Haley McEwen

Copyright problems with Diversity literacy

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Diversity literacy, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/transformation-agenda/archives/2007/08/17. As a copyright violation, Diversity literacy appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Diversity literacy has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Diversity literacy and send an email with the message to permissions-enwikimedia.org. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note at Talk:Diversity literacy with a link to where we can find that note.
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:24, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Diversity literacy

You have posted the following to the talk page of Diversity literacy:

The existing UCT Transformation Blog where this content is currently available has also been posted under the permission of Melissa Steyn, the author of "diversity literacy". As such, credit is given to Melissa on the newly created Diversity Literacy wikipedia page. I currently work with Melissa at the Institute for Intercultural and Diversity Studies of Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town, and she would like this definition to be made available on Wikipedia. You can contact her at Melissa.steyn@uct.ac.za should you have further inquiries regarding this matter.

There are two essential points here. Firstly, copyright is not the only problem here. The quote you give from Melissa Steyn's work is not suitable for a Wikipedia article, for a number of reasons. Wikipedia's policy is to have articles only on subjects which have received substantial coverage in several independent sources, and there is specifically a policy not to include original research. The fact that "she would like this definition to be made available on Wikipedia" is certainly not a justification for inclusion: on the contrary, if you have acted for her by writing the article because she wants it then you are considered to have a conflict of interest. Wikipedia articles are supposed to be independent of their subjects. You say you work with Steyn: this is in itself sufficient reason why it would be better if you were to avoid editing articles concerning her or her work, because of conflict of interest considerations. Furthermore, if the article is written, as you seem to imply, with the purpose of giving publicity to Steyn's views, then it is contrary to Wikipedia's policy of not publishing promotional articles.

I could go on to explain why your statement about copyright is not sufficient, and what would be acceptable. However, since the article would, for the reasons I have given, not be acceptable even with copyright permission, there is probably no point in doing so. If you have any questions about this please feel welcome to contact me on my talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:46, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

I have declined your request, as the rollback right is for a counter-vandalism tool and not related to article creation. Pedro :  Chat  15:06, 9 October 2009 (UTC)