Civicwiki:Disclaimers - Revision history

Jeff: fixing links

2014-06-27T19:10:13Z

fixing links

Jeff at 19:03, 27 June 2014

2014-06-27T19:03:06Z

Jeff at 15:33, 16 May 2014

2014-05-16T15:33:47Z

Jeff at 15:31, 16 May 2014

2014-05-16T15:31:41Z

Jeff at 15:28, 16 May 2014

2014-05-16T15:28:51Z

Jeff at 15:27, 16 May 2014

2014-05-16T15:27:16Z

Jeff at 15:26, 16 May 2014

2014-05-16T15:26:50Z

Jeff: create the page

2014-04-29T18:17:57Z

create the page

Jeff: Created page with "
Civicwiki Makes no Guarantee of Valitidy
''If it seems that we have plag..."

2014-04-29T18:08:28Z

Created page with " <div style="text-align: center; font-size: x-large; padding: 1em;">Civicwiki Makes no Guarantee of Valitidy</div> ''If it seems that we have plag..."

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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: x-large; padding: 1em;">Civicwiki Makes no Guarantee of Valitidy</div>

''If it seems that we have plagiarized the content of these disclaimers from Wikipedia - we freely admit having done so. We have used Wikpedia as a model for our copyright and disclaimer adoptions. We have salved our consciounces for having piggy-backed on their prior work by making such donations as fit within our means to Wikipedia and to the Mediawiki foundation. Should Wikipedia notify us that they are displeased with our having done so - we will change the text of the page.''

Civicwiki is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia; that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.

That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Civicwiki; much of the time you will. However, '''Civicwiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.''' The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields. Note that most other encyclopedias and reference works [[Civicwiki:Non-Civicwiki disclaimers|also have disclaimers]].

=== No formal peer review ===
Our active community of editors uses tools such as the [[Special:Recentchanges]] and [[Special:Newpages]] feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, civicwiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual [[Civicwiki:Peer review|peer review]], they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or [[Civicwiki:Featured articles|''featured article'']] processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.

'''None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators or anyone else connected with Wikipedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.'''

=== No contract; limited license ===
Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual civicwiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in ''any way connected'' with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of civicwiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.

There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Civicwiki''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) and the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] (GFDL); neither is anyone at civicwiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Wikipedia or any of its associated projects.

=== Trademarks ===
Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of civicwiki are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Civicwiki articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated Civicwiki sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such civicwiki cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.

=== Personality rights ===
civicwiki contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [[personality rights]], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. ''You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.''

=== Jurisdiction and legality of content ===
Publication of information found in Civicwiki may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The Civicwiki database is stored on servers in the United States of America, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. civicwiki does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce or republish the information contained herein.

=== Not professional advice ===
Civicwiki does not claim to offer professional advice. Civicwiki disclaims any offer of professional advice. For professional advice, please seek other sources.

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 === No formal peer review ===
-Our active community of editors uses tools such as the [[Special:Recentchanges]] and [[Special:Newpages]] feeds to monitor new and changing content.  However, civicwiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual [[Civicwiki:Peer review|peer review]], they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.  Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or [[Civicwiki:Featured articles|''featured article'']] processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.
+Our active community of editors uses tools such as the [[Special:Recentchanges]] and [[Special:Newpages]] feeds to monitor new and changing content.  However, Civicwiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.  Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or [[Civicwiki:Featured articles|''featured article'']] processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.
 '''None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators or anyone else connected with Wikipedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.'''
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 Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual civicwiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in ''any way connected'' with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of civicwiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.
-There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Civicwiki''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License] (GFDL); neither is anyone at Civicwiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Civicwiki or any of its associated projects.
+There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Civicwiki''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License] (CC-BY-SA) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License] (GFDL); neither is anyone at Civicwiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Civicwiki or any of its associated projects.
 === Trademarks ===
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 === Personality rights ===
-Civicwiki contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently.  The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [[personality rights]], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use.  ''You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.''
+Civicwiki contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently.  The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights personality rights], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use.  ''You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.''
 === Jurisdiction and legality of content ===

