User talk:FCO Article

Wikipedia's copyright policies
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contribution, but I'm afraid that the article you created at Fighting Communist Organizations has been deleted, as it was copied from. There are procedures for handling previously published content, depending on their copyright status. The vast majority of online and modern print sources are under copyright; we can only use brief excerpts from these, clearly marked as quotations. Content that is public domain can be liberally copied, as long as you note that you are copying to comply with our standards on plagiarism. Content that is licensed for reuse can be handled similarly to public domain material, except that generally there are requirements and restrictions connected with the license. You have to make sure first that the license is compatible (see the chart here) and, if it is, that you are complying with the requirements of the license. The license for the site from which you copied that content requires that you acknowledge the source. Please see Copy-paste for more information.

Although the content can be used on Wikipedia if attributed, there is conversation currently ongoing at the administrator's noticeboard whether it should be. There are concerns that it does not otherwise meet our content policies (most of which are linked in the notice above). You are welcome to join in that conversation before it is archived, which will likely be in about 24 hours.

Please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia, and if you have any questions about our copyright policies, you are more than welcome to come by my talk page. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:16, 2 February 2011 (UTC)