User talk:Owain.wilson

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Legal awareness
I have added a "" template to the article Legal awareness, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Silverhand Talk 15:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Organisation structure
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Organisation structure, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.apm.org.uk/download.asp?fileID=362, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Organisation structure and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Organisation structure with a link to where we can find that note;
 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Organisation structure. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk:Organisation structure with a link to the details.

It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:Organisation structure/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Organisation structure saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! – Tivedshambo (talk) 15:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Please note
Another thing to bear in mind is that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Definitions should go into Wiktionary, not here. Many thanks. – Tivedshambo (talk) 16:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Copyvios
Owain, I'm the admin who deleted all your mini articles and dicdefs. I just want to support the comments made by Tivedshambo. We cannot accept material that has been copied from elsewhere and Wikipedia really isn't the place for straight definitions anyway. Please be careful in future not to post material you haven't written yourself because it can result in your account being blocked. Thanks, Sarah 19:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Definition
user:Random832 removed your material from definition. Might I suggest that you start a new article, perhaps Definition (project management), if you think that the topic will attract more edits? You should then link it from Definition (disambiguation) Banno 21:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * But please be sure to write it in your own words and don't just copy and paste material from elsewhere. Sarah 00:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

definitions
Hey Owain, thanks for your message. First of all, when you leave messages on other people's talk pages, please leave them at the bottom of the page. They are often missed if left at the top. With regard to the articles, you say you have permission from the Association for Project Management to post them on Wikipedia. I would need that confirmed by them and I would need to be sure that they understand that they would be releasing this material under the terms of GFDL licence and all that entails. Basically, it means that the articles can be edited by literally anyone, chopped up, used away from Wikipedia on other sites, in books, on CDs and even used commercially. Wikipedia material is free and we cannot control what people do with it. We would need to be sure that the Association accepts and understands all this before we can even consider using their articles. Wiktionary is a dictionary and one of Wikipedia's sister projects. Cheers, Sarah 09:59, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey Owain, thanks for your message. I've been busy offline and so I apologise for the delay replying. To release the material under the GFDL licence, you would either have to put a note on the website the definitions come from stating that they are licensed under the GFDL licence; or whoever owns the copyright to the material needs to email us saying that they agree to releasing the material under GFDL. If you decide to do this, please give the copyright holder a copy of this and this and make sure that they understand this means the material may be used freely on other websites and in other forms of media, such as books, CDs etc, that it may be freely edited and that it may be used commercially.
 * However, even with the copyright issues resolved, these definitions will need to be worked into proper articles. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and the articles as they were really were specialist dictionary definitions. If you and/or your organisation just wish to contribute them as they were, they might be better on Wikitionary, as someone suggested above. If you wish to discuss this further and prefer email, please feel free to use: Special:Emailuser/Sarah_Ewart.
 * My apologies again for my late reply. All the best, Sarah 03:05, 7 February 2007 (UTC)