Stephenb63
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RAF squadrons and Air of Authority
editHi Stephen, are you aware of the copyright rules we have to operate under in Wikipedia? We are not allowed to copy verbatim from other websites, including Air of Authority. We need to gather text from several sources and meld them together, not just copy in text and images as appears to have happened with No. 126 Squadron RAF. Please note the process that one is going to go through - I'm listing it as a copyvio now. You can rewrite the entry on a subpage should you wish. Any questions, feel free to ask me. Kind regard, Buckshot06 (talk) 03:20, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Copyright problem: No. 128 Squadron RAF
editHello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as No. 128 Squadron RAF, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.rafweb.org/Sqn126-130.htm, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.
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Copyright problem: No. 123 Squadron RAF
editHello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as No. 123 Squadron RAF, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.rafweb.org/Sqn121-125.htm, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under allowance license, then you should do one of the following:
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- If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0, or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:No. 123 Squadron RAF with a link to where we can find that note.
- If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:No. 123 Squadron RAF. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.
It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
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February 2010
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Your additions have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. MLauba (talk) 10:27, 1 February 2010 (UTC)