Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission/Reginald Bamford

I received GFDL permissions to use the text and image at http://www.wcfcroquet.org/WC2005/110260105105crwc14551.htm. They are now being used at Reg Bamford (croquet player) and Image:RegBamford.JPG. Both were posted on Wikipedia as copyvios, but I though the WCF might grant GFDL, and it worked. Superm401 | Talk 13:25, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Subject: RE: Copyright Permissions

WCF give permission for the information you requested to be included in your project.

Best wishes with it.

Regards

Brian Storey

WCF Secretary General

www.wcfcroquet.org

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Subject: Copyright Permissions

Dear Mr. Hudson: I am one of the many volunteer editors of Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), a Web-based collaboration.

I respectfully request your permission to use your biographical profile and photograph of Reginald Bamford, located at http://www.wcfcroquet.org/WC2005/110260105105crwc14551.htm, as Wikipedia content. Wikipedia is a multilingual open-content encyclopedia that strives for complete and reliable content. Volunteers from around the world collaboratively create content, but Wikipedia also thrives on work such as yours, which helps us clearly describe our subjects.

It is to that noble end that I make this request. However, for Wikipedia to use your material, you must agree to the GNU Free Documentation License (often referred to as the GNU-FDL, or GFDL). In essence, the GFDL allows you to retain the copyright and authorship of your work, but grants permission for others to use, copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially use them commercially, so long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely (e.g., "share-alike"). You can read the complete license at "wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text of the GFDL".

If you grant permission for use, we will credit you for your work, state that it is used with your permission, and provide a link back to your website.

I sincerely appreciate your consideration of this matter. Please advise me of your decision regarding this request. You may mail me at

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or email me at ***************. I will gratefully forward your response to the Wikimedia Foundation.

I hope you will consider accepting this request.