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Happy editing! Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:45, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright problem: San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers, 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://moas-srcp.catholicweb.com/index.cfm/NewsItem?ID=220934&From=home, 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:

If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details at Talk:San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers with a link to where we can find that note.
If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers.

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:San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers 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) 12:45, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. You seem to have misunderstood the directions above. The notice is not to be displayed on Wikipedia, but on the external website. The display here on Wikipedia has no legal impact. If the notice is displayed on the external site, please make a note of that on the article's talk page, here. If you need assistance with this, please feel free to contact me by clicking on the "talk" link next to my username. Otherwise, I will check back in several days to see if we have received the external verification of permission we require to allow us to continue publishing this text. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your note. You must verify this by one of the methods described above. The site does not release the material, but still bears the copyright notice " Copyright© 2008; San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers, Diocese of Caloocan". You have the option of changing that to say, ""The contents of this website are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 and later."

If you don't wish to place that notice on the website, you may choose to send an e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the 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 article on Wikipedia in which the material is being used. Also, again, we must be able to verify from the e-mail address you use that you are connected to that external site. Once your e-mail is received and processed by a member of the Communications Committee, the article's contents will be restored if your release is legally sufficient. Please make a note that you've done this on the talk page of the article to help guard against premature deletion of the page. You can compose a note or very simply paste the following on the talk page, brackets and all: {{OTRS pending}} (If you let me know that an e-mail has been sent, I'll be happy to make this note for you.)

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. 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.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:38, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have you mailed a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation address linked above from an e-mail address associated with the website? I'm afraid that placing the notice on my talk page is not helpful. As I've said, we have no way to verify on Wikipedia that you have authority to release this material, which is why we must go through these external processes. It's a simple matter of ensuring that we comply with the copyright laws of the United States. If you've sent that letter, I'll make a note at the article's talk page, and when the letter is received and cleared the material will be restored. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:41, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you would like assistance, you're going to have communicate more plainly. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:54, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that your Yahoo account won't work, as it is not associated with the website. Do you have an e-mail account that identifies you as connected to the site? If not, your best option may be to put the release on the external site. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:05, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

←Since your most recent notes to me have not been logged in, I've replied at my own user talk page. Please find responses to your latest notes there. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:28, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]