User talk:Hansonma

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Speedy deletion nomination of No. 2625 Squadron RAF Regiment

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A tag has been placed on No. 2625 Squadron RAF Regiment requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Why the article was deleted

You said:

www.2625.co.uk is the owner of this copyright material and as such "The Blade of the Northern Lights" has no right to delete the contents without contacting the website administrator. This action is effectively censure of Wikipedia content and goes against the wishes of the founders.

This sounds like a pretty solid reason, but let me see if I can convince you it is not.

If the article stands, then Wikipedia owns the copyright to the words. Wikipedia could insist that you are not allowed to post the words on a site you create without giving proper attribution to Wikipedia. Perhaps not a big deal, but you might find it odd to have to add proper licensing to your site to cover words you have written.

Furthermore, anyone can edit the words, so you might decide to copy the latest version from Wikipedia, and find it doesn't match what you originally wrote. You have no standing to object.

Additionally, we allow anyone to register just about any user name. Anyone in the world could have registered the screen name you chose and anyone could claim to be you. Surely you would be unhappy if some other person, claiming to be you, said it was OK to copy your words.

There are ways for people to ensure they are who they say they are, but we have specific procedures for that, and they are more complicated than simply making the claim.

See Donating copyrighted materials

Or you could license the material at your site under an appropriate Creative Commons license (see the link in the previous paragraph for more details)

So, while it may seem odd to delete an article using a copyright rule when those words are almost certainly yours, it is being done for your protection. You can give up the rights to your words, but we want you to do so understanding the consequences.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 17:18, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]