Talk:Devious (band)

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... I's an INFORMATIONAL page (not a promotional page) about my band Devious, in which I play drums. There is also no copyright infliction, since my band members and I own all rights to all content placed on this very page. --DeviousFrank (talk) 09:10, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

First, please read WP:COI. Second, there could be a copyright problem even if you wrote the text. If it's published elsewhere, it can't be used here except under CC-BY-SA license (unless it's public domain anyway). See WP:COPYVIO and my post below. Peridon (talk) 13:21, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Creative Commons

The page linked as the source of the text is Creative Commons licensed, but I can't work out if it is CC-BY-SA, or CC-BY-NC-SA or whatever. CC-BY-SA would remove the copyvio problem here. The NC one wouldn't. This does not, of course, affect the other problem tagged. Peridon (talk) 13:18, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

It looks to me like the text originally comes from this 2010 bio: [1]. Whatever the license on Last.fm, we need to be sure that the material was placed there (earlier this month) in copyright compliance.

User:DeviousFrank, the easiest thing you can do is put a tag under the biography on your website indicating that:

The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

If you choose to do that, please let us know.

Alternatively, if you'd rather not do that, you can send a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation verifying your association with the band and your right to license the band's content. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the approach there. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:19, 21 April 2012 (UTC)