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Copyright status of Sport (software)

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Sport (software). For legal reasons, we will delete copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites (http://wiki.openskills.org/OpenSkills/Sport in this case) or from printed material.

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 the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details on the article's talk page and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Sport (software) 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 GFDL, and note that you have done so on the article's talk page. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk:Sport (software) with a link to the details.

Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own original words to avoid any copyright infringement. Thank you. Corvus cornix 18:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Please follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Copyright problems, the section labeled Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia. This helps Wikipedia editors to determine the validity of claims of copyright. We get lots of people who claim copyright whose claims are false. I'm not saying that your claims are false, but Wikipedia needs verification. Corvus cornix 22:14, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Ways to work on an article without getting deleted off the bat

Hi, Mr. Badger. To sign your comments just type four tilde signs "~" at the end of your text.

There are several things that you can do to make a successful article on Wikipedia. The first thing you might consider is "userfying" your article (making it a part of your User space, rather than publishing it right away in the main namespace). Then you could work on it without any fear that your work would be deleted in the beginning stages. See Wikipedia:Userfication

Also, there are other Wikipedians who are knowledgeable in your field who would be glad to help you build the article from scratch. There are different Wikiproject groups where you can find users who are knowledgeable in your filed and willing to help with new articles. HERE TO FIND THESE PEOPLE

To be honest, what you have on there now looks to me to be about as clear as mud. I am not a programmer, just an attorney, so I get lost in the techno jargon. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for the general public and it is better if any old person could look at the article and have a chance to understand something that is new to them. For the life of me I can't even tell what your software even DOES. Thats something to work on-- if the general public can at least know a layman's description of the function Sport performs you are on the right road.

Also, spend more time showing us where other people have been singing the praises of Sport or recommending that people get it and use it for something (whatever that is).Notability is a big deal around here

Hope this helps!OfficeGirl 16:37, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Please be careful about recruiting people to debate the Sport (software) AfD

Wikipedia has rules about recruiting friends, coworkers and buddies from one's favorite online forum to come and participate in Wikipedia debates and controversies. I thought it might be a good idea to let you know about them, to help you participate more fully in the Wikipedia process. The policy is found at WP:MEAT. It says:

Do not recruit meatpuppets. It is considered highly inappropriate to advertise Wikipedia articles to your friends, family members, or communities of people who agree with you, so that they come to Wikipedia and support your side of a debate. If you feel that a debate is ignoring your voice, then the appropriate action is to avoid personal attacks, seek comments and involvement from other Wikipedians, or pursue dispute resolution. These are well-tested processes, designed to avoid the problem of exchanging bias in one direction for bias in another.

Wikipedia has policies and processes to mitigate the disruption caused by meatpuppetry:

1. Consensus in many debates and discussions is not based upon number of votes, but upon policy-related points made by editors. Newcomers are unlikely to understand Wikipedia policies and practices, or to introduce any evidence that other users have not already mentioned.
2. In votes or vote-like discussions, new users tend to be disregarded or given significantly less weight, especially if there are many of them expressing the same opinion.
3. For the purposes of dispute resolution, the Arbitration Committee has ruled that when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sock puppets, or several users acting as meatpuppets, they may be treated as one entity.

Your friends and co-workers are extremely welcome here at Wikipedia. But please encourage them to familiarize themselves with Wikipedias standards and practices before jumping in to a debate. Then their contributions will be better attuned to working together with the rest of us to make this a great encyclopedia. Thanks.OfficeGirl 19:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:SportLogo.png

The file File:SportLogo.png has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unused logo with no article used.

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Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Willy1018 (talk) 16:16, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:OpenSkills-Logo.png

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