User talk:MarcoLang

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Your edits to Mirko Fait
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Copyright problem: Mirko Fait
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Mirko Fait, 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.myspace.com/mirkofait, 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:Mirko Fait/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Mirko Fait 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! Voceditenore (talk) 10:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello. With regards to the above, the concern seems to be that your article here is a direct translation of the source. In United States law, only the copyright owner of the website has the legal right to prepare what we call "derivative works". A direct translation from another language is a derivative work. For example, the first paragraph below the lead says, "He grew up in a family of artists. Both his grandfathers played several instruments. His father Camillo Fait, a jazz guitarist, was well-known in the sixties with his band “Milord” and performed often at Santa Tecla in same period of Chet Baker. Now he is an internationally known painter." The source says, "Mirko Fait nasce a Milano il 3 giugno 1965 da una famiglia di artisti. Sia il nonno materno che paterno suonavano diversi strumenti. Il padre Camillo, chitarrista jazz, negli anni 60 era conosciuto con il gruppo dei "Milord" e diverse volte si esibì al Santa Tecla, locale storico di Milano dove militava anche Chet Baker nello stesso periodo. Ora è un affermato pittore di fama internazionale." While I don't speak Italian, a machine translation seems to confirm that these are substantially the same. If you can rewrite the material without simply translating the source, please do so at Talk:Mirko Fait/Temp. If you feel that your translation is not too close to the original, please let me know, and I will contact an Italian Wikipedian to help us review the matter more closely. But please do not remove the "copyright" notice from this article before the matter is resolved. Until we're sure that we have the legal right to use the material, we can't display the content. Thank you, and if you wish to discuss the matter with me further, I am watching your page. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm the editor who placed the original copyright infringement notice. The English translation used in the article is also copied from Mirko Fait's MySpace page. The page is very difficult to read as it uses a black background with dark grey text, and is packed with audiovisual elements, but it's definitely there (beneath a video on the right hand side). It's word for word what MarcoLang keeps adding to the article here including the same spelling mistakes, typos, and ungrammatical English.Voceditenore (talk) 05:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you. That's helpful information. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

The original article has been deleted. A start in the subpage also had to be deleted, as it contained significant infringement against All About Jazz. A new, copyright-free version has been placed, but this article needs additional sources to verify that it meets notabilility guidelines for musicians. Please see a note at the article's talk page for more information. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:56, 6 August 2008 (UTC)