User talk:IS-Advisory
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Copyright verification needed
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm afraid that we need verification of license to publish content at Thomas Parry (author) that was previously published elsewhere. Content that you added to the article today duplicated in substantial part content previously published at [1]. For example, as per cached version of 27 Mar 2011, that website said:
Although an academic of great commitment he did not distance himself from those around him or forget his roots in the working environment of the quarry. Many of his past students and colleagues remember him not only as a distinguished scholar but as a man who had pastoral concern for those he taught, those who were responsible to him at work and also on a social level.
The content published there was said to have been "adapted by Elinor Thomas from original text by D. Hywel E.Roberts".
The material has been removed for now. I'm afraid we can't publish it until it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are, as circumstances would lead me to suspect.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material until and unless we can verify license; such additions must by policy be deleted. It doesn't matter if the external website stops publication because under the U.S. law that governs Wikipedia copyright persists for many years after initial publication. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these processes in order to maintain our copyright policy and terms of use.
I'll be watching your talk page for a time; if you need assistance verifying license, please let me know. I'll be happy to help you however I can. Alternatively, you are welcome to stop by my talk page, which you can reach by following the "talk" link after my username. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)