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In the coming weeks the moderating and administrative teams will receive training on a new rule that will go into effect on May 1, 2018. Our terms of service and community standards documents will be updated to reflect this simple and easy change.
Many of our TalkWeather members already provide good citation information when posting pictures and reports. Going forward we are making a change to our standards that will make it mandatory to cite your source if you post a picture or graphic or specific information related to a event. For example, if you find a picture of storm related damage and wish to post it, please give credit to the creator of the work or the website where you found it. If you hear a report of storm damage from a local TV station, give credit to the station or met who relayed the information and if they give a source pass that a long as well. If you post a posting from social media you don't have to provide additional information is the post already contains the citation (see examples below).
This change not only provides content creators with the credit they deserve, but it also helps make the information on TalkWeather traceable and also helps make TalkWather a more reliable source of information and allows us to be compliant with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We will actively investigate and respond to any copyright's holders take down requests.
If you have questions please leave them below or feel free to shoot me a PM or e-mail to [email protected]
I've outlined a few examples below:
Picture Citation:
Image: Wes Lyons & Matthew Pylant via AP.com
http://ap.com/image/tag/example
Text Citation:
1054 AM NON-TSTM WND DMG 5 W HOWARD 42.37N 77.61W
04/04/2018 STEUBEN NY 911 CALL CENTER
TREE AND WIRES DOWN IN THE VICINITY 3492 COUNTY ROUTE
70A NEAR HOWARD, NY.
Source: Binghamton, NY NWS Office - Preliminary Storm Reports
https://forecast.weather.gov/produc...M&product=LSR&format=txt&version=1&glossary=0
Social Media Posts:
Do your best to track down the creator of the social media content if the post you are giving doesn't already have the information. If you are using a post by traditional media, as shown below, most have already given credit to the author.
Many of our TalkWeather members already provide good citation information when posting pictures and reports. Going forward we are making a change to our standards that will make it mandatory to cite your source if you post a picture or graphic or specific information related to a event. For example, if you find a picture of storm related damage and wish to post it, please give credit to the creator of the work or the website where you found it. If you hear a report of storm damage from a local TV station, give credit to the station or met who relayed the information and if they give a source pass that a long as well. If you post a posting from social media you don't have to provide additional information is the post already contains the citation (see examples below).
This change not only provides content creators with the credit they deserve, but it also helps make the information on TalkWeather traceable and also helps make TalkWather a more reliable source of information and allows us to be compliant with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We will actively investigate and respond to any copyright's holders take down requests.
If you have questions please leave them below or feel free to shoot me a PM or e-mail to [email protected]
I've outlined a few examples below:
Picture Citation:
Image: Wes Lyons & Matthew Pylant via AP.com
http://ap.com/image/tag/example
Text Citation:
1054 AM NON-TSTM WND DMG 5 W HOWARD 42.37N 77.61W
04/04/2018 STEUBEN NY 911 CALL CENTER
TREE AND WIRES DOWN IN THE VICINITY 3492 COUNTY ROUTE
70A NEAR HOWARD, NY.
Source: Binghamton, NY NWS Office - Preliminary Storm Reports
https://forecast.weather.gov/produc...M&product=LSR&format=txt&version=1&glossary=0
Social Media Posts:
Do your best to track down the creator of the social media content if the post you are giving doesn't already have the information. If you are using a post by traditional media, as shown below, most have already given credit to the author.
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