User talk:Johnpdeever

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[edit] Ohio News Network

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Ohio News Network. See Wikipedia:Copyrights. Copyright violations are unacceptable and persistent violators will be blocked. Please note that the PR Watch post that you copied from admonishes ONN for "failing to add any context or journalistic balance to the material" – which could also be said about your additions. Nevertheless, your original contributions are welcome, and you're free to use other websites, such as PR Watch, as a source for your research when writing Wikipedia articles. For example, rather than removing the ONN article's Controversy section entirely, I summarized it into two or three sentences. (That's all the time I had, but you're welcome to write more in-depth about this issue.) Happy editing! – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 20:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Looking around the PR Watch website, I couldn't find any information on them releasing their work under an open source license; so I suppose it's all copyrighted by default. However, SourceWatch, a project also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, is released under the GNU Free Documentation License, which is what Wikipedia uses. So although we can freely copy from SourceWatch's article on ONN, we're not allowed to copy from PR Watch.

In any event, the reason I noticed your contribution was that the PR Watch's article wasn't written with the neutral tone of an encyclopedia, so it would have required a little rewriting to make it fit into the ONN article here. I agree with your removal "has been accused of"; I hadn't read the Dispatch story yet at the time.

 – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 19:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)