User talk:Trojan2006

Please take care not to copy-and-paste from other websites (as with George H. Miller) -- it ends up violating Wikipedia's copyright policy, puts Wikipedia in danger of being sued for copyright infringement, and makes it so that our goal of proving free content is compromised. You are free of course to re-write from other sources (ideas as not copyrighted), but copying the exact wording is highly problematic, legally, and none of us want to put the project into a problematic legal standing, of course. Thank you.--Fastfission 04:26, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Press releases are completely copyrighted. They are usually licensed more "freely" than most copyrighted things, but if you took that press release and tried to sell it to someone as part of a collection you can bet that LLNL/UC would have a problem with it (much less allowing derivative use of the sort constituted by Wikipedia). In any case without a direct statement about the copyright status there's no justification for assuming it is free to use in a way which is in accordance with our copyright policy. Sometimes we use images from promotional material but we use it under the fair use clause of U.S. copyright law, which even then is not always straightforward. Text we prefer to transform into something original -- you can use a press release a source to write an article, and are encouraged to do so! But direct quoting, without attribution (i.e, "According to a press release, 'XYZ.'") is very problematic and not encouraged. Hope that clears things up. --Fastfission 03:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Trojan2006! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 09:03, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) George H. Miller -