User:Moonriddengirl/form letters

Want to use one of these on somebody's talk page? No credit necessary. :) Doing it enough that you think it should be a "real" template? Let me know. We'll talk.

Failure to note CC-BY-SA source
However, please be advised that placing text from this source onto Wikipedia without giving credit to the authors is a failure to comply with license that creates a copyright violation. I have repaired this with a reference to the source. In the future, please be sure that you acknowledge the origin of such material. --~

Split not noted in edit summary
==More about splitting== Hi. :) I note that you recently performed a split of material to the article title, and I just wanted to drop you a note to point out a few things about the procedure. As Split sets out, when we split material, we have to provide a direct link to the source article. This is necessary because Wikipedia's contributors do not release their material into public domain, but retain rights to authorship under the terms of our licenses, CC-By-SA and GFDL . This wikilink satisfies that requirement by allowing readers to access the history and see who contributed what and when. Usually, we put into the edit summary something along the lines of "Split from Sourcearticle ". Then, we note the split as well in an edit summary at the source article. That would read like "Material split to destination article ", in this case. This helps make sure that the article is not later deleted, as it cannot be as long as the article to which the material has been split remains. We also have an optional template for the talk pages of both articles at Copied (instructions for using it found there). I have fixed the problems with this split, but I wanted to let you know for future use. Thanks, and if you have any questions about this, please feel free to leave a line at my talk page. --~

Copying from article to article
==Reusing Wikipedia's text== Hi. :) I note that you recently copied material from from title to the article to title, and I just wanted to drop you a note to point out a few things about the procedure. As Copying within Wikipedia sets out, when we duplicate material, we have to provide a direct link to the source article. This is necessary because Wikipedia's contributors do not release their material into public domain, but retain rights to authorship under the terms of our licenses, CC-By-SA and GFDL . This wikilink satisfies that requirement by allowing readers to access the history and see who contributed what and when. Usually, we put into the edit summary something along the lines of "Copied from Sourcearticle ". Then, we note the reuse as well in an edit summary at the source article. That would read like "Material copied to destination article ", in this case. This helps make sure that the article is not later deleted, as it cannot be as long as the article to which the material has been copied remains. We also have an optional template for the talk pages of both articles at Copied (instructions for using it found there). I have fixed the problems with this article, but I wanted to let you know for future use. If you have copied material from other articles, please be sure to make proper note of that. Thanks, and if you have any questions about this, please feel free to leave a line at my talk page. --~

Copyright; effort at new article also a vio
==Copyright concerns== Hello,. We appreciate your contributions, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, the article Ismael Mathay, Sr. has had to be deleted. The entire contents of the article were copied from this source. Unfortunately, though I see you made an effort to create a new page at the temporary page, it also was copied from that source, and so we cannot use it, either. We may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

Presuming that the subject meets the notability guidelines and that you can verify this with reliable, independent sources, you are welcome to create a new article on this gentleman, but please do not duplicate words of phrases from other sources unless the source belongs to you or you can verify permission from the copyright holder to place the information here.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it and to reproduce it, even for commercial reasons — then you should include on the external site the statement "The text of this website [or page, if you are specifically releasing one section] is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the  GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts)." You can also verify permission through e-mail (see Donating copyrighted materials for more). If the source does not belong to you, you may write to the copyright holder for permission, proof of which must either be placed at the website or mailed to the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see Requesting copyright permission for more.

Wikipedia needs external verification of permission to duplicate previously published material or even to closely summarize it, as this makes a derivative work. We need this even if the contributor is the copyright owner of the external source, because we do not require verification of identity at account creation.

If you have any questions about these policies and guidelines, please feel free to let me know at my talk page. Alternatively, you may always seek assistance at Wikipedia's help desk, typically monitored around the clock by volunteers. -- ~

Use of "article copyvio" tag on an image
==Copyright concerns; tagging==

Hello,. Thank you for pointing out your copyright concerns with image. I'm dropping you a line just to let you know that the tag that you placed on the image, copyvio, is specifically used for text that violates copyright. For images that are clear copyright violations, you can follow the procedure for speedy deletion. For images that are suspected to be copyright violations, we have a review board for possibly unfree images. For images used under suspect non-free content criteria, we have non-free content review. Other image copyright concerns are handled in various ways (see Guide to image deletion for specifics.) I have corrected the tag on this image so that it can be handled in the proper venue, but I wanted to let you know for future use in case you should encounter another image that raises concerns. Thanks again for pointing out the potential problem. --~

"rough" draft of notice, additional steps necessary for clearing copyright
===Copyright concerns, additional steps=== Hello,, and thank you for your efforts to address the copyright concerns at article. Unfortunately, (PROBLEM:the release you've posted at the site is not quite sufficient for Wikipedia's purposes. Material on Wikipedia must be released for reuse and modification (the preparation of derivative works ), which is why we specify above that material must be other public domain or released under GFDL. All of our content is released under GFDL, and so material that we copy must be as well. We can't release it under more liberal license than it is released to us. If you are able to make a change at the source indicating that it is released under GFDL, please do so and note that at the article's talk page, and the contents may be restored.)

