User talk:KellieDillet

Copyright problem: Wahiba Sands
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Wahiba Sands, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.jstor.org/pss/634471, 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:Wahiba Sands/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Wahiba Sands 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! • Gene93k (talk) 18:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Oman - Wahiba Sands
(removed text that is already in article name space, you can retrieve it in the page history if you need it)

Note: I have full permission from 'The Royal Geographical Society' to use their name and any facts and figures contributed by them in the above article.
 * You don't need any permission to use facts, but you do need permission to copy texts verbatim, but since they don't write encyclopedia articles, doing so would be useless. Instead you should use the reference to write an article from scratch in your own words and use wikification along the way. To properly reference the article you should give all the relevant information of your source. Title, number of pages, authors, publisher, year of publication, etc. WP:CITET has nice templates to fill in so you don't forget anything. - Mgm|(talk) 12:12, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, dashes are usually not the right way to do it. Have a look at Naming conventions I suspect Wahibi Sands is the correct title as it is. - Mgm|(talk) 12:13, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Ongoing copyright concerns
Although I appreciate that you have obviously made an effort to address copyright concerns in this article, I am concerned to see that you are still closely following the identified source as well as incorporating verbatim or barely rearranged text from other sources. A couple of examples:
 * this article is the source of the phrase "In a land where people are few and there is little to sustain life, hospitality becomes a means of survival," which is rearranged minimally to "Hospitality becomes a means of survival in a land of few people and where there is little to sustain life."
 * This book passage has been condensed into "Passers-by are welcomed by the asking of news, to which the reply is that there is good news or no news".
 * The phrase "The Bedu people have adopted environmentally-sound ways of exploiting local resources" is plainly echoing "adopted environmentally-sound ways of exploiting local resources" from this site, which is plainly incompatible with GFDL.

If you are able to verify permission by the procedures set out at Requesting copyright permissions, we would be able to utilize at least some of the text from the Royal Geographic Society, but we can't use or even too closely borrow from other sources without obtaining permission from them as well. For that reason, it's best to write articles completely in your own words, using others words only in accord with our non-free content guidelines. While we are prohibited from quoting too extensively, for instance, you can occasionally use quotes to attribute a point of view, such as that "hospitality becomes a means of survival." You do have to use quotation marks and make note of your source, though.

You can simply revise some of this material. For instance, "A request for news is among the rituals of greeting, but the response is equally ritualized; if people have no good news to share, they respond that they have no news at all."

I have deleted the temporary version of this article, as it is the same as that now in article space. This space is again available for further work. I will relist this copyright concern to give you more time to address the matter. Meanwhile, I will be watching your talk page and would be more than happy to discuss this with you further.

Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:21, 4 December 2008 (UTC)