User talk:Jmsinzdak

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), 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.cawp.rutgers.edu/index.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article 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 you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! CovenantD 09:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

GFDL
At the talk page of the latest version of Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), you indicated the following:
 * I am a staff member at the Center for American Women and Politics and have permission to edit/post this page. The information on this page is permitted for re-use under the GFDL. See also: http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/resources/reproducingmaterials.php. Jmsinzdak (talk) 16:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Another contributor responded:
 * The licence on the page referenced is insufficient. For Wikipedia, commercial purposes must also be allowed. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 16:46, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

He is correct that the license on the website is insufficient. Not only much commercial reproduction without prior authorization be permitted, but it must explicitly allow modification and, currently, indicate that no restrictions can be placed on derivative versions. This is why we require explicit release under GFDL.

Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above and sufficient time has passed since the placement of the notice on the article, the article has been deleted for copyright concerns. This deletion is not necessarily permanent. If you have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost), and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.

As Wikipedia does not require proof of identity on account creation, it is essential that we receive external proof of authorization in order to ensure that we remain compliant with US Copyright law. It is also essential that we verify that copyright holders understand the extent of the release they are authorizing, in that GFDL permits modification and reuse in any forum, even commercial publication, as long as authorship credit is maintained.

If you have questions about the verification procedure, please feel free to contact me at my talk page. Alternatively, you might address them at the talk page of the copyright policy, which is generally monitored by volunteers experienced in processing such matters. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)