User talk:Benty20NH

License tagging for Image:Mel Thomson.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Mel Thomson.jpg. Wikipedia gets hundreds of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Media copyright questions. 18:05, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Copyright issues
You seem to be copying large portions, verbatim, of this  tribute to Mel Thomson into his article. That will cause copyright problems and lead to the whole article getting canned, out of concern of lawsuits! Please cite it and use it as a reference, but we can't just copy published works into the article. - DavidWBrooks 02:45, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Are you Emmet Hogan? If not, we can't just copy the article, even if it's cited. - DavidWBrooks 12:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Citing - and signing
Hello - I didn't mean to sound negative; the warning about an article being deleted is real, though - there are a number of editors who patrol wikipedia for copyright violations and remove such articles because one of wikipedia's biggest fears is getting hit with a big lawsuit over copyright issues. Anyway, check Wp:cite for some hints - but the biggest issue is that even cited, we can't just copy big chunks of text. We need to rewrite it, reshape it, make it our own. Also, it is helpful if you "sign" your messages, both to keep track of who is saying what, and when it was said - just type four tildes (those squiggly things) in a row and that will automatically write your user name and the date/time. - DavidWBrooks 16:29, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

copyright
Somebody else has reverted all the changes you made because they were lifted from that same newspaper article. Please don't do that, OK? It's a waste of your time and everybody else's. - DavidWBrooks 10:17, 10 May 2006 (UTC)