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This is a template to indicate the license type, URL and author or authors of material that has been copied into Wikipedia as permitted under a compatible Creative Commons license, and is usually placed in the references section of an article.
To aid with attribution at the end of a few sentences, consider using a general attribution template such as the {{citation-attribution}} template for public-domain sources or {} for compatibly licensed sources, {{Free-content attribution}} which is designed around material with an externally posted license, or use a source-specific attribution ...
{}: a template used on an article's face to note the import of text under CC BY-SA and GFDL evidence should be documented at the talk page of the article, unless the license is clear at the source {{CCBYSASource}}: a template used on an article's face to note the import of text under CC BY-SA only
False attribution may refer to: Misattribution in general, when a quotation or work is accidentally, traditionally, or based on bad information attributed to the wrong person or group A specific fallacy where an advocate appeals to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased, or fabricated source in support of an argument.
Second-century bronze jug held by the British Museum, with false copyright claim, while on loan to Tullie House Museum. A copyfraud is a false copyright claim by an individual or institution with respect to content that is in the public domain. Such claims are unlawful, at least under US and Australian copyright law, because material that is ...
See the next section for more on using attribution templates with compatibly licensed sources; the proper template may vary by the license of the source. The wording of {{ citation-attribution }} , {{ source-attribution }} the first is for use inside in-line citations, the latter for the references section at the bottom.
David Vaver, writing in the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, goes as far as to say that the right to object to false attribution is merely "passing off, writ large". [23] Cornish, Llewelyn and Aplin also note a strong overlap between the rights against false attribution and against derogatory treatment. [24]
When a well-known, professional researcher writing within their field of expertise has produced self-published material, these may be acceptable as sources, so long as their work has been previously published by reliable, third-party publications. Editors should exercise caution for two reasons: first, if the information on the professional ...