User talk:Tim Leunig

Copyright problems[edit]

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Paul Johnson (economic historian), we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material without the permission of the author. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.latrobe.edu.au/about/chancellor.html. As a copyright violation, Paul Johnson (economic historian) appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Paul Johnson (economic historian) has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Paul Johnson (economic historian) and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
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However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. --Finngall ^talk 22:09, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You were informed that the entry would be deleted. There's a message right above this one explaining. It also says, in the edit window, "Do not copy text from other websites with a GFDL-compatible license. It will be deleted. You're welcome to submit a non-copyrighted entry about this person, provided they meet our notability requirements and the article conforms to the biographies of living persons policy.

I'm sorry if this experience seemed harsh to you, but Wikipedia is one of the top-ten visited sites on the internet, and Wikipedia content is copied by many, many other sites around the world. It is vitally important for us to enforce U.S. copyright law. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have. Natalie 23:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]