Where a note came from, and what you may do with it

The Copyright policy requires an uploader to declare where material came from when it is not their own work, and to name a licence where one exists. That declaration was being collected and then never shown, which made it useless in both directions: a reader could not tell whether they were allowed to reuse a file, and a rights holder looking at their own material had nothing to check against.

Notes now carry a provenance notice. Curriculum material says so. Work that is the contributor’s own but cites sources says so. Material shared with a rights holder’s permission says so, and names the holder and the source where they were given. Where a licence was declared — a government publication, one of the Creative Commons licences, public domain, or permission held — the notice says what that licence permits in a sentence rather than an abbreviation.

Two cases deliberately render nothing. A note written by the person who uploaded it needs no notice, because the default is already obvious. And a note whose origin nobody declared gets nothing at all, rather than a default line — inventing a licence statement would be publishing a claim about somebody else’s copyright that no one made.

Two title faults were fixed alongside it: subject pages had lost the class from their titles, so several read as though they applied to every level at once, and some titles were printing the brand name twice.