User talk:Glra

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Wilshire Center, Los Angeles, California

I reverted your edits to Wilshire Center, Los Angeles, California because they were a copyright violation from http://www.wilshirecenter.com/. Please do NOT copy text from other websites unless it is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License or in the public domain. ^Blank ^Verse 12:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wilshire Center

BlankVerse, I am new to editing Wikipedia pages and am still sruggling with procedures of this site. I will read more about editing on this site. But one thing I do know is about a community called Wilshire Center. I have been an active member of this community for the past 20 years. I am the Executive Director of the Wilshire Center Business Improvement Corp. and own the copyright to the name Wilshire Center. We own all rights to www.wilshirecenter.com. Therefore I would appreciate your help in keeping our history correct. The information I placed on this site is correct and verifible. Please revert back to the information I placed on this site. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glra (talk • contribs)

One thing to learn is how to 'sign' your comments on talk pages. You can do that by adding four tildes at the end of your comments, like this ~~~~. That will add your signature and date.

To be quite honest, what you added to the Wilshire article was not usable without serious rewriting, so it may be better to start with a blank slate, writing with the Wikipedia in mind. Remember that the Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The text you had added was too breezy, conversational, gossipy, and promotional for a Wikipedia article. (One of the primary principles of the Wikipedia is writing from a neutral point of view.)

Also, as you note near the bottom:

"Exerted from an article by Jane Gilman, publisher of Larchmont Chronicle, “Wilshire Boulevard Milestones”, and with exerts from the Curating the City Tour Book by LA Conservancy and exerts from an article “Streetscape: the Plan that Saved a Community” by David Wallace."

I assume that you meant excerpted. If much of the text was from those publications, then they are the ones who own the copyright and would need to grant permission for inclusions in the Wikipedia. [note: Short excerpts can be quoted under the fair use section of the US copyright law, but they should be properly referenced.]

If you have any photographs, drawings or maps for the article, that would be great. The only photo in the article currently is, in my opinion, not very informative.

Remember, however, that those images have the same copyright concerns as the text that you had added. They need to be licensed with either the GFDL or Creative Commons licenses (or other copyleft license), with only attribution and/or share-alike restrictions, if any are applied. The licenses specifically can not have Noncommercial or No Derivative Works restrictions if they are to be used on the Wikipedia.

For example, this map on your website is not bad, although for the purposes of the Wikipedia, it would be much better to have the adjacent communities identified. A larger map that shows the relative closeness of Wilshire Center to Downtown LA is what would be the best, however.

I found on your website the definitions that the city of LA uses for both Wilshire Center and Koreatown. That info should be added to the Wikipedia articles. (I forgot to record the URL, but I think it was in one of the newsletters.)

Under the Education section, you add a brief mention of the charter school I found mentioned on your website.

Does this help give you a better idea of what is needed for the Wilshire Center article on the Wikipedia? ^Blank ^Verse 12:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]