User talk:DarthTed

Renegade Rugby

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Renegade Rugby, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.oldgreyrugby.com/Club_History.htm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 12:07, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Renegade Rugby

A tag has been placed on Renegade Rugby requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Xdenizen (talk) 12:14, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I did not ignore the hangon notice. I read your explanation and decided that it was not enough to prevent deletion. There are multiple issues with Renegade Rugby as you created it. The most obvious is that it is a clear copyright violation. We cannot ignore copyright violations just because you make a claim that you grant permission. There is no way to know if you are the copyright holder or not. To grant permission we would need the copyright holder to release the work under an appropriate license. The best way to do this would be to tag the original webpage with the license that it is being released under. We obviously can't just accept any editor's word that they are the copyright holder while a clear statement of copyright exists on the original material, if we did anyone could make such a claim for any work and we would not be able to obey the law on copyrights.

Assuming you are the copyright holder and make the change, we would still require that the text undergo major revision before it could be accepted in a Wikipedia article. In its current state it clearly does not meet our policies on maintaining a neutral point of view and its is not verifiable because it does not have any independent, published sources for the content. I'd recommend you read those two policies before attempting to recreate the article - even after you have resolved the copyright issue. Best, Gwernol 12:36, 4 March 2008 (UTC)