Talk:Rochester Community Players

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I note that much of the content of this page is virtually word for word what appears on the following site.

http://www.rochestercommunityplayers.org/7101.html

Jmrtn13 23:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Email sent

'To Peter Scribner

Dear Peter

In August 2006 an article entitled 'Rochester Community Players' was added to the pages of Wikipedia. (http://www.wikipedia.org). It was added by a registered member with a user name of Kinglear and added to by another known as Mikado99999. I am one of thousands of volunteer writers for this free encyclopedia and am currently working on this article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that is collaboratively edited by volunteers from around the world. Our goal is to create a comprehensive knowledge base that is not only available at no charge, but is also freely distributed. It is one of many projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

Unfortunately both contributors have since deregistered. As much of the article is virtually word for word what appears on your website page http://www.rochestercommunityplayers.org/7101.html I am seeking your permission for the text to remain text either directly, or as a reference for my original writing on the subject. I'd like to include your materials in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Community_Players. (To get a sense of the freedom of Wikipedia, you yourself can edit this page without registration, right now.)

Your material can only remain if you are willing to grant permission for it to be used under terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. This means that although you retain the copyright and authorship of your own work, you are granting permission for all others (not just Wikipedia) to use, copy, and share your materials freely—and even potentially use them commercially—as long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely. You can read this license in full at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GFDL. (To keep things simple, we do not use Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts, or Back-Cover Texts.)

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Thank you for your time; we look forward to your reply.

Kindly, Joe Martin (User name Jmrtn13)'

Jmrtn13 23:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)