Talk:Rowland Caldwell Harris

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[edit] Importance?

This page's relevance has been questioned, and I therefore feel a need to address this questioning as I find it relevant to:

  • Ondaatje's novel, in which he is a character
  • The history of Toronto (he held an important public office)
  • The history of two buildings in Toronto, both of which have their own Wikipedia articles.

If anything, this article should be labelled as a stub and left to grow. I'll start that process. Nihiltres 13:33, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Violation

I asked this question on the Wikipedia help page:

Hello,

Recently, the article on "Rowland Caldwell Harris" was edited by Wikipedia user "John Lorinc". He added a lot of information to the article, but ended the article with "By John Lorinc, Spacing Magazine (Fall, 2005)." I am wondering if this is allowed, because I presume the large amount of information he added was from an article that he may have written himself and published in a magazine. If his Wikipedia account is an assumed name and he is not, in fact, John Lorinc, then I think a person's work would have been added without permission. I am wondering that if he is indeed John Lorinc, if he is allowed to write "By John Lorinc, Spacing Magazine (Fall, 2005)." and whether he needs to state that he allows Wikipedia to use the published article.

Thanks for your help! --Pouchkidium 16:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

And I got the following response:

* One: Attribution goes in the edit history. Two: if someone wants to have previously published material included we need prove they own it and we need to have it explicitly licensed under the GFDL or a compatible license. Just adding that line is not enough. You could try rewriting the info, though. They specific text is copyrighted, the information isn't. - Mgm|(talk) 21:51, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

So, I think that unless John Lorinc has the info licensed under the GFDL, it's copyrighted and can't be used on Wikipedia. I am going to remove the information for now, because it is a lot of info to summarize and rewrite, but it can still be accessed in the edit history, for anyone who is interested in rewriting the info.

Also, to John Lorinc, because you want to have your personal work on Wikipedia, I'd like to extend my personal thanks. Your addition has added a lot of information on Harris. However, unfortunately, it is a possible copyright infringement. If you could, please license your work so that we can use it. Thanks again!

--Pouchkidium 04:05, 20 March 2006 (UTC)