User talk:SFSCommunications

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"Keeping Score"
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as "Keeping Score", but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/router.asp?nodeid=3883&callid=161, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), you can comment to that effect on Talk:"Keeping Score". Then you should do one of the following:
 * Make a note on the original website that re-use is permitted under the GFDL and state at Talk:"Keeping Score" where we can find that note; or
 * Send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:"Keeping Score".

It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! -- ReyBrujo 19:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: SF Symphony Keeping Score page
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. As you can see, Wikipedia information is licensed under the GFDL, a free license that allows derivative works both commercial and non-commercial. However, this concept clashes with what you have said in my talk page: "I want to let you know that it is perfectly OK for anyone to post a wikipedia entry about our television series Keeping Score that utilizes language from the San Francisco Symphony's website and/or press releases." Several sites use content from Wikipedia in their own sites, like About.com, Answers.com, etc. These sites (just like others) get commercial benefits of the information found here. If you give permission to use this information only in Wikipedia, those sites would not be able to mirror the page. I personally don't know of any article in Wikipedia that cannot be mirrored to other sites, so I doubt Wikimedia would allow to include a copy of the information found in the website here. It is possible, but since we are free-oriented, I don't think that is going to happen. I don't really know about times. It may take some days, or a couple of weeks. If you want that information in Wikipedia, it is much better to write it with your own words, so that the information is not bound to copyright. Some considerations: Even then, the article may be considered by other editors as non notable. Remember that in these cases, you must provide proofs that the topic is notable. These proofs are usually third-party sources, not primary sources (in example, if the article is about a newspaper, and the newspaper claims it is the most read in the world, you can't include that information; if the article is about a newspaper and another notable newspaper confirms this information, then it can be included). Finally, and one of the topics that are harder to understand for new users, Wikipedia does not care about truth. We are about what we can verify. In other words, if you have seen a cow flying, and swear you have seen it, but no reliable source can confirm that, then the cow did not fly. If the BBC, CNN, ABC and NBC state cows fly, but you have yet to see one, believe them, cow flies.
 * 1) Don't copy. As you had seen, we have several means of finding copies, and will act swiftly deleting entries that may be considered copyright violation. You can quote very small passages, or use a page as reference, but not as content of the article.
 * 2) What you write here will be available for everyone. In other words, it means I would be able to wake up tomorrow, take the text you have added to the article, exchange good words with bad words, and post it in my site without you being able to do anything about it. Of course, this is an extreme example (I don't even have a site myself!), but it should make you understand that the information posted here is completely free, and once you press the "Save page" button, you are releasing the contents under a license that allows anyone to copy, change some words, and use for him or herself.
 * 3) There are certain notability guidelines that must be fulfilled. Administrators don't only remove content that violates copyright, but also content that does not fit Wikipedia, including low profile artists, unknown theories or thesis, non notable persons, bands or websites, etc. Please check the notability guidelines, finding the one that would fit your article, and see if it passes it. If not, note that the article may be proposed for deletion (usually deleted within 5 days), sent to a deletion process (usually deleted in 7 days) or directly speedy deleted (deleted as soon as a user reports the article, usually within minutes).
 * 4) Even if it meets the notability guidelines, you must use a neutral point of view, the information must be verifiable (add links to reliable sources as references, in example, a link to an article in CNN or BBC talking about the subject of your article, or a mention to the newspaper date and page in which it was featured, etc), and that original research (any comment you do about the topic that can't be verified, in example, "They are known for their coordination, probably achieved after years of partnership." or alike) will be removed.

If you need more help, just tell me in my talk page. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 02:14, 7 November 2006 (UTC)