User talk:RickEarl

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Foundations of Science
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 * Thanks Dave. I just found Wikiversity and kind of jumped right in - I'm afraid I'm bound to go out of bounds a few times before I get used to the place.  --RickEarl (discuss • contribs) 04:36, 6 February 2017 (UTC)


 * No worries. Be bold! We'll help you find your way as you go. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:22, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Almagest
The Almagest should probably be posted at Wikisource and linked from here. See Wikisource:Author:Ptolemy. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:39, 3 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Toomer's translation of the Almagest is copyrighted, so I have taken excerpts only from the book. These excerpts were manually typed out and I do not have images of the pages. Since the excerpts amount to less than 10% of the book and are used for educational purposes, I believe I am permitted to post them in this way, but doing more than this would be an infringement of the copyright. I could post these excerpts on Wikisource, but without page images, there is no way to verify them, so it just didn't seem to fit what is being done on Wikisource.  I'd be happy to move it if you disagree. Rick Earl (discuss • contribs) 11:43, 3 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I didn't realize it was a copyrighted translation. As posted, this isn't a legal usage. Fair use is allowed at Wikiversity, but only in uploaded files. They can have a Fair Use tag applied. Any content on edited pages is posted under CC-BY-SA license, meaning that you must own or have rights to the copyright, as anyone can now take this content and reuse it for their own purposes, crediting you as the source. You can take the content, put it in a PDF, and upload that and it would be legal if tagged as Fair Use. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the information - I'll do as you say, so please delete this page. It seems that I cannot delete a page even if I am the one that created it, is that right? I guess once you put something up here, it belongs to everyone!? Rick Earl (discuss • contribs) 12:26, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * That's correct. By default, users can't delete pages. We do have a role, Curators, designed for teachers who want / need to manage their own content and their students' content. Others may tag their pages for deletion using . Most author requests for deletion are honored, but not always. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 12:38, 5 April 2017 (UTC)