User talk:Wintersown

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Winter sowing
Hey, what you wrote at Winter sowing was very interesting but it had a number of issues:

1. It was a blatant copyright violation. If you are the copyright holder you must license the the material under the GNU Free Documentation License or another compatible license, or you must release the document into the public domain, you cannot use all rights reserved or fair use (which are two different things) on Wikipedia, except in limited circumstances which are set out at Non-free_content. For this reason I have been forced to restore an earlier version. If you are the copyright holder, you may request the material be deleted as well, which removes it from the page history, so that it can no longer be accessed by the general public.

2. Additionally, you had written it in the first person. That's not a good idea, it suggests that you may have a conflict of interest and is not the normal way to write an encyclopedia article. See MOS.

3. You appear to the be author of the website/book on this topic, which furhter suggests conflict of interest.

4. Finally, the previously added material seemed to largely rely on your website as a source (or to be the source itself). That's not in accordance with verifiability standards.

Another editor had pointed out some of these issues previously (though not the copyright issues) and you reverted that editors changes without discussion or an appropriate WP:Edit summary. In the future, please try to discuss additions or deletions of large sections of an article. That may help avoid these problems before they occur.

Please do not revert my restoration of an earlier version, if you were to do so you would very likely be blocked without further notice, and that is not in any of our interests. You obviously have valuable information to add to Wikipedia.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask me.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 05:31, 7 March 2008 (UTC)