User talk:Msgt programmer

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Msgt programmer, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:18, 15 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Because you may have believed that the article you created at L. D. Giddens and Son Jewelry Store was public domain, I just wanted to add a note of explanation. Documents prepared by federal employees in the course of their work are public domain. However, National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Forms are not filled out by federal employees. We have contacted the National Register of Historic Place offices in the past to clarify copyright on these, and they have confirmed that the content of those forms are fully copyrighted unless they are for some other reason ineligible. Without evidence of that ineligibility, we would require a license release from the author to allow us to host that content. If you are able to provide such a license release, please see Donating copyrighted materials.


 * Because we cannot verify that this material can be hosted on Wikipedia under our copyright policies, it has had to be deleted. If you have any questions about this or can provide any evidence to support that it is public domain (or if you can and do obtain a license release), please feel free to let me know at my talk page, which you can reach by pressing the "talk" after my user name. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:28, 15 October 2014 (UTC)