Noah Kastin

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 05:40, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

CC 3.0 unported changed to CC 4.0

This cannot be done. See the Compatible Licenses page. I see that you asked at the help desk and someone told you it was alright however, I have changed the license and attribution to better reflect the work I put into creating that original SVG of the stork (that took me hours sir) and stay within the copyright of the commons license;

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This is not your own work sir. It is a copy of the work of several people for whom you did not give proper attribution to. I believe the authorship is not yours as you did little more than adapt the work with no additional original input. --Mark Miller (talk) 18:43, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

@Mark Miller: Thank you for fixing the attribution! I apologize for mismanaging it, and will try not to do so in the future.

Unfortunately, I can't find an appropriate guideline to help me figure out what attribution to give. If you can help me do so, I would greatly appreciate that!

Would it be acceptable for me to tweak the wording slightly on the attribution? The specific change I have in mind is to change "Created by Amadscientist adapted/altered by Noah Kastin" to "Created by Amadscientist and adapted/altered by Noah Kastin". Would it be reasonable for me to do that?

Again, thank you for fixing the attribution, and I sincerely apologize for not giving attribution where attribution was due.

Noah Kastin (talk) 08:53, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

The wording you suggest is fine. Please understand that anytime someone takes the work of another on Commons, attribution is more important than almost anything else. Even a public domain work must be attributed to the proper people. With CC3.0 unported it is always best to keep that license with future works.--Mark Miller (talk) 19:14, 7 August 2017 (UTC)