User talk:Schylerhays
September 2010[edit]
Your addition to AAA Cooper Transportation 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. Toddst1 (talk) 16:39, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Copyright violations[edit]
Sorry if our standard template about copyright violations didn't give you enough information. That article seemed to have been copied from the company's website. Probably the best thing to do to understand the situation is to read Wikipedia:Copyright violations. In short, if material is published somewhere else, we can't accept the text without explicit permission (through a formal process) from the owner (who must be verified). I hope this helps. Toddst1 (talk) 15:41, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Follow up Question for you[edit]
Thank you for your explanation. It helps me but it also inspires another question. What should be my process if the company would like Wikipedia to be the source for their company history page? I do not represent the company, but I was asked to write a verifiable company history, since they were influential in industry of trucking and transportation. The company's desire is to use my work on their website as their company history. So, the copy went from Wikipedia to the company website, not the other way ~ dig? You have been helpful, and if you could please help me explain how to satisfy both parties, I would very grateful. Schylerhays (Schylerhays) 05:09, 8 September 2010 (CST)
- We would need you to verify with the Foundation that you are the real copyright holder and understand the legal implications of putting your copyrighted work on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation has established specific licensing guidelines that we need to follow.
- If you still wish to grant Wikipedia the rights to this material, follow the instructions here. It has all the info you need. Be sure you understand the rights to the text that you will be giving up. Then, you'll be granted what's called "an OTRS ticket" that shows Wikipedia has been granted the rights to the text and then you can post the material verbatim (provided the subject meets the other qualifications for articles on Wikipedia such as notability).
- We don't accept copyrighted work outside of that process in order to protect the holders of copyright, both from others posting their words on Wikipedia, and from unknowingly signing away their rights.
- I hope you understand that refusing all copyrighted work until we have real evidence that it's been released into the GDFL is the best way to make sure we aren't violating anyone's rights.