User talk:MichaShafir

About your contributions to Wikipedia

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. As you may have noticed, your contributions keep getting deleted. Please be assured that this is not because we have anything against you or your company. Rather, the problem is that Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a place for essays, press releases or advertising. What your company is doing looks extremely interesting, but this is not the place to promote it. I do think that there might well be demand for an article on traceless biometrics, or at least for a mention in our existing biometrics article. However, to be appropriate for Wikipedia, it would have to written from a proper encyclopedic point of view, without putting undue weight on any particular company or implementation. If you'd like to stay and work with us to create such an article, our help pages will provide useful hints for contributing to Wikipedia. Also, don't hesitate to ask for help!

Also, I'd like to note that, in contributing content to Wikipedia, you agree to release it under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. While you do still retain copyright to your contributions, the license gives others rather broad permission to distribute and modify the content as they wish. It is also a core part of Wikipedia policy that articles are freely editable, and are not "owned" by their original authors. Placing a copyright notice on an article, even without a reservation of rights, while not explicitly forbidden as such, might be seen by some as an attempt to claim such ownership, or as an attempt to refuse the implicit grant of license under the terms of the GFDL. Thus, such notices are generally considered inappropriate, especially since any such notice will cease to be strictly true as soon as anyone else edits the page.

Your friendly admin,

—Ilmari Karonen (talk) 02:34, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Traceless biometrics

A tag has been placed on Traceless biometrics requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Q ^{T C} 12:15, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please read our policy on original research. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 14:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Biometrics Must Be Traceless.pdf

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