User talk:Dmforster

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License of text in the Law Offices of Denis M. Forster article
Greetings! I noticed that you have created an article called Law Offices of Denis M. Forster. I also noted that the text there is copied wholesale from http://www.dforsterlaw.com/index.html. I further notice that there is no copyright notice on the dforsterlaw.com site.

Based on your username, I suspect you are connected with the firm. Can we imply from this that the firm has released the text of its website under the GFDL, or at least that portion of it that appears on Wikipedia? As is noted below the edit box, contributions to Wikipedia are licensed under the GFDL, and the terms of that license include possible commercial user of the upload. —C.Fred (talk) 03:17, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Law Offices of Denis M. Forster, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of Law Offices of Denis M. Forster and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. —C.Fred (talk) 03:42, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Law Offices of Denis M. Forster, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). As a copyright violation, Law Offices of Denis M. Forster appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Law Offices of Denis M. Forster has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Law Offices of Denis M. Forster and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Law Offices of Denis M. Forster 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 GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Law Offices of Denis M. Forster.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 04:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)