User talk:Atichborne

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Nan Witcomb
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Nan Witcomb, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://users.senet.com.au/~nanushka/nan3.htm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 08:19, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

File:Messy surfing Brighton.jpg missing description details
Dear uploader: The media file you uploaded as File:Messy surfing Brighton.jpg is missing a description and/or other details on its image description page. If possible, please add this information. This will help other editors to make better use of the image, and it will be more informative for readers.

If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:09, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Your comment on Talk:Nan Witcomb
Hello,

Just to follow-up on your comment, while we understand that having your own text flagged as "copyright violation" of your own material may be annoying, we do not verify user identity upon account creation. Should you wish, at any point, to donate copyrighted material to Wikipedia, the onus would be on you to establish that you are indeed the holder of the original copyright by following the steps explained on this page. Failing that, we apply a strict policy of removing potentially infringing content in case of doubt.

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We apologize for the negative experience which arises from a mere bot mistakenly flagging your contributions as potential violations of your own intellectual property, but hope you will appreciate the motivations behind the policy.

As I mentioned on the article's talk page, I have cleared the bot's report (and removed the sandbox header from the article), and no further actions are required on the article in it's present shape. Also note that providing an exhaustive list of works by an author is indeed a non-copyrightable fact, issues only arise if such lists represent a partial selection (eg. "important works") based on human appreciation - such lists become a creative work and would, again, be protected by copyright.

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Thank you for your understanding and your contributions. MLauba (talk) 10:47, 17 July 2009 (UTC)