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The Citizendium is its own project, and we have a set of goals and an ethos which set us apart from our rivals. Among these is that Citizendium is striving to create the best, most reliable free encyclopedia on the internet.  
Material that did not originate on Citizendium and was created by someone other than the person who wishes to upload it may be imported to Citizendium under certain conditions. These were established by community referendum in June 2012 and appear below:
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However, Citizens are also pragmatic, and we realize that there are cases where it makes sense to use other open (free or public domain) resources to make Citizendium better. Biographical information, for example, will tend to be fairly similar in general reference works. This page is designed to give you some brief guidelines about '''whether''' you are really helping the Citizendium out by importing that article; and to give contributors a place to temporarily upload articles.
==Imports (referendum text)==
The Citizendium community affirms:
* the principles stated at [[CZ:About]], namely that Citizendium ''"is an open wiki project dedicated to creating a free, comprehensive, and reliable repository of structured knowledge."'' and
* the open nature of the project, as indicated by our use of the [[Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0]] licence.


'''The Procedure:'''
The community therefore:
# Notice an article you think might be a good fit for Citizendium.
* rescinds [http://ec.citizendium.org/wiki/EC:R-2010-013/_Importation_of_articles Editorial Council Resolution R-2010-013] of 12th December, 2010;
# Upload the article to this page, so that the URL reads CZ:Import/NEW IMPORT (or whatever). See example at [[CZ:Import/Gesenius]]. Add a link to the article, and, at the first asterisk, explain briefly why you think it makes sense to import it. <nowiki>Sign it with ~~~~.</nowiki>
* affirms that material that complies with our inclusion criteria may be imported into Citizendium, provided it is imported from a source either in the public domain or otherwise compatible with Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 licence;
# Wait a week for feedback from other contributors. In many cases, it will be preferable to actively solicit opinions (with email, on User talk: pages, etc.) than to wait passively for feedback. While you are waiting, it is always a good idea to do your own research. Does the article seem to be consistent with scholarly research on the subject? Are there recent developments the article ignores? And so on.
* encourages citizens who import such material to:
# If you receive feedback, try to work with the other contributor to fix whatever problems the external article might have. If other contributors feel strongly that this article will be more trouble than it's worth, you should strongly consider not importing it.
** convert it to Citizendium standards and style, and
# If you have waited a week and received no feedback, you have a choice. If, having mulled it over for a week, you still feel that the external article will be a valuable addition to Citizendium, do it. (It's not as though Citizendium articles are carved in stone or anything.) However, if you're still not sure, it never hurts to wait, and articles can stay on the Import page indefinitely.  
** work to improve it without undue delay; and
* affirms that where such imported material has not been worked on within 30 days of import, it may be removed, moved to userspace, moved to [[CZ:Cold Storage|Cold Storage]], or otherwise [[CZ:Archived Pages|archived]], at the request of any citizen.


It's important to emphasize that this is a optional, voluntary method to allow contributors to solicit feedback on external articles. Contributors are free to import articles from Wikipedia so long as they follow our [[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles|guidelines]] on the matter.  
''For discussion, see '[[CZ:Election_June_2012/Referenda/2|Referendum 2]]'.''


===Other helpful resources===
 
==See also==
*[[CZ:Import/Gesenius|Example]]
*[[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles]]
*[[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles]]
This is our actual policy on external articles. It's worth emphasizing that few articles from open sources are up to Citizendium standards. Also note that your external article may be deleted if you do not expand or substantially modify it.
*[[CZ:DeWPify]]
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica
Wikipedia's guidelines for importing 1911 Britannica articles. Helpful, particularly as concerns the many biases and factual problems of the 1911 Britannica.
 
 
==Nominated External Articles: Add your article down here==
 
[[CZ:Import/Gesenius]]
*As far as I can tell, this is a pretty solid article from the 1911 Britannica on an important early [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] linguist. [[User:Brian P. Long|Brian P. Long]] 01:14, 11 August 2008 (CDT)
 
[[CZ:Import/Böhtlingk]]
*An article about another important early orientalist. [[User:Brian P. Long|Brian P. Long]] 02:19, 11 August 2008 (CDT)
 
[[CZ:Import/Bopp]]
*Yet another orientalist... [[User:Brian P. Long|Brian P. Long]] 02:19, 11 August 2008 (CDT)


[[CZ:Import/George Croom Robertson]]
{{Content Policy}}
*A Scottish philosopher (1842-1892). I think that for well-known philosophers we should probably craft them ourselves, but for minor figures pulling them from 1911 Britannica is fine. --[[User:Tom Morris|Tom Morris]] 06:54, 11 August 2008 (CDT)
**I suppose it ''is'' fine, but only because the potential damage is minimized by the fact that hardly anybody knows enough about the topic to be able to detect even obvious errors.  Never heard of George Croom Robertson, and I thought I knew a thing or two about Scottish philosophy. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 09:45, 11 August 2008 (CDT)
**Hey Tom and Larry-- I've been poking around, and it does seem like there has been almost no recent substantive scholarship on Croom Robertson. I have turned up a couple of assessments of his career, though: one in the 85th (Jan 1976) issue of ''Mind'' (as well as one in the 35th (Oct 1926)); the 2004 entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; and one in a series called "Portraits of pioneers in psychology" (which I don't have access to).  The entry in the DNB and the articles in Mind should help us balance out whatever biases the Britannica might have-- I'm looking forward to reading it when you put it up here. Have you thought about doing the same for [[Alexander Bain]], Croom Robertson's mentor? [[User:Brian P. Long|Brian P. Long]] 10:02, 11 August 2008 (CDT)

Latest revision as of 08:10, 6 April 2015

Material that did not originate on Citizendium and was created by someone other than the person who wishes to upload it may be imported to Citizendium under certain conditions. These were established by community referendum in June 2012 and appear below:

Imports (referendum text)

The Citizendium community affirms:

  • the principles stated at CZ:About, namely that Citizendium "is an open wiki project dedicated to creating a free, comprehensive, and reliable repository of structured knowledge." and
  • the open nature of the project, as indicated by our use of the Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 licence.

The community therefore:

  • rescinds Editorial Council Resolution R-2010-013 of 12th December, 2010;
  • affirms that material that complies with our inclusion criteria may be imported into Citizendium, provided it is imported from a source either in the public domain or otherwise compatible with Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 licence;
  • encourages citizens who import such material to:
    • convert it to Citizendium standards and style, and
    • work to improve it without undue delay; and
  • affirms that where such imported material has not been worked on within 30 days of import, it may be removed, moved to userspace, moved to Cold Storage, or otherwise archived, at the request of any citizen.

For discussion, see 'Referendum 2'.


See also


Citizendium Content Policy
Approval Standards | Article Mechanics | Subpages | Importing material from other sources | Citable articles

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