Wikinews:Citation guidelines

Wikinews uses a Creative Commons license for the majority of content. The specific license is CC-BY; put simply, you may reuse content as you see fit. The sole proviso is that you must credit text content you copy to Wikinews.

The key exceptions to this are:


 * Content created on or before September 25, 2005 - this is Public domain
 * Media files (pictures, audio, and video) - these are separately licensed or may be fair use

= How to attribute a citation from Wikinews =


 * Mention the license
 * Mention Wikinews
 * Link to (or printed) http://www.wikinews.org
 * Link to (or printed URL of) cited article

= How to check a media file (picture, audio, and video) =