User talk:John Cummings

July 2026

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--MSGJ (talk 22:14, 28 June 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Edit to Aquatic animal

John, In this edit here, you helpfully pointed us to the licensing information

(see sources section for open license text attribution

However, while that policy page indicates that:

As of 1 July 2024, the default licence that applies to FAO publications is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, available here.

It does go on to note that:

FAO may apply other licensing restrictions, e.g. non-commercial (NC), share-alike (SA) or no-derivatives (ND), to selected publications, such as FAO materials that are subject to restrictions from FAO Member Nations, or publications where only one translation into an FAO official language may exist.

The specific reference you used Appears to be one of those exceptions as the copyright license is clearly identified as CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Let me know if you think I've missed something. S Philbrick(Talk) 12:12, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Sphilbrick thanks very much for flagging this, just to make sure its clear for others, you're referring to The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024. We noticed this issue recently, its a error in the metadata software, its going to be fixed soon. The license is actually CC BY 4.0 which you can find on the last page of the pdf itself. Thanks again, John Cummings (talk) 13:13, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Women in Red – August 2026

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--Chocmilk03 (talk 21:43, 30 July 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Copyright of UN research publications

Hello John! I attended your session at Wikimania. I really enjoyed it! Now I have a question: I’ve seen the following copyright notice in several UN publications: “This work is available under an open access licence in accordance with the Creative Commons licence created for intergovernmental organisations, available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/” For example, in this publication: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4121168?ln=en&v=pdf. My reading of this is that we are not permitted to transfer content from these sources to Wikipedia or Commons, as we use the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence there, which permits commercial use. Isn’t this a contradiction, and are we actually allowed to use all publications from UN organisations in Wikimedia projects? What do I need to bear in mind? Best regards, Psittacuso (talk) 16:48, 4 August 2026 (UTC)