User talk:Academic hall

August 2009
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. MLauba (talk) 10:11, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Chih-Ming Ho and John Kim (professor)
Hello,

Following the CorenSearchBot report on both of these articles, we noticed your assertion of permission on these articles' respective talk pages.

As we do not verify user identities at account creation, we cannot unfortunately just take your word for it. You will have to follow the procedure lined out at WP:PERMISSION in order to allow the content to remain as is. In the meantime, and in accordance with the precautionary principle guiding our copyright policies, both articles' displayed will be replaced by a standard template.

Alternatively, a link is provided on the template of both pages where you can rewrite the articles from scratch, in your own words.

Please understand that Wikipedia takes copyright issues seriously, and that we have an obligation to follow up on any potential infringements when we are made aware of them. Therefore, the articles' content will either be restored if permission can be obtained withing 7 days, or replaced with non-infringing content placed on the temporary subpages. In the meantime, we have to ask you not to remove the copyright investigation template yourself.

If you need any help, you can create a new section here and add helpme below it, someone will be along shortly to assist you. Alternatively, you can also leave me a message on my talk page. Best, MLauba (talk) 10:22, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Update regarding copyright concern
Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above and sufficient time has passed since the placement of the notice, the article has been deleted for copyright concerns. This deletion is not necessarily permanent. If you have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (if you are not the copyright holder or have co-authored the material, release under CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone is sufficient), the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost), and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.

As Wikipedia does not require proof of identity on account creation, it is essential that we receive external proof of authorization in order to ensure that we remain compliant with US Copyright law. It is also essential that we verify that copyright holders understand the extent of the release they are authorizing, in that our licenses permit modification and reuse in any forum, even commercial publication, as long as authorship credit is maintained and future copies are compatibly licensed.

Please note that once permission is verified, the material may be evaluated and altered to meet Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Although we appreciate donations, we cannot guarantee that material donated will be retained.

If you have questions about the verification procedure, please feel free to contact me at my talk page. Alternatively, you might address them at the talk page of the copyright policy, which is generally monitored by volunteers experienced in processing such matters. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)