User talk:Feedingtheworld

March 2011
Your addition 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. Chhe (talk) 23:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

I have re-instated my entry as Chhe's claims it contins copywrit material is unfounded


 * Informational note: this is to let you know that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.   Regards, Chhe (talk) 18:40, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Using previously published content
Hello. I saw this situation mentioned on the administrator's noticeboard and just wanted to stop by to welcome you and to further explain.

First, there's a rather simple overview of Wikipedia's approach to using previously published content at Copy-paste. Essentially, you can only use brief, clearly marked quotations of previously published content (see WP:NFC) unless you can prove that it is public domain or licensed compatibly with Wikipedia. (See Public domain); Compatible license). Due to provisions of the United States law that governs Wikipedia, copyright is presumed unless we can prove that content is free. Even press releases are copyrighted, as those who release them retain the right to decide who receives them and under what conditions they may publish them (our license requires the rights for commercial use and modification, which they may not approve).

If you want to try to get permission to use copyrighted content, see Requesting copyright permissions. You have to wait until permission is verified first, though.

Even if content is public domain or compatibly licensed, you can't just copy it, but have to acknowledge that it is being copied. It isn't enough to name your source. See Plagiarism.

Otherwise, except for brief, clearly marked quotations, you have to put all the information that you get from sources into your own words, which usually requires new language and structure to avoid Close paraphrasing.

I realize that there are a lot of links here, but I hope that they will help you understand why the content you have been placing at Peak phosphorus cannot be accepted. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:21, 14 March 2011 (UTC)