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 Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual civicwiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in ''any way connected'' with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of civicwiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.
-There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Civicwiki''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) and the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] (GFDL); neither is anyone at Civicwiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Wikipedia or any of its associated projects.
+There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Civicwiki''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License] (GFDL); neither is anyone at Civicwiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Civicwiki or any of its associated projects.
 === Trademarks ===

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 <!--{{Disclaimer header}}-->
-''If it seems that we have plagiarized the content of these disclaimers from Wikipedia - we admit having done so.  We have used Wikpedia as a model for our copyright and disclaimer adoptions.  We have salved our consciounces for having piggy-backed on their work by making such donations as fit within our means to Wikipedia and to the Mediawiki foundation.  Should Wikipedia ask us to cease and desist - we will change the text of the page.  Further, we link to Wikipedia pages that provide text of the copyright protocols that we have adopted.''
+''If it seems that we have plagiarized these disclaimers from Wikipedia - we admit having done so with minor modification.  We have used Wikpedia as a model for our copyright and disclaimer adoptions.  We have salved our consciounces for having piggy-backed on their work by making such donations as fit within our means to Wikipedia and to the Mediawiki foundation.  Should Wikipedia ask us to cease and desist - we will change the text of the page.  Further, we link to Wikipedia pages that provide text of the copyright protocols that we have adopted.''
 <div style="text-align: center; font-size: x-large; padding: 1em;">Civicwiki Makes no Guarantee of Validity</div>

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 Civicwiki is an online open-content collaborative website for civic considerations as outlined on our [[Civicwiki:About|about]] page; that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common understanding of America as it was envisioned, formed, and what has caused it to thrive. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content.  Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.
-That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Civicwiki; much of the time you will.  However, '''Civicwiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.'''  The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the mission and premises of Civicwiki or the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.
+That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Civicwiki; most of the time you will.  However, '''Civicwiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.'''  The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the mission and premises of Civicwiki or the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.
 === No formal peer review ===

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	''If it seems that we have plagiarized the content of these disclaimers from Wikipedia - we admit having done so. We have used Wikpedia as a model for our copyright and disclaimer adoptions. We have salved our consciounces for having piggy-backed on their work by making such donations as fit within our means to Wikipedia and to the Mediawiki foundation. Should Wikipedia ask us to cease and desist - we will change the text of the page. Further, we link to Wikipedia pages that provide text of the copyright protocols that we have adopted.''		''If it seems that we have plagiarized the content of these disclaimers from Wikipedia - we admit having done so. We have used Wikpedia as a model for our copyright and disclaimer adoptions. We have salved our consciounces for having piggy-backed on their work by making such donations as fit within our means to Wikipedia and to the Mediawiki foundation. Should Wikipedia ask us to cease and desist - we will change the text of the page. Further, we link to Wikipedia pages that provide text of the copyright protocols that we have adopted.''

−	<div style="text-align: center; font-size: x-large; padding: 1em;">Civicwiki Makes no Guarantee of ~~Valitidy~~</div>	+	<div style="text-align: center; font-size: x-large; padding: 1em;">Civicwiki Makes no Guarantee of Validity</div>

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 Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual civicwiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in ''any way connected'' with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of civicwiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.
-There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Civicwiki''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) and the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] (GFDL); neither is anyone at civicwiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Wikipedia or any of its associated projects.
+There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Civicwiki''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) and the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] (GFDL); neither is anyone at Civicwiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Wikipedia or any of its associated projects.
 === Trademarks ===
-Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of civicwiki are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Civicwiki articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated Civicwiki sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such civicwiki cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.
+Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of civicwiki are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Civicwiki articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated Civicwiki sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such Civicwiki cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.
 === Personality rights ===
-civicwiki contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently.  The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [[personality rights]], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use.  ''You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.''
+Civicwiki contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently.  The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [[personality rights]], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use.  ''You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.''
 === Jurisdiction and legality of content ===
-Publication of information found in Civicwiki may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The Civicwiki database is stored on servers in the United States of America, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution.  civicwiki does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce or republish the information contained herein.
+Publication of information found in Civicwiki may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The Civicwiki database is stored on servers in the United States of America, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution.  Civicwiki does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce or republish the information contained herein.
 === Not professional advice ===
 Civicwiki does not claim to offer professional advice.  Civicwiki disclaims any offer of professional advice.  For professional advice, please seek other sources.