Talk:United Nations General Assembly Resolution 31/72

On MadmanBot's notice

In contrary to what MadamBots suggests I have not referred to atomicarchive.com as indicated in the reference section of the article. The two references used are from the Government (U.S. Department of State) and Intergovernmental Organization (UN Office in Geneva) sources with public domain status. I believe the site in question (atomicarchive.com) has made a perfect copy of that of the U.S. Department of State.--Etranger (talk) 05:16, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Etranger. Thank you for explaining the origin of the text - makes things on our end a lot easier. :) I just wanted to let you know that in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism there's some annotation that needs doing when you copy content from a public domain source. It's really helpful in avoiding misunderstandings, since there are a lot of people who reuse government content.

Unfortunately, though, the UN is not public domain. I wish they were, but for some reason they choose to reserve copyright. If you click the "copyright" status at the bottom of http://www.unog.ch/enmod, you'll see "Copyright © United Nations 2009". Their terms explicitly forbid non-commercial use and modification. :( The article contains some close paraphrasing from that UN source and needs to be modified to comply with our copyright policies. Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing includes some suggestions for how this is done.

Beyond that, every quotation needs an inline citation per policy - Wikipedia:Verifiability says "All quotations, and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material." I see there are quite a few quotes in this page. Can you please add inline citations for those so that we can retain them? :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:58, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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