Emmaherbert

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Copyright problems with Elephant Family

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Elephant Family, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.elephantfamily.org/content/view/5/30/. As a copyright violation, Elephant Family appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Elephant Family has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

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:Elephant Family and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Elephant Family with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Elephant Family.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. ttonyb1 (talk) 22:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Elephant Family

Hi Amalthea,

I am new to Wiki editing, and I have permission from the Elephant Family to use the text I uploaded to Wikipedia. It is not an exact copy of the content on their website, but uses elements of it, and the edits have been agreed.

I have read the help pages but I am still not clear on how I send the permission email to you - please can you advise?

Many thanks

--Emmaherbert (talk) 10:52, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Of course. There are three possibilities to get copyrighted material accepted here on Wikipedia. You can either

1. have the owners of the copyrighted text make a note permitting reuse under the GFDL at the site of the original publication (see WP:IOWN)
2. have the owners of the copyrighted text send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation (see WP:IOWN again)
3. rewrite the text in your own words. You can use the information from the website, but not the sentences (and the slight modifications that had been done aren't quite enough for it)

In this particular case, I would recommend the third option, for two reasons. First it's a rather short text anyway, so it's probably easiest and quickest to rewrite it. Second, the text wasn't quite appropriate for an encyclopaedic article about the organization anyway (a copy from an organization's website hardly ever is). Try describing the company in a neutral way, and not by getting into specifics about the decline of the elephant population; it's worth mentionining that this is what prompted the organization's existance, but details about that topic are already in the elephant article.
Have a look at, for example, the lead section of World Wide Fund for Nature.
Lastly, if you have a strong affiliation with the organization you probably have a conflict of interest, and I would recommend having a look at our FAQ for organizations
I hope that helps, if you have further questions feel free to ask! Cheers, Amalthea 01:43, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Stratevolve

A tag has been placed on Stratevolve, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Stratevolve and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JNW (talk) 14:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Paul Raspin

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Nomination of Mark Lee (British speaker and author) for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. SmartSE (talk) 20:46, 8 May 2015 (UTC)