User talk:Artisansplace~enwiki

 Cat tleG irl  talk 09:21, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Copyright questions how to write article
Hey Cattlegirl,

Thanks for being willing to answer questions. My questions:

1. Copyright issues, knowing which one to use and when or if need to use it? My specific question is whether discussion posts from other forums can be used here in creating an article for wikipedia? Specifically Amazon.com Seller Forums how to create reference to user posts and discuss them in an article about Amazon forums? For a wikipedia article, does this require a copyright license category?

If there are other posts besides my own being discussed, I can't say I created the entire article myself. Confused about how to deal with this issue of bringing text from user forums and discussing them in an article. How do I fill out the "create an article form" for this with the copyright list? Would this article require my paraphrasing what happened in the posts without copying them directly? Then choose to say I created the article myself which means doesn't require copyright?

Sincerely would appreciate your help in answering questions,

T Hanson Artisansplace (Wiki User Id)

My email address is  (Not sure how we make contact so leaving this e-mail just in case you need it to reach me) Artisansplace 03:51, 27 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, Artisansplace, how are you? I hope I can answer your questions well!
 * When you say an article about the Amazon forums, I don't think that's necessary- there's already a section (under the 'Innovations' heading) on the Amazon.com page, which would be the best place to put information on the forums.
 * When you talk about copyright, Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) agreement. This means that people can access the information, and copy or redistribute it, so long as there is some form of reference to the article.
 * As for including information gathered from forums, generally this is viewed as an unreliable source, and these shouldn't really be used in Wikipedia. And for posting other's posts from the forum, perhaps instead of this you can include some information on the forum- such as when it was created, how it works and is formatted, etc.
 * As for discussing posts, that doesn't really fit into our guidelines for new pages (gah, there's a guideline for everything!), specifically this. As you would be discussing posts, this would qualify as original thought, or original research, and would therefore not be encyclopedic.
 * As for creating new pages with copyrights, that is pretty easy. As all pages on here are original, when using quotations from other websites, you can just quote that website in the references section of the article.
 * I hope that answered your questions! If it didn't, you can also ask at the Help Desk, where another user might know something I didn't!
 * When you log in, it should come up with a new messages bar when a new edit has been made to your talk page, but I'll email you as well in case :).
 * Cheers-  Cat tleG irl  talk 09:21, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 22:09, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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