User talk:Skyephoto

February 2011

Your addition to Night photography has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. I found the text you copied on this page and in the sample chapter in PDF format linked from that page. --Imroy (talk) 09:06, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Donating your work

If you are the copyright holder of "The history of night photography", then see the donating copyrighted materials page. You'll likely have to contact the WikiMedia Foundation to formally consent to the use of your material.

Note that Wikipedia has strong rules about citing from reliable sources. The PDF of the chapter appears to be marked with references (superscript numbers) but the sources are not included. You'll have to include them in the text here, marking them up properly. And some of your writing may be too "poetic" for an encyclopaedia. That will be removed or rewritten by myself or others.

Sorry if I was too harsh, but I've caught many people in the past simply copying content from other web sites with seemingly little concern for copyright or tone of the material. You should have at least noted you were the author/copyright holder in the "edit summary" when you submitted the work. It would have saved some time and avoided the hostility to your action.

Welcome to Wikipedia, I hope we can work together. --Imroy (talk) 16:38, 27 February 2011 (UTC)