User talk:Nathanr1982

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Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion of Mark L. McDonald
A tag has been placed on Mark L. McDonald requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 18:46, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of McDonald Family
A tag has been placed on McDonald Family requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. ttonyb1 (talk) 19:46, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

McDonald Family
The recent edit you made has been reverted, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ttonyb1 (talk) 20:01, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

April 2009
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. ''Your repeated addition of copyrighted material to Wikipedia is in violation of Wikipedia guidelines. If you continue, you will be banned from editing or creating articles. '' ttonyb1 (talk) 20:05, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

I have added the text "The text of this website (or page, if you are specifically releasing one section) is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike" to the offended website (rynersonobrien.com/mcdonald-mansion/01.html), thus donating the text and images to public domain and relieving this page of any copyright infringement issues.

GLDF license
Hi Nathan, In order for you to "donate" copyrighted material, you need to prove ownership thereof. Please take a look at Donating copyrighted materials.--- I'm Spartacus!  NO! I'm Spartacus! 22:44, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

What do I need to do to prove ownership so that I can donate text/images

I am trying to create posts using my own content from the website rynersonobrien.com/mcdonald-mansion/01.html. I added the text to my company's website per the Wikipedia instructions, that allows the content to be re-used and modified by others. What more do I need to do to donate the information. The article on Mark L. McDonald was deleted with a message saying that I had to prove ownership of the content, but I'm not sure how to do that. I thought I followed the directions carefully by adding that text to the rynersonobrien.com website. Please help instruct me on how to prove my ownership so that the article can be posted. Thank you.

Jumping through WP's hoops
Nathan, it sounds like you're running into trouble getting through some of WP's more arcane bureaucracy, so let me see if I can help....


 * Copyright: it sounds to me like the place for you to start is at Granting us permission to copy material already online, where it says (after removing the irrelevant stuff):"If you would like to allow Wikipedia to use your content, you can contact [mailto:permissions-en@wikimedia.org permissions-en@wikimedia.org]. After sending the email, you may put the text into the article, then place OTRS pending on the article's discussion page. Someone will reply to your email, indicating whether the content and your license is acceptable and update the page to indicate that the confirmation of the license has been received."


 * Conflict of interest: after that, an editor is likely to wonder if you have a conflict of interest and shouldn't be working on these articles at all. Given that you've said you work for Rynerson & O’Brien, and that Rynerson & O’Brien's web site says that they are helping restore Mabelton, that editor might have a point. I suggest that you read BESTCOI to learn more about Wikipedia's conflict of interest policies.


 * Sourcing: Wikipedia requires that all its articles be based on verifiable reliable sources. While there may not be anything contentious in these articles, it doesn't appear that they're fully sourced, so some editors might disapprove of this content being added here (for instance, neither McDonald Family nor McDonald Family contain citations). Because of this, I suggest that instead of starting off by turning these into WP articles, you instead create these pages in a subpage within your userspace so that others can help you learn how to create a solid article. You can find more about this at Your First Article.


 * Helping others: If you'd like to help someone from running into this in the future, here's a simple way—where did you find the statement that you should create an article off-WP in order to create the same article on-WP? Those directions should be fixed, as that's what caused this mess in the first place. If you can find that page again, add something here saying which it was so that it can be corrected.

Any other questions? Just ask—Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 07:37, 25 April 2009 (UTC)