User talk:John Tewkesbury

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Humphrey Brown

I've had an exchange with Jimfbleak (talk · contribs) on my talk page. He identified some concerns:

• Because the text was pasted into Wikipedia in one go, there is a suspicion that it was previously published elsewhere. This would raise difficulties with copyrights.
• Although the text is meticulously referenced, it reads as an essay and not as an encyclopedia entry. Jimfbleak drew attention to "Bankrupt & Felon!" in the first line, and "we have learned" further down. See WP:TONE - articles should be written in the third person throughout.
• The referencing style is non-standard - see Help:Footnotes. I'd be happy to work on that.

If you can confirm here that the text hasn't been published before, I think the next step is for me to move it from User:John Tewkesbury to User:John Tewkesbury/Humphrey Brown as a "user space draft" and then I'll spend some time on the formatting issues. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:11, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation at the "Assistance" page, that the text is reworking of material previously published in the Tewkesbury Historical Society's Bulletin. Have I worked out correctly that you are the president of the society?

On reflection I don't know enough about Wikipedia's copyright rules and procedures to resolve this one myself, so I have asked a question at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Hopefully an expert will post here. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:12, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

How to verify copyright permission

Hello, John Tewkesbury. :)

Thank you for your interest in donating material from the Tewkesbury Historical Society's bulletin to Wikipedia. Since we do not currently have a method in place to verify the identity of account holders at account creation, we must verify such donations through external processes.

The simplest way to verify is to place a release on your official website (perhaps at this page) putting the material into public domain or co-licensing it under CC-BY-SA and GFDL, which permit modification and reuse, even commercially, as long as authorship credit is given. This release is irrevocable and must continue to be displayed, or the material may be removed later. A statement such as the following would be sufficient: "The contents of Tewkesbury Historical Society's bulletins (or the specific bulletin, if you are specifically releasing only one) are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License, unversioned with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts." If you decide to take this route, please put a link to that release on the talk page of the article, when it is put into article space. (As long as it is in user space, it's best to link it from somewhere prominent on the page itself.)

Alternatively, you may choose to send an e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation from an address associated with the organization to permissions-en@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. There is a boilerplate release form at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries which can be helpful. Please provide a clear link to the website in your e-mail and specify by name the articles on Wikipedia in which the material is being used (this works also when the content is in userspace). Once your e-mail is received and processed by a member of the Communications Committee, your permission will be logged.

If you decide you don't wish to release the material into public domain or under the terms of CC-BY-SA and GFDL, you are welcome to rewrite the text from scratch. If the content is not licensed for commercial reuse and modification, you'll have to treat the original as though somebody else had written it. :)

We apologize for the additional steps necessary, but as copyright is a matter of legal concern, we must ensure that we not only protect the rights of copyright holders, but also guard the Wikipedia project against inadvertent infringement.

Before verifying permission, please first review the material to ensure that is compliant with Wikipedia's requirements for verifiability and neutrality and does not contain "original research". (If you are closely related to the subject matter, you may also want to read our conflict of interest guidelines; if you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you should review Wikipedia:Starting an article or Wikipedia:Your first article.) Even if permission is verified, material may be modified or removed if it is otherwise inconsistent with our policies and guidelines.

I'll be watching your talk page for a time. Please let me know here if you have any questions about the procedure of if I can help you with it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:07, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

P.S. Since I agree with the suggestion above, I've gone ahead and moved the article to User:John Tewkesbury/Humphrey Brown. It will be much easier to confirm license, if you choose to do it via e-mail there, and the article can be worked on there. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:14, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:John Tewkesbury/Humphrey Brown

User:John Tewkesbury/Humphrey Brown, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:John Tewkesbury/Humphrey Brown and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:John Tewkesbury/Humphrey Brown during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. John of Reading (talk) 16:19, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

I have closed the discussion as keep; this means that your work is safe, even though I've blanked the page —this can easily be undone by anyone and does not require an administrator —. However, I must ask you to please review the instructions posted on your talk page and follow them as soon as you can. Cheers. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 14:36, 14 June 2011 (UTC)