Talk:J. P. Cormier

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[edit] Copyright violation

J.P. is certainly worthy of a page here, but this article was taken almost entirely, word for word, from his web site (http://www.jp-cormier.com/presskit.html). This is a copyright violation. Even if the material was used with permission, Wikipedia's purpose is not simply to archive material from the rest of the Internet. Dsreyn 19:29, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A question

I have very little experience writing articles, and simply thought that this artist (one I had known years ago in college) needed an entry. Since the presskit is expressly for reprint, I had assumed there would be no copyright violations.

I would welcome someone with more experience than I to write an article on this artist.

He's certainly deserving of an entry, no question. I just think there are problems with using the presskit word for word. Aside from the ones I already mentioned, Wikipedia generally encourages a neutral point of view, and the language in the presskit isn't really very neutral in some places. The presskit certainly can be used as a source of information though - it's just better to put things in your own words. Even though you say you don't have a lot of experience at this, why not give it a shot, and then other editors can weigh in if necessary. Wikipedia articles are seldom perfect on the first try, anyway; the best articles are often the result of contributions from many people. Dsreyn 19:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I'll do that, hopefully it will turn out okay. Thanks.

Okay, I have given it my best shot. Please review and if it still doesn't meet standards, I have no ojection to deleting this article. Thanks.

I fiddled with formatting a little bit and fixed a few misspellings, but that looks like a good article to me. I guess the next step is to figure out how to move the temp article to be the main article, without getting it wiped out by the copyright violation notice. Dsreyn 03:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate it. Spellcheck would be a blessing on the editing page. I wondered how to move the temp article to main without the copyright problem....I'll read through the tutorial. --rhmoore 10:43, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Could we go to the "temp" article and move it to here? (That is to say, can we move J.P.Cormier/Temp to J.P. Cormier) ? --rhmoore 16:33, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I think we need to remove the original page from the list of copyright violations first. I don't know if that's as simple as taking it off the list (seems likely, but better safe than sorry), or if there's something else to be done - I'll check into that. Pages on the copyright violation list get deleted after a while (I think it's usually about 2 weeks), and my concern about is that after moving the temp page back, it might then get wiped out when they purge the copyright violations. Dsreyn 01:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I just took a look at the current J.P. Cormier page. If I understand it correctly, I think we can just do nothing, and things will get resolved properly. Note particularly item 5: "Unless the copyright status of the previous content is clarified, this page will be deleted one week after its listing. If a new article has been written, it will replace this message." That sounds like the temp page will be moved automatically when the original is wiped. So I think the best course of action is to just let the copyright violation procedure continue, and things should get straightened out. Dsreyn 01:32, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

All set. Chick Bowen 02:14, 18 February 2006 (UTC)