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Text and/or other creative content from Open content was copied or moved into Free content with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.
A successor project is one that completely takes over from the first project. More than once here, there's mention of Creative Commons "successor projects", which is impossible because Creative Commons is still operating. I'm sure those projects belong in the article, but there needs to be a better descriptive word for them. TooManyFingers (talk) 21:22, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Requested move 6 March 2022
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Oppose per Google Ngrams, pageviews (1,800 for free, 130 for open yesterday) and Google search (15 billion hits for free content, but 10 billion for open content). Oh, and this time the pageviews have a lower margin of error; Google shows different Knowledge Engine links for free and open content searches. 🐶 EpicPupper(he/him | talk)03:21, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per EpicPupper, also Wikidata will show that the vast majority of other language wikis appear to use words that translate to "free" and I have not found a mention of "open" yet. Our title policies tend to lean more toward actual usage than interpretation of definitions. ASUKITE00:39, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Definition of free cultural works
The lead confidently asserts that free content are things that meet freedomdefined.org's definition of a free cultural work, with a primary source citation that just links to that definition. It may be how we define it, but is it really the one agreed-upon definition? I don't think it is.Snowmanonahoe (talk·contribs·typos) 14:12, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
For being permanently linked on the main page, this article in general is... not very good. I have no idea where to start improving it though. Frankly, I wonder whether it's even notable. Snowmanonahoe (talk·contribs·typos) 14:27, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, Snowmanonahoe, that the article is not very good. It is outdated in so many ways. I cleaned up some minor formatting and grammar errors today, but that isn't the real problem. So very many things have changed since 2010-2015 which is when the article had more relevance.--FeralOink (talk) 18:55, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I reduced some of the emphasis on the Free Cultural Knowledge definition, and managed to rework the Open Content section into just a general History section. The problem is that is still way out of date, and at least 40% of the article is just cited to Richard Stallman and the Open Content Project, and so on. The article needs more secondary sources rather than just so many projects. Mrfoogles (talk) 23:23, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A better short definition in the lead is still needed. Currently we still have the Free Cultural Knowledge project's definition, even if it's not attributed as the objectively correct one, because I don't have a citation for any other ones. Probably there's a paper somewhere. Mrfoogles (talk) 23:25, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]