Template talk:Editnotices/Page/MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright
Template-protected edit request on 6 April 2024
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Please add the following message:
 | PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT FIRST CONSULTING WMF LEGAL!
This message documents the copyright status of all pages on the English Wikipedia. Editing this message can have serious legal ramifications if you are not careful. While minor changes to grammar may be acceptable, substantial edits should first be suggested to legal wikimedia.org for approval. |  |
The reason is this is one of a few pages (one of the others being MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning) that must be kept in sync with WMF policy. Unlike the other message I linked, this one is not office protected, but it would still be a great idea to consult legal before editing. It also serves to provide additional context for those who do not understand what this documents.
If needbe you can ask a Wikimedia Foundation staff to get this message approved. Awesome Aasim 17:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Not done: This edit notice could make the reader think WMF has asked for suggestions to be emailed to the legal department. It would be better for suggestions to be made initially on the talk page, with WMF being consulted if and when it seems appropriate to an interface admin watching the page/responding to an edit request. MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright cannot even be edited by regular admins (rather than interface admins) since it is an interface message that is raw HTML, so I would just assume the competence of interface admins not to make imprudent unilateral changes to a copyright/TOS notice. SilverLocust 💬 20:58, 6 April 2024 (UTC) (edited)
