User talk:Sendinthegeologist

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Sorry about the revert, but...
It pains me to revert the good faith edit of a brand-new editor, especially one who seems to have some subject knowledge and is trying to contribute to the project.

Not everyone knows that we do not permit copyrighted material to be copied into Wikipedia, nut even those who are aware of this restriction, typically know that one can include material if it is in the public domain or properly licensed.

However, in this particular case, in this edit, the source license is CC-SA-4.0 International, Which certainly sounds appropriate but I believe our legal department has concluded that 4.0 is not backwards compatible with 3.0 and we cannot accept material that has the 4.0 license.

I am copying, one of our copyright experts, mainly to make sure that I have this right, and to find out whether there is any cure other than simply removing the material.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  12:55, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry but CC-by-SA-4.0 is not a compatible license, because of the share-alike aspect. The material will have to be removed. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:33, 20 September 2017 (UTC)