User talk:Glaan

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Speedy deletion of Parviz Gharib-Afshar
A tag has been placed on Parviz Gharib-Afshar requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. 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 as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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Notice
You recently removed the reference link from the bottom of a page you created, Parviz Gharib-Afshar. Please note that it is still a copyvio regardless of whether you have the references on the page or not. -- IRP ☎ 03:19, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

March 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Parviz Gharib-Afshar has been reverted, as it appears to have removed content from the page without explanation. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. 03:27, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

How to verify copyright permission for article Parviz Gharib-Afshar
Hello,.

Thank you for your interest in donating material from your website to Wikipedia. It seems that you may actually have published it here first, in which case there would be no need for the verification process, but unfortunately with a publication so close in time there's no way we can legally determine that. Since we do not currently have a method in place to verify the identity of account holders at account creation, we need to verify your donation through external processes.

Removing the material from the external site is not the best way to proceed here. The easiest way to verify is to place a release on that external website where the material is published putting the material into public domain or releasing it under the GFDL, which permits modification and reuse, even commercially, as long as authorship credit is given. Currently complicating matters, there is a chance that Wikipedia will change its licensing in August to a Creative Commons license. If that happens, we will at the time of transition have to remove most text published on external sites under GFDL (there are exceptions for "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Sites" like Wikipedia itself and permissions granted before November 1, 2008). For that reason, it would be best if you also published this material under CC-BY-SA. This license is similar to GFDL in that it allows modification and reuse, while also requiring attribution. A statement such as the following, including the link to the GFDL, would be sufficient: "The contents of this website (or page, if you are specifically releasing one section) are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 and later and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike" If you also have images on that page and don't wish to release these, you can specify "text" rather than "contents." If you decide to take this route, please put a link to that release on Talk:Parviz Gharib-Afshar.

Alternatively, you may choose to send an e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation from an address associated with the original publication to [mailto:permissions-en@wikimedia.org permissions-en@wikimedia.org] or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL. There is a boilerplate release form at Declaration of consent for all enquiries which can be helpful. Please provide a clear link to the website in your e-mail and specify by name the article on Wikipedia in which the material is being used. Once your e-mail is received and processed by a member of the Communications Committee, the article's contents will be restored if your release is legally sufficient. Please make a note that you've done this on Talk:Parviz Gharib-Afshar to help guard against premature deletion of the page. You can compose a note or very simply paste the following on the talk page, brackets and all:

We apologize for the additional steps necessary, but as copyright is a matter of legal concern, we must ensure that we not only protect the rights of copyright holders, but also guard the Wikipedia project against inadvertent infringement. It is standard policy to blank the article to allow you to verify your permission, but in this case I have not done so. Given the unusually strong evidence here that you are in fact the webmaster, I will leave it for now as long as you address the issue promptly. We try not to be overly paranoid about copyright, but we do have to be able to demonstrate that we know you are who you say you are and that you understand our licensing terms. Please help us here by following through with the permission process promptly. :)

(I also must note, since you are closely related to the subject matter, that you may also want to read our conflict of interest guidelines to get an idea how best to contribute to an article on this subject. It may be necessary once permission is verified to address other concerns in the text, if it is otherwise inconsistent with our policies and guidelines.)

I am watching your talk page here and will see any questions or replies that you may make. I am also watching the article. I will be happy to give you any assistance in resolving this swiftly that I can.

Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:35, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Clarifying
Thanks a lot for your help. There's quite a few different paths I can take here to solving my problem, it seems. I wanted to ask, is it enough for now to fill out the Declaration of Consent and send it to Wikipedia Foundation, or is there definitely something more that has to be done? Also, I plan to post more biographic articles in the future on people I have personally interviewed. In this case, no reference will exist. If I post my biographies on my website and leave the link to the biography index in my Declaration of Consent so that any one of my biographies may be found there, and then I use the specific biography page from my website as reference for my article, will that be enough? My apologies for the delay. Thank you.
 * It would be quite sufficient to send the Declaration of Consent to the Wikipedia Foundation to clear this article. I believe that it is possible for you to release future publications on your website as well, but I'm afraid that I cannot definitively answer you since I am not a member of the Communications Committee and am unsure how such a release would be logged. I will ask a member of the Communications Committee to provide more information here. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:40, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi there. It is indeed possible to send a forward-looking content release. Moonriddengirl's suggestion that you place a notice on your website with the licensing details remains the best method, but this is an alternative.
 * You would need to send to permissions-en@wikimedia.org an email with the following text:
 * All content from the website [SITE ADDRESS] added to Wikipedia by the user Glaan is thereby released under version 1.2 or later of the GNU Free Documentation License, with no Front-Cover Texts, no Back-Cover Texts, and no Invariant Sections, and under version 3.0 of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
 * The email needs to be sent from an address associated with, or displayed on, the website where the content is used. Obviously you should replace [SITE ADDRESS] with that site name.
 * You would then be issued with further instructions on what to do to ensure that content is not removed from Wikipedia. Stifle (talk) 09:35, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you once again for your help. I'll be sure to send those emails straight away. Before I do, there's one last thing I'd like to ask, since I am rather new to all of this. There's a small section of the Declaration of Consent that I fail to understand completely:
 * "I agree to publish that work under the free license LICENSE [images: choose at least one from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags text: GFDL, v. 1.2 or later and CC-BY-SA version 3.0]."

Am I just supposed to link an image to the GNU licenses logo here?
 * Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Glaan (talk • contribs) 22:47, 3 March 2009


 * No. The release is written so that it can be used for images or text. It is sufficient to say, "I agree to publish that work under the free license GFDL, v. 1.2 or later, and CC-BY-SA version 3.0." --Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I have sent two emails to Wikipedia, and hopefully my conflict will soon be resolved. Thank you very much for all of your help. - Glaan (talk) 20:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

March 2009
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File copyright problem with File:FaribaNejat.jpg
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 * My apologies, adding the copyright status always slips my mind. I believe I've fixed it. Glaan (talk) 16:09, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with File:FaribaPainting.jpg
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 * I'm sorry, I seem to always forget to add the copyright status. I've fixed it, thank you for notifying me. Glaan (talk) 16:16, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Article nominated for deletion
Hello Glaan. The article Fariba Nejat, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. You're welcome to contribute to the discussion here. Cheers, Olaf Davis (talk) 15:12, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Fariba photo.JPG
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Nomination of Parviz Gharib-Afshar for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Parviz Gharib-Afshar is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Parviz Gharib-Afshar until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. 115ash →(☏) 14:23, 23 September 2014 (UTC)