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History of South Africa in the apartheid era[edit]

I would like to know what I should do to bring this up to FA standard. Alr 15:34, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Disclaimer: I've worked on this article. The article only has two footnotes; it would be more typical for an FA on a historical topic to have 30 or 40. Someone needs to go to the District Six museum and get a copyright-free photo of the yellow "for use by white persons" sign. The maps from the University of Texas are claimed to be PD because they're products of the federal government, but I don't see any evidence of that on the UT web site, which specifically says at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/usage_statement.html that many of the materials are copyrighted. Some of the images are under noncommercial use licenses, which is a problem. Although it is possible to have an FA contain one or two images used under fair use, they would have to meet the criteria given at Wikipedia:Fair use, and the sheer number of images with copyright issues in this article is going to be a big problem. This article consists mainly of material from History of South Africa, merged with the former Apartheid article (now redirected). History of South Africa was nominated for FA twice, and failed both times, for exactly these reasons: footnotes and copyrights. --Bcrowell 16:09, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was under the impression that the maps on that site were PD unless marked otherwise, according to their FAQ. Alr 16:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Most of the SA maps were produced by the CIA. Alr 16:16, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The image's description page needs to have enough information to convince other people that the copyright info is correct.--Bcrowell 18:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if it would be OK to import material from the Library of Congress country study on South Africa, which as, to my knowlege, PD? Alr 17:36, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think in general any product of the federal government is PD, except in cases where it was created by a contractor for the government.--Bcrowell 18:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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