Jaa2204
Your edits to English Renaissance
editI'm afraid I've had to revert the material you pasted from http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/EngLegalHist/TheNon-ReceptionInEngland. That site does not have a compatible license for uploading material here. It only grants a a cc-by-sa license to material marked as authored by Eben Moglen. None of that material is marked with his authorship. If you do manage to change the license on that site, it is probably more appropriate to create a separate article for this subject as it would completely overwhelm the article you were trying to add it to. There is also a big problem with the referencing. For example you have citations like [Stein p. 75-86], but give no further bibliographic information, making it meaningless. Once you get the licensing sorted out, I suggest that you paste the material into Draft space, e.g. Draft:Reception of Roman law in the Renaissance. Then you can work on making it compatible with Wikipedia's formatting and referencing standards before moving it into article space. Wikipedia:Drafts has more information on this. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 16:33, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Since the original writing from that page is actually my own, what if I were to delete the text from that page? That way there is no copyright violation. Thanks– Jaa2204 (talk) 16:39, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Jaa2204. I'm afraid that wouldn't help. Simply removing the current license makes the problem even worse, as any page without a license is considered automatically copyright. Even if you have written the material yourself, if it has been previously published without a compatible license, we cannot use it unless you follow the procedures at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. I know this seems awfully bureaucratic, but we have these rules to protect the legal position of both Wikipedia and the authors whose work might be copied here. Voceditenore (talk) 16:46, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry, I think you've misunderstood. I was not going to remove the current license, I was simply going to remove the writing itself (my writing which I copy-pasted) from that website so that it is no longer viewable elsewhere on the internet. Look, I wrote this essay for a class. Our assignment is to upload it to wikipedia. How can I make this work? Thanks for your help and explanation.Jaa2204 (talk) 16:59, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- I did misunderstand, but removing all your work from that site wouldn't help either, because it doesn't change the fact that it was previously published there. If you can change the page you created and the website owner allows it, simply add the following text to it:
- The text of this page authored by Julian Azran and Ignacio Menchaca 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).
- Once you've done that, you can then upload it to Wikipedia. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 17:11, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- I did misunderstand, but removing all your work from that site wouldn't help either, because it doesn't change the fact that it was previously published there. If you can change the page you created and the website owner allows it, simply add the following text to it:
- Sorry, I think you've misunderstood. I was not going to remove the current license, I was simply going to remove the writing itself (my writing which I copy-pasted) from that website so that it is no longer viewable elsewhere on the internet. Look, I wrote this essay for a class. Our assignment is to upload it to wikipedia. How can I make this work? Thanks for your help and explanation.Jaa2204 (talk) 16:59, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- I see the problem. Please see the page now (http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/EngLegalHist/TheNon-ReceptionInEngland). Is this sufficient? Thanks again. Jaa2204 (talk) 17:15, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, that's fine. Go ahead and put the text on Wikipedia, but do be aware that other editors may modify it considerably to conform to our guidelines. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 17:20, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Awesome! I understand, and thanks again for your help.Jaa2204 (talk) 17:22, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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- Ah, I see our speedy and tireless bot has been at work
. Don't worry. I've left an explanatory note at Draft talk:Reception of Roman law in the Renaissance and also at Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2014-12-17. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 17:38, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks so much! Jaa2204 (talk) 17:41, 17 December 2014 (UTC)