Sarahziegler

Hereditary Multiple Exostoses has a number of synonyms for this disorder, they include Multiple Osteochondroma, Multiple osteochondromatosis, Exostoses Multiple Cartilaginous, Diaphyseal Aclases, Familial Exostoses, Deforming Chondrodysplasia Hereditary. The pages under these terms should be merged I am just not sure how this is done. Could an editor help with this Regards Sarah

I would venture that using the comma'd format "Extoses, X" is more suitable for an index or a table of contents, and that the article itself should be titled "X Extoses" as there is no need for sorting. (And should sorting in a category be needed, that can be worked around. - BalthCat 23:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Copyright issues

Hello Sarah, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Osteochondromatosis, Multiple article, but various excerpts from it appear to be be taken verbatim from other sources, and we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words.

Alternatively, if you are the copyright holder for that material, and in a position to licence it under the GFDL for use on Wikipedia, please let me know on my talk page. (I note that you have the same name as Sarah Ziegler, the National Director and Coordinator of Research of the National MHE Registry -- if you are, you should know that we particularly welcome the input of expert authors and editors.)

For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! -- The Anome 23:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Reply

I am Sarah Ziegler and I do have the copyright's and I would like to post this information. Any questions please email me at sarahziegler@mheresearchfoundation.org

Thanks for the note

Thanks for the note, Sarah. There's no problem at all including your material with your permission; we just needed to know that you were the author. We take other people's copyright very seriously, so we regularly scan articles for copying from other websites, as unfortunately some people often copy other people's work to Wikipedia without their permission.

If you can confirm that you are the author of the original material, or in a position to licence it under the GFDL as an officer of the organization hosting the content, please could you put a notice similar to the one above onto the talk page (see the "discussion" tab at the top of each article) of each of the articles containing your contributions from your writings on other websites, and that should be enough to satisy our copyright policy. -- The Anome 23:42, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your reply

I've now put notices acnowledging your assertion of copyright up on Talk:Multiple osteochondromatosis and Talk:Osteocartilaginous exostosis (all Wikipedia articles have talk pages: you can click on the "discussion" tab at the top of any article to go there) that point to this discussion. If you do the same for other articles where you contribute material from your website, you shouldn't have any more problems with people complaining about copyright issues.

If you have any further problems, please let me know; for now I think the notices on the articles should suffice. I've also tagged the articles themselves for copyediting into standard Wikipedia style. -- The Anome 23:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for adding the notices: that's just what was needed. By the way, if you want to create a single article on a subject with multiple names, you can just create pages that contain only the text "#REDIRECT [[main article title]]"" for each subsidiary title: see Wikipedia:Redirects. -- The Anome 00:32, 15 August 2006 (UTC)