User talk:Csnow-purdue

Andrey A. Potter}}}
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I am a member of the Purdue Libraries, Archives and Special Collections staff. I have permission and have asked by my boss to post our biography of A.A. Potter and then to link to our full finding aid for our holdings. I will proceed to post this information shortly.

Carl Snow

I don't understand. I have permission to add our biography to Wikipedia and I have the authority to give you permission to use it. What do I do to assure you that I have this authority?

Carl Snow csnow@purdue.edu

Again, please don't add copyrighted material to Wikipedia
Hello, again. We appreciate your, but 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.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I irrevocably release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page.--Fuhghettaboutit 15:55, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I am employee of the Purdue Archives and have permission to use the biographical sketch of Edward C. Elliott for Wikipedia.

Carl Snow
 * That's a good thing. However, (and I quote from the tag above): If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I irrevocably release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere." Without such permission and release into the public domain, we cannot use the material.--Fuhghettaboutit 16:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

The biography for Elliott was written by a staff member for the Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections as a part of her work. My supervisor, Sammie Morris, asked me to put it up on Wkipedia. The url for it is http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/fa/pdf/elliott.pdf and the author is Joanne Mendes. I understand that this means that others will be able to add and delete from it.

Carl Snow


 * I have little doubt that that is true, but nevertheless, your anonymous assertion of permission is not legally valid and in any event the issue is that we cannot use text that is copyrighted (that document clearly states "© 2005 Purdue University"); and we cannot use text that has not been specifically released under the terms of the GFDL, because we can only use it if it can be used by others. Another words, all text on Wikipedia must be able to be distributed under that free sharing license. So even if you were to deliver a notarized legal document to us stating that Wikipedia can use the material, we could not use it unless it was released so that it complies with our free grant to the world of free redistribution.--Fuhghettaboutit 17:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)