User:GrahamN/Cricket Updates E-mail (8 May 2009)

Dear Sir,

I am very pleased to see that your web-site, Cricket Updates, features articles that use material derived from Wikipedia. This is the sort of re-use that those who contribute to Wikipedia, as I do, wish to promote.

However, I'd like to point out that whenever you use content from Wikipedia you should include a GFDL copyright notice. One way of doing this is to add the text "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license". You should provide a link to a copy of the GFDL, which can be found at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:GFDL>.

The three specific pages that I am concerned about are:

(1) <http://www.cricketupdates.org/cricket-bowling-machine.html> (which appears to use content from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_machine>);

(2) <http://www.cricketupdates.org/hotspot-in-cricket.html> (which appears to use content from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Spot_(cricket)>);

(3) < http://www.cricketupdates.org/use-of-hawk-eye-in-cricket.html> (which appears to use content from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk-Eye>)

I accept that these are not exact copies of the Wikipedia articles, but they are clearly in large part directly derived from them. Please remove your own copyright notice from those pages and include a GFDL notice in its place.

Out of courtesy to you I should let you know that I have added Cricket Updates to Wikipedia’s "GDFL compliance" page (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GFDL_Compliance>) and recorded its level of compliance as "Low/None". If you have any comments or questions about this matter, the most effective thing to do would be to post them under the entry for Cricket Updates at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#Cricket_Updates>

May I reiterate that you are very welcome to use this material, provided you include a GFDL notice.

Yours sincerely,

Wikipedia user "GrahamN"