CharlieSkye
February 2015 edit
Hello, I'm Donner60. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival because it seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 23:08, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Nemkumar Banthia (February 19) edit
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Hello! CharlieSkye,
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Nemkumar Banthia article comments edit
Hi: I have been offline for a few days and just saw your message. I think that since the article about Prof. Banthia was declined, this is the article you were talking about.
The University of British Columbia website has a copyright notice. Your text has some verbatim material from that website. Someone who reviewed your submission saw that and decided that violated the copyright.
However, the University has a web page that says: " You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
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You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material."
That means you can use that material BUT you need to follow the terms: cite the web page with the license as a source in your article and make a statement that the article contains information from the University of British Columbia web site. The person who reviewed your submission probably would not have looked for this page - nor would it have been good enough just because it exists. It must be cited and linked in the article. If more than one paragraph has similar copied material, you should probably cite the same footnote in each one.
I did not check to see whether there is another source from which similar material was taken. If so, that text must either have the same type of attribution if it is licensed or it must be rewritten in your own words so it does not appear to be directly from that other source.
Also, referencing and linking to other web sites in the text of an article is outside the guidelines. You probably can accomplish the same result by having a section at the end called "External Links." In single brackets [...], cite the web site, leave a space, then explain the link, e.g. Dr. Banthia's awards. Only you explanation will show but it will be in blue font.
Also, Wikipedia discourages puffery and "peacock" words as unencyclopedic and probably not neutral. So one should not use terms like "loving" wife, "beautiful children." Just give the information without the description. (It's even worse if it come from a source because it appears to be copied or perhaps written by the subject of the article or someone with a conflict of interest.)
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