Shoobe01

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! Melchoir 03:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Its my site. So, no copyright violation. Any way to get the info back or do I have to re-enter it all again?

Just thought, you probably need a way to confirm this. Send me an email thru the star-firearms.com website contact information. The address listed there is spam-laden so I have a whitelist; make sure you leave the subject line information in place. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shoobe01 (talk • contribs) 12:57, 25 April 2006.

I hope you check back on this account, as it's easier to communicate here through email. So, you'd like to donate the content to Wikipedia; great, and thanks! I feel I should warn you that it may need to be modified to conform to house style and policies, but I think it'll make a pretty good article. As for confirming ownership, let me just quote the relevant section of Wikipedia:Copyright problems:

Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia: If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published (especially online), and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, stating that you are the copyright holder of the work on the article's talk page helps, but will not likely prevent deletion. It is sufficient to:

• Make a note permitting reuse under the GFDL at the site of the original publication.
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions at wikimedia dot org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation.

I'm not personally sure exactly how it works, but I'm guessing that the latter option should be relatively pain-free. Just holler if you need any other assistance! Melchoir 20:42, 25 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

I hope I am using this correctly. I am a little unclear as to the organization/use of these reply forums. (oops, apparently not as its tacked to the end of your text block...)

I have sent the appropriate email, I hope. Thanks for pointing out the relevant sections of the code. Again, my unfamiliarity with the system means I did not find that right away.

As long as I am a current troublemaker so you are paying some attention, another question or two. Please feel free to just link me to articles or not answer soon, as I am sure you have lots of other stuff to monitor.

1) I wanted to provide links to relevant external websites, but didn't yet to make sure they would be perceived as valid. One would be my own. Its a purely informational site (aside from advertising that hasn't panned out really) but I do get lots of readers who think its a commercial site, and try to get me to sell them things. Is there a way to add notes about links, photos or anything else that might be perceived as a policy violation, but is not? Like, a way to submit it, so its

2) Can you give me any hints as to parts of the article posted so far that may not comply with typical style? I am very personal on my site, but tried to edit it to scientific publication mode (3rd person, just the facts...) when repurposing.

Thanks very much. Shoobe01 04:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Don't worry, I'll be happy to help out with the article later, and it'll be easier to deal with it in the concrete than in the abstract. But just to give an overview, sure a link to your own site is fine, since it's so informative, and you're not proposing to add it to twenty unrelated articles at once. (It happens a lot.) As for Wikipedia style, other than minor formatting, the big issue is verification. As in, how much of the factual content can be traced to published sources, and how much is your own original research? Anyway, that's something to worry about later; I don't work for the Foundation, so I don't know how the copyright verification trickles down, or how long it takes. Melchoir 04:50, 26 April 2006 (UTC)Reply