Talk:Thermal desorption

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Please no not remove notices that request improvements unless you have actually carried out the improvements they call for. I suggest that the author of this article reads Wikipedia:Manual of style to see what the appropriate format for articles is. one of the important things is that there should be an intro paragraph which gives the context of the information for those coming to the article without knowing anything about the subject. For example a suitable first sentence might read:

"Thermal desorbtion is a way of removing contaminating substances from soil using heat.".

Of course I don't know if that's actually true, but that's the sort of thing we need. Thank you. DJ Clayworth 21:18, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Material Owner

Thank you for looking out for peoples materials. I understand this "article" needs revision including a more descriptive introduction, but as far as ownership goes...I do have ownership rights to the text. I own the website www.midwestsoil.com as well as the text contained at http://www.midwestsoil.com/default.asp?XML=ThermalDesorption&XSL=Paragraphs

Please do catagorize this article as having copyright problems. Thank you, --Michael Joe 18:26, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi Michael. I'd like to start by saying thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I hope that whatever happens with the Thermal desorption article you will stick around and make more contributions.

Firstly let me say that the Thermal desorption article is an exact copy of the website listed. There is no doubt that it is a copy.

The website in question states that the copyright is owned by Midwest Soil Remediation Inc. You said on the talk page that you own the copyright. Now this can only be true if you are in fact the owner of Midwest Soil Remediation Inc., or are empowered by them to speak on their behalf. If either of those is the case then there isn't a problem. HOWEVER we will require some kind of evidence that you are the owner or agent. Can you give us the phone number or email of someone at Midwest Soil Remediation Inc. who can confirm this?

If you are in fact the owner of the copyright, then you also need to be clear that you are releasing the text under the GNU Free Documentation License. This effectively allows free copying and editing by Wikipedia and all the sites that use their data. It would be best to put this on the MSR website, so that future editors will not assume a copyright problem

If we do all these things then I am sure there will be no problem with getting the article restored. DJ Clayworth 20:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Issue Resolution

Thank you DJ Clayworth for your guidance in resolving this issue.

I have released the the article contained on our website to Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License. You, or anyone at Wikipedia can contact us by phone or email to verify my authority to release information. Thanks again for your help. --Michael Joe 14:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

I have replaced the text. The website now contains a copyright notice that releases the text under GFDL. DJ Clayworth 19:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)