Take These Maps: Reuse and Image Credits

The maps are meant to travel. A teacher or a podcast writer can use them under the terms below. Which terms apply depends on where an item came from, and the credit beneath every image says which case it is.

Diagrams and data tables

This site’s own crossing maps, timelines, vote charts, tallies and comparison charts are released under CC BY 4.0. So are its CSV data tables. Each figure has a credit line that can be copied as it stands:

"{Figure title}" by Persuasion Dissected — {canonical article URL} — licensed CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

CC BY 4.0 lets anyone copy, adapt and republish these figures, including commercially, as long as the credit is given and any changes are indicated. An adapted figure should say that it was changed, so that the change is not read as this site’s claim.

Fill in the figure’s title and the address of the article it appears in. A link back to that article is the expected way of crediting and a welcome one, and it is not a condition beyond what CC BY itself asks.

The license reaches only this site’s own layer. Where a figure sits on a third-party base image, its credit says Own layer only; base image: and names that image, which keeps its own terms.

A CSV table holds single facts, each row with its source, and comes with a short file describing it. CC BY covers this site’s selection and arrangement. It adds no rights over the sources, and any rights in a source stay with it.

Illustrations

An image labeled Illustration carries this line:

Illustration: Persuasion Dissected. Generated schematic illustration — not a photograph or historical record. Reuse: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), to the extent any rights exist.

If you reuse one, keep that line with it, so nobody mistakes it for a picture of what actually happened.

Third-party images

Paintings, prints, photographs and document scans follow their own terms, not this site’s. Their credits name the work, the creator and the source page, then one of the following:

• Public domain, with the basis stated: for example, the creator’s death year and the publication year, holding in both the United States and the European Union.
• CC0 or the Public Domain Mark, as stated by the source.
• CC BY, which requires crediting the creator.
• CC BY-SA, which also requires that adaptations carry a compatible license. Items under this license appear only in article bodies. They are not used for article cards or sharing images, and this site’s CC BY does not replace their terms.

Where no openly licensed image could be found for an article, its sources say No openly licensed image located, and a diagram built from the record carries that point. Any crop or other change is listed in the credit. Before reusing one of these images, check the source page it links to, since a public domain status can differ outside the places named in the credit.

Fonts

Headings use Forum, body text uses Gentium Book Plus, and data uses Inconsolata. All three are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Citing a page

Each article ends with a Cite this page block giving the site name, the title, the publication date, the date of the last substantive revision and the permanent address. Add the date you accessed the page. This site does not issue DOIs, so please do not add one. If a cited page later changes, its revision date moves and the change is listed on the corrections page.

How figures and sources are chosen is on Stone by Stone. To question a credit, see Approach the Bench.