Talk:Alexander Hewat

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To the original contributor: it is not permitted to make such a long extract from another work part of Wikipedia, unless the copyright holder explicitly gives permission to do so. I have removed it. DJ Clayworth 16:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Really ? To what other "work part of Wikipedia" are you refering, and who is the "copyright holder" ? I extracted from my own web pages http://barns.ill.fr/hewat/ about my ancestor Alexander Hewat. Are you sure that your "other work" is not itself extracted from my work ? You have linked to a web page that is in fact a verbatim copy of one of my own pages on Alexander. [User: Dr Alan W. Hewat 20 March 2006]

My apologies for not being clear. I meant "it is not permitted to include in Wikipedia such a long extract from another work".

If you are the copyright owner of this work then it's obviously fine for you to submit it here. We'll need some evidence that you are the copyright holder (since anyone could sign on with your username), and you will have to be aware that by submitting the text here you are releasing it under the GNU Free Documentation License. The easiest way to achieve both of these is for you to modify your website to state that the text is released under the GFDL. Sorry about thebureacracy, but we have to be quite careful to ensure that we are complying with copyright law.

Thanks for your contributions. DJ Clayworth 03:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I have perhaps misunderstood how Wikipedia works :-) Who are the "We" who feel themselves personally responsible here ? So far as I understand, "We" is simply a contributer like me, who feels justified in removing my quotation, not because it is wrong, but because he personally "needs some evidence that I am the copyright owner". This after I had referenced the quotation from my site http://barns.ill.fr/hewat/alexander.html (copied verbatim to http://library.thefreebookshop.com/authors.php?a=226 that "We" have preferred to link to instead). Can we concentrate on correcting factual errors please ? Otherwise we simply go around deleting anything with which we disagree. But thank you too for your contributions User A.W. Hewat

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