User talk:Johnbresee

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Welcome!

Hello, Johnbresee, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (~~~) for just your name. If you have any questions, you can post to the help desk or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! FreplySpang (talk) 22:26, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the note on my talk page about backcountry.com. It's really nice to hear from someone with a positive attitude like yours. And, congratulations on the success of your company!

  • Wikipedia generally discourages self-promotion and self-advertisement. We have a guideline about autobiographical articles that applies here too: "If you are reasonably significant, someone will create an article about you sooner or later."
  • You asked about R.E.I.'s article, calling them "a massive big box store crushing independants everywhere." Well, basically, that's why they have a Wikipedia article - because they are recognizable to a lot of people.
  • I don't know if you've had a chance to review the deletion process, but it's designed to let the Wikipedia community weigh in on an article. If there is not a clear consensus to delete, it will be kept. However, the wishes of anonymous users or new users are usually weighed less heavily.

I hope this helps to explain some of our community practices. Thanks again for your interest. FreplySpang (talk) 22:26, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issue with John Witchel

Hello. Concerning your contribution, John Witchel, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.prosper.com/public/about/management_team.aspx. As a copyright violation, John Witchel appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. John Witchel has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

  • If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details at Talk:John Witchel and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
  • If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:John Witchel with a link to where we can find that note.
  • If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:John Witchel.

However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. --EarthPerson 23:27, 1 March 2007 (UTC)