Warner Mendenhall, Akron, Ohio. Attorney specializing in local government law (zoning, constitutional abuses, local crime)federal false claims law (military, cdbg, health care claims), and employment law. I am helping to develop web sites such as Akronohio.net, howtofightcityhall.com and falseclaimslaw.com to spread awareness and skills to make government more responsive to us. I am intrigued by wikipedia and want the sites I work on to follow a similar path.
Welcome, Warner! Grand to have a lawyer on board.
Can we have some confirmation that you are responsible for the text mentioned on False Claims Law and False Claims Law/Details? --User:LMS
What kind of confirmation do you need? They are both original works. I could send an affidavit. User:Warnermendenhall
Aha, right, that might not be clear. A statement on a subpage that you give your permission to Wikipedia (and therefore anyone that might use the article under Wikipedia's GNU Free Documentation License!) to use and redistribute and modify (see the license) the original text that occurs on your website. If we find text on Wikipedia that has been copied from another source (which does not have a copyright statement of any sort), it's prudent for us to assume that someone might try to enforce a copyright violation. We don't want that to happen.
I'd be very interested in your legal opinion of the issues involved here, by the way. --User:LMS
That's not necessary; all we mean is "Tell us, here, that you did in fact write them, and that you understand that putting text here places it under the GFDL." Since the text appears elsewhere, we just need to know that you are in fact the author so that we aren't violating the author's copyright. You, of course, are prefectly free to use your own text any way you like, and we'll take your word that the text is in fact yours. Just leave a note to that effect here in Wikipedia itself.
Also, the article reads like what we call a "How-To", so it might be better to name it something like "How to file an action under the False Claims Act" or something similar. --LDC