Template talk:Self2

I reverted Jeanot's recent changes. In my browser (Firefox) they made the template go below the EXIF box, instead of floating beside it.

As an example, Image:Bolton Abbey 7.jpg contains {{self2|...}}{{featured picture}}. It's nice if these two template boxes are the same width, and appear beside the EXIF box, instead of below it. dbenbenn | talk 23:36, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Change: add name explicitly

I, the author of this work, hereby publish ...

why can we not have

I, //Name or Username or both //, the author of this work, hereby publish ...

This would be standard in legal written documents (in the UK, for sure). Otherwise you have to refer elsewhere in the page to see who uploaded the image or other material in the first place. Edited versions may become ambiguous, surely? LoopZilla 08:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with that as long as it's made an optional parameter, so it doesn't break all the existing uses of this template. Sometimes the author is explicitly mentioned elsewhere, eg if the uploader is using Template:Information. I rather like Template:PD-user-wikimedia, but Template:PD-author is a simpler option to copy. pfctdayelise (translate?) 09:52, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

A template {{User2}} would be nice if the user's name can be inserted automatically, so the template can be used in the license selector on the upload page. Last time I checked, subst was not supported on MediaWiki:Licenses, though. -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 10:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Check again: the top line of MediaWiki:Licenses is "subst:nld". It's possible to automatically insert the user's signature (either ~~~ or ~~~~, via an extremely evil hack) but I don't know of any way to insert the uploader's name. User:dbenbenn 12:38, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

neat :) In that case, perhaps the self- and self2 templates should be changed to be used with subst, so the just generate an entry for {{User2}} or something. -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 12:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

What's user2 supposed to be (red link)? User:dbenbenn 17:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

By the way, now writing {{subst:username}} is equivalent to writing ~~~. Not sure how that will interact with the license selector feature ... User:dbenbenn 18:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

A possibly better method is {{subst:username2|~}}, which has the benefits that it doesn't use a metatemplate, and it can be edited. User:dbenbenn 18:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I added it, the syntaxe is :

{{Self2|first license|second license|author=name of the author}}

The parameter author is optional, and without it the template looks the same as before. BenduKiwi [ | φ] - 23:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

The wording doesn't make sense with the username listed: "I, Borb, hereby license it". What is it. I have made a new template at Template:Self2-name where you can put your name like this

{{Self2-name|first license|second license|name}}

-- Borb 11:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Attribution requiered

You need to add to the template that attribution is rewuiered and write this explicitly. People may not read the GFDL terms and just regard this as a free image without giving proper credit. MathKnight 16:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Just a correction: Attribution isn't necessary in the case of PD of course. But it is only hypothetical situation: self2 takes two licenses.

Fred Chess 16:21, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Attribution required is not something for the general template, but for each license template itself. People might for example want to dual license it cc-nc and cc-by: you may use it commercially but you then need to attribute me. -- Bryan (talk to me) 22:12, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

oops - I just accidentally reverted freds last edit (now the statement about attribution is gone again). I was looking at the diff and pondering if this is a good idea - and clicked the wrong link. sorry again for that - but i decided to not re-revert myself, since its heavily used, and because I can stand by the version without "attribution required" for two reasons:

• Attribution may not be a requirement of the licenses given. Attribution of the author and a link to the description page on commons should always be encouraged, though.
• People reusing content must always read the license text. Making it "easier" for them only leads to less people reading the actual license.

If you must, roll back to fred's version for the sake of it. Regards -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 22:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

author argument

The author argument does not link the author's user page or have correct grammar ("publish" should be "publishes"). No big deal, but would be nice. Thanks. Dcoetzee 02:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)