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Speedy deletion nomination of Act III Communications

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A tag has been placed on Act III Communications requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/news/concord-music-group-village-roadshow-pictures-and-act-iii-communications/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Hans, I spent a little while editing the article to try to rewrite around direct copyvio. You should do the same to save your article. Look at this link to find the offending copy (which you might have posted originally. Additional research will also show you some better, more detailed statements of the facts involved, rather than stealing someone else's writing, which is a wikipedia copyright violation. Trackinfo (talk) 07:48, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Act III Theatres (November 6)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Harvard University Shields

Hello HansDieterUlrich,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Harvard University Shields for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Eurodyne (talk) 02:59, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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Porcellian and talk page comments

Hi there. I responded to your comments on the Porcellian Club's talk page, but I didn't want you to be confused about where to find my response. On talk pages here, new comments go at the bottom of the talk page, not the top. Thus, I moved your comments to the bottom of the page, put them in order by date, and then responded below the one you added today. If you'll follow that principle, too, it'll help all of us follow along with conversations more easily. Cheers! Esrever ^(klaT) 22:00, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation.HansDieterUlrich (talk) 14:41, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Understanding media usage on Wikipedia

Well, you're really going to hate me now. So, I went to the Harvard University Shields article that you created and removed links to all of the images you uploaded. I also nominated all of those images for deletion on Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia has pretty well defined policies about how we can use what we call "non-free content". Free in this context means "free of restrictions", not "free of charge". In general, articles only display images that are free of restrictions, meaning the image is in the public domain, its copyright has been released, or it's been released under a so-called free license. The limited use of non-free images is permitted under very strict rules, found here. In general, non-free images can't be used purely for decorative purposes, which is all they were being used for in the shields article.

Now, on to Wikimedia Commons. When you uploaded those images to Wikimedia Commons, you certified that you own the copyright to them. It's right there in the language on the image's page: "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:". But it's a pretty sure bet on my part that you don't own the copyright to them--Harvard does. Harvard is the only one, then, who can choose to release those images under any license or under no license at all. Commons only hosts free images, and those images aren't free. Just because you can find them for free on the internet doesn't mean they're yours to use however you want, or ours here at Wikipedia to use however we want. Please read up on the image polices before adding anything else. Esrever ^(klaT) 22:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

I am confused about this point, but until I learn the rules a better I won;t upload. I saw that similar images were being used for other Universities with similar attribution. I created the images myself, but I suppose the point you are making is that the underlying copyright may still be with the University which I get. The ones over 95 years old are definitely in the public domain. It would seem under the usage policies that you can just designate them as public domain, which seems to be what happens with the ones I saw for other Universities. Do you know if there is some other reference required for a PD designation?

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Nomination of Harvard University Shields for deletion

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External Links

Hi, I removed the external link you inserted into Robert Whitehead. External links are only very rarely appropriate in the main body of an article (see WP:EL for details), and the red link to the not-yet-existing wikipedia page Lillian (play) shows editors that there might be a need for a wikipedia article on it. --Lemnaminor (talk) 09:19, 29 January 2015 (UTC)