User talk:Franksantucci

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Okay Drm310,thank you, I understand where that comes from. Since there is no copyright, it is going to get complicated. to go through that route. So I guess that my best bet is going to be to write a new article myself and post it bit-by-bit. In that way I will not infringe any of the understandable safeguards that you have. I hope that will work.

Hello Drm310 My name is Frank Santucci, and I am a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate, entrusted by the Oblates to be in charge of our Founder and Charism Animation. (I am also a professor at Oblate School of theology in San Antonio, Texas). It is in this context that I have modified the ghastly and amateurish article on Eugene de Mazenod, the Founder of the Oblates. The text that I used is one that we composed as an in-house biography to accompany the liturgical texts that we sent out to the members of our Oblate Congregation for their use. It is an in-house document that was never published in public, has never been offered for sale and has no copyright attached to it. In the bibliography at the end of the article I added two more references. One to the URL link to my doctoral thesis on Eugene de Mazenod, and the other to a daily scholarly reflection that I write each day on internet. I am considere dby the Oblates as one of the world authorities on Eugene de Mazenod. Having said all that, is it possible for th etext that I put onot the Wiki site today to be reinstated please? If there is anything lese that I need to do to have this happen, please let me know. Thanks a lot Frank Santucci


 * A 'prewritten' text needs to be released for Wikipedia to use under the 'CC-BY-SA' license (you do this 'automatically' when you add text directly to Wikipedia). The way to do this is covered on this page, but essentially it involes sending an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org from the 'copyright owner' stating that the 'copyrighted material' has been released under that license. Hope that helps. Revent (talk) 18:51, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Okay Drm310, thank you, I understand where that comes from. Since there is no copyright, it is going to get complicated. to go through that route. So I guess that my best bet is going to be to write a new article myself and post it bit-by-bit. In that way I will not infringe any of the understandable safeguards that you have. I hope that will work. Frank Santucci


 * That will work as well, and probably be easier, though 'technically' anything you write is automatically copyrighted, whether you 'claim' the copyright or not....that where the 'issue' comes from with things previously used 'off wikipedia'.
 * (BTW, I'm not the user that originally greeted you, I'm a 'bystander' from the help channel that got 'alerted' by the helpme template.)
 * You can 'sign' your talkpage posts by using four 'tildes' (this ~ is a tilde) at the end of your message, by the way. Revent (talk) 19:28, 24 May 2013 (UTC)