User talk:Esfinc

January 2009
Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ''Several sentences were taken verbatim from http://www.esf-protrainer.com/Founders.html. If you are part of ESF Inc., as your username indicates, please use the talk page to suggest changes in accordance with the conflict of interest policy.'' WeisheitSuchen (talk) 01:48, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Please help me understand what to do about this note. Thanks. msesfinc 08:07, 7 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Two things. First, you can't copy anything from a website directly; basically everything online is copyrighted unless it says otherwise. If you want to remove the copyright on materials from your own website in order to allow it to be used here, you should indicate that in the license on your website. You could release your website content into the public domain so anyone can use it, or you could use a Creative Commons license which is compatible with the GFDL. Second, you have a conflict of interest when you're writing about yourself and your own work. Rather than adding content to the article directly, you should add it to the talk page. At the top of any article, you'll see a tab labeled "discussion." For example, if you wanted to add something to the Instructional design article, you would go to Talk:Instructional_design and add a new section at the bottom of the page with your suggestions. Feel free to ask here or on my talk page if you have any other questions. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 16:08, 7 January 2009 (UTC)