User talk:Laddypat

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[edit] January 2008

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to John Basedow. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Oxymoron⁸³ 20:45, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

You seem upset by the message above. But note that every time anyone adds any text to WP (even this message, and any reply you may care to make to it), that person is told in very large print:

Do not copy text from other websites without a GFDL-compatible license.

I quote what's at the foot of the top page of fitnessmadesimple.com:

All rights reserved. Any unauthorized duplication and/or distribution is prohibited by law.

This appears to be a flat contradiction of GFDL. (Are all rights reserved? Then the material certainly can't be released under GFDL. Is it released under GFDL? Then various rights are not reserved.) That you are the copyright holder of the material in question makes no difference, except of course that you are able to go to the site in question and change All rights reserved to Copyleft under GFDL.

Note further that it's normally not a good idea for a company promoting a product or person to help to build a WP article on that subject. However, the company is most welcome to correct errors, make suggestions on the article's talk page, etc. -- Hoary (talk) 09:17, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm writing our response to Hoary's message on this page so I hope that is correct. We give you permission to show John's bio on the page or, if you want, you can edit it since it contains all factual information. We also provided a link to an article about John in the Washington Post, but, for some reason you deleted that also. You have other links to articles and you've referenced them, so I'm at a loss as to why you cut the Washington Post reference. The article is at http://www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/2007/10/tuesday_basedow_baring_it_all.php. In addition to that, we provided a paragrah that we originally wrote for your site, meaning it wasn't copied from any other website and is thus not in violation of any copyright regulations. That paragraph is below. You can feel free to verify any info provided in it. It's completely accurate and not biased in any way. You can delete the links if you want but I don't see any reason for not including this information in John's Wikipedia entry.

CORRECTED INFO: << John Basedow can be seen and heard throughout the media. He is a spokesperson for the American Heart Association and has led their annual Heart Walk for the past 2 years. You can see photos from this event on http://www.fitnessmadesimple.com/heartwalk.php. He also does charity work for the American Diabetes Association (see http://www.fitnessmadesimple.com/diabetes.php) and St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital (see http://www.fitnessmadesimple.com/st-jude.php). He spoke about the current childhood obesity epidemic and how to combat this problem at various events, including the Girl Scouts Health & Family Fun Expo (see http://www.fitnessmadesimple.com/gs.php). John's a successful author and his new book, Fitness Made Simple: The Power To Change Your Body & Life, which is published by literary powerhouse McGraw-Hill, is available in book stores everywhere. John is a regular guest on over 30 TV and radio shows nationwide every month. He was just contracted to be a national spokesmodel for Chamonix Nutraceuticals, a high end skincare company, and WeightView, a cutting edge computer technology company that helps to motivate people by giving them a visual image of what they'll look like when they achieve their fitness goals (see www.WeightView.com). In addition to all of this, an outside production company offered John his own reality series, John Basedow TV, which now appears on the internet (www.JohnBasedow.tv and www.MySpace.com/JohnBasedowTV) and he's doing Success Made Simple seminars with his good friend, Fran Capo, who's the Guiness Book of World Records' Fastest Talking Woman as well as a 9-time author and comedienne. See www.SuccessMadeSimpleSeminar.com. >>

We also fixed the MySpace site link, which you had incorrectly going to www.xxxxxx.com/OfficialFitnessMadeSimple. It should go to the MySpace site www.MySpace.com/OfficialFitnessMadeSimple.

Thanks for your help.

Kind Regards, Pat Riches FMS Operations