Over the years, I’ve had a number of blogs and websites. Some of them were reasonably popular, some of them were basically unknown and unheralded.

Though I’ve only had WhollyRoaminCatholic.com up for a few days, I get the modest impression that this site might attract some traffic & interest.

So let’s discuss cross-posting or reproduction of this site: basically, if you want to quote on your blog, go ahead. Frankly, the World Wide Web is basically the Wild Wild West and it’d be hard to enforce a “don’t quote me” policy. And really, who writes a blog and asks for no recognition? I mean, really?

But if you’re going to quote from this site, just attend to these two basic rules:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/

(1) Attribute it correctly
Blog: a link to the permalink would be satisfactory. For example: if you were quoting this site, you would also include a link to <http://whollyroamincatholic.com/2008/04/wherein_we_discuss_attribution.html>.
MLA: Walberg, Joe. “Wherein we discuss attribution.” Wholly Roamin’ Catholic. 7 Apr. 2008. WhollyRoaminCatholic.com. (date accessed). <http://whollyroamincatholic.com/2008/04/wherein_we_discuss_attribution.html>.
APA: Walberg, Joe. Wholly Roamin’ Catholic. (2008, April 7). Wherein we discuss attribution. Retrieved (date retrived), from <http://whollyroamincatholic.com/2008/04/wherein_we_discuss_attribution.html>.
Chicago: Walberg, Joe. Wherein we discuss attribution. [updated 7 April 2008; cited (date accessed)]. Available from <http://whollyroamincatholic.com/2008/04/wherein_we_discuss_attribution.html>.

(2) Don’t change stuff
Please don’t put words into my mouth, er, text. It’s one thing to notate a blog in the style of good Fr. Zuhlsdorf with (emphases and comments), but please don’t change the original text when you share it. I carefully compose most of the posts on this blog and usually go through a fair amount of re-writing to get things to say what I want them to say.

I should also note that I am not a theologian or formally educated in Catholic issues. So, take care with what you post and how you use this site. It’s mostly my impressions of the world, and of questionably academic value. But I’ve learned that when you put something up for the Google to find, people use your work indiscriminately; hopefully I can minimize the damage of misuse and still be a good voice of a lay Catholic’s view from the pew.