User talk:Charrelson

Welcome!

Hello, Charrelson, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Jwrosenzweig 23:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Please look at my note on Talk:Columbus High School (GA): I hope we can work things out. I just want to make sure we keep all our articles legal (an uphill battle sometimes), and I hope you can help.

I can't find a notice on the school's web site that places it in the public domain. As a result, the information is officially copyrighted until we get express permission from the owner of the web site. Can an email be sent from webmaster@columbushighga.org or some other authority with the school to release the info? Jwrosenzweig 23:37, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. I received verbal consent to use the information, but it will not be an issue to get written consent. To what email address should the release be sent? Charrelson 23:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This time, I thinking sending it to me at ~~email address deleted~~ will be fine (I didn't use the @ to try and avoid spammers). As one of the site's volunteer administrators, I can post to the page that anyone challenging the copyright can contact me directly. I'll go look and see if there's a repository for such emails...there ought to be, but I don't recall one. Thanks for being so quick to reply, and so civil: plenty of people become very contentious over these issues, and it's been very pleasant to work this out with you. Jwrosenzweig 23:44, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Apparently there is a repository (I haven't handled copyrights in a while) at permissions AT wikimedia.org. Please send the notice there: thanks so much! I'll revert the article to its original state, and post a note on the talk page that you are clarifying the copyright. Thanks so much! Jwrosenzweig 23:47, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yet another update...if you have the email Cc'd to my username at yahoo.com, I can post the confirmation of your permission more rapidly than it will otherwise be posted, which may forestall problems in the future. Best regards, Jwrosenzweig 23:52, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for your assistance. I've contacted the appropriate administrator and should have the information to you (and the repository) in the coming days. Charrelson 23:59, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great! As a bit of friendly advice, there are a number of users here who are a little hostile to articles about high schools. In general, they demand a fairly high standard of what is often called "notability" before they will allow that a high school may deserve an article. I think you've gone a long way towards that with the list of important achievements of the school, but I thought I'd suggest that you add a section listing notable alumni/faculty if you are aware of any. If you can get enough blue-link alumni ("blue link" meaning that these people have articles here, and are therefore presumably "notable") you will increase the likelihood that the article doesn't have to go through a "deletion discussion". I wish you good luck on continuing to develop this and other articles...feel free to drop me a note if I can ever be of any assistance. Jwrosenzweig 00:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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