User talk:Gordianotu

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Hello, Gordianotu, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! -- John of Reading (talk) 15:41, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
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I have again removed the Diocesan history from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ikot Ekpene Wikipedia article. Please bear with me while I explain why!

Unfortunately the project cannot just [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Ikot_Ekpene&curid=12563721&diff=593733121&oldid=593551563 accept your word] that the material you copied from the Diocesan website can be pasted here.


 * One issue is that the footer of the source webpage still says "© 2012-2014 Catholic Diocese of Ikot Ekpene | All rights reserved." Text at Wikipedia must be available for re-use, even for commercial purposes - companies can and do re-publish Wikipedia articles for commercial gain.
 * Another issue is that Wikipedia accounts are [by design] easy to create, with no verification of identity. No one at Wikipedia can verify that you are connected with the Diocese or have their permission to give away their copyrighted text.

There are ways round this, described in detail at Donating copyrighted materials:


 * Add the proper form of words to that page on the Diocesan website; or
 * Send an email using a proper form of words from a Diocesan email address

But until one of these steps is correctly carried out, the text cannot be used at Wikipedia. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:41, 3 February 2014 (UTC)