User talk:Greeenbean

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Resources for the Future, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.rff.org/rff/About/RFFat50/Index.cfm, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

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(Hi. Sorry for the huge notice, but the page's text seems to be almost verbatim from RFF's site, and that's against policy.) Kris Schnee 01:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I have copyright permissions
With regard to the possible "Copyright infringement":

I have permission to use the copyrighted material. I work at Resources for the Future and was tasked with creating an entry for RFF. Given that other research institutions and think tanks (e.g. the Brookings Institution) have pages on Wikipedia, and given RFF's scope and influence, I don't think the usual restriction about creating a page for the company you work for applies here. You should note that the language is neutral and explanatory, not biased or seeking to advertise; merely another source from which one could educate themself about RFF.

I intend to send an email, from my @rff.org account to permissions-en at wikimedia dot org.

If there's something I'm missing here, please let me know. As I understand it though, since I have permissions to use this language, and given the nature of the entry, the Resources for the Future page should stay.

Thanks.

(Greeenbean 14:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC))