User talk:Stjohn.wendy

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Your addition to Galbreath Wildlands Preserve has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Railfan23 (talk) 05:37, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Further copyright violation[edit]

Your latest edit to Galbreath Wildlands Preserve is a direct copy of [1]. You cannot copy text directly from another website into Wikipedia articles. If you continue to do this you will be blocked from editing. Please heed this final warning. Thank you, Railfan23 (talk) 06:16, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Railfan23 About violation[edit]

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Hello! I just saw the notifications that you left on the Galbreath Wildlands Preserve page, and I'm hoping you can help me clear up this issue. I work for the university, and am updating this page (and two others) on their behalf. What sort of verification do you need to show that I am authorized by the university Stjohn.wendy (talk) 06:56, 7 July 2019 (UTC)to upload this material?[reply]

Thanks! Stjohn.wendy (talk) 06:56, 7 July 2019 (UTC)stjohn.wendy[reply]

The University would have to explicitly release the text you want to use under an appropriate Creative Commons free use license. Details on what to do are available at: Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. Good luck, Railfan23 (talk) 07:02, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I would add that only someone with the authority to do that at your university is able to do it. In addition, you will need to comply with the conflict of interest and paid editing policies. 331dot (talk) 07:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the update - I've submitted a permissions request, and if that isn't enough verification, I'll update the original webpages with the Creative Commons notice.

Question - once I've been granted the appropriate permissions, can you restore the content that you removed, so I don't have to redo it all from scratch? (I have the text saved in Word, but I did a lot of editing/adding links/table creation in the browser window).

Cheers!

Stjohn.wendy (talk) 07:35, 7 July 2019 (UTC)stjohn.wendy[reply]

I am not an expert, but I think that once the proper license is verified, you can then make an edit request to restore the material, as you shouldn't do it yourself due to the conflict of interest. 331dot (talk) 07:41, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Copying licensed material requires attribution[edit]

Hi. I see in recent additions to Galbreath Wildlands Preserve and Los Guillicos Preserve you included material from webpages available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license and the GNU Free Documentation License. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for these instances. Please place the required licensing documentation on the article itself, not on the talk page. Please have a look at how I did it so that you can add it yourself in the future. Here is an example of what you need to do. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. Please post on my user talk page if you have any questions. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:34, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]