User talk:Rolf Goellnitz

January 2024
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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Rolf Goellnitz! Your additions to Harold Chapman (photographer) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:54, 7 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Dianaa,
 * Thank you for your message. In context of an artist life and performance it is essential, where his work is accessible or has been shown, including private galleries and not only museums. Nevertheless in this case you took everything down, although there were no external links to these galleries and although there are plenty pages on wikipedia, where this mix is established. I would have preferred a more detailed approach, where you saw something inappropiate. Even the info about the exhibition, Chapman is included in at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, which has a page on wikipedia itself, even that info was censored. For the one image I integrated about the 90th Birthday anniversary retrospective in 2007 I own the copyright, because I designed it in 2007, but your assumption, I might not have it, is understandable.
 * I will try to create a paragraph which reflects Harold Chapman's exhibition activities as well as fitting Wikipedia's standards, but I'm a bit concerned that these standards are not interpreted, applied or enforced equally on all pages.
 * Kind regards,
 * Rolf Rolf Goellnitz (talk) 21:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello Mr Goelnitz. You have a good point. If you have any specific pages you would like me to check for violations of our copyright policy, please let me know. — Diannaa (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2024 (UTC)