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For information on verifying permission to use work previously published by others, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission" title="Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission">Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission</a>.</i></dd></dl> <p>Often, people wish to <b>"donate" copyrighted materials</b> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>. These materials may be text (including monographs, articles, etc.) or images (including photographs). They may or may not already be posted on some other website. They may or may not actually be appropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia. This page exists to provide some guidance in these matters. </p><p>(Most of what is on this page also applies to work in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>, but the focus is on copyrighted materials, because they raise more complicated issues.) </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="What_it_means_to_donate_material_to_Wikipedia" data-mw-thread-id="h-What_it_means_to_donate_material_to_Wikipedia"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-What_it_means_to_donate_material_to_Wikipedia"></span>What it means to donate material to Wikipedia<span data-mw-comment-end="h-What_it_means_to_donate_material_to_Wikipedia"></span></h2></div> <p>When you contribute material to Wikipedia, you are not giving it exclusive use on just Wikipedia. You still retain any rights you previously held, but you also give non-exclusive license under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a> (CC-BY-SA) and the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License">GNU Free Documentation License</a> (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). These licenses allow <b>anyone—not just Wikipedia</b>—to share, distribute, transmit, and adapt your work, provided that you are attributed as the author. <b>Wikipedia does not accept material that claims "this can be used in Wikipedia, but not anywhere else or in derivative works."</b> Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for educational use or even for general non-commercial use. </p><p>Note, too, that <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="wikimedia:Terms of Use">the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use</a> allow text by others or which you have co-authored with others to be imported under CC-BY-SA or CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone, without need to verify compatibility with GFDL, but text for which you hold the copyright yourself must be licensed under both CC-BY-SA and GFDL. </p><p>Please be aware that the content you donate is subject to continuous editing by the Wikipedia community. It may be added to, subtracted from, rearranged, illustrated, split into multiple articles, translated into other languages, and otherwise changed beyond your expectations. Your contribution will always be part of the page history, so you retain credit for your work — our licenses are conditioned on our providing that credit, and ensuring that you are not held liable in any sense for the changes others make to your work. </p><p>Please note that one of the benefits of this freedom to edit is that you are freely able to incorporate the improvements that others make into your own website or source work, so long as it remains under the CC-BY-SA or GFDL. </p><p>If it is important that your work remain unchanged, please read the guidelines for our sister project, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="s:">Wikisource</a>, which may be better suited to host such work. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"></span>Why we cannot take certain donations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"></span></h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="You_cannot_donate_what_someone_else_owns" data-mw-thread-id="h-You_cannot_donate_what_someone_else_owns-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-You_cannot_donate_what_someone_else_owns-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"></span>You cannot donate what someone else owns<span data-mw-comment-end="h-You_cannot_donate_what_someone_else_owns-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"></span></h3></div> <p>If you are <i>not</i> the copyright holder of the material you cannot donate rights to Wikipedia! The last thing we want are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems" title="Wikipedia:Copyright problems">copyright problems</a>: we try to be ruthless in rooting out material where there is even the slightest question about our right to use it. </p><p>For example: </p> <ul><li>Most web pages do <i>not</i> allow their material to be freely copied. Unless the material is either <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>, carries a <a href="/wiki/Copyleft" title="Copyleft">copyleft</a> notice compatible with the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International License</a>, or you have explicit permission to use it, please don't copy and paste from other websites into Wikipedia. (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission" title="Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission">Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission</a> provides information on obtaining and verifying explicit permission.)</li> <li>If you are the original author but the rights have been assigned to your publisher, you have given up the ability to license the work to us.</li> <li>If you are the subject of a photograph, you probably do not own the copyright to it as that remains with the person who has taken the picture.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikipedia_is_not_a_universal_compendium" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_universal_compendium-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_universal_compendium-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"></span>Wikipedia is not a universal compendium<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_universal_compendium-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"></span></h3></div> <p>Wikipedia is not a universal compendium. There are things we include and things we don't. Probably the best explanation of this is at the page "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not</a>". In particular, we try not to include content that is below an <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia" title="Encyclopedia">encyclopedic</a> level of notability. We probably don't need an article about your college club (unless it happens to be something like the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Union" title="Oxford Union">Oxford Union</a>). On the other hand, we are open to encyclopedic articles, with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Cite sources">cited sources</a> and written from a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutral point of view</a> (NPOV). The content of most websites, as written, usually does not meet these criteria, so it may be best to simply paraphrase, rather than copy verbatim. This also avoids the need to re-license the content. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikipedia_does_not_publish_original_research" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikipedia_does_not_publish_original_research-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikipedia_does_not_publish_original_research-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"></span>Wikipedia does not publish original research<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikipedia_does_not_publish_original_research-Why_we_cannot_take_certain_donations"></span></h3></div> <p>Wikipedia is not a <a href="/wiki/Primary_source" title="Primary source">primary source</a>, and does not publish new and untested research and claims. Our position on such material is described more thoroughly at "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">Wikipedia:No original research</a>". In brief, Wikipedia at a minimum will not consider covering a matter <u>at least</u> until it has a proven history of gaining significant attention by significant third party sources, or (for matters testable by science) by the global scientific community. Therefore if your work is unscrutinized, unpublished, theoretical, cutting-edge, or otherwise not covered in depth through other <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a>, you will need to seek other avenues to publish it first. 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