If what you're wanting to do is prepare the pages for later release as publicly editable wiki pages then the easiest solution is to edit them on your PC using a plain text editor such as gedit then copy and paste it into the wiki when you're ready. There'll just be fixing up wiki markup typos and uploading the photos to do online. Our admins are overworked and overcommited volunteers and it is much friendlier to the Trisquel project to do this than take up their time when you can easily avoid it.

I'm afraid it isn't enough that the program source code be free software for a listing of it to be allowed. Trisquel is an FSF approved distro which means all content, including the website has to comply with the FSF Guidelines for Free System Distributions. Lack of resources means it isn't much policed on this forums, but it does apply. The GFSD is here:

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

The most pertinent paragraph with additional limits is:

A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so. The system should have no repositories for nonfree software and no specific recipes for installation of particular nonfree programs. Nor should the distribution refer to third-party repositories that are not committed to only including free software; even if they only have free software today, that may not be true tomorrow. Programs in the system should not suggest installing nonfree plugins, documentation, and so on.

So from a quick look at your page whose url ends /software I find.

Your references to third party repos on the page behind the S3TC link are not allowed unless they have a published GFSD commitment as Trisquel does. Nor is the listing of The Dark Mod because the data is CC BY-NC-SA and the NC in a CC license makes it nonfree. Ortho Robot the same.

Similarly Katawa Shoujo has a CC license with NC, and ND which also makes a CC license non-free. Further being able to reverse compile the binary is not having the source which is required for the executable to be free. The license is permissive, and so the program can become non-free in this fashion.

All the code executed must be free, so jDownloader has non-free code parts and is therefore unlistable. Similarly, Doom 3 BFG Edition requires non-free code to install it, and the install process is included in all code. And lastly PCSX2's PS2 BIOS is non-free code, the fact it is executed by the emulator is irrelevant it is still executed, so that has to go too.

A suggestion would be to change your license links to use the gnu.org free software license summary page hash link for the license in question. The page is THE authorititive source on licenses that are known to be free. Linking it will save your readers a lot of reading. The actual license text is linked from the entry name. Here's the hash link for Expat.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat

Lastly the statement about it being a part of your personal profile at the top of the page doesn't communicate what you have said in your post. Given the public editing nature of wikis it would be better to just have a notice saying it is work in progress and please message you with an explanation of why something was edited because if you don't know why you might well just revert it.

If, on the other hand, that is the correct version of what you intend then Trisquel only provides one profile page per user. There's no rule stopping you using the wiki for additional pages even though it is unusual to say the least, but equally there's no rule stopping someone disregarding your wishes and editing it. As the Trisquel Community Guidelines point out, social norms differ. Bad manners and arrogance are common misunderstandings of someone from another culture, region or country so we can't legislate against the real thing.

That said Trisquel Community Guidelines also say no personal attacks, regretably Lembas isn't the only one who disregards this.

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