RLLillis
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Thanks for your edits to this article. However, the material you added was a copyright violation of the organisation's website and a number of PDF documents issued by the School, and has been removed. Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material. If you own the copyright to this material, you may wish to read Donating copyrighted material. Alternatively, you could rewrite the information in your own words, citing reliable, secondary sources. If you belong to this organisation, you may also wish to read Wikipedia's guidelines on conflicts of interest. If there's anything I can do to help, you can leave a message on my talk page. Thanks! --Kateshortforbob 22:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. The material in this article was removed because it was a copyright violation of the university's website. Unfortunately, Wikipedia can't accept copyrighted material, even if it is added by a member of the organisation, as you did, because we can't really know for sure whether we are permitted to use it. Basically, there are two ways to resolve the problem:
- Rewrite the information in different words. Obviously, this isn't the best solution in this case, because you have, as you say, put a lot of work into it.
- You can donate the copyrighted material to Wikipedia. You (or the University) would still retain rights to the material, but you give Wikipedia (and any website that uses Wikipedia's material) permission to use it. This is called a GFDL license. You can read the donating copyrighted material policy, but basically you can either place a notice on the University website giving permission, or leave a message on the article's talk page with an official university contact email address. Someone from Wikipedia will then send you an email to check that we have permission. The specific section of the policy is Granting us permission to copy material already on line.
Once we have permission, don't worry - you won't have to re-do everything. You (or me, or another editor) can use the article's history page to go back to your version. I'm sorry if this has caused you any bother, but Wikipedia has a pretty strict policy about copyright. Thankfully, it should be pretty easy to fix everything up. If there's anything I can help with, you need more information, or assistance with the article, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Thanks! --Kateshortforbob 19:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)