User talk:Giuseppe.dicapua

Welcome, and a note on copyrights
Welcome to Wikipedia! I note your edit to Geoethics where you add verbatim text from International Association for Promoting Geoethics. As you appear to be the author of that page, you may have assumed that it was ok to copy the same text here. However, Wikipedia has quite strict guidelines on the use of copyrighted material. If you are the owner of the copyright, there are ways to donate the material for use on Wikipedia. Alternatively, you could paraphrase the text and cite the reference you already have in place there. Cheers, Basie (talk) 10:02, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, ! I see that has already mentioned the copyright problem at Geoethics, though identifying a different source for that material (I thought it was probably from the IAPG constitution). Anyway, I wanted to draw your attention to something else: our guidelines on editing topics that you are close to, and in particular the bit about citing your own articles, where some care is needed. Wikipedia needs expert editors, and welcomes your contributions; but it also places a very high value on neutrality. I hope that you enjoy contributing. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

I confirm the copyright is ok. I'm founder member of the IAPG. I'm considered a frontliner of Geoethics. I was editor of the first volume on Geoethics ever published by a JCR Journal (with a peer-review process). I had written first articles about principles of geoethics. I believe that Geoethics needs to be based on scientific papers and not on declarations or abstracts. So I have included among references the volume published with Annals of Geophysics. In the next days I will add other two important books on Geoethics that have been recently published, and an article on the proposal for a "Geoethical Promise" recently published in Episodes, the JCR journal of the IUGS. In my opinion, there is not a problem of neutrality by myself, the real problem is when text are written by self-referenced and not scientifically-recognized people or, worst, by no-experts. Giuseppe.dicapua (talk) 11:18, 20 November 2014
 * No,, the copyright is not OK unless either the content of the source page (whichever that is!) is released under an appropriate Creative Commons licence, or permission for that content to be freely and irretrievably used is received and logged by the OTRS team. Please understand that this is as much for the protection of the author as anything else (it may seem absurd, but we have no way of knowing that you actually are the person you appear and claim to be; impersonation has happened). Please also take seriously my comments above about possible conflict of interest editing, and remember that Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Enjoy editing! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:26, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't know what to do. The IAPG constitution is a document that you can find in the IAPG website. There is no restriction to download it. The definition of Geoethics is not a property. If you need, we can send a letter with our letterhead to give you the permission to use the definition of Geoethics. Giuseppe.dicapua (talk) 14:36, 20 November 2014
 * If, as suspected, the original text is from http://www.iapg.geoethics.org/img/IAPG_Constitution.pdf, perhaps the simplest thing would be to release that document under the Creative Commons license. We can then add an attribution note to your article, and you're good to go. This license is 'compatible' with Wikipedia. More detail can be found here: WP:FAQ/Copyright, WP:DCM.


 * It's really worth keeping in mind about conflict of interest editing, although in such a specialist field I'll grant you that can be tricky as I imagine there aren't too many people who know the sources as well as you. Sorry if you've found this process frustrating. Please feel free to ask if you have more questions. Cheers, Basie (talk) 17:58, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Further to what I wrote above, the IAPG website carries this clear and specific notice:
 * So there definitely is some restriction on using the content. You could change the licence of the site to a free one, or send permission to the OTRS team; but by far the simplest remedy is make sure that content of the website is not copied here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:43, 21 November 2014 (UTC)