User talk:Audubonwic

Rachel carson award

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Rachel carson award, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.womeninconservation.org/carson.html. 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. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.)

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 19:26, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Rachel Carson Award

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Rachel Carson Award, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.womeninconservation.org/carson.html http://www.womeninconservation.org/council.html possibly other subpages, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Rachel Carson Award saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:48, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Update regarding copyright concern

Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above and sufficient time has passed since the placement of the notice, the article has been deleted for copyright concerns. The temporary page you proposed retained verbatim text from the websites and has also been deleted. This deletion is not necessarily permanent. If you have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (if you are not the copyright holder or have co-authored the material, release under CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone is sufficient), the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost), and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.

As Wikipedia does not require proof of identity on account creation, it is essential that we receive external proof of authorization in order to ensure that we remain compliant with US Copyright law. It is also essential that we verify that copyright holders understand the extent of the release they are authorizing, in that our licenses permit modification and reuse in any forum, even commercial publication, as long as authorship credit is maintained and future copies are compatibly licensed.

Please note that once permission is verified, the material may be evaluated and altered to meet Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Although we appreciate donations, we cannot guarantee that material donated will be retained.

Please do not restore this information without following the verification processes. I see that you restored the content to publication on Wikipedia without following our policies for verification or at least indicating on the talk page as directed that the verification was underway. The website continues to display, "Copyright 2010 by National Audubon Society, Inc. All rights reserved." If the organization does not reserve all rights, it is necessary to substantiate this before we can publish the text.

Thank you. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:47, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your note. Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials is the way to go. It gives you two options: you can either replace the note on the website that says "Copyright 2010 by National Audubon Society, Inc. All rights reserved." with a licensing statement or you can send an e-mail from a website clearly associated with [1] to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials includes example text for the former and provides a link to a form letter you can use for the latter. If you choose to put a notice on the website, let me know; if it is usable under our policies, I will restore the deleted text. If you send a letter, the article will be restored when the permission is verified and logged.

Please let me know if you have any questions about these procedures. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:11, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your note. You would be most welcome to create a new article, but care must be taken in the degree of similarity. Until you have verified permission, I'm afraid that we must treat this source like any other copyrighted content. While rigorous citation is always appreciated, I'm afraid that under the US law that governs Wikipedia it does not efface copyright concerns. Accordingly, we are permitted by policy to use brief excerpts of copyrighted text if they are clearly marked as quotations and used within the guidelines at "non-free content". Otherwise, content cannot be so closely paraphrased that it constitutes a derivative work, so the content must be substantially different from the original in structure and language. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:07, 25 March 2010 (UTC)