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Image copyright problem with Image:Tinapa,_Calabar.jpg
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Copyright issue with Tinapa City Resort
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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.  REDVERS ↔ SЯEVDEЯ 12:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Tinapa City Resort
Hi Lephilippe and thanks for your message. Wikipedia cannot accept material cut-and-pasted from other websites. See WP:COPYRIGHT for more information. Just because they want their resort advertising does not mean that they want to release all text under the GFDL licence that allows the text to be freely distributed and edited.

Also, Wikipedia is operated by the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation and funded by donations. Advertising is therefore unwelcome. An article that merely advertises something, as Tinapa City Resort did, will be deleted immediately as spam. Articles need to provide reliable third-party sources and assert notability for their subject. Advertising (and reprinting press releases) doesn't do that.  REDVERS ↔ SЯEVDEЯ 07:57, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Copyright issue with Saint Obi}}}
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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. Slp1 11:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

New article proposal
Hi Lephilippe

You need to read Request for copyright assistance for guidance on asking a source to release their information under the GFDL before you post that information.

But, for guidance, if something is "proposed" or lacks any sources because it is new, then Wikipedia isn't interested. We're an encyclopedia so we don't want new or proposed things; we want established things that others have written about already and can thus be written about dispassionately from multiple secondary sources without it appearing to be advertising on a site that is co-ordinated by a not-for-profit charitable foundation.

In short: no, the article you propose cannot be cut-and-pasted and, if it was, would need to be deleted anyway. Thanks and happy editing.  REDVERS ↔ SЯEVDEЯ 20:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on RobotBoy, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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PLease help complete the List of Nigerian films thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦  "Expecting you"    Contribs 16:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Upchuck alien
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Image tagging for Image:Upchuckboxpic.jpg
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Duplicate images uploaded
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Image tagging for Image:Abuja at night.jpg
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Flag of Lagos State
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Lagos city/State
Lagos State is not a city. There are large parts of Lagos State that are outside of the Metropolitan Lagos, such as for instance Epe which is a rural area far away from the city. Godefroy 13:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * More than 70%? That's not what I can see on this map: . In fact only a small part of the state is covered by Metropolitan Lagos (blue and yellow color). Godefroy 13:57, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Sheraton Abuja.jpg
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 * Hi, I'm afraid it doesn't seem quite right yet. Legaly speaking public domain have a very spesific meaning, and just because an image is part of some campaign doesn't mean there is no copyright on it. Unless there is an explicit statemnt by the copyright holder stating that the image can be used freely we have to asume it's fully copyrighted. Also seeing as this is a photo of a building it can also most likely not be used at all unless it's proven to be free licensed (since Non-free content says such images can only be used if it's not possible to reproduce them under a free license). So I would suggest contacting the owners of that site and requesting a formal release of the image under a free license (see Requesting copyright permission for details), or just have it deleted and wait for someone in the area take theyr own photo of the buiding and upload it under a suitable free license. --Sherool (talk) 18:45, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * A simmilar case seems to be Image:CenBank Abuja.gif, if you have uploaded other images with simmilar situations please review those too. --Sherool (talk) 18:46, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * No, I'm afraid vague statements like that is not sufficient to asume something to be licensed under the GFDL (or any other spesific license). It needs to explicitly say "this is licensed under the XXX license" (or simmilar). If might be worth sending them an e-mail asing if they are willing to release it under a free license though. --Sherool (talk) 19:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, no I'm afraid press releases and promotional images can not be considered free content. They may allow anyone to display the image free of charge, but in order to be considered a free license the right to modify and use the image for commercial purposes must also be granted, and this is far from the norm. See also Copyright. --Sherool (talk) 21:57, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmm, well yeah I guess that could make a difference, asuming that tag is accurae (I notice there is a big "disputed" banner across it), looking at the relevant section of Nigerian copyright law it seems to me it only allow non-commercial use of "works of public interest" (sort of a "fair use" equivelent) though, wich would not be equivelent to public domain. I'm no expert on Nigerian copyright law though, tell you what: just use that tag for now. I'll run the license tag by someone some (hopefully) knowledgable people, and if the law support what it's saying it's all good. --Sherool (talk) 15:18, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

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Notability of Tinapa Resort
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Nomination of Above Death: In God We Trust for deletion
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Orphaned non-free image File:Fifa 09 logo.jpg
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Speedy deletion nomination of Nigezie


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File:Shiphouse Abuja.jpg listed for deletion on Wikimedia Commons
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Speedy deletion nomination of Tinapa Studios


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Proposed deletion of File:Lagos State Seal.PNG


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