User talk:Kamet

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your contribution to the Kamet article. However you will notice that I have done some major editing on that article. There were a few issues with what you contributed. First, it was very long, and included a great deal of material that was not directly relevant to Kamet. (For example, I moved some material about A. M. Kellas to a new article about him. I also moved a long section about the Himalayan Club to Talk:Kamet, in case someone wants to use that in a (new) article about the Club.) Second, it was not encyclopedic in tone. Third, since it was apparently a direct transcription of another document, there are copyright issues that are unclear. The presumption is that the document you are transcribing is copyrighted, in which case it cannot simply be transcribed, or quoted at such length, without violating that copyright. Material that is included at such length in Wikipedia must be either Public Domain or licensed under a copyleft-type license such as the GFDL.

I tried to re-write the article to make use of all of the directly relevant information, but without copying the source document, and conforming to Wikipedia style. I also cross-checked and corrected some of the information with other sources. I believe it is now a good article, although it still lacks a picture. -- Spireguy 18:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)