User talk:Mlandauer

Welcome[edit]

Welcome

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Satu Suro 01:11, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please[edit]

~~Read WP:SPAM very carefully - as you might find someone will probably revert your editing on the basis that it constitutes that. Have a good read of Guideline on external links very carefully as well~~ Satu Suro 01:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approval of your editing in effect[edit]

Please understand that my initial welcome and comments have been made redundant, my apologies if I have over-reacted - and if you follow the link - your additions are appreciated Satu Suro 02:08, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For some context, the links you've been added are being discussed over here. -- Mark Chovain 02:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi a template has been created - see {{OpenAustralia}} - it has an optional parameter if the wikipedia article and the OpenAustralia page titles are not identical. To add it just paste in {{OpenAustralia}} - see this edit as an example. Regards --Matilda ^talk 04:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And I've fixed the template for cases where the names differ (such as for Chris Hayes (politician). In those cases, you may enter the template as {{OpenAustralia|Chris Hayes}}, and it will work as expected. Keep up the good work! -- Mark Chovain 04:33, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good work all around. :) Orderinchaos 04:15, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

OpenAustralia.org doesnt clearly display copyright information can you please clarify what it is exactly, or point me to a page on the site that does. Gnan garra 09:18, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The only page we have at the moment that mentions copyright is the about page. Basically, the Hansard information is Copyright Commonwealth of Australia and we have obtained permission to republish it. The information about people we have collected from a variety of sources. It is currently published alongside our source code under the GNU Affero General Public License and is currently copyright the contributors. We are in the process of establishing a charity and we will then be transferring copyright to the charity. We haven't at this stage thought too much about whether we should put the people data under something like Creative Commons but it's definitely something that would make sense.

Sorry to put a downer on the site but until the copyright is clearly listed resolved and available we cant link to your site, also I was actually interested in the images and whether we can copy across here for articles. as per WP:EL we can only link to sites were the site has clear copyright information also I note your part of OpenAustralia WP:EL#ADV say that you shouldnt be mass linking like you have been. Please cease linking to your site until you can provide clear copyright and as per WP:EL#ADV even after this is cleared up it could be considered spam if your adding the links Gnan garra 09:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the discussion here Mlandauer (talk) 12:28, 24 July 2008 (UTC).[reply]

And that discussion doesnt address the copyright issues, nor does mean that you can use Wikipedia promote your site by purely spamming articles about politicians. The comparison to IMBD is flawed in that people not associated with IMBD are the ones linking to the site where as your position with OpendAustralia is in conflict and the linking is just spamming by a representative of the site. What I'm asking is that your site addresses the copyright issues in such away that we can be sure what information is copyrighted and that there arent instances of copyright violations, I am concerned with. Gnan garra 13:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spam Warning[edit]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Gnan garra 14:32, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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