User talk:Cahf

Welcome!

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Julien Joseph Audette and Carlyle Clare Agar[edit]

Nominated your article Julien Joseph Audette and Carlyle Clare Agar for Did You Know? Good Luck! SriMesh | talk 05:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An Invite to join Saskatchewan WikiProject[edit]

Hi, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Saskatchewan WikiProject! The Saskatchewan WikiProject is a fairly new WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, and Wikiprojects, to do with anything Saskatchewan.

As you have shown an interest in Julien Joseph Audette we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.

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We look forward to welcoming you to the project! SriMesh | talk 05:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:CAHF new logo.JPG)[edit]

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DYK[edit]

On 23 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Carlyle Clare Agar, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cheers, Bobet 12:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:BELT - 600 DPI.jpg[edit]

Image Copyright problem

Hi Cahf!
We thank you for uploading Image:BELT - 600 DPI.jpg, but there is a problem. Your image is currently missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. Unless you can help by adding a copyright tag, it may be deleted by an Administrator. If you know this information, then we urge you to add a copyright tag to the image description page. We apologize for this, but all images must confirm to policy on Wikipedia.

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AfD nomination of John_Emilius_Fauquier[edit]

I have nominated John_Emilius_Fauquier, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John_Emilius_Fauquier. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice?

Actually, I DIDN'T nominate it for deletion. I'm just sending you a courtesy message and I don't know an easier way to send it than with a template. I've changed this article substantially since its nomination for deletion and I feel it will survive the deletion review without too much trouble. However, I do need your help with some things. Can you provide some in text citations from the book listed in the reference section, or perhaps some page numbers covering Fauquier? The book in question is Oswald, Mary, They Led the Way, Wetaskiwin: Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, 1999. It is probably not in my library so in order for me to get it it would take some time.

Also, I've heavily modified the WWII section in order to eliminate any possible suspicion that there is too much similarity between the Norton Lancaster Society Air Museum page and the article. If you feel I'm in the wrong there, please let me know on my deletion page. Also, please chime in on the AfD page and show your support for this article so it can be kept. Thanks. Protonk (talk) 01:40, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Order of Icarus[edit]

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Image copyright problem with Image:Mckee trophy.jpg[edit]

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Yukon Territory Order of Polaris[edit]

Please accept my congratulations for your work on that article. Keep up the good work; the benificent fairies are watching you and are well-pleased. Raymondwinn (talk) 18:42, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Aviators[edit]

Hi, you have been creating a number of articles on Canadian Aviators. Although this is in principle a very laudable effort, the articles have several problems. The style is not encyclopedic, containing many peacock terms and not written from a neutral point of view. Even more serious, large parts of the articles (perhaps even all) seem to have been copied from this website or from the book that this institute published. This is a violation of copyright and should be corrected as soon as possible. Either re-write the articles to remove the copyvio or have the articles deleted (by blanking the page and placing {{db-author}} on it). Thanks. --Crusio (talk) 17:11, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem: Nicholas Byron Cavadias[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Nicholas Byron Cavadias, 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.cahf.ca/Members%20and%20Belt%20of%20Orion/members/C_members.htm, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), versions 1.3 or later then you should do one of the following:

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Copyright problems, how to verify[edit]

Hello. I previously left you instructions about how to handle copyright concerns, here, in August of 2008. Perhaps you did not revisit that talk page and did not see them. If you are, as you suggested there, affiliated with Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, you may be in position to grant us permission to use this text, but until you have done so according to the processes at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, please do not continue placing text here copied from that website's pages. Wikipedia cannot afford to take chances with copyright issues. Since we have no means of verifying your identity and your authority to grant this permission internally, we must require external verification, either at the source site or through proper e-mail communication with the Wikimedia Foundation's Communication Committee. I will be happy to help you through this verification process if you require assistance. But if you continue placing text without responding to copyright concerns such as have been voiced several times on this page, I'm afraid that will have no recourse but to block your account from continuing contributions until this serious legal matter is addressed. We apologize for the additional steps necessary, but we must ensure that we not only protect the rights of copyright holders, but also guard the Wikipedia project against inadvertent infringement. I am watching your talk page and will respond to any questions you place here; you are also welcome to leave messages at mine, which you can reach by following the link after my username. Pending verification of permission, text you have placed on Wikipedia that contains material previously published by the Aviation Hall of Fame will be blanked. I am also seeking to find assistance from someone with access to the book They Led the Way : Members of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame : 25th Anniversary 1973 to 1998 by Mary Oswald, as I am concerned that you may have replicated text from that book as well. If so, we will also need permission for any text you have drawn from it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Thank you for your comments regarding the copyright problems. However, as I am the Curator/Administrator of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, I do hold the copyright for this material. How then do I grant permission for Wikipedia to allow the use of this information on the Hall of Fame's Wiki site? As for the book 'They Led the Way' by Mary Oswald, the Hall also holds the copyright of this material as well. How then do I need to prove this to Wikipedia? Sincerely, Justin Cuffe —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cahf (talk • contribs) 16:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC) (taken from [1])[reply]

Hi. Thank you very much for responding. We certainly welcome donations, but we do need to verify them in order to protect Wikipedia as well as copyright holders.

