User talk:Marcelmizzi

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Marcelmizzi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! -- ReyBrujo 04:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

General Retailers and Traders Union[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as General Retailers and Traders Union, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.targetltd.com/grtu/organisation.asp. As a copyright violation, General Retailers and Traders Union appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. General Retailers and Traders Union has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

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 GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:General Retailers and Traders Union. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at General Retailers and Traders Union, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. -- ReyBrujo 04:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Marcelmizzi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I wanted to clarify something about this summary, Co-owner of copyright, which you apparently don't know yet. As you can see just below the edit box, a text states Content that violates any copyright will be deleted. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable. You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL. Note that, when you press the "Save page" button, you are releasing all your rights on the text you have just posted, automatically licensing it under the GFDL. Now, if you own the copyright of a determined piece, and decide to release it under a free license (in this case, the GFDL), you need to notify in the site where the information is posted that it is licensed under such license. The fact that you are co-owner of the copyright does not mean you can license it freely. Nor you can "license" Wikipedia to use your text, because the text here is absolutely free. In other words, suppose I pick your text, change a letter, and post it in my site. When your text is copyrighted, you can sue me for using your text without permission. However, if you license the text under a free license, you must accept the text can be used by others, in any way. I could, in example, replace all the good words with bad words, and post it in my site, and you would not be able to do anything. Hopefully this extreme example allows you to notice that, in Wikipedia, all text must be absolutely free. No licensing, no copyright permission, etc. We can include small copyrighted texts in quotes under the fair use legislation, but we can't copy a full page, as that is copyright violation.

Next time, when you want to contribute a new article, just read the information you have, write it in your own words, and add references from where the information came, just like TruthbringerToronto did with your text. Thanks for understanding. If you have any question, just go to User talk:ReyBrujo and post a note there. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 06:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Lynn Faure. See Wikipedia:Copyrights. Copyright violations are unacceptable and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Your original contributions are welcome. —Swpb ^{talk contribs} 22:56, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]