User talk:Lindy1212

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Johnny Contardo
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Johnny Contardo, 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.johnnycontardo.com/bio.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), you can comment to that effect on Talk:Johnny Contardo. Then you should do one of the following:
 * Make a note on the original website that re-use is permitted under the GFDL and state at Talk:Johnny Contardo where we can find that note; or
 * Send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Johnny Contardo.

It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! -- ReyBrujo 17:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Copyright
I am copying the text you included in the article's talk page, as it is likely to be deleted (thus lost) soon:

"Please note:This article is written by original author and is not copywright infringement and with full permission to print from original source. I am the author of the source as well, JohnnyContardo.com-I am Johnny's agent and manager. I am new to Wikipedia and not sure how to contact talk page for Ray who posted message to me. I also need to upload images and having trouble with getting it uploaded to my article. Help! Unsure how to use Talk Pages and confirm that this is my work taken from my site johnnycontardo.com DO NOT DELETE ARTICLE BELOW Linda Hamilton lhamilton12@comcast.net/"

Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia. Every time you press the "Save page" button, you are declaring the inserted text is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. As you noted, you are the owner of the copyrights from the article. However, there is a conflict of interests as you are both keeping the copyright for the text and releasing it under the GFDL. From a strict point of view, you still have the text in your domain, thus if someone edits the article to change it, he would be committing copyright violation because, when pressing the "Save" button, he would be releasing the article under the GFDL.

There are three ways of solving this matter:
 * Recreating the article with your own words, without using text that has been published before. This way, your contributions would be truly released under the GFDL license, with no conflicts.
 * State that such text is available under the GFDL. You can do this in two different ways: mailing the Foundation to notify that you are giving up your rights over the text, releasing it under a free license, or by modifying the page where the text is situated, adding a note informing the text is freely available (under GFDL or Public domain). Note that, by giving up your rights on the text, you are allowing its commercial usage (in example, someone could take that text, change it a bit, add it into a book and release it, without having to pay you, without any possibility for you to legally act against him).

The best way is to leave the article be deleted, and recreate it in your own words, remembering to add references to reliable sources (the official website of the subject is not considered one, however sites like BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, New York Times, newspapers, books written by notable authors, etc, are), so that the information can be verified by any user. Failure to add references will put the article into deletion process again, as the burden of proof is put in the editor and not the readers.

Finally, I heavily suggest to read our notability guidelines, find the one that fits the subject the best, and see if it fulfills any of the points stated there. If the subject does not, again, the article may be deleted. Note that Wikipedia has its own threshold for notability, and sometimes events that could be considered notable outside Wikipedia are not here.

If you have any question, just click here, and add your question with a title. I will be answering in this page, as conversations between wikipedians is usually cross-posted (you "speak" in my talk page, I "speak" in your talk page). Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 18:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Johnny Contardo once again
Please review the instructions at Johnny Contardo to know how to verify you are the copyright owner, and to follow the steps to contact the foundation or to release your text under a free license. Regards. -- ReyBrujo 04:35, 13 November 2006 (UTC)