Community Central talk:Terms of use

This page should be protected, IMHO. --Ellmist 17:45, 13 Dec 2004 (PST)

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Somewhere between signing up with a new account and making an edit, a user should be prompted to accept the Terms of use. An anonymous editer should be shown a link and a checkbox demanding that "you agree with the Terms of Use" before allowing an edit.

''Wikicities is a hosting provider, and takes no responsibility for the content uploaded by third parties. Wikicities will act to remove copyright violations in a timely manner following the receipt of a DMCA takedown request. '' - should include a link to relevent copyright agent info

''All Wikicities shall remain publicly viewable and editable unless Wikicities chooses to remove a Wikicity. Wikicity pages should only be protected for administrative reasons or in cases of extreme vandalism or edit warring.'' This seems to be placing limitations on our own conduct, which is probably undesirable in a Terms of Use contract. Strictures should limit what we are required to do not what we are allowed to do.

In cases where it is legal to do so, the content will be made available as a database dump for download for a period after the wiki is closed. - similarly, this imposes an obligation on us. We are willing to do this, but we should not use legal sounding language to state we shall do it.

In the advertising section, there is no need to mention Google specifically.

TimShell 15:53, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)