User talk:Empoole361

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Hello, Empoole361, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Facilitas, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Facilitas[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Facilitas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/jones--finding-the-good-argument.pdf. 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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"Why is Wikipedia so uptight about copyright?" is a long and involved discussion. Copyleftedness is one of the most important premises of the whole project, so one of the goals is to avoid any use of copyighted material whatsoever. Although "fair use" style exceptions are occasionally permitted, they're only allowed where they're absolutely unavoidable, in such a way that not using them would seriously impact the goal of writing an encyclopaedia, and no free alternative is possible (e.g., for an article about a famous photograph, we typically need to include a low-resolution copy of the photo). Even then, we only use as little as possible. In this instance, it doesn't seem to me that a rephrased or differently explained sentence/paragraph/whatever couldn't accomplish the same purpose. In this case, I think "infringement" might be a bit strong, appealling to a legal term, so I've just blanked out the offending sentence. Feel free to replace it with something in your own words. If a direct quotation is really necessary, be prepared to argue the case (and make it more explicit it's a direct quote). If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. Cheers, Wily D 08:37, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for explaining this new process to me. I did re-word the sentence. Please let me know if there is anything more I can do to make this article better.