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If it's clearly applicable to free use, the file should be copied to Commons and nominated for deletion here five days or more after this template has shown on file description page, regardless of its non-free rationale.
This is needed to meet the "appropriate credit" provision of many Creative Commons licenses, which provide (for examples in all of those covered by this template) that: "If supplied, you must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties".
Template to indicate and to give attribution to Creative Commons material has been copied into Wikipedia Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status License type cc The Creative Commons license type Suggested values zero by1 by2 by3 by4 by3au by3cl by3pl by3us bysa2 bysa3 bysa4 Example by4 Unknown suggested URL of source URL The URL of the source page from which ...
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 ...
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.
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]
Two general purpose templates for attributing specific sources where the text has been copied into Wikipedia from a public-domain source: {{citation-attribution}} {{source-attribution}} Three general purpose templates for attributing specific sources where the text has been copied into Wikipedia from a compatibly-licensed source:
False attribution – appealing to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased or fabricated source in support of an argument. Fallacy of quoting out of context (contextotomy, contextomy; quotation mining) – selective excerpting of words from their original context to distort the intended meaning.