Talk:God's Own Country

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Although the NZ govt holds the copyright for Bracken's best know work (God Defend New Zealand) I have been unable to find any copyright claims to God's Own Country. The Victorian Copyright Concil has advised me it has no record of any such copyright still being held. The Copyright Council Of New Zealand is still searching. I will post the words of the poem if their search remains negative. Moriori 08:27, Jan 25, 2004 (UTC)

Please don't. Wikipedia is not a collection of source texts. RickK 08:36, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

OK. Then you have no objection to me deleting the Star Spangled Banner? In the context of the widely used phrase God's Own Country, the words/sentiments of the original poem of that name deserve consideration for publication in wiki IMMHO. Moriori 08:43, Jan 25, 2004 (UTC)

We seem to have made an exception for national anthems. You could put the text into the Wikisource. RickK 09:33, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

So then is it correct for me to assume that the Star Spangled Banner is only on Wikicource and is not anywhere in Wikipedia???? Mathmo

Contents 1 Nice 2 Australia 3 Yorkshire 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Gods own country.jpg

[edit] Nice

... "Just leaving for God's own country," he wrote. He never made it, dying the next day on the ship Oswestry Grange., is one of the most moving sentences I've ever read on Wikipedia. I'll be killing cats if I find out one day that it was copyvio'd.  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  16:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

What happened to the New Zealand references - I know the Indians would like to have exclusive advertising rights here however: "godzone country" in a Google search will show the high relevance of the New Zealand reference. Could someone please revert the page back to the more detailed version?

[edit] Australia

What is the basis of the "notably Australia" in the first paragraph? I've lived in Australia for over 60 years, and I've never encountered God's Own Country and Godzone used for anywhere apart from NZ and the USA. JimBreen 06:33, 20 June 2007 (UTC) Thanks.

[edit] Yorkshire

>In the United Kingdom the phrase is used by people from Yorkshire to describe that county, sometimes substituting the word county for country.

What rot, no ever says God's Own County. This is a Yorkshire phrase that must have been co-opted by the Kiwi's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.176.105.40 (talk) 09:38, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Gods own country.jpg

Image:Gods own country.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)