User talk:Aventius

Hi Aventius, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. Here are a few suggestions you might find useful:

First, check out the tutorial and learn how to write a great article
Find out more about what Wikipedia is and how it works
Check out the manual of style and maybe the picture tutorial if you're interested in adding images to your articles
Write from a neutral point of view, use wikiquette, and last but not least, be bold!
Check out the community portal if you're looking for something to do.
Finally, feel free to contact me at my talk page if you have any questions! Remember to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer 02:57, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issue with Nittany Lion Fund

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Nittany Lion Fund, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.smeal.psu.edu/fund/. As a copyright violation, Nittany Lion Fund appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Nittany Lion Fund has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

If you believe that the article or image 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) then you should do one of the following:

If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Nittany Lion Fund and send an email with the message 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 released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Nittany Lion Fund 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:Nittany Lion Fund.

However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. — PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 23:19, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]