User talk:Bradadkins274

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Possible copyright violation
FYI, I do appreciate your efforts to expand the article on Utah State Parks, the article desperately needs it. However, your expansion does appear to be directly lifted from this page http://stateparks.utah.gov/about. The terms of use for the state of Utah's website (at http://www.utah.gov/disclaimer.html ) are ambiguous about the copyright status of content from that website. As such, in my opinion, it would be better to re-write the text using that page as a source rather than doing a block copy. Cheers. Dave (talk) 16:05, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, I see you have uploaded the agency's logo. This cannot be considered a free logo, as the terms of use specifically exclude logos from the free content. As such this logo needs to be removed from wikimedia commons (which is reserved for free use media only) and uploaded to wikipedia with a fair use template. For an example of how to do this see, File:UDOT_logo.png. Dave (talk) 16:21, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Flight Park State Recreation Area
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Flight Park State Recreation Area, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.us-parks.com/ut/flight-park-state-recreation-area/flight-park-state-recreation-area.html.

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. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 22:36, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.scenicsouthernutah.com/recreation_areas/escalante_petrified_forest.shtml.

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. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 23:11, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
A tag has been placed on Escalante Petrified Forest State Park requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You 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.

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Your recent edits
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Copyright problem: Flight Park State Recreation Area
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Flight Park State Recreation Area, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/flight-park, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Flight Park State Recreation Area and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Flight Park State Recreation Area, in your email. See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0, or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Flight Park State Recreation Area with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you own the copyright to the material: 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 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Flight Park State Recreation Area. See Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.

It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [ this temporary page]. Leave a note at Talk:Flight Park State Recreation Area saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! VernoWhitney (talk) 14:44, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Copyright note
I just saw the message you left for Moabdave. His response to you was quite correct, in that work produced by the federal government is public domain, but work produced by state governments is not automatically in the public domain barring state laws which establish that. Even if you have written some or all of the content for the state website, the odds are that the copyright belongs to the State, and so we would need either permission from an authorized representative of the State (following the steps listed at Donating copyrighted materials) or a formal statement that the material is in the public domain. Alternatively, statutes and case law could establish that the material is in the public domain, but these would need to be fairly clear cut in order for us to be able to accept them (Copyright status of work by the U.S. government touches on this briefly).

Until this situation is cleared up I'm afraid I have to remove the text from the articles you have already added it to and must ask you to not copy text into any further articles. Please let me know if you have any questions. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:59, 14 October 2010 (UTC)