User talk:Fieldbusguy
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as EtherCAT, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.anybus.com/eng/technologies/ethercat.shtml, 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), you can comment to that effect on Talk:EtherCAT. Then you should do one of the following:
- Make a note on the original website that re-use is permitted under the GFDL and state at Talk:EtherCAT where we can find that note; or
- Send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions(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:EtherCAT.
It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! JonHarder 14:23, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Let me also welcome you to Wikipedia. These copyright issues can be vexing the first time around. I left a note on the EtherCAT talk page you may want to look at. --A. B. 16:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)