User talk:Mhbrandt

Copyright problems with Ye Olde Tavern of Manchester Center, Vermont
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Ye Olde Tavern of Manchester Center, Vermont, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). As a copyright violation, Ye Olde Tavern of Manchester Center, Vermont appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Ye Olde Tavern of Manchester Center, Vermont has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and CC-BY-SA, under CC-BY-SA, or released into the public domain leave a note at with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. Melchoir (talk) 03:26, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Ye Olde Tavern
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Ye Olde Tavern, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.yeoldetavern.net/gallery-80-Our_Story.php. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 18:11, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

How to verify copyright permission for article Ye Olde Tavern
Hello, Mhbrandt.

Thank you for your interest in donating material from http://www.yeoldetavern.net/gallery-80-Our_Story.php to Wikipedia. Since we do not currently have a method in place to verify the identity of account holders at account creation, we must verify such donations through external processes. The article has been blanked to allow time for that verification to proceed.

The simplest way to verify is to place a release on that external website putting the material into public domain or co-licensing it under CC-BY-SA and GFDL, which permit modification and reuse, even commercially, as long as authorship credit is given. This release is irrevocable and must continue to be displayed, or the material may need to be removed. A statement such as the following would be sufficient: "The contents of this website (or page, if you are specifically releasing one section) are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License, unversioned with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts." If you decide to take this route, please put a link to that release on Talk:Ye Olde Tavern so we can restore the contents.

Alternatively, you may choose to send an e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation from an address associated with the original publication to [mailto:permissions-en@wikimedia.org permissions-en@wikimedia.org] or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. There is a boilerplate release form at Declaration of consent for all enquiries which can be helpful. Please provide a clear link to the website in your e-mail and specify by name the articles on Wikipedia in which the material is being used. Once your e-mail is received and processed by a member of the Communications Committee, the article's contents will be restored if your release is legally sufficient. Please make a note that you've done this on Talk:Ye Olde Tavern to help guard against premature deletion of the page. You can compose a note or very simply paste the following on the talk page, brackets and all:

If you decide you don't wish to release the material into public domain or under the terms of CC-BY-SA and GFDL, you are welcome to rewrite the text from scratch at [ this temporary page]. As long as the material is otherwise compliant with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, it will be used to replace the previous contents. Please leave a note at Talk:Ye Olde Tavern saying you have done so.

If you are not familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, you may wish to review Starting an article or Your first article. If you are closely related to the subject matter, you may also want to read our conflict of interest guidelines to get an idea how best to proceed. It may be necessary once permission is verified to address other concerns in the text, if it is otherwise inconsistent with our policies and guidelines.

We apologize for the additional steps necessary, but as copyright is a matter of legal concern, we must ensure that we not only protect the rights of copyright holders, but also guard the Wikipedia project against inadvertent infringement.

The article will be revisited in about a week to see what additional steps have been taken or may be necessary. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let me know at my talk page. We also have a help desk which is typically manned around the clock by volunteers.

Thank you. -- The left orium  18:29, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring, copyright violations
Please do not restore the text which has been removed from Ye Olde Tavern as copyright violations from the website for the establishment, or you may be blocked from editing. You have been given detailed information as to how to establish that you are the copyright owner, or how to post a GFDL release on the website so the information can be used here. I will re-stub the article for the time being. Also, please take a look at the talk page for the article, where I have shwn the results of some research I did looking for evidence of notability. If you are the owner, perhaps you inherited a clipfile on newspaper articles. They could be useful sources. Photos are also subject to copyright rules, and may be removed if they are copied from a website. If you own the photos, or if they are historic and the copyright has expired, there are ways to state that in the upload file, but I do not work much with images and cannot advise you on that area. Edison (talk) 19:20, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Ye Olde Tavern
The article is looking pretty good at this point. The language used in the business website has a promotional tone and the language now sounds more neutral and encyclopedic. Are there sources for the information in the history section of the website? The various facts there can be added to the article without it being a copyright violation, since phrasing is what is copyrighted, not the underlying facts. Edison (talk) 01:49, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Tavern_Foliage_2008crop.jpg
Thank you for uploading File:Tavern_Foliage_2008crop.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Closedmouth (talk) 15:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)