User talk:Mlou

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Mlou, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Zpb52 19:37, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Hicks biography from OnSoundandMusic.com[edit]

Hi - If you can substantiate the permission you referred to when you added the content from OnSoundandMusic.com it'd be fine to add it back to the article. Please see my comments at Talk:John Hicks (jazz pianist). Note that permission means the text is released under the terms of the GFDL. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:45, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The best form for confirmation of this permission to be granted is to post it at OnSoundandMusic.com. The copyright notice at http://www.onsoundandmusic.com/issues/0408/0408-hicks.html currently says "Copyright 2003 OS&M. All Rights Reserved." To release it for use by Wikipedia, it must either be released into the public domain (i.e. all rights released) or released under the GFDL or terms compatible with the GFDL. I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know this means:

The text may be freely redistributed and used.
It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely redistributed and used.
Any redistribution must include the full text of the GFDL itself.
In all cases, the GFDL requires proper attribution of the author(s).
The GFDL allows commercial re-uses.

If you release the text under GFDL you still own the rights and are free to publish the text yourself elsewhere and even license it to others under different terms.

All Wikipedia text content, with no exceptions, is licensed under GFDL so there is no option to license the text for use only by Wikipedia. Any text that appears in Wikipedia is freely available to anyone to republish in original or modified form (even for commercial use) so long as they also license it under GFDL terms.

If all of this is OK with you, please include a modified copyright notice on the page at OS&M, as suggested at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License, i.e. something like:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document

under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

When you've done this, please let me know either at my talk page or replying directly here (on your talk page). Thanks very much. -- Rick Block (talk) 13:48, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trail braking discussion[edit]

If you want to discuss trail braking further I started a thread here: Talk:Trail braking#Excess and contradictory detail in intro. The main thing is that statements about one kind of car driving don't necessarily apply to all kinds of cars, not to mention motorcycles, so it needs to go in the right section. If you post over at Talk:Trail braking#Excess and contradictory detail in intro, other editors besides me will see it and can chime in. Please don't start boasting about your vast driving experience; it won't help. Nobody cares who you are. Refer to verifiable, published sources (they don't have to be online). Verifiability is all that matters, not who you are. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:27, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Somehow I knew you were not going to follow simple instructions. Not impressed, bud. Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:49, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]