User talk:Notime007

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your, but 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.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. 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 include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. --TeaDrinker 03:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Question
The Tom Collins article I added actually did come from my Web site. I wrote it and it seems weird that I cannot have it shown on this site, but the other information/links can remain.--Notime007 20:59, 7 May 2007
 * Thanks for the note. I did not realize that you wrote the drinkswap page as well.  My main concern was that it appeared to come from another website (particularly since it came from a site which contained a copyright notice).  Copyrighted material with all rights reserved can not generally be used for article text (see copyright policy for more information).  For the copyright, it would be sufficient to remove the copyright notice from your website and change it to a GFDL license notice.  This license says you allow other people to edit and modify the text, redistribute it for any purpose (including commercial), so long as the modifications are themselves GFDL licensed.
 * As a secondary issue, I wonder if it might be possible to add sources for the text. I am a bit uncomfortable adding something which has two conflicting accounts of the history without descibing the sources or evidentiary basis for the accounts.
 * I am happy to help with anything editing related. Let me know if there is something else I can do.  Thanks, --TeaDrinker 14:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)