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Med Jones
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Speedy deletion nomination of Med Jones


A tag has been placed on Med Jones requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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I got the permission via email and sent it to permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org How do I show that on my talk page? Wiki.damsel (talk)


 * I feel sorry that your talk page is flooded with copyright messages on your first day of Wikipedia! I removed the speedy deletion tag, but I have still blanked the whole article as most of the text was closely paraphrased. Here's some more advice about dealing with copyright.
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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Minima ©  ( talk ) 06:32, 21 May 2011 (UTC). I got the permission via email and sent it to permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org How do I show that on my talk page? Wiki.damsel (talk)
 * I have done this for you on your article's talk page here. The template you would need for this situation (Which I don't think you've seen before) is the template.  Minima  ©  ( talk ) 15:10, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Minmac, I got the royalty free copyright permission email, yet someone deleted the page, isn't "royalty free" permission enough? can you help? Wiki.damsel (talk)

Update regarding copyright concern
Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above and sufficient time has passed since the placement of the notice, the article has been deleted for copyright concerns. This deletion is not necessarily permanent. If you have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (if you are not the copyright holder or have co-authored the material, release under CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone is sufficient), the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost), and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.

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Thank you. MLauba (Talk) 12:35, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

I sent an email to the institute and received a permission to use the bio royalty free. Even some of the research articles have in them permission to use royalty free. I forwarded the email to Wiki, they responded with some legal email asking for (creative commons) permission, my entry was deleted before getting a response back from the institute. Frankly, I think this is unnecessary bureaucracy. If we already got the (royalty free) permission to republish the bio, why burden them or scare them with legal stuff. If every time, it is going to be troublesome to contribute to Wiki and get my contribution deleted, I prefer not to be part of the project. - If someone can track my copyright email and restore the page, then great, if not then I wish you luck. Wiki.damsel (talk)


 * Good day,
 * I'm sorry that you have hit the difficult part of Wikipedia's Learning curve head-on, those issues are always a tad complex.
 * The problem with "royalty-free" is that this is unfortunately not sufficient for our purposes. Text that we include in our articles must be royalty-free but also open up to modification and commercial use. When a copyright owner releases their material for us, they also release it for all of our mirrors, and some of them will make money off the content.
 * The "open to modification" part is also essential, as we need to have the liberty to expand or tweak the donated text. Without this, we can unfortunately not keep the submitted text.
 * The legalities may indeed be daunting, but the institute must absolutely understand what exactly they are giving away under what conditions. Hence the bureaucratic hassle.
 * Otherwise, it would be better to rewrite the bio in your own words, ideally drawing from more than one source, as this will moot the whole matter.
 * If you need any help, you can create a new section on your talk page and add helpme followed by your request below it, someone will be along shortly to assist you. Alternatively, you may also leave me a message on my talk page. Best regards, MLauba (Talk) 09:50, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation
McGeddon (talk) 11:28, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi McGddon, I did not know what Sock puppetry. I read it for the first time when you posted it to my page. If I violated any policy, I did so, unwittingly, I promise to educate my self more on the community policy and abide by them in the future. Thanks - Wiki.damsel


 * As it says in the template there, "If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly" - please do this. --McGeddon (talk) 13:53, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi MaGddon, thanks for the response. I went to the requested page and verified that I, unwittingly, violated the stated policy, that I did not know about before. Is there anything else you need from me?


 * No, that's all that's required to deal with this particular problem. --McGeddon (talk) 14:07, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! and I apologize again. I want to be a good contributor, but it is not that easy to learn all the ins and outs of Wikipedia editing techniques, terminology and rules,etc. I'm still learning and it appears to take so much time and edits before one can do it without mistakes. Thank you for your understanding!

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