User talk:Sem04014
August 2010
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Your addition to University of Connecticut has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ElKevbo (talk) 14:59, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
- Simply having permission to use it in Wikipedia is not sufficient; you must release the text under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 License or GFDL, allowing anyone to copy and modify the text. Are you authorized to release the text in question from copyright and license it under those conditions? ElKevbo (talk) 15:55, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s). The material was copied from: [1], [2], [3], [4] and others. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies.
If, as your edits suggest, you are affiliated with the University, please also see our guidelines on editing with a conflict of interest and our list of FAQ by organizations.
Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:22, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you for your note. Yes, copyright is the concern. The procedure for verifying compatible license is described in the page linked above at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Until this procedure is completed, we cannot use this content, I'm afraid. We have no means of verifying identity at account creation, and as copyright is a legal concern to the project, we have developed careful procedures to make sure that our articles remain compliant with the U.S. law that governs us. If you need help completing the process, please let me know. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:36, 23 August 2010 (UTC)