User talk:Helohe/Archives/2005/July

Area 19,WinPcap, and others
Hi. Area 19 looks to be a copy of http://www.area51zone.com/a19.shtml Do you have permission from the copyright owner to licence this information under the GFDL? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:26, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

I also notice that Winpcap is a copy of http://www.winpcap.org/. Do you have permission to licence that under the GFDL? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:53, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Do you have permission for these too? How many more articles have you copied from elsewhere into wikipedia? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:58, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Guerino Mazzola is from http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/mazzola/#CV
 * Sergei Slonimsky is from http://www.classicalmusic.spb.ru/slonimsky/


 * In that case I'm afraid they'll all have to be deleted. We can't rewrite them in place either, as the versions which violate the authors' copyrights are still in the article history.  The one(s) that are partially copies have to go to, I'm afraid.  Everything that goes into wikipedia has to be completely the work of the contrubutor, or licenced from the copyright owner.  A quote from a book might be considered fair use, but not a large block of text, I'm afraid.  I'll take care of marking them for deletion in the correct manner.  In future, please only submit stuff you've actually written yourself; copying stuff into wikipedia only makes for headaches, and opens us all to the possibility of expensive legal action and very bad publicity.   Are there any other acticles you've also copied from websites?  -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 20:15, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Tibet-related edits
While I wish Tibet was independent, and I think it should be, the simple fact is that it is not. Adding Tibet to lists of sovereign states is consequently inappropriate. Justin (koavf) 01:26, July 23, 2005 (UTC)