Rev. Caesar David

Copyright

Copyright belongs to the National Council of Churches in India. Only they can give permission to allow their copyright material onto Wikipedia. Proof has to be shown. This is the law. For information how the NCCI can give permission, please read Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. Bgwhite (talk) 20:12, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi! I've been trying to update the National Council of Churches in India article on wikipedia with official / authentic information, but there seems to be some technicality about the copyright protocol that is complicated and beyond me to understand. I'm requesting your help to settle this matter for good. I thought there would be an easier way to update. Was there a permission submitted to wikipedia for the matter that is currently there? The website is also managed by me, so I changed the copyright to creative commons to make it easier for reuse of that matter. Apparently it is still no good for wikipedia. I don't know what I'm missing. If nothing works, could you at least remove something that is there that isn't correct? (NCCI is NOT a member of ACT alliance). And I'll give up my efforts to put NCCI information on wikipedia despite knowing that it could be a great resource for Churches related in some way to the council. I know you've been trying to help... Well, I've done as much as my limited knowledge of wikipedia procedures can take me, and the rest I leave it to your discretion and kindness. Thank you very much. Rev. Caesar David (talk) 04:37, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

The website (http://www.nccindia.in/) is copyrighted under "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License." This is incompatible with Wikipedia's website copyright. At the bottom of every Wikipedia page, it says, "Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;" The NNCI site is only for noncommerical purposes. Also, the "Share Alike" stipulation means a person may "alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license" Wikipedia allows for any purpose. NCCI doesn't contain this. If you license NNCI under Wikipedia's type of license, anyone can do anything to NNCI's material, forever.

A vast majority of the material that was posted on the wikipedia page is not encyclopedic, not neutral and unreferenced. Majority of the material would be deleted. Wikipedia is not a PR for other sites. The entire "Strategic Plan" section would be deleted. Bgwhite (talk) 04:54, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

OK, I understand. And it's too complicated for me... Thank you very much for taking the time to explain matters though. Guess I'll just leave it then... Thanks and God bless you. Rev. Caesar David (talk) 07:40, 8 October 2014 (UTC)