User talk:Freakoelectret

Copyright problem on Siegfried Bauer
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Copyright problem??? Why???
Why is there a copyright problem if I use my own text which has explicitly not been copyrighted in the more extensive source that I quoted (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine)??? Parts of this text have been reused by various authors including myself, and I was told by the editors of the magazine that obituaries are not copyrighted in their publication and that I can reuse my text in whatever way I want (a copyright transfer was not signed by me or by my co-author). Large parts of the text have also appeared on other websites. However, I do not have the time to deal with administrative issues at length. Therefore, if you do not like my text just delete it. I will also stop editing and contributing to the Siegfried Bauer page if there is such a big problem. Sorry for bothering anybody. Freakoelectret (talk) 21:45, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Please help me with...

Freakoelectret (talk) 21:45, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:COPYRIGHT. We have no way to verify you are in fact the owner of the text however even if you were to prove such and give permission, Wikipedia articles are based on what independent reliable sources say and that content is summarized. Content entirely written by one person is rather unlikely to be neutral or appropriate for Wikipedia. Praxidicae (talk) 21:51, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

As I said, the three sentences that I contributed are not copyright-protected and they are heavily edited in comparison to the published (non-copyrighted) text (by the same authors), and they are also not written only by me, but by two people. However, as said before, if my input is not wanted, just delete it, and we are done. I do not have the time and the resources to discuss the situation with a lawyer. I just wanted to help, but if it is not wanted, that's it. Freakoelectret (talk) 22:15, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia also does not allow original research. Praxidicae (talk) 22:22, 14 January 2020 (UTC)