User talk:Ollie/Sandbox2
Photo permissions[edit]
Letter[edit]
Dear Mr./Mrs. etc XXXX, I am one of the many volunteer editors of Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), a Web-based encyclopedia collaboration.
I am currently working on improving the article relating to trap points, catch points and sand drags. Your excellent photograph at image url shows all three of these features in situ at Goathland railway station.
Therefore I would like to respectfully request your permission to use that picture as Wikipedia content. Wikipedia is a multilingual open-content encyclopedia that strives for complete and reliable content. Volunteers from around the world collaboratively create content, but Wikipedia depends upon photography such as yours to clearly illustrate that content.
It is to that noble end that I make this request. However, for Wikipedia to use your material, you must agree to the GNU Free Documentation License (often referred to as the GNU-FDL, or GFDL). In essence, the GFDL allows you to retain the copyright and authorship of your work, but grants permission for others to use, copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially use them commercially, so long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely (e.g., "share-alike"). You can read the complete license at "wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text of the GFDL". You should note that releasing this image under the GFDL does not affect any of your other photographs, and that all reproductions must be accompanied by the full text of the license.
If you grant permission for use, we will credit you for your work, state that it is used with your permission and provide a link back to your website.
I sincerely appreciate your consideration of this matter. Please advise your decision of this request by email to my email and I will gratefully forward it to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Thank you, and I hope you will consider accepting this request.
Yours sincerely, Oliver Brown