Aquila Red

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Ruby James

Hi, I saw your note on my talk page and figured you'd rather find it here. I went to her web site and it I'm not sure that she's WP:Notable enough to have a page about her. WP:Bio and WP:Music would apply as well. You might try to create an article with WP:Reliable Citations including WP:Footnotes. Avoid blogs, her website and youtube type sources. Having said that, your previous version was a copyright violation as well as WP:Advertising. I know we have a lot of rules, but that's how we stay honest here. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 01:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Welcome! Well said, Todd. Having said that, we have our duty at wikipedia to remain neutral as well when editing articles, that is the main reason we avoid blogs and promo handouts when it comes to writing any article on wiki. Take your time to read the table of FAQs provided above. Cheers and regards. --Dave1185 (talk) 01:09, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

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I am not sure that I am doing this right either, but here goes. I can see where you might think that this was acopyright violation, but since i can take credit for the bio itself that wasn't the case. I can say that I understand your seeing it as advertising though. I guess that I should wait a while before I post anything about her here. Maybe at some point either you and Dave will see it as being notable and I will let the experts post it. I like your site, I use it a lot, but to be honest, mostly to look things up, it is really sorta over my head. No hard feelings and I hope you feel the same. Aquila Red (talk) 01:43, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely no hard feelings! This is what we do around here. We really hope you will stick around and contribute, but...

More about copyright issues than you ever wanted to know

Just because you wrote it, doesn't mean you can publish it here. If it's been published before it has already been copywritten. You can give the material to Wikipedia, but unfortunately we can't leave it at that if we're going to use the material. We need you to verify with the Wikimedia Foundation that you are the real copyright holder and understand the legal implications of putting your copyrighted work on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation has established specific licensing guidelines that we need to follow.

If you still wish to grant Wikipedia the rights to this material, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission#For_text. It has all the info you need. Be sure you understand the rights to the text that you will be giving up. Then, you'll be granted what's called "an OTRS ticket" that shows Wikipedia has been granted the rights to the text and then you can post the material verbatim.

We don't accept copyrighted work outside of that process in order to protect the holders of copyright, both from others posting their words on Wikipedia, and from unknowingly signing away their rights.

I hope you understand that refusing all copyrighted work until we have real evidence that it's been released into the GDFL is the best way to make sure we aren't violating anyone's rights.

I hope this helps. Toddst1 (talk) 23:06, 9 April 2008 (UTC)