I'm sorry that these additional steps are necessary, but since Wikipedia does not require identity verification at account creation, we must have external verification of permission to utilize other sources that are not already public domain or licensed compatibly with our Terms of Use. The potential legal ramifications for Wikipedia and its reusers and the possible commercial ramifications for copyright holders (who will lose control of material utilized here) makes this essential.

Thank you, and please let me know at my talk page if you have any questions about this. Alternatively, you are always welcome to seek feedback on any aspect of editing Wikipedia at its help desk, typically manned around the clock by volunteers. --~

"temp" article copyright repair a licensing violation, merged. Contributor not original violator
==Cleaning copyright problems==

Hello,. Thank you for addressing the copyright problem at article. I have merged the temporary version you created into the existing article and placed a note at the article's talk page warning editors against restoring the copyrighted material. While we sometimes do replace articles with new versions created in temporary space, we can only do so when the new version is completely written from scratch. If it uses language from the older version of the article, we can't delete it, or we find ourselves in the strange position of violating the copyright of our contributors. :) This is because contributors to Wikipedia do not release copyright to their material, but only license it under CC-By-SA and GFDL, which secures their right to authorship credit. An intact article history addresses that.

Forgive me, please, if I am overlinking or overexplaining. In working at the copyright problems board, I encounter this situation often enough to have developed a bit of a "form" response. I never know how experienced the contributor I'll be talking to is, and I'd rather overexplain than underexplain. :)

Anyway, again, I appreciate your work on this article and your help in resolving this copyright problem. Please feel free to drop me a line at my talk page if you'd like to discuss the matter further. Thanks. --~

Request to resend e-mail of verification, not yet logged
===Copyright problem follow-up: article=== Dear :

I see that you indicate that you have sent an e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation verifying permission to use this material, but since it has not yet been recorded by a member of the Communications Committee, I'm afraid that either the e-mail may have gone awry or it may not have fully addressed concerns. Ordinarily, such letters are processed within a week, although occasionally heavy traffic may cause delays. I'd like to ask you to please consider resending your letter, since if we cannot verify permission to duplicate this text, we will have to remove it.

If you do choose to resend the letter, please make sure that it covers all necessary elements. Your e-mail should be sent to [mailto:permissions-en@wikimedia.org permissions-en@wikimedia.org]. It should clearly include the name of the article on Wikipedia as well as the url of the site or sites being duplicated. It should be sent by an e-mail address that is clearly connected to the source(s). The language of the release should be similar to our boilerplate consent form. You can take a look at Donating copyrighted materials for more detail.

It would probably also be a good idea, if you decide to resend the letter, to note that you have done so and on what date on the article's talk page to help prevent its premature deletion. If permission is not verified in a timely manner, the article is likely to be deleted, but even if that should happen, it can be restored as soon as copyright problems are addressed.

If you have questions about the verification procedure, please feel free to contact me at my talk page. Thank you. --~

Restoring PROD without attribution
===Attribution requirements for Wikipedia's text=== Hi. I see that you recently pasted text onto Wikipedia from a Wikipedia "mirror" site—that is, one of the many sites that reproduces our content. While the material may have started on Wikipedia, I'm afraid that we are only able to use if it is connected to its page history which gives the necessary attribution to our contributors. (See "Reusers' rights and obligations" for more information.) In this case, we have been able to restore the history so that the text can be used because the earlier version of the article was deleted by a procedure that allows this. Ordinarily, though, if content that used to be on Wikipedia is here no longer, you should find out why and ask if it can be restored rather than simply pasting it here again. You can follow this link to read more about how to do this. Thank you. --~

Text cleaned at SCV; contributor not notified
== Copyright policy advisement regarding articles ==

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Regarding your contribution to ARTICLE, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from web sites or printed material without the express permission of the author or copyright holder. Lacking this, the copied content you added has been deleted.

Although brief quotations are permitted in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline, please ensure that your contributions to Wikipedia are primarily written in your own words. If you believe that using language from a source is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 3.0 (CC-BY-SA), then you should do one of the following:

See Requesting copyright permission for instructions. :*If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the CC-By-SA or compatible license or released into the public domain leave a note at the talk page of the article with a link to where we can find that note. :*If you own the copyright to the material, you may either send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-By-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on the talk page of the article, or place a note releasing the material as above at the external site. See Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.

Thank you. --~

Rewrite doesn't fix the problem
==Continuing copyright issues== This article began as a copy of [source] and remains an unusable unauthorized derivative work of that source. For an example of close paraphrasing, consider the following: The article says: There are other passages that similarly follow too closely.

While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. So that it will not constitute a derivative work, this article should be rewritten in the temporary space that is now linked from the article's front. The essay Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. The article Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".

Alternatively, if the material can be verified to be public domain or permission is provided, we can use the original text with proper attribution.

