Likealullaby

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Welcome, a bit about policies

Hi. :) I hope the "welcome mat" above will be helpful to you. I certainly used the one left for me for quite some time! I wanted to stop by and speak to you about User:Likealullaby/Michael Bruce (Composer). Another contributor tagged this for concerns that it duplicated previously published sources, and investigation shows that it actually has content previously published in several places. I'm afraid that we can't host previously published content here, even if the previously published content is copyrighted by you, unless we can verify that the material is properly licensed. Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials if you own the copyright on this text or had permission to use it. Otherwise, Wikipedia:Copy-paste gives a basic overview of our approach to previously published content.

I see also that you had requested that it be moved to article space but had run into some opposition. I thought while I was here that I would explain a little bit the issues that you are encountering, which likely stem from a very common misunderstanding of Wikipedia's purpose.

Wikipedia is here to summarize what reliable, published sources have to say about notable subjects. Generally, very little of an article should rely on sourcing provided by the subject of the article or sources affiliated to it, but to second-hand publications such as newspapers, magazine articles, books, etc. Articles on Wikipedia are meant to be written in a rather business-like tone and must be presented neutrally, with language that neither promotes nor denigrates the subjects. Any critical commentary must be properly attributed and sourced to the critic who said it. Removing the copied content helps pull out some of the non-neutral material to which others objected, but it will help tremendously if you can provide sources to substantiate the information in the article and generally make sure that it is written like an encyclopedia article.

If you have any questions about any of this, please feel free to come by my talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:15, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Unwrittensongscover.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Unwrittensongscover.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:34, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Nospaceforair.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Nospaceforair.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:35, 20 May 2011 (UTC)