User talk:Michael Atwood Mason


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Babalu Aye
Hi Michael, I posted on your blog about the slight problem we have with copy violation. It's not a huge deal but it is something that would be good to fix. I have to be honest and say I don't totally have my head around it, and it's no doubt complicated by the fact that you are the original author of both bits of text. Start by reading WP:COPYVIO. Wikipedia text is released under fairly free licences which require attribution, whilst your blog is fully copyrighted. Having the text in both places therefore creates a bit of conflict. I don't think it's a big problem as you're hardly likely to sue Wikipedia for violation of copyright when you wrote everything involved, but we should still try to make sure everything is "correct". You probably didn't want to come here to be dealing with this, for which I apologise, but as we're here, let's sort it out. Thanks you for coming and adding your knowledge to our articles. Cheers, Mechanical digger (talk) 16:32, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * For reference, blog post is from Oct 21: http://baba-who-babalu-santeria.blogspot.com/2010/10/babalu-aye-in-wikipedia.html and the addition to Babalu Aye occurred today here. Mechanical digger (talk) 16:41, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

This problem is rather obvious, but it had not occurred to me. I have removed the text from the blog so as to comply with the open spirit of Wikipedia. Michael Atwood Mason
 * No problem - it's an easy fix! Good luck with the article, it would be good if you could get the references in keeping with normal practice(see WP:CS), I might go through and do a few for you as an example for you to follow. And sadly using your blog as a source doesn't follow the requirements of WP:Reliable sources – can you source the information from somewhere else? Bigger digger (talk) 01:21, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * And just because I know you want to have a look at even more links, depending upon how much you want to improve the article you might find Featured articles useful. Bigger digger (talk) 01:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)