User talk:Suthra

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Kashmiri marriage
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Kashmiri marriage, 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.bharatmatrimony.com/matrimony-xpress/indian-wedding-customs/kashmiri-marriage-rituals.html. As a copyright violation, Kashmiri marriage appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Kashmiri marriage has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source. 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 GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Kashmiri marriage. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Kashmiri marriage, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. -- cjllw | TALK  08:47, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I note your comment at Talk:Kashmiri marriage that you have permission. To prove this:
 * Arrange for the following, or similar, wording to appear somewhere (as discrete as you like) on the bharatmatrimony.com site: content of this site is released to Wikipedia under the GFDL.
 * Place a note in Talk:Kashmiri marriage pointing us to that notice.
 * But even after that, it is an insult to Wikipedia to simply copy and paste. We want articles specially written, with proper wikification, etc. Start with a short Indian marriage customs article and progress from there. -- RHaworth 15:54, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Suthra, to explain a little further, there are two main reasons why it is not a good idea to simply reproduce in Wikipedia content which appears elsewhere, even if you have the explicit permission of that content's author (or even, if you are the author of that content yourself):
 * The first is a licensing/legal issue. All original texts inherently acquire copyright protection, accumulated to the author, even if they are not explicitly marked "copyright" (and the website above does mark its material with the copyright symbol). On the other hand, all material placed into Wikipedia appears under a different licensing arrangement (GFDL). So if the content's author has given permission for the text to appear in Wikipedia, then that author must appreciate that they are voluntarily "signing away" their inherent copyrights to the material, meaning that it can be altered, reproduced, redistributed and various other things without their further permission. The same text cannot be simultaneously under copyright and under GDFL, and so the website's current material needs to be explicitly released in the manner which RHaworth has outlined above.
 * The second reason is one of style, and courtesy to the reader. Articles should be written as a wikipedia entry, and not from some other purpose. As it was, it was quite easy to detect that those articles had not been written for Wikipedia. It is far, far better that, if you wish to help out and expand wikipedia's coverage of those topics, that you take the information you have and re-write in a more suitable and informative style. If you do this then I feel sure that there will be no further problems with deletions, and you'll be doing wikipedia and its audience a favour. Hoping this helps, and regards, --cjllw | TALK  23:49, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * You're welcome, Sarathy.s, glad I could help. Regards, --cjllw | TALK  08:33, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Jon higgins.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Jon higgins.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use GFDL to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use or fairuse. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --Sherool (talk) 03:01, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Spam?
Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. The links you added to the page Mumbai have been removed. Please do not add commercial links—or links to your own private websites—to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. .Blnguyen | rant-line 06:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)