User talk:Hicgs

Copyright issue with Habitat international coalition}}}
Hello. Concerning your contribution, :, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from. As a copyright violation, : appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. : has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:


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 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk: with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:.

However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. ... disco spinster   talk  21:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Habitat international coalition
Hi. I saw your note on the talk page indicating that you have the authority to release the text. However, that is not the only issue. Wikipedia is not an advertising service. If your organization meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, an article would be fine, however, a press release or some other similar page will be speedy deleted under criterion for speedy deletion G11. Also, please see Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. As a general rule of thumb, the biggest question to consider are whether there are reliable, third party sources of information. In other words, is there press coverage of your organization beyond reprinting of your own press releases? If not, it is probably not an appropriate subject for an encyclopedia article. (I have made no effort to make a determination one way or the other on the appropriateness of the subject matter itself - I deleted the article because it was a copy/paste from your website, without prejudice one way or the other as to whether an article is appropriate.) Please take a look at some of the guidelines I have linked here and in the welcome message below. Thanks. --BigDT 01:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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