User talk:Sharonwhitson

December 2013
Your addition to Seattle Hempfest ‎ has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Toddst1 (talk) 02:27, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Your use of multiple Wikipedia accounts
Bailmoney27  talk  02:30, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Copyright Issues
Thank you for clarifying the source of the material you contributed and who the owner is for the content at Seattle Hempfest ‎. Unfortunately we can't leave it at that if we're going to use the material. We need you to verify with the Foundation that you are the real copyright holder and understand the legal implications of putting your copyrighted work on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation has established specific licensing guidelines that we need to follow.

If you still wish to grant Wikipedia the rights to this material, follow the instructions here. It has all the info you need. Be sure you understand the rights to the text that you will be giving up. Then, you'll be granted what's called "an OTRS ticket" that shows Wikipedia has been granted the rights to the text and then you can post the material verbatim (provided the subject meets the other qualifications for articles on Wikipedia such as notability).

We don't accept copyrighted work outside of that process in order to protect the holders of copyright, both from others posting their words on Wikipedia, and from unknowingly signing away their rights.

I hope you understand that refusing all copyrighted work until we have real evidence that it's been released into the GDFL is the best way to make sure we aren't violating anyone's rights.

Either way, please do not restore that material until this issue is resolved.

I hope this helps. Toddst1 (talk) 02:40, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
Bailmoney27  talk  02:46, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Your recent talk page comments were not added to the bottom of the page. New discussion page messages and topics should always be added to the bottom. Your message may have been moved by another user. In the future you can use the "New section" link in top right. For more details see talk page guidelines. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 02:50, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either: This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.
 * 1) Add four tildes  ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment; or
 * 2) With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button (Insert-signature.png or Signature icon.png) located above the edit window.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 02:54, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
Toddst1 (talk) 02:57, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
Bailmoney27  talk  03:04, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Images / pictures in articles
Here's the info on how to add them: Picture_tutorial. They're subject to the same copyright rules BTW. Good luck and let me know if I can be of further assistance. Toddst1 (talk) 03:04, 29 December 2013 (UTC)