User talk:Roysheppard

Copyright violation in Roy Sheppard
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the article Roy Sheppard, 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 was deleted under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello. All content on Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. This is a free license under which all of our users can modify the content, and redistribute it for use elsewhere. Accordingly, we cannot use copyrighted text by permission. Instead, the copyrighted material has to be released. In order to do this, you have to change the external websites to remove the copyright or send an official email from the website domain name releasing it (in this case both websites) to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. See Donating copyrighted materials for more on this. So, even if you are the owner, we can't use the material in present form. You must release it and you must do so in a manner that shows you have the right to do so, which the methods mentined allow (meaning that just saying you are releasing it into the public domain or licencing it under the GFDL, here, is not enough.N ote also that the material is very promotional, written in the first person, etc. and is not suitable in its present form as a Wikipedia article.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:06, 17 December 2008 (UTC)