The easiest way to verify the website is to release the text there, but since you are also placing text from the book, it may be better to donate it through e-mail correspondence with the foundation. The procedure for this is set out at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. In brief, you can send an e-mail from an address that is clearly affiliated with the site to permissions-en@wikimedia.org (you can also do snail mail, but this is obviously a slower and more complex process) releasing content from that site under GFDL. Since Wikipedia may be in the process of converting to CC-BY-SA licensing, it would be prudent to multilicense it. If we make the conversion in August as anticipated, any material released under GFDL only on Wikipedia between November and that change would have to be relicensed or removed. (Quite a pain!) You would want to make clear that you have authorization to release material from the website and from that book and are making them "available for modification and reuse under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, and under CC-BY-SA version 3.0."

Your situation is somewhat more complicated than usual, as we usually have donations for one article only and generally from a website rather than a print source, but it should not be impossible. In addition to linking to the website and providing information on the book in your e-mail, you should explain that your release is for material to be used on multiple articles. The member of the Communications Committee who responds to you (usually within about four days) should explain how best to proceed and let you know if specific language is necessary to satisfy Wikipedia's copyright policy. Your permission letter will be kept on file by the Wikimedia Foundation to ensure that there are no future complications from our publication of this material.

If you can, please let me know when you've sent this letter, and I will make a note at the articles currently listed for copyright review that permission is pending.

If you do not receive a response to your permissions letter within four days or so, please let me know the subject line of the e-mail and I will ask a member of the Communications Committee to check the queue and see if there have been any delays in processing it or if, perchance, it went astray. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:07, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the quick response. I have looked through the Copyright Permission document on here and I am not sure that the Hall of Fame would be willing at this point to grant unrestricted copyright over to Wikipedia. Perhaps it is then best to remove the articles posted that you feel might be an infringement. I would appreciate knowing which ones before you proceed to remove them are. Thanks, Justin Cuffe (Duplicated from [2])

Hi. To answer your question, I will need to know which articles contain material copied directly from the book in question. If you are not willing to release this material under GFDL, we should move quickly to remove this text. Wikipedia is widely mirrored, and text placed here is presumed to be licensed under GFDL. That means that this text is probably already incorporated into a number of other websites. I have already removed the text from CAHF that I found in articles pending your release of permission, but since I do not have access to the book have not removed any material that may have been duplicated from there. I believe the only ones currently marked as potentially duplicating text from that book are Paul Bernard Dilworth and Nicholas Byron Cavadias, but I wonder about articles such as Erskine Leigh Capreol. Can you tell me which of your contributions are written in your own native language and thus already released for distribution (commercial and otherwise) and modification under GFDL and which may contain text duplicated from that book? You can see a list of your contributions here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:29, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles of concern[edit]

Since I haven't a received response from you and now that some rather serious health problems in my family have settled down, I have compiled a list of all the articles that seem likely to have been based on text from this book. These are:

Some of these will undoubtedly soon be revised. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:35, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article on Helen Marcelle Harrison Bristol: proper surname?[edit]

Hi Justin. I was cleaning up some categorization issues and came across the Helen Marcelle Harrison Bristol article. I've found 3 representations of her name, and I'd like to update the article to use the same one consistently. They are:

Helen Marcelle Harrison Bristol (as in the article's title, but where her surname is sorted as Harrison-Bristol for categorization)
Helen Marcelle Harrison-Bristol (as in the Infobox and some article content)
Helen Marcelle Harrison Bristol, (where her last name is presented as Bristol on the Hall of Fame web site you cite)

Whenever you have a moment, could you let me know which is correct (in which case I'll repair it), or help yourself to repairing the article content? Either way works for me. Thanks, Jim Ward ^{(talk·stalk)} 01:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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Nomination of Alfred Beebe Caywood for deletion[edit]

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Nomination of Ernest Joseph Boffa for deletion[edit]

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