User talk:Vikachan19

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Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;) for just your name. If you have any questions, you can post to the help desk or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! This link is Broken 19:37, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
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If you indeed wrote that text, then you seem to be a very scholarly person and I apologize for accusing you of "stealing" it and I again welcome you to our project. Some of the text which you recently added is available at this website (which, in retrospect, I realize is the ADW publication you mentioned before). Did you write that text? Could you supply some proof? (sadly we have some users who aren't entirely truthful about their source material and rights they have over it) Some acknowledgement of that fact that you wrote it (and it was copied from elsewhere and the licensed you give it to us under, preferably GFDL) could be put in the bottom as a source note so others don't believe, as I did, that it is a copyright violation. Also, you said that you hope to publish this text else where. That is, of course allowed, but be aware that now that the text is on wikipedia it is available to all under the GFDL (which includes commercial purposes). This link is Broken 19:37, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It's no problem at all, this is what I do. I believe you that you wrote this essay but proving this is difficult. I am just going to assume you're telling the truth and if you find a way to prove it, then all the better. As far as the GFDL goes, by submitting it here you allready implicitly licensed it under the GFDL. You might want to read that article to understand the details. Also, you should be sure that publications you hope to (or allready have) submitted this to don't have policies which prohibit you from republishing the work later under a free license (I don't want you to loose a publishing deal or anything). Basically my question is, do you actually still have copyright holding over this article? Some writers loose such rights after submiting. Legal issues are such a pain, but once their cleared away it's smooth sailing. I'll clean up (wikify) the article in the next few days (although I know nothing about the subject). I hope you continue to contribute. Happy editing! This link is Broken 20:04, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * please see Talk:Gemsbok. Broken S 00:24, 5 October 2005 (UTC)