Miss Florence

{helpme} How does the museum where I work give permission to use copyrighted material from its website? I want to copy some excerpts to Wikipedia, and the museum will give permission - but I can't figure out how to do it. Thank you! Miss Florence (talk) 18:15, 8 August 2008 (UTC)Miss Florence

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Matilda browne

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Speedy deletion of Matilda browne

A tag has been placed on Matilda browne 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.

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Matilda browne

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Bruce Crane

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Your username

Unless you yourself are Florence Griswold, you might want to consider changing your username to something less indicative of a conflict of interest regarding your employer. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Bruce Crane

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Bruce Crane, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/learning/insitu/html/south/crane.php, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Bruce Crane and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Bruce Crane with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Bruce Crane.

It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:Bruce Crane/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Bruce Crane saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:18, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I wanted to add a personal note to this form letter that I see at the article's talk page that you have indicated a connection to the source and were wondering how to clear the usage of text. The form letter includes steps to follow that will permit you to do just that. The article is currently blanked pending verification of this permission. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:20, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

How to follow up

Hi. Since there has been no sign of follow-up on this, I'm afraid that the article must be deleted for now. If you choose to verify permission by the one of the steps above, it can be restored. The easiest solution at this point is to send a release to Wikimedia, as detailed above. The volunteer from the organization who handles the permission letter will restore the article. Alternatively, of course, you can recreate the article if you choose to release permission at the website. Please be sure to leave a clear note at the article's talk page where that release can be found to avoid the article being deleted again for infringement.

I'm sorry for the complexity of this. Since Wikipedia does not require verification of identity on account creation, we must have external verification of permission to ensure that our contributors have the authority to release material to us. In my observation, most contributors who claim authority actually do hold it, but unfortunately we do on occasion have contributors who misrepresent themselves. Because of that, this extra verification is essential.

If you should return at any time with questions about this, please feel free to ask them at my talk page or at Wikipedia's help desk, which is typically manned around the clock by volunteers. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:12, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your note. I have replied. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:00, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you again. I've responded at my talk page, but can just as easily also note here that I have written the communications committee and hope that this matter will be soon resolved. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:15, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Response from communication committee

Dear Miss Florence:

I have received a response from the Communications Committee. Evidently, the permission letter you sent needs further clarification. I'm told that if you can clarify that the permission applies to all pages on the website, or at least specifically state that all data on Bruce Crane is licensed by GFDL, then the article will be restored. If you send this clarification directly to the permissions address, please include the ticket # you were given previously as well as the url of your site and the name of the article, Bruce Crane.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems with this or if I can be of any further assistance in this matter. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:45, 8 October 2008 (UTC)