User talk:Bobconsidine

September 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. One or more of the external links you added in this edit to Platform tennis do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. You may wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 12:37, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in this edit to Platform tennis. Inappropriate links include links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that serve as advertising or promotion. Thank you. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 12:51, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

December 2008

Thank you for your note. You have a reply. Should you by chance not return to view it within a week, please look for your answer in recent archives. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Platform tennis update

Hello. The Communications Committee has not yet logged an OTRS ticket number on this article verifying receipt of permission. I just wanted to let you know that we usually allow 7 days from the date of the sending of the letter before deleting material. If you are in communication with the individuals who sent letters, you may wish to verify that the letters have been sent, that they include the name of the Wikipedia article, a link to the source material online and that they are issued from an address associated with the website. If they are compliant in all these regards and have not heard back from an OTRS volunteer, they may wish to resend those letters, in case they've been lost in transmission. Unfortunately with the way the system works, it's not always easy to resolve problems when the e-mail permission process goes awry. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:10, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I just wanted to update you by noting that the article has again been deleted since there's been nothing forthcoming from the Communications Committee and no further communication about this. This deletion is not necessarily permanent; the article will be restored if a proper permission letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. If you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost).

As Wikipedia does not require proof of identity on account creation, it is essential that we receive external proof of authorization in order to ensure that we remain compliant with US Copyright law. It is also essential that we verify that copyright holders understand the extent of the release they are authorizing, in that GFDL permits modification and reuse in any forum, even commercial publication, as long as authorship credit is maintained.

If for some reason the copyright holders have chosen not to verify, it is, of course, entirely appropriate for you to create a new article on this subject with original language.

If you'd like to discuss this further, please feel free to let me know at my talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Platform Tennis

The subject Platform Tennis has been deleted (I believe in December 2008) due to a supposed copyright violation in the history portion of the entry. The history used was from a informational packet about the sport and was for common use. The copyright was mistakenly assumed to belong to Bulletworks Platform Tennis which had a .pdf of the packet posted on their website. I am looking for the proper way to restore "Platform Tennis" as it has been a sport existing for over 75 years and played by over 200,000 people. can you please advise on how to go about doing so. Thank you Bobconsidine (talk) 13:15, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are two options here. The first would be to write a new article on the subject using entirely original language. Previously published sources should be used to verify information, but not a source of text. The second is to verify permission as previously set out (but do note that since we last spoke, our licensing requirements have changed. The material must be licensed at least compatibly with WP:CC-By-SA in order for us to use it. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission). Verification is necessary no matter who first published it. All creative text is protected by copyright under US law unless it is explicitly released, copyright expired or ineligible, as with US Federal government works. If Bulletworks Platform Tennis is not the originator of the text, permission must come from the author of the informational packet. If the informational packet cannot be proven to predate the Bulletworks Platform Tennis website pdf, then we will need them to verify that they do not assert copyright. Since you do seem to go quite some time between edits, I'll duplicate this on your talk page to be sure that you can easily find it. Please let me know at my talk page if you have any questions. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:29, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that very little of the article seems to have been original. Much of it duplicates other web pages, such as this page and this one. It looks as though websites dedicated to this sport freely pass around text, which isn't going to make determining the point of origin easy. The only other content in the article is the opening three sentences. If you'd like this, I can "userfy" them for you in your user space for further development once I've identified who authored them. Please just let me know. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:42, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The content has been placed at User talk:Bobconsidine/Sandbox. I would recommend expanding it before putting it into article space. When it's ready, it will need to be moved, not copied and pasted in order to retain credit to the contributors whose words are being used. If you need help with that, let me know; whenever you're ready, I can move it for you.

At this point, I'd say it's up to you whether you wish to verify permission or have the material rewritten. If you decide to go for permission, please be sure that the e-mail address used to contact the Wikimedia Foundation can be clearly associated with the copyright holder. The consent form Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries contains all necessary information, except that it will probably also be necessary to explain the convoluted history of this material...who wrote it, where it was first published, who owns copyright and is verifying license. If the letter isn't clear, the volunteer who responds to the e-mail should explain what more is necessary. There's generally a backlog of about a week in processing these permissions. If you decide to have somebody rewrite it, just please ask them to be sure to use their own language to avoid creating a derivative work and to cite their sources. The ones that were previously used should be fine; just a matter of referencing them. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:07, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Paddleequiptmentsm.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Paddleequiptmentsm.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 15:11, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Paddleequiptment.jpg listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Paddleequiptment.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Jon Kolbert (talk) 17:05, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]