User talk:Pjk142
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The article Richard Holgarth has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Travelbird (talk) 00:04, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Copyright problem: Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.asgma.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=32, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. 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 are liable to be blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:
- If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area, in your email. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
- If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0, or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area with a link to where we can find that note.
- If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.
It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:59, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- In addition to the "form letter" above, I just wanted to say that I see that you assert that there is no copyright on the text. Unfortunately, since the US law that governs Wikipedia bestows copyright automatically, we cannot presume that this is true, but must verify it. It is no longer sufficient that a copyright notice is not displayed. Instead, we are required to follow one of the processes above. If you have questions about how to do this, please feel free to come by my talk page. I'll be happy to help. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:02, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Update regarding copyright concern
[edit]Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above and sufficient time has passed since the placement of the notice, the article has been deleted for copyright concerns. This deletion is not necessarily permanent. If you have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (if you are not the copyright holder or have co-authored the material, release under CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone is sufficient), the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost), and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.
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 our licenses permit modification and reuse in any forum, even commercial publication, as long as authorship credit is maintained and future copies are compatibly licensed.
Please note that once permission is verified, the material may be evaluated and altered to meet Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Although we appreciate donations, we cannot guarantee that material donated will be retained.
Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:57, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Reply to your letter
[edit]I'm sorry that you feel discouraged. Rewriting the content is not required if you follow either of the other methods for verifying the release of the content. You can place a note on the website stating that re-use is permitted under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0, or that the material is released into the public domain. Or you can send a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, as above, granting permission. This is simply a matter of protecting the Foundation and its reusers from legal liability. It also serves to protect copyright holders.
Again, if you decide you'd like to verify, I'll be happy to help you through that process. Unfortunately, we just aren't permitted by policy to publish the content unless you do. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:06, 13 March 2011 (UTC)