User talk:Farshad1967

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Speedy deletion nomination of Larry Greiner


A tag has been placed on Larry Greiner requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://uwf.edu/mcd/vitae/greiner.shtml. 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 or other printed material 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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Thank you. Drm310 (talk) 22:43, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Content from Talk:Larry Greiner
Hi! I'm porting the following conversation from the article talk page since I'm deleting it for the time being, until you can get Mr. Greiner to file a ticket giving Wikipedia permission to use the content. Once the ticket has gone through and we have the proper permissions, I have no true issue with restoring the article, although I will say that you'll need to make sure that you source the article to establish the claims and show how he'd pass notability guidelines per WP:NBIO or (more specifically) WP:NPROF. Something to be careful of with taking content from his resume/site is that in many cases the material is written to represent the person in the best light possible and may need to be re-written anyway in order to meet WP:NPOV guidelines. Still, I'd recommend getting him to donate the material (if he holds the copyright to the content instead of the university) because that'd make it far easier to re-write. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:47, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

I had this chance to communicate with Mr. Larry Greiner in 2009, when I was a student of MBA. He shared me his biography via e-mail, the one which I posted to Wikipedia!

Then, I received a message from Wikipedia stating that it is a copy from http://uwf.edu/mcd/vitae/greiner.shtml

A same biography might be sent by Larry to that website and me either, however, mine is more detailed.

Incidentally, I've found a similar page in German at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_E._Greiner, which I do not know how to combine it with mine.

Any comments are welcomed.--Farshad1967 (talk) 08:32, 25 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation. As it happens, the bio he gave to you is also copyrighted (and was the moment it was written). It may very well be that Mr. Greiner doesn't mind this being published here, but our license means also that anyone anywhere can use or re-use it for any purpose they wish. In order for it to be usable here, the copyright holder (likely Mr. Greiner) would have to follow the steps outlined at WP:DCM to donate that content to Wikipedia. I'm happy to answer any questions about this, either here (until/unless this page is deleted) or on your talk page User talk:Farshad1967, or mine User talk:Crow. Thanks, Crow  Caw  22:06, 24 May 2016 (UTC)