User talk:Reward/Archives/2009/February/25

Copyright problem: Kevin M. McCarthy

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Kevin M. McCarthy, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.uchastings.edu/faculty-administration/faculty/adjuncts-new/mccarthy.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

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 the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), versions 1.3 or later then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Kevin M. McCarthy and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Kevin M. McCarthy with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Kevin M. McCarthy.

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:Kevin M. McCarthy 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! Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:05, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

This article was tagged for concerns on February 5th, but you were not notified per process. I am providing you the template notification to give you an opportunity to respond and will "reset" the one week admin clock for that purpose. Since you were not notified, I have not extensively compared the article with the source, but only glanced enough to verify that there is valid cause for concern in such phrases (in our article) of "Judge McCarthy has taken an active role in providing continuing education to judges through his work at the California Center for Judicial Education and Research" and the source of "Judge McCarthy has taken an active role in providing continuing education to judges through his work at the California Center for Judicial Education and Research." Please let me know if you have any questions about the procedure for handling copyright problems. Otherwise, I or another administrator will revisit this article in about a week to see what steps may remain necessary to address these concerns. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:05, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Investigation now that the 7-day courtesy notice period has expired confirms that the text that founded this article included substantial material taken directly from the copyrighted source [1] and that this text persisted through the article's history. Since there is no clean version, the article has been deleted. If you are affiliated with the source and wish to release permission, it isn't too late. The article will be restored if you provide notice of that release to the Wikimedia Foundation as set out above. You are more than welcome to create a new article on this individual in your own language, but please verify through reliable sources that he meets WP:BIO. The editor who first noted the infringement also noted that if elected in 1996 McCarthy was not the "first openly-gay man in the U.S. to become a judge by standing for election and winning", as your article had indicated. Openly gay circuit court judge Tom Chiola was elected in 1994.[2] Frequently, I will create a stub when an article has copyright infringement back to its foundation, but I have not in this case since I cannot assess this gentleman's overall notability. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:06, 22 February 2009 (UTC)