User talk:NWCarson

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Paul Petzoldt
Hi. I noticed that you added an obituary for Paul Petzoldt from the American Alpine Journal, 2000, which based on your username I assume you wrote. Unfortunately, we can't include copyrighted information that doesn't meet the GFDL rules. I'm not sure what your agreement is with the American Alpine Journal, but if you own the copyright on the obituary, you can give explicit permission to the Wikipedia Foundation to use it - see WP:COPYRIGHT for details. However, an obituary normally isn't what we are looking for in a encyclopedia article, which needs to have an encyclopedic tone and maintain a neutral point of view. However, don't despair - I can tell that you have lots of personal knowledge of Mr. Petzoldt as well as a very elegant writing style, and your contributions to the article would be invaluable. Please review the guidelines above and be WP:BOLD and update the article in whatever way you can. Thank you - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 02:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC)