User talk:Hipdadiddy
Copyright problem: Pierce Transit
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Pierce Transit, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.piercetransit.org/history.htm, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Note from Atomic Taco: While you claim to be PT's webmaster, the copyright is owned by PT, and not you, even though you may have written it. If possible, you can license the work such that it is available for use elsewhere, such as a GFDL or Creative Commons SA license. ~ Atomic Taco (talk) 05:30, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with Image:Vsww monastery.jpg
[edit]Thank you for uploading Image:Vsww monastery.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI 02:28, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Copyright violation in Vedanta Society of Western Washington
[edit]Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Vedanta Society of Western Washington, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Vedanta Society of Western Washington is unquestionably copyright infringement, and no assertion of permission has been made.
To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Vedanta Society of Western Washington, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. CSDWarnBot 00:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)