User talk:PWIA

Personal Water Craft
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Personal Water Craft article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! -Will Beback 19:22, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Will, the material is not copyrighted, and I did write it. I work for pwia.org and we're happy to have our materials reposted!


 * Thanks for the reply. Two points: first, you can indicate that the material is not copyrighted by adding a notice on the page where it appears saying either that it may be copied without limitation, or is licensed under the GFDL. Doing so will indicate that the automatic copyright protection you'd normally receive is being modified. Second, it is generally inappropriate to use material straight from a business or industry website because such material usually does not conform to our required "neutral point of view", may not have an encyclopedic tone, and is often unverifiable. For all of those reasons it's probably better if you start from scratch. Before doing so I recommend reading our core policies, WP:5P. Lastly, you may want to join a new project here, WikiProject PWC. Let me know if I can be of further help. Cheers, -Will Beback 20:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)