User:Deanos/Letters/Artistopia

The following letter was sent on 02:01, 6 October 2005 (UTC) to Artistopia's "info" and "corporate" e-mail addresses.

Dear Sir/Madam

We're delighted to see that your website, 'Artistopia', uses content from Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/), the free encyclopedia. This is just the sort of application that we at Wikipedia wish to promote.

However, we'd like to point out that when using content from Wikipedia you should include a link back to the source Wikipedia article, as we've suggested on our copyrights page (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights).

For example, "http://www.artistopia.com/Music-Artists/Pros/Bio.asp?ID=6849&Name=Pain%20of%20Salvation" should provide a link back to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_of_Salvation". Not only does this acknowledge the source material, but there may be an updated version of the article with more accurate information.

Additionally, you should also include a GFDL notice. One way of doing this would be to add the text "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license", and provide a link to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html. Of course, you should only have to supply a GFDL notice for the information you have obtained from Wikipedia, not any of your material. Also, if you are using images obtained from Wikipedia please note that some images (especially album covers) are cited as "fair use" on Wikipedia (for more info, you might like to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy).

Thank you for supplying a link back to a Wikipedia related page on each of the pages where you used such information. I might just quickly point out that the correct link is "wikipedia.org" rather than "wikipedia.com". (though .com still finds us!)

Thanks for your assistance,

Dean Rollins (contributer to Wikipedia)