Last modified: 2006-04-07 14:10:09 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ruled_hyperboloid.jpg I uploaded this picture, with copyright information saying that the head of the math department at the University of Arizona had granted a GNU Free Documentation License for all pictures found at a specified website, and I gave the URL for that site. I don't think I was warned before I clicked on "save", that the information I entered would get truncated, so that it says: "GNU Free Documentation License granted by Prof. William McCallum, head of the department, for all picture" where it should have said: "GNU Free Documentation License granted by Prof. William McCallum, head of the department, for all pictures at http://math.arizona.edu/~models" And I don't see anything on the image page that enables me to edit the notice further.
Click "edit this page".
"Edit this page" DID NOT WORK the first time I tried it. NOW I click on that, and I find all of the copyright information, but what appears when I view the page itself is the truncated version. I'm going to edit to fit it into the space allowed. Still, there should be a warning that it will get truncated. This information is important.
It still doesn't work!! I edited the copyright information to make it short enough to fit. But when I view the image page, and reload, I still see the original truncated notice.
Looks fine to me. There shouldn't be a warning about truncation because truncation shouldn't happen.
I now see that the correct information is under "summary", but the original truncated notice is under "file history". People reading the truncated version may be led to think a license has been granted for all pictures on the department's web pages, rather than those under a specified URL. Is there any way to edit the TRUNCATED copyright information in the "file history" section?
No, that's an upload comment. You cannot edit it ever, it's an event-specific one-time comment, like all edit comments. I'm duping this to 2537; preview and separation of the existing *comment* field from a potential full description field. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2537 ***
... and the danger of misunderstanding persists. Usually edit comments are not made so conspicuous, right there on the page that was edited. What if the edit comments upon creation of a new Wikipedia article were always displayed conspicuously on the page, and could never be altered?
