LondonCalling123

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello LondonCalling123, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Laurie Mansfield has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
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• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:44, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016

Your addition to Alexander Kok has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:19, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Laurie Mansfield

Hi Justlettersandnumbers (talk), Many thanks for your comments regarding there being potentially copyrighted material in the article I wrote about Laurie Mansfield. The material is not copyrighted but I do appreciate how careful Wikipedia have to be about potential copyright violations. I have asked that a waiver be placed on the offending page - please view here: http://www.royalvarietycharity.org/lauriemansfieldbiog Is this now ok and can you please approve that the copy be re-instated? Many thanks. LondonCalling123 (talk) 10:28, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, LondonCalling123. Either I or someone else will in due course check the page for copyright violations from other sources, and remove the blanking template once it's definitely clear of further problems; unfortunately the copyright problems board is badly back-logged, so this may not happen at once or even soon. Meanwhile, may I ask a couple of questions?

1. Why do you say "the article I wrote"? That page was mostly written by Rodeocowboy36. Are you the same person? If so, you should choose one user account and username, and stick to it. This is important; you can read about the misuse of multiple accounts – and consequences thereof – at WP:sockpuppetry.
2. You've arranged for a Creative Commons waiver to be placed on a webpage of the Royal Variety Charity. That strongly suggests that you have a personal or professional connection with that institution. Do you? If so, please read the message in the section below this one.

Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:55, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Justlettersandnumbers (talk), many thanks for your response. In answer to your questions:

1. Why do you say "the article I wrote"? That page was mostly written by Rodeocowboy36. Are you the same person? If so, you should choose one user account and username, and stick to it. This is important; you can read about the misuse of multiple accounts – and consequences thereof – at WP:sockpuppetry.

Apologies I phrased this badly - it should have read 'the article I contributed to'. I am nothing to do with user 'rodeocowboy36' I do however, feel very guilty about the whole episode as it appears that shortly after I contributed to this article, the whole page got a blanking template, so I am trying my best to resolve things properly. I really appreciate your help with this.

1. You've arranged for a Creative Commons waiver to be placed on a webpage of the Royal Variety Charity. That strongly suggests that you have a personal or professional connection with that institution. Do you? If so, please read the message in the section below this one.

No I don't! I contacted them, explained the situation and they wanted to sort it out because apparently its not just this page, it is numerous Wiki pages that are connected with their charity!! Apparently the charity's main page has reverted to information that is many years out of date for no apparent reason and now contains numerous innaccurtate and misleading statements that had previously been corrected?! (NB. Please bear in mind this is a charity that does an enormous amount of good work and is not a commercial operation. I'm just trying to help them sort it out!) However, I think it best leave I it all alone now, as it don;t want to make matters worse! Many people would appreciate you doing what you can to resolve this - it is clearly a huge misunderstanding and totally innocent of any sinister or illegal motive. Thank you. LondonCalling123 (talk) 13:19, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up, LondonCalling123, and please forgive me for asking those questions, which may have seemed a touch invasive. I'll see what I can do to sort out the Mansfield page in due course. You should not feel too bad about any of this – the blanking template was placed because of copyright problems with the very first version of the page, not with the content that you added (which I simply removed); it is, as you know, part of a big mess involving many pages connected with the charity. I should probably warn you that unless some much stronger independent reliable sources are found and added to the Mansfield page, it will very possibly not be kept – as it stands, he appears not to come close to meeting our notability guideline for artists. In case you'd like to talk to other editors about any of this, I'm going to leave you an invitation below. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:11, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Justlettersandnumbers (talk) for all of your help and assistance LondonCalling123 (talk) 09:42, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello! LondonCalling123, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. It's a good place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please give it a try! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:12, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Justlettersandnumbers(talk) I have joined and asked a question. Thanks again for all of your help and assistance LondonCalling123 (talk) 09:41, 28 April 2016 (UTC)