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Reproducing material verbatim with permission

Hi there

I notice you're adding articles to Wikipedia about national holidays, with a line stating that the material is reproduced with the permission of the author.

It's possible to use copyright material here with an author's permission, but it's not acceptable simply to state that the author has given permission - if it's quoted directly from someone else's work, then the material must be formally donated to Wikipedia by the author. This is because anything published on Wikipedia is then freely available to anyone else to reproduce and use, and the author must understand and permit this. I'm not trying to put you off contributing to the encyclopaedia, but I wanted to be sure you understood the process for using copyrighted material, and had gone through it correctly before creating your articles. If not, your articles will probably end up being deleted by another editor, which is a shame if you're giving up your time and efforts to add useful content.

If you are the author of the book you are citing and want to donate your material to Wikipedia, then the process is explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the author but you've obtained permission from him to use the material, Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission explains what form the permission should take and how to let Wikipedia know that it has been obtained.

If you know about the process and have gone through it correctly, please accept my apologies for troubling you. If not, if might be advisable to do so before adding any more copyrighted material.

Cheers Karenjc 20:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Ccfsdca

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Ccfsdca, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. — Kosh ^Jumpgate 19:45, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Tag on Ccfsdca

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Notability of Christopher corbett-fiacco

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Speedy deletion of International mountain day

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Speedy deletion of Garifuna settlement day

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If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

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Speedy deletion of Prince rainier's day

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If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. pablo_hablo. 21:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

welcome

Welcome!

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Scuse me

if I'm wrong, but you appear to be creating pages about holidays whose only reference is a book written by Christopher Corbett-Fiacco. On some of these pages you say that verbatim quotes are with the permission of the author - who you claim to be.

Now I'm by no means an expert, but I don't think that this right. There are a number of policies and guidelines about what should be included here. Some deal with:

• Notability WP:Notability
• Conflict of interest WP:COI ie when a user creates or edits a page about themselves
• Original research WP:OR where a user uses Wikipedia as a forum for their work
• Advertising WP:Advert where the site is being used to promote a person or product.

There may (and probably are) others that apply in this case.

Please can you take a look at them before you create more articles? pablo_hablo. 23:53, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

ANI

Hello, CCFSDCA. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Wikipedia:Ani#User:CCFSDCA. Thank you.Toddst1 (talk) 00:16, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Concerns about your editing

The articles you are adding to wikipedia are giving rise to concern, on a couple of fronts:

1. You appear to be using wikipedia to promote your book. You'll esily understand that we frown on that sort of thing.
2. You are signing articles, or putting tags in them like "(Text quoted by permission of author Christopher Corbett-Fiacco from The Whole World Calendar Book of Holidays Around the World.)". If you're clever enough to write a book, you are celever enough to appreciate that this is not an acceptable style for a wikipedia article.

I must advise you to take more care in the way you edit - if you are genuinely uncertain, read the pages linked from the welcome message, above.

We do welcome new contributors, but equally we can quickly lose patience with people who obstinately refuse to learn. Please do not become one of them. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:18, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Note especially this notice in the edit window: 'You irrevocably [emphasis mine] agree to release your contributions under the terms of the GFDL', In other words, you're donating, irrevocably, the text to the project and no longer have any exclusive claim to it. Be sure that's what you want to do. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 01:49, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Christopher Corbett-Fiacco: The Whole World Calendar Book of Holidays Around the World 2010-2015

About this book. Can you provide any evidence whatsoever that it exists? Googling for it does not find it. That is not normal for a publication.

Could I urgently suggest that you find other citations for the information you're adding. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:20, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Adding articles

Christopher, thanks for your note. My comments and advice:

• I do not find a citation from an unpublished book acceptable, for the reason that no-one bar the small circle who have access to the manuscript can verify the citation.
• I very much welcome the addition of the articles and agree they are notable.
• I would thus wish that the articles had alternate citations or no citation.
• You might want to consider listing holidays for a country in an appropriately named article - Public holidays in Poland, for instance. Category:Public holidays by country provides a long list of such articles; new ones can be created for countries not already served. We tend to discourage small articles which are unlikely to grow beyond a bare few lines, preferring to group content into larger articles.

Hope this helps. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:45, 11 February 2009 (UTC)