User:Centrx/Form messages

Do not copy from website

Do not post text you just copied from a website if you do not own the copyright. It is illegal and any such posts will be deleted.

Copyright explanation on article Talk

Do not archive unless specified text is no longer present in article.

Currently[1], the main text of this article is copied from [2]. According to a notice at that website[3], pages at that website are in the public domain unless indicated otherwise, as they are usually works of the United States federal government. As such, the text at the current revision is in the public domain. —Centrx→talk • 03:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

The main text of this article is copied from [4]. According to a notice on that website, at [5], the website is "provided as a public service by The United States Air Force Band of Liberty and the Department of the Air Force" and "Information presented on the Air Force Band of Liberty Web site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied." As such, it is a work of the United States federal government and is in the public domain. —Centrx→talk • 02:23, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Image messages

One

The copyright holder must permit its use under the GFDL, which permits its re-use by anyone, not just Wikipedia. In order for this permission to be confirmed, The copyright holder must send an email from an address associated with the source website, to permissions at wikimedia dot org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation. They must specifically state that the image may be used under the GFDL or is released into the public domain. —Centrx→talk • 06:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Two

If you took this photograph, please indicate that, and that you release it under the GFDL or under public domain using either the tag {{GFDL-self}} or {{PD-self}}. If another person took this photograph, please indicate how it is under this license or in the public domain. —Centrx→talk • 06:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Including a deleted company

First, please note that this an encyclopedia. There must be third-party reliable sources that describe the company and the article must be written from a neutral point of view; it cannot be in the same tone or make the same sort of aggrandizing statements that are common on company websites. See also Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations) for what is generally necessary for a company to be sufficiently notable to warrant an entry in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a business directory; though it is more inclusive and up-to-date than the Encyclopædia Britannica for example, nevertheless there remain thousands upon thousands of companies that do not warrant an article. As such, the article must be wholly rewritten to be in the form of an encyclopedia article and must reference third-party sources that are about the company. I can restore the article to your userspace, at User:Marsface/OutlookSoft, but it needs to be rewritten with the above in mind before putting it back in the encyclopedia or dealing with any subsequent copyright issues. It may be, however, that it is not appropriate to include the company at this time. —Centrx→talk • 00:23, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Band

To clarify about "notability", because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia there must be some evidence in an article about a band (there are millions of them), why this particular band belongs in the encyclopedia. Has it sold a lot? Has it been mentioned in a lot of newspapers or on television? Has it had a major influence on a particular genre of music? Check out Wikipedia:Notability (music) for an idea of what the article has to say about the band. —Centrx→talk • 07:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)