User talk:Thennigs#Copyright problem follow-up: The Tuscan Sun Festival

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This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of :The Tuscan Sun Festival, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.imgartists.com/?page=festivals/tuscan.html. 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) 12:31, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as The Tuscan Sun Festival, 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.imgartists.com/?page=festivals/tuscan.html, 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:The Tuscan Sun Festival 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 that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:The Tuscan Sun Festival 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 [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Contact_us Wikimedia Foundation] permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:The Tuscan Sun Festival.

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:The Tuscan Sun Festival/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:The Tuscan Sun Festival 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) 00:11, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

:Dear Thennigs:

:With respect to your note at the article's talk page, I am leaving you the "form letter" above as it contains instructions for verifying your permission. Because Wikipedia does not require identity verification at account creation, we must have this external permission before we can publish this text. The article has been blanked to give you an opportunity to follow through with one of these methods. If you have any questions about this process, please feel free to let me know at my talk page. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:13, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

==Copyright problem follow-up: The Tuscan Sun Festival==

Dear Thennigs:

Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above, the article has been deleted. This deletion is not necessarily permanent. If you have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Communications Committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you may certainly do so at any point, and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.

As Wikipedia does not require proof of identity on account creation, it is essential that we receive external proof of authorization in order to ensure that we remain compliant with US Copyright law. It is also essential that we verify that copyright holders understand the extent of the release they are authorizing, in that GNU Free documentation license permits modification and reuse in any forum, even commercial publication, as long as authorship credit is maintained.

If you have questions about the verification procedure, please feel free to contact me at my talk page. Alternatively, you might address them at the talk page of the copyright policy, which is generally monitored by volunteers experienced in processing such matters. Thank you.--Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:26, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your note on my talk page. I have done a bit of work to the article and added the article to article space at The Tuscan Sun Festival.

I'm sorry for the difficulties you encountered placing contributing this material to Wikipedia. I do not have access to any communications you may have sent the communications committee or any responses they may have sent you; for privacy reasons, access to these is strictly controlled. From what you say at my talk page, it seems that the volunteer who responded to you may have wanted you to proactively address some of the concerns related to notability. This was undoubtedly good advice. While a quick searching verifies to me easily that this festival meets our notability guidelines, without indication of that in the article's body, it may have been mistaken deleted under notability concerns. Unfortunately, a lot of inappropriate material is placed on Wikipedia, and though we try to guard against that, good material is sometimes accidentally removed.

From what you say, it sounds as though your correspondent suggested adding secondary sources. I have gone and ahead and done this. What he was probably meaning to indicate is that Wikipedia's articles are based on what we term "reliable sources"—essentially such things as newspaper articles, journal references, reputable websites that are not connected to the subject. I've easily located 9 or 10 such sources and added them to the article. After an hour or so of research, I don't doubt I could have found twice that number.

I did have to tone down some of the language to meet our neutrality policy. We have to be very careful to avoid any language that seems promotional. If The International Herald-Tribune, for example, wrote that "the festival attracts the highest level of international soloists", we could say so with a source. Otherwise, we cannot pass quality judgment on the performers even if it seems perfectly obvious. Our main purpose here is to reflect what other sources say. :)

Since you are connected to the festival, I'd like to ask you to please read over our business FAQ before making further edits to the article. This will help you determine how best to contribute to the article from here.

Thank you again, and please let me know at my talk page if I can be of any assistance. We also have a help desk, which is typically manned around the clock by volunteers. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:14, 10 November 2008 (UTC)