Talk:Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim

Removed text which might have been a copyvio
Dear User:Prez61086: Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate the work you put into starting this article. But we want Wikipedia to be an encyclopedia that anyone can duplicate and distribute. In order for that to be the case, we avoid copying and pasting in material unless we have the original writer's permission.

I haven't read the relevant U.S. laws, but based on what other people have written elsewhere on the web, it seems to me that even copying and rewording material might be a problem. So, to be safe in case that's true: read, remember the ideas you read, then write it yourself on Wikipedia in your own words.

Just now, I removed almost two entire sections of the article: the intro section and the History section. I left two sentences remaining at the beginning of the article, which I hope are not copyright-significant. The text I removed is a heavily-edited version of oldid 54032175 which in turn appears to be a direct copy of parts of two pages of the Yeshiva's website.

I sent the below email to office@undefinedyoy.org.il and CC'ed permissions-en@undefinedwikimedia.org. We'll see how the yeshiva replies. I hope they'll reply positively, allowing us to revert the page back to how it was before I excised it, and to add attribution as CC-BY-SA requires.

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Prez61086, even though we can't use them until the yeshiva allows it, thanks again for your contributions, and we hope you will continue to contribute to Wikipedia in the future.

P.S. Prez61086, I see you haven't edited any Wikipedia article other than this one. Since you're an inactive editor, I've emailed you, instead of writing on your talk page, to tell you to come read this letter to you that you're reading now. :)

All the best, --unforgettableid | talk 01:50, 29 January 2010 (UTC)