User talk:SFGiantsFan12

June 2011
Your addition to Malia Cohen has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 17:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)


 * HELLO, HELLO? PAY ATTENTION. This is a warning that you are making some serious mistakes. I trust that you have the best of intentions, but you are doing it wrong. Please stop adding copyrighted material to the article on Ms Cohen. Okay? DS (talk) 17:33, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I work in the office of Malia Cohen and actually wrote the text on the sfbos.org website whose copyright we're "infringing on". Is there any way to use this information and cite that page without re-wording every sentence? I don't mean to "do anything wrong" but I'm clearly a Wikipedia amateur and just want to update her page with more detailed info.


 * If you're the copyright holder, you do have the ability to license the text so that it can be used in Wikipedia, but you must license it under terms compatible with Wikipedia's. Here is our page on how you can do that, but in general the idea is:

Text imported from other sites into Wikipedia articles must be licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) (CC-BY-SA compatible licenses are also accepted, as, of course, is release into public domain). This means that
 * 1) The text may be freely redistributed and used.
 * 2) It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely redistributed and used.
 * 3) In all cases, CC-BY-SA requires proper attribution of the author(s).
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 * If you're willing to license the text under the terms outlined, please see Declaration of consent for all enquiries for how to submit your permissions to us. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 18:02, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Great, thanks so much for this additional information. I appreciate your help!