User talk:NatureSam

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March 2012[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Port Lympne. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Safiel (talk) 15:59, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Port Lympne[edit]

Hi. Thank you for contributing to and working on this article. :) As you know, another editor flagged it for "copying" concerns a bit over a week ago. It came up for review at our "copyright problems" board, and I've found that it seems to include content copied from a Flickr group (see [1]). If you are associated with this Flickr group, then we may be able to resolve this easily. If you are, though, please don't respond by removing the content from Flickr! Sometimes people do that thinking the copying concerns will be eliminated, but that doesn't help us. Copyright under the US law that governs us persists for decades from the date of publication; withdrawing it from publication doesn't change that.

Instead, what we would need you to do is license the content at that site. See WP:IOWN for the process, and if you have any questions about how to do it, please let me know at my talk page. I'm happy to help.

If you don't have any connection with that website, you will need to remove any content you copied or closely paraphrased from it. If you get permission, we can put it back once you do. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. In the meantime, you should either leave it out or rewrite it so that it doesn't copy or closely paraphrase the original.

I would offer one word of caution: if you created the content on that website and it includes material copied from anywhere else, such as the books you mention, you cannot legally license it unless the original authors license the material as well. It's important that you not place any content on Wikipedia that you cannot legally release, both to comply with the website's Terms of Use and to protect yourself, legally, from prosecution by the copyright holders. While sometimes copyright holders don't care about small amounts of copying on other websites, they tend to care about copying here, because our content is licensed for reuse and even commercial exploitation. Material on Wikipedia is mirrored and reused all over the world, even in books, and it can hurt their control of their content. :/

As I said above, if you have any questions about this, please feel free to come by my talk page. I'll try to watch yours in case you leave me any comments or questions here, but unfortunately I tend to be busy at work these days and not able to follow talk pages as well as I used to. :) If you do reply here, it's a good idea to just drop me a note at my talk page letting me know you have. Not being sure how familiar you are with Wikipedia yet, I'll just let you know that you can reach my talk page by following the "talk" link after my username. :)

Thanks! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:56, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. :) I'm sorry that you're having trouble responding to me. I appreciate your taking the trouble!

The question isn't about the images, but about the language. Did you write the text titled "About Port Lympne Mansion & Gardens commisioned by Sir Philip Sassoon"? If you did, all you would need to do is put a note on that Flickr page, under the text, saying:

The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

If you can put that there, then we should have no problems.

If you copied that description from somewhere, then we'll probably have to rewrite our text.

(I've put this on my talk page as well._ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:05, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Since there's been no answer to this and we cannot be sure of copyright status, I'm afraid that the content has had to be removed. Please let me know at my talk page if you need assistance following the steps to license the material. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:36, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. :) Please let me know when you get time to verify by modifying the Flickr page with the italicized text just above. Once that's done, I'll be happy to followup with the processes to let us restore the text. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:19, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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