guidelines on Cultural Protocol.

[edit] Surname categories

There is (or is intended to be) for each surname a separate category, which in turn is a subcategory of the category for surnames in general. Edit or create a category link at the bottom of the individual's page to put that page automatically in the surname category.

[edit] Alternative spellings

Where you are familiar with alternative spellings (eg White/Whyte), please note them on the category page and if possible link to those categories. Other readers may not have known of the alternatives or thought to look there. See Help:Surname categories for more detail about how categories work)

[edit] The Wikipedia

the Genealogy Wiki operates under the same licence/license as Wikipedia. As a result text from the Wikipedia may be placed on this site if given proper acknowledgment. Please see Genealogy:Wikipedia.

All contributions to Wikia are released under the GNU Free Documentation License. See Wikia copyrights for details.

Genealogy inevitably involves using information from other documents. That inevitably leads to questions about copyright requirements and limitations. For those interested in copy right issues, the following may be of some use:

Here is an article on another site that speaks to some of these issue: Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy by Mike Goad.

Here is a link to Copyright law of the United States

An ongoing discussion of copyright issues for genealogists on the internet is found at the Rootsweb archive for the Copyright Mailing List.

There is a Supreme Court ruling on Rural vs Feist deals with copyrighting telephone lists. Such lists are similar to many of the lists presented on genealogy sites (ie, transcriptions of census records, lists of settlers, marriage records etc. An extract of some of the text is presented User:WMWillis/Test Area/Rural vs Feist.