User talk:Laurendevera

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Permission
I saw your note at Andy Dingley's. Please note that while you may have permission to post extensive quotes from Tektronics docs, that's short of the kind of permission that WP needs to republish their material. You'll need to get them to publish or contribute material under an appropriately broad license such as CC-BY-SA 4.0, or just quote small bits of it. And since you work for them, see WP:COI about disclosing that and being careful what you post. Dicklyon (talk) 18:21, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Copyright
Thanks for your contributions thus far, but they're not (as yet) usable here.

The problem is that WP is intended as "a free encyclopedia". This requires a strong policy on copyright. WP's content is licensed (to readers and those wanting to use it) under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence. This means that not only is WP "a web encyclopedia" but it's also a reusable web encyclopedia. Other consumers of this content can take the content here and re-use it, even commercially. It's quite a generous free licence.

This imposes constraints on WP. It means that all WP's content has to be obtained (found or created) under a licence which is at least as free, so that we can do this with it. We can't take copyright-protected content that doesn't have a similar licence, because it would stop us freely re-publishing it like this. See Copyrights for more detail.

As to the Tektronix content, then it seems to be (as is usual) Tektronix' protected content and not licensed as we'd need: https://www.tek.com/page/terms-use    That means that we can use it as reference material  (Obviously Tek meets our WP:RS policy) and even the WP:EL policy (this is rather different). But we can't just paste in chunks to here - it would stop us then freely re-licensing that page to others. Yes, we could build an encyclopedia that way; but we couldn't build a free encyclopedia that way.

I hope this makes it a bit clearer, or just ask. Thanks for your contributions and I'm sure that there's plenty here you'd be able to help with. But it's not quite this simple. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:56, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, this is helpful! Should I then paraphrase and then cite at the end of the paragraph? Or after each sentence? I worry it'll be distracting and hard to read if it's the latter. By the looks of other Wiki pages, people do not cite after each sentence. Thanks again!

August 2019
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.  MrOllie (talk) 16:15, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but these are a long way from unwanted spam and it is very WP:BITEY to describe them as such. Tektronix is about as robust a WP:RS as we could get for these and WP could benefit a great deal from this content. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:37, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Spamming is a behavior, and when this account (and related accounts such as User:DataAndDonuts) are repetitively linking the same manufacturer on every article they can think of, that is spamming. - MrOllie (talk) 16:40, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Apparently this is an admitted employee of Tektronix, so they're in violation of WP:PAID and Wikipedia's terms of use as well. - MrOllie (talk) 16:41, 28 August 2019 (UTC)