User talk:Izrunas

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

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ClockworkSoul 04:27, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grow Up America

Hi, just want to tell you that I didn't mean it in any personal sense -- you are quite welcome to Wikipedia, and to post and edit pages - we need many, and many more :) At first, I posted the vfd because it really did look like the author himself trying to promote his book. I tried checking your user to see if you had many edits already, or were newly registered for this purpose, but since you didn't have a userpage, I couldn't do that.

I still don't really feel that this book is important enough to warrant inclusion, but I am less sure now than I was at the outset. We will see what other comments arrive at the deletion discussion page. In the meantime, please don't let this discourage you from contributing other articles.

Houshuang 05:41, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Using copyrighted material by permission is certainly acceptable, tho' not ideal, as it might not be able to be included in future uses of Wikipedia content (Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0)--paraphrasing is best. That said, if material is used by permission, the standard way of dealing with it is to document the permission on the article's Talk page, similar with what I did with the image used on Malleefowl, at Image:PerthZooMalleefowl.jpg (for images, the permission notes go on the image description page, instead of the Talk page). You can also look at Fort Charlotte/Talk:Fort Charlotte to see an example of permission for an article. Niteowlneils 20:19, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)