Talk:Maureen Cormack

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the source content for this article page was taken from http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/ambassador-to-bosnia-and-herzegovina-who-is-maureen-cormack-140531?news=853283

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please click view history of the Maureen Cormack article you will notice that someone is convinced i used copyrighted info in my article. so they trashed the article. i was under the impression the content of this bio was from publicly available info. it is a placeholder for folks at the US embassy in Sarajevo Bosnia to work with Harry t ponting (talk) 13:59, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * @User:Harry t ponting No, I did not "trash" the article on Maureen Cormack. The website you used was NOT owned by the state department; it was taken from a site, as you noted, called AllGov.com, which, if you had read the site's description, would have realized was a private site NOT affiliated with the U.S. Government. Any material published by the U.S. Government is in the public domain; a private site like AllGov.com IS copyrighted and we cannot reuse their text without permission. Just because the site is "publicly available" doesn't mean they have relinquished the copyright. You can't just put a placeholder of copyrighted text on Wikipedia and hope someone else will come along and fix it eventually. You are welcome to paraphrase the text from AllGov and then re-insert in the article: no one holds copyright on the information itself, but the wording of the information is copyrighted and cannot be reused. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 18:38, 14 January 2015 (UTC)