User talk:Stedrayton

One planet living

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of One planet living, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/policy/one_planet_living/about_opl/principles/index.cfm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 13:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of One Planet Living

A tag has been placed on One Planet Living 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 that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the 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. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 13:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1) For legal reasons, we have to be very proactive on copyright violations. 2) You can't license the use of copyrighted material on Wikipedia; only the copyright owners can do that. 3) This article would probably have been deleted anyway, as being about an non-notable organization; see WP:GROUP. 4) Since you have a relationship with this organization, you probably shouldn't be editing any articles about them anyway, under our restrictions on edits by persons with conflicts of interest. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Information on copyright releases can be found here. As to the conflict-of-interest issue, the thing to do is first to request that some impartial third party create an article, a thing done here. If an editor agrees that the organization passes muster under WP:GROUP, and an article is created, then COI persons would make suggestions on the talk page of the article, and other editors would take up the suggestions they found most useful. (I'd advise you to clarify the relationship between OPA, the WWF, etc., because I was having trouble figuring it out from the pages.)

I really appreciate your cooperative attitude, friend Drayton; I've had people vandalize my pages (repeatedly) because they were so traumatized by a deletion. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]