User talk:Enagau

August 2011
Your addition to Laoag has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:04, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without verifying permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted.

Please take this opportunity to be sure you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content, as you did at Laoag. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 02:27, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Your email
Hi Enangu, I received your email. I prefer to communicate on talk pages, so I'm going to explain here the reasons behind your block.

First, please read our copyright policy. The text that you were adding to Laoag was a direct copy of text on the GLEDCO website. That means it's copyrighted material, and we cannot accept copyrighted material on Wikipedia. That's true whether you're the author of that material on the external site, or not. All text on Wikipedia is "copyleft"ed under an open-use license called CC-BY-SA. This means that by adding text to Wikipedia, you're giving permission for that text to be used, edited, copied, and just about anything else. For obvious reasons, this isn't possible with copyrighted text - copyrighted text, by definition, cannot be freely edited or reproduced. Therefore, we cannot accept copyrighted text on Wikipedia - both because it doesn't meet our licensing requirements, and because the holders of copyrights have reserved the right to control where and how their text is used, and if we violate that right, we put ourselves in legal jeopardy.

In general, if you are the author of that text, you could email our volunteer response team at permissions-en@wikimedia.org and grant Wikipedia license to use the text. That would involve changing your copyright on the text so that the text has a CC-BY-SA license, and that involves you giving up a large amount of control over your text, so it's something you should only do after thinking it over.

However, in this particular case, we also have the problem that the text you added, copyrighted or not, was extremely promotional, and violated our neutrality policy. You cannot use a Wikipedia article to promote a group - to talk about how great it is, or how it solves problems, or how it's a "leader" - whether the text you're doing that with is copyrighted or not. So, in this particular case, releasing the copyright on the text you were adding isn't useful, because we cannot use that text in the encyclopedia anyway.

Having said all those things, if you read and understand our copyright policy, and say so here on your talk page, and commit to not adding any more copyrighted or promotional text to Wikipedia, I will be happy to unblock you so you can continue editing in a manner that fits with our policies.

Does this make sense to you? A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:21, 24 August 2011 (UTC)