User talk:Paul151

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Hello, Paul151, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Alexius08 (talk) 08:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dunedin Public Libraries copy/paste

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Dunedin Public Libraries. 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. XLerate (talk) 09:13, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Paul - saw your note on XLerate's page. In these circumstances, the best thing to do is to add a note on the article's discussion page (in this case creating Talk:Dunedin Public Libraries) explaining that you as editor have used this material with permission. This confirms that the material is okay for Wikipedia's use and also indicates any potential areas which may need to be checked for things like conflict of interest or bias (see my comments at Talk:Carisbrook for a similar example). By the way, you may be interested in checking out the Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board sometime! Grutness...wha? 01:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC) (who worked at the DPL briefly, many years ago)
Hi Paul, apologies for the copyright notice, as you say the material was put there with the DPL webmasters permission. The libraries website has a copyright link at the bottom of each page, which is why I thought it was used without permission. The page WP:COPYREQ also has some helpful advice on this topic. XLerate (talk) 06:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Xlerate, no probs I will start adding text in again over the next few days - I really like the way you laid out the page etc, feel free to adjust my work :-) Paul151 (talk) 22:19, 1 May 2008 (UTC)