Talk:Prospect Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)

NOTE REGARDING COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS
Text on the Prospect Hill cemetery website has been released in to the public domain and is therefore freely available for use in this article - see foot of this page for statement "Materials and images on this website are released into the public domain" • nancy • 17:41, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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Concerning Prospect Hill Cemetery

I am fairly new at this Wikipedia stuff. I am the webmaster on the Prospect Hill Cemetery, Washington DC website and copied our material, History and photos, to Wikipedia. The problem I have is with the way of trying to find my way through Wikipedia. For instance, once I upload an image I am really having a problem finding it again in case I failed to add the proper copyright tag (which I thought I did). Second, I have placed questions on talk pages but can't figure out how to get a reply or find a possible answer. I really do need help. --Wenzela 20:08, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Copyright status of Prospect Hill Cemetery (Washington, DC)

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Prospect Hill Cemetery (Washington, DC). For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (http://www.geocities.com/prospecthillcem/History.html in this case) 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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• If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details on the article Talk page and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
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Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:Prospect Hill Cemetery (Washington, DC) saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.

It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you want to edit constructively, take a look at the welcome page. Thank you. --Wenzela 20:14, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I have added a notation to the website http://www.geocities.com/prospecthillcem/ that all materials and images are released to the public domain. But I am now blocked from doing any edits. I am not a (ro)bot - I am a real person trying to help and bring information about this historic cemetery in Washington, DC to the public. How can the block be removed? I would like to add the history of the cemetery back to Wikipedia. I also would like to restore the link to the website which happens to reside on Geocities. I do need help! Thanks --Wenzela 13:40, 14 August 2007 (UTC)