User talk:WmLaDow
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DH85868993 03:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright statement in Nichels article
Hi WmLaDow. I noticed the copyright statement you have included at the bottom of the Nichels article. I'm not an expert on the matter, but I don't think editors are allowed to include direct copies of copyrighted material into Wikipedia articles. You may want to have a look at the Wikipedia Copyright FAQ. Apologies if my understanding of the rules is incorrect, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Regards, DH85868993 03:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- I've reverted the addition(s) to the article. It's totally wrong to place a huge chunk of copyrighted information into a Wikipedia article - sorry. It doesn't matter if you own that the copyrighted information; Wikipedia articles meet GFDL standards, which essentially allows anyone to copy and use it providing they full attribution to Wikipedia.
- If you in fact own the website from which the info came and want to change that page of the website so that it is GFDL-compliant (that is, to give up the regular copyright), then Wikipedia editors could pick and chose from it (and take as much as was wanted). But that isn't the case at the moment.
- Please feel free to post a note at my talk page if the above is not clear. Thanks. -- John Broughton | (♫♫) 02:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