Please let me know at my talk page if you have questions about this. --~

Article began as a close paraphrase
Hi. I'm afraid the ArticleName article you wrote may be a copyright infringement of [source], since the text is too closely paraphrased. While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. For an example of close paraphrasing, consider the following: The article says: There are other passages that similarly follow too closely.

Wikipedia's copyright policies require that the content we take from non-free, aside from brief and clearly marked quotations, be rewritten from scratch. So that we can be sure it does not constitute a derivative work, this article should be rewritten in the temporary space that is now linked from the article's front. The essay Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. The article Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".

Alternatively, if the material can be verified to be public domain or permission is provided, we can use the original text with proper attribution.

Please let me know at my talk page if you have questions about this. --~

Article tagged for copyright problems, user not notified
==Copyright problem== The article article was listed at subpage as a copyright concern. It has come due for administrative closure. Investigation suggests content may be duplicated from source, but it seems that you were not notified of these concerns as the process requires. Accordingly, I will provide you below the "form letter" used for such notification. It includes several helpful links that may help you clarify or address these concerns. Please provide any feedback that you may have on the situation at the article's talk page. I am relisting this matter, and it should be revisited in about a week to see what further steps are necessary. Thank you. --~

Newbie approach to copyright, IEP

 * Note: A slightly more advanced version of this is at User:Moonriddengirl/Uw-copyright-new. See usage directions there.

==Using sources== Hello, and welcome. :) While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, I'd like to speak to you a little bit about the way we incorporate information from sources on Wikipedia. You may also wish to read Copy-paste.

First and foremost, you cannot ever copy or translate content to Wikipedia without following certain steps, based on the copyright status of the original. * If you can prove that the content is public domain, you can copy/translate as much of it as you like, but you have to acknowledge what you are doing to avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism contains some instructions for that. Being published on the internet does not make content public domain; most of the material we find on the internet or in books is copyrighted. Public domain offers some more information on how to tell if something is public domain. If you can't prove it's public domain, you should assume it isn't. * If the content is not public domain but is  compatibly licensed, you can copy/translate as much of it as you like, but you have to comply with the terms of the license to avoid copyright infringement and you have to acknowledge what you are doing to avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism contains suggestions for both of those, and when you are copying from another Wikipedia project or article (as these are not public domain), you can find the steps in Copying within Wikipedia. We can't assume that content is compatibly licensed unless it says that it is. * If the content is neither public domain nor compatibly licensed, you can only copy/translate a small amount, and you must mark this as a direct quotation with quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". * Otherwise, you must put all information you find in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase . You have to make sure not to follow the sources too closely. See Close paraphrasing . Following too closely can create a derivative work, so it is not permitted here. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research . There is a really good college level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, here.

Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently violate the copyright policy must be blocked from editing to protect the project and its reusers from potential legal issues, as well as to protect copyright holders.

If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to visit me at my talk page or, certainly, to reach out to your campus ambassador. Thank you. -- --~

Opening CCI, created as a subsection
===CCI opened=== The CCI request has been reviewed and opened at Contributor copyright investigations/. The page is not indexed by search engines. It will furthermore be blanked as soon as the review is completed. In the meantime, it will serve as a workspace for community reviewers to note problems that may be found and how they are handled. To avoid inundating people who are the subject of CCIs with explanations of issues they no longer need, it is the general practice at CCI to request that people doing cleanup there not leave notes on your talk page. Instead, you should watch that page if you wish to be alerted to any issues that are identified. This will give you an opportunity to help address any concerns.

Some of the standard language on the CCI page may be alarming to those who are not familiar with it, as it quotes policy especially permitting the indiscriminate removal of text. In fact, the CCI process was created to avoid that - rather than assuming that all edits are problematic, the process was created to allow human review. Problems that are discovered may be repaired, removed or blanked; edits that do not appear problematic will be left as they are. It is typically a low-drama workflow.

There is a tremendous backlog at CCI, stretching back several years, so this CCI may be inactive for periods of time before a volunteer undertakes review. It may be experience bursts of activity followed by long dormant periods. You are welcome to continue editing during this time, but please be careful to avoid further copyright issues. The CCI process is not a punitive one, but people who encounter recurrent issues with copyright after advisement are often blocked from contributing until community has reason to believe that the problems will be resolved. As a showing of good faith, you are encouraged to help with the CCI itself. While we ask that you not resolve listings (people without a history of copyright issues need to do this, as we need to make sure that problems are understood), you can find and repair copyright problems yourself and put a note below the listing indicating what you have done. For instance: *Apple (1 edits, 1 major, +6279)  :*Content copied from [link source]; rewritten. --~   This will speed handling of this CCI and also demonstrate quite clearly that you are now familiar with copyright policies and willing to help address issues you may have inadvertently created.

If you have questions about the CCI process, or about copyright policies, please feel free to stop by my talk page. You may also request assistance at the help desk or the Teahouse. Thank you. -- --~