Jessikite

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.Pascal (talk) 13:32, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Cape Epic

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Cape Epic, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from , and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Cape Epic and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Cape Epic, in your email. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0, or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Cape Epic with a link to where we can find that note.
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It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Cape Epic saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! 107.10.43.91 (talk) 05:55, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Cape Epic

Hi, I just wanted to write a note about your recent edits to Cape Epic. First, thanks for getting involved in Wikipedia and helping to improve articles. I hope that you will help to improve many more. However, there's some problems with Cape Epic as it now stands because it doesn't read as encyclopaedic. The trouble is it looks like it is the official webpage of the race with the style of writing and level of detail. On Wikipedia. we have to write in another way, more objective, fitting it into the "big picture" and critiquing where necessary. The big way we do this is through reliable third-party sources, which unfortunately the Cape Epic article doesn't have. Anyway, this isn't to discourage you from editing and I hope that we will be able to make the article in the future :) Best, Severo^TC 06:43, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, then I advise you to read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest which will help guide you in writing. Having license for any copyright violation doesn't make the problem go away particularly, as really we need everything sourced from reliable third-party sources. But, on the other hand, being on the "inside" means you can help in different ways - for example with photos, which is often cited as Wikipedia's weak point, which could be released under Creative Commons licenses and be used in Wikipedia. Anyway, should you need any more help, don't hesitate to drop a note on my talk page. Severo^TC 05:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I don't know the answers to your questions but I know which direction to point you. I guess you have read through Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials: emails are handled by the Volunteer Response Team, who use the Open-source Ticket Request System (OTRS). You can ask them general questions directly at Wikipedia:OTRS noticeboard, although any private material should be kept to email. Keep in mind that they are volunteers: I would expect a response within a few days and they will tell you what kind of verification they are looking for. The OTRS manual is private for the volunteers that work on it so I can't answer your question directly, I'm afraid. Severo^TC 07:37, 4 October 2011 (UTC)