Talk:Anthrax War

Copyright concerns

This is edited from the filmmaker's website, which was excerpted on Infowars.com Wikipedia's bot found the material on Infowars.com and proclaimed it was an infringement -- it is not. Sorry forgot to add that I've created a temporary article -- all material used with the permission of the filmmakers, one of whom will be appearing at a film festival with the film next month.Tjmayerinsf (talk)tjmayerinsf I've spoken with the owners of anthraxwar.com and they confirm that there is no probloem in my using their material -- I have edited and cut the entry down, just didn't have time to do that last night. The bot discovered this material on Infowars, it is *not* Infowars' material.Tjmayerinsf (talk)

Hello, Tjmayerinsf. Thank you for your interest in donating material from http://www.anthraxwar.com/1/?page_id=2 to Wikipedia. Since we do not currently have a method in place to verify the identity of account holders at account creation, we must verify such donations through external processes. The article has been blanked to allow time for that verification to proceed.

The simplest way to verify is to place a release on that external website putting the material into public domain or co-licensing it under CC-BY-SA and GFDL, which permit modification and reuse, even commercially, as long as authorship credit is given. This release is irrevocable and must continue to be displayed, or the material may need to be removed. A statement such as the following would be sufficient: "The contents of this website (or page, if you are specifically releasing one section) are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License, unversioned with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts." If you decide to take this route, please put a link to that release here so we can restore the contents.

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If you decide you don't wish to release the material into public domain or under the terms of CC-BY-SA and GFDL, you are welcome to rewrite the text from scratch, and as long as the material is otherwise compliant with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, it will be used to replace the previous contents. If you are not familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, you may wish to review Wikipedia:Starting an article or Wikipedia:Your first article. If you are closely related to the subject matter, you may also want to read our conflict of interest guidelines to get an idea how best to proceed. It may be necessary once permission is verified to address other concerns in the text, if it is otherwise inconsistent with our policies and guidelines.

We apologize for the additional steps necessary, but as copyright is a matter of legal concern, we must ensure that we not only protect the rights of copyright holders, but also guard the Wikipedia project against inadvertent infringement.

The article will be revisited in about a week to see what additional steps have been taken or may be necessary. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let me know at my talk page. We also have a help desk which is typically manned around the clock by volunteers.

Thank you. Theleftorium 13:17, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

The owners of anthraxwar.com have reviewed my temporary entry (three paragraphs) and have no objection to the shorter/revised content -- we would like to know what your objection is now. You flagged it quickly and then say you'll review in a week. Since "Theleftorium" appears in *red* I have no idea who I'm talking to on this matter -- you can email me at tjmayerinsf(at)yahoo.com if you want their email addresses, or I'll post their email addresses in a few minutes so you can contact the two filmmakers, Eric Nadler and Rob Coen directly. Thanks Tjmayerinsf (talk)

They should contact the Wikimedia Foundation by sending an e-mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org from an address associated with the original publication permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. There is a boilerplate release form at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries which can be helpful. Please make sure that they provide a clear link to the website in the e-mail and specify by name the articles on Wikipedia in which the material is being used. Once the e-mail is received and processed by a member of the Communications Committee, the article's contents will be restored if their release is legally sufficient. Please make a note that they've done this here to help guard against premature deletion of the page. You can compose a note or very simply paste the following on the talk page, brackets and all: {{OTRS pending}} Theleftorium 18:55, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I've sent them your instructions -- and a copy of my shorter/revised article that's now on the page as the Temp article so they can see what the Temp article looks like.Tjmayerinsf (talk)

The filmmakers sent the email with the permission form yesterday morning (Tuesday, 8/18)Tjmayerinsf (talk)

Any progress on reviewing this article? My temporary article is shorter and should not be an issue, yet the warning is still showing on the main page.Tjmayerinsf (talk)

The OTRS email will be checked in the next couple of days. Theleftorium 14:16, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

The original article has been replaced as per the OTRS communication linked above. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:24, 31 August 2009 (UTC)