Talk:Rebecca Pronsky

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The bio about New York musician Rebecca Pronsky is from her website, and use of the info has been approved by her.

This is my first effort to create a Wikipedia page. I could use some guidance.

"Do not copy text from other websites without a GFDL-compatible license. It will be deleted." As yet, my efforts to understand this are lacking. Is it the WEBSITE from which the text is grabbed that must have a GFDL license. . . or is I, the Wiki page creator, who must have a GFDL license? How is GFDL-compatibility acquired?


 * You still have serveral issues, though the latest version does not appear to be copied directly from the site, so that issue, at least, is not as big of a deal. I'll get back to the licensce and copyright issue.
 * First, though, you have notability issues. Articles on the project need to meet certain requirements of notability if they are to remain.  Please read WP:MUSIC for the general notability requirements for muisicians.  You will need to be certain that she meets these requirements, and that you can provide reliable, independant, non-trivial references to establish her notability.  All three of those words are important when judging the worthiness of a source.  See WP:RS for details, but in general, her own web page is not independant, Youtube and blogs are not dependable, and a list of who appeared on a tour would be trivial.  None of these would qualify as valid sources to establish notability.
 * As for the copyright issue, let me cut&paste some comments I made to another user just yesterday:

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 * The key thing to be aware of is that Wikipedia is released under the GFDL license, and all content you add must be under the GFDL, or a compatable license. So, to re-use here text that you have published elsewhere previously, you will need to explicitly release that text under the GFDL, and be aware of what that entails.  The biggest part of that is you being aware that, if you release it under the GFDL, you are allowing for *anyone* to use/edit/reuse your text for *any* purpose, as long as they fulfill the requirements of the GFDL, which mainly are along the line of attribution requirements.  Even a competitor/detractor/critic will be able to use your own words against you, and as long as they satisfy the GFDL requirements, they will have all legal rights to do so, since by releasing under the GFDL you gave them that right.  The GFDL is a powerful tool for creating shared content, but you need to be aware of what you are doing.
 * As for *how* to release it under the GFDL, I'll include just below here a snippet from one of the regular copyright violation templates used on the project that details how to go about releasing under the GFDL for use on the project...

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 * If you hold the copyright to this text and permit its use under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License: 
 * Explain this on this article's discussion page, then either display a notice to this effect at the site of original publication or send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en at wikimedia dot org or a postal letter to the Wikimedia Foundation. These messages must explicitly permit use under the GFDL.
 * Note: Articles on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view and must be verifiable in published third-party sources; copyright issues aside, your text may not be appropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia.

TexasAndroid (talk) 14:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)