User talk:Craigmckay

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as J B Stoney, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! Melchoir 23:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Same for James Taylor Sr. Melchoir 23:01, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

And C A Coates. Melchoir 23:05, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Please do not remove copyright violation notices from articles. There are instructions clearly laid out on the template. Thanks, Melchoir 23:08, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Please tell me exactly how much I have to reword - there is only so many ways you can write when a person was born and died - I want to just put an external link to the wealth of material on mybrethren. Thanks. Craig.
 * Well, first of all you might want to check out Copyright problems and Copyright FAQ. As the template I've placed on some of your articles says, paraphrasing generally isn't good enough; if your sentences correspond exactly to the sentences found elsewhere, even if you're replaced a word or two, it's still considered that you copied it. If your friend Gordon Rainbow is the copyright holder of the source material, there are ways for him to release it under the GFDL listed at Copyright problems.
 * All that said, you probably shouldn't advertise that your primary motivation is to advertise a friend's website. A lot of people around here are very hostile to what they consider spam, myself included. The people you were writing about seem to be interesting historical figures, and by all means we do welcome information on them... as long as it isn't copied from somewhere else. Does that answer your questions? Melchoir 23:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry - I have misled you. He is not a 'friend' - I've never met him. His site is excellent and far more packed with information that I could ever attempt to "rewrite". I just seemed logical that where the links were missing information on the source Wikipedia page, to put in a stub and point an external link for the rest. How would he release the pages on FER, CAC, JT and JBS? Send an email to yourself?
 * Ah! Of course, Wikipedia welcomes a good stub-- see Stub-- again, as long as it isn't copyrighted. You don't have to write very much to get an article started, and then other contributors can take it from there. It would take a long time for a Wikipedia article to grow into the depth found at mybrethren.org, but you don't have to do it yourself! As for releasing those pages, you can find that information at Copyright problems under "Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia"; the situation isn't exactly the same, although it's close.
 * Even if Gordon Rainbow decides not to release the sources, you can still write some stubs in your own words; don't let the legal hassles discourage you! Melchoir 23:44, 13 February 2006 (UTC)