User talk:Handsfreemute

Dr. Ray O Johnson
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Dr. Ray O Johnson, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.sei.cmu.edu/community/mm/rjohnsonbio.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.

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 * Hi. The text turns up quite a few mirrors, but one of them, Techconnect.com, claims "all rights reserved," which is incompatible with Wikipedia's licensing.  The best thing to do would be to use that source text as just a source of info, but to make the end result over here something in your own words.  Thanks for asking and thanks for understanding.  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 23:56, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Dr. Ray O Johnson
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Speedy deletion of Dr. Ray O Johnson
A tag has been placed on Dr. Ray O Johnson 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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Deleting of "Dr. Ray O Johnson" page
Hello Firsfron, The copyrighted material that you are refering to at "http://www.sei.cmu.edu/community/mm/rjohnsonbio.html" is the public domain biography for Dr. Ray O Johnson that you will find on many other pages across the web. Being the CTO for a large company, he makes speeches at several events and this bio is provided as public domain info. It often times winds up on the event pages all over the web. Taking the advice of PMDrive1061 who initially deleted the page, I have rewritten sections, added references, and additional material to the page. Would you please reinstating the page? Thank you. Handsfreemute (talk) 18:10, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Handsfree,
 * Unfortunately, the text that you are referring to as "public domain" actually includes a copyright notice at the bottom of the page. Further, the Terms of Use page linked to that article states specifically "Carnegie Mellon University SEI-authored documents are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense under Contract FA8721-05-C-0003. Carnegie Mellon University retains copyrights in all material produced under this contract. The U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce these documents, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes only pursuant to the copyright license under the contract clause". Phrases in the Wikipedia article such as "holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology" and "He currently serves as a member of the Sandia Corporation" are word-for-word duplicates of the external, copyrighted site. I cannot, under these circumstances, restore the article at this time. You can read more at Copyrights. If you'd like to write an original article about Mr. Johnson which is free from copyright issues, you are free to do so, but you should not copy and paste text from a site which claims copyright on that text. Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester  19:00, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Handsfree,
 * Thanks for your understanding. It looks like both articles have been moved to Ray O. Johnson, per Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Best of luck expanding and improving the article. Cheers! Firsfron of Ronchester  00:53, 9 March 2009 (UTC)