User talk:Rgjohnson

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Geary, Leslie Edward "Ted" (1885-1960), but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! FreplySpang (talk) 23:18, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Leslie Geary
On the Leslie Geary article it states that the text is "Printed here with permission. Copyright 2005 Historylink. All rights reserved." The text actually seems to be a direct copy from this page. Wikipedia in geenral cannot accept text with "allrights reserved, nor text that is simply "copied with permission". We would require that the text be releaserd under the GFDL. See copyright and our copyright problems page for more on our policies. Note that a GFDL relase means that anyone, not just wikipedia, would have the right to copy the text, and anyone would have the right to change the text, provided that proper credit is given, and that all copies, original or altered, are also released under the GFDL. If thae source will actuially relase this content under the GFDL, please let me know, or place a notice on Talk:Leslie Geary. Be prepared to get an email or a written letter from the source to the Wikimedia Foundation's permission's department

What would probably be much easier and better would be to rewrite the articel in your own words, using the facts from Historylink and citing historylink as a source. Facts are not copyrighted ever, only specific writing is copyrighted.

If I don't hear from your shortly, I will formally list this as a copyright violation, as per the procedures on WP:CP. Usually I would do this automatically, but you did say you had soem sort ofd permission for puttign thsi on wikipedia.

Please understand, i am not trying to be hostile about this, merely to uphold wikipedia's general policy of free, unrestricted content. There are very good reasons why we must insit on proper releases for all content. Feel free to drop me a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DES (talk) 15:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)