User talk:Pbwinter

Welcome!

Hello, Pbwinter, 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:

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New articles

Please include some original text with any new articles you create. Articles that contain only links will be deleted. --Gazpacho 17:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. I've already deleted most of them. --maru (talk) contribs 17:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

biographic articles

Hello, Please don't copy and paste text from another website into Wikipedia, it violates copyright and will be deleted. Thanks. --Varco 18:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a snippet from Wikipedia:Boilerplate_request_for_permission about using copyrighted material: "In order for us to [use the text], it would be necessary for you to license your work under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), which was designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for free works. You can find the license text at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html."

--Varco 18:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Ethel Starbird article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! Mak (talk) 18:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please give a reason you believe you can copy and paste all of this material from various websites, or else all of your articles will be deleted, and you will be blocked for disruption for posting copyrighted information, which can cause a lot of trouble for this website. Mak (talk) 18:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The best way would be for you to release the information on the original site under the GFDL. That would mean Wikipedia could be sure that you are allowed to release the information. A quick caveat, however, that some of the people who are notable enough for your website might not be notable enough for Wikipedia, so I would suggest to you that you try to pick and choose carefully, otherwise it could be seen as spam. Sorry if I was hasty earlier. Mak (talk) 18:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I looked at the Nicholas Cull article, and at the bottom it says "©2006 USC Center on Public Diplomacy. All rights reserved.", which means it's not under a free license or GFDL license, which means it can't be on Wikipedia. If you have the rights to release it, I would suggest that you change that notice on those pages on your site which you wish to be on wikipedia. You can't have them on Wikipedia and retain the rights to them. For those things which aren't on your site-- why do you think you have the right to distribute them? You seem to have copied the Ethel Starbird article off of the Washington Post website [1]. Now, sometimes Obits are written by other people, I could be wrong about who has the rights to them, but there's no specific attribution on the Post page, which makes me believe that the Post owns the rights to that article, which means that you have no right to post it on Wikipedia. Mak (talk) 18:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Nicholas Cull article looks OK for now. Oh, and sign your talk page edits with four tildes (~~~~) Mak (talk) 18:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, looks Ok as well, since it doesn't seem to be a copy-past job. However, if you intend your wiki to be freely distributable, I still don't see anything that says that on the website. For myself, I assume normal copyright applies unless the provider explicitly waives it in some way, as Wikipedia does. Sorry, also, Wikipedia is case-sensitive, so your username is User:Pbwinter, not User:PbWinter. Mak (talk) 19:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]