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First Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York)

Hello Bruce.
I had just deleted your article First Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York) since I noticed it to be a verbatim copy of these two links, but now I realize that this page and the text is probably yours. However, I'm afraid that Wikipedia will need some explicit proof of that. There are two ways to go about that, both described at WP:IOWN: you either need to put up a notice at those pages declaring that the content is licensed under the GFDL or another compatible free license, or you can send an email from that domain to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org stating that.
I know that this is a bother, but I'm afraid that it's necessary to protect copyrights of authors. Could you do that, and mention it afterwards at the talk page of the article please?
If you have questions about that, feel free to ask.
Thank you, Amalthea 00:57, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Dear Amalthea,

I really do appreciate your diligence in policing Wikipedia, especially concerning my recent entry on First_Presbyterian_Church_Buffalo,_NY The First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, NY. However, the website I copied some of the information from were in fact my own, there was no copyright infringement involved.

Sincerely,

Bruce McCausland —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortbruce (talk • contribs) 02:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I realized that, which is why I restored it and left you a comment on your talk page.
You do realize that you gave up your copyright to the text when you submitted it to Wikipedia, right? I'm asking because of two of the edit summaries you left in First Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York), but you probably just wanted to point out that the original text found on the internet was written by you.
Have you decided which way to go to mark the text on your website as released under the GFDL? This is I'm afraid a necessary requirement, otherwise it puts Wikipedia in some legal trouble.
Thank you, Amalthea 10:43, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Dear Amalthea,

I was not aware that by publishing my content on Wikipedia that I was giving up the copyright to the text, that was not my intention. My intent was to share the information and educate others which is the greater purpose of any encyclopedia. I have no problem with others using the text, except that I would expect credit to be given, and if possible asked concerning its usage, and where it is used as I have also tried to do. I am unclear as to how this should be done on Wikipedia. I would in fact appreciate your guidance so that I don't make that mistake in the future. I will certainly study the Wikipedia guidelines closer so that i can format the page properly as well. It is a bit different then HTML, and still takes a bit getting used to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortbruce (talk • contribs) 12:07, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello Bruce
Beneath the edit box it says "You irrevocably agree to release your contributions under the GFDL". This clashes obviously with your edit summary, and if it wasn't your intention to release it under the free license and wish it deleted, I will certainly do that for you. The GFDL is a rather complex thing. Basically, anyone can use the text for any purpose, even commercially, but they always have to declare where the content came from, i.e. point back to the Wikipedia article with its edit history. You will not be asked, and you will not be directly credited. The edit page also says, at the bottom: "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed for profit by others, do not submit it." It's a crass way to put it, since usually collaboration on an article to make it as good as possible is a pretty nice thing, but you should be aware of it.
You're certainly right that it the wiki syntax takes some getting used to. It was designed to be useable by the layman, but it certainly has some flaws. It's often easiest to look at the source code of other articles, and see how they do things. The style guideline for articles have evolved here over the years, and are rather complex, too. But don't worry if you didn't quite get it to look the way other articles do. I've placed that tag on the page to attract other editors to it, in time they will start and format it in a way that it fits in seamlessly.
I hope that helps a little, please get back to me and say how you want to go on with your article.
Cheers, Amalthea 12:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Again!

I have no problem with others using or modifying or adding to the content for accuracy. There is always the concern about misinformation on the internet, and there is quite a few sites that have inaccuracies published, I know that is however, unavoidable. Concerning its reuse or distribution, so long as the content is not used for profit that is fine with me. My expectations are that this will by 2011 be part of a published book, although my intent is that the profits will go back to the church. Thus, it is more a "labor of love" then a work with any profit motives. One reason I have not posted any recent photos is because of those same copyright issues as I will be taking those photos myself and thus control the copyright. I appreciate your insight and input concerning this!

Cheers!

Bruce —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortbruce (talk • contribs) 13:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid that it can't be promised that the text won't be used commercially. If it is to remain on Wikipedia, it has to be released under the GFDL (or a compatible license), which means that it explicitly can be used commercially (with attribution to the respective editors, i.e. with a link pointing to the Wikipedia article). If you're not prepared at this point to release it under a free license then we need to remove it again.
Cheers, Amalthea 13:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Please leave it on, I'll take that risk. So long as it does not effect my rights in publishing my own the work at a later date, I'm fine with that.

Thanks!

Bruce —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortbruce (talk • contribs) 13:56, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

OK great.
Reading what I said above again, it wasn't quite correct: You of course didn't "give up" your copyright, by agreeing to have it on Wikipedia you simply licensed it under the GFDL. So it quite certainly doesn't affect your rights to publish your own text, it's still yours, but you agreed that others use it as they please as long as the attribution is left intact.
Thank you, Amalthea 14:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hi!

Thanks for the suggestion! i have been manually signing the pages.

Sincerely,

Bruce McCausland 10:06 31 March 2008 (EDT) aka Fortbruce (talk) 14:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)fortbruce

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Hi!

This page should not have been deleted. This was a stub that I found linked to a wikipedia entry. he was a published author and president of an important institute (Union College). I still has work to do on the page.

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Hi.
Would you know of any reliable source (newspaper, books, ...) covering this person? Being president of a notable college counts as an assertion of importance in my eyes, but opinions do vary. If you can provide a source that could support the notability of this person, it's going to help if you want the article undeleted.
Incidently, that's what it says right above the edit box when you create an article: "When creating an article, provide references to reliable published sources. An article without references may quickly be deleted."
Please try to heed that with your next article. It helps you since your article is far less likely to be deleted if it has a references section listing significant coverage, and it helps the readers since he can verify what's in the article.
Amalthea :  Chat  15:09, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

OK, I've asked the admin who deleted it to reconsider, the NY times links you left on my talk page should be more than enough for that.
Considering First Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York), Moonriddengirl is not pressing to delete it, she only needs some more things, as she said below. As I understand, your email was missing the specific license you were releasing the text under, and it was not sent from an address clearly associated with the publication (i.e. it wasn't sent from the domain brucemccausland.com).
If that isn't possible, Moonriddengirl described below the alternative of placing the notice on the webpage itself.
If it is still unclear, please feel free to ask either me or her.
Cheers, Amalthea :  Chat  21:54, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Andrew Van Vranken Raymond was restored. Amalthea :  Chat  22:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I have several email addresses including my brucemccausland.com. If it requires that I send my request from that domain I can copy the message and send it from there. Thank you for your diligence in trying to maintain a high degree of integrity on this site, however, it is a bit frustrating for serious researchers such as myself who only want to educate and share our work for the betterment of humanity.

Cheers!

Bruce Fortbruce (talk) 00:30, 2 April 2009 (UTC) ( I have to remember that <shift> key! :-D

Yes, that would be good, but please do remember to mention the license you want to use, as explained by Moonriddengirl! :)
And I fully agree that it is difficult and bothersome to put material into Wikipedia that was previously published elsewhere. I believe I apologized for this in advance in my very first message to you, and Moonridddengirl said something similar. It is, however, necessary to protect Wikipedia, the copyright holder, and even the editor who uploads it. Just imagine if someone else had found your website, found the information useful, registered an account with a name similar to the domain, and uploaded it without your knowledge, thus infringing your intellectual property. I'm sure you'd want Wikipedia taking every measure to ensure that the uploader really owns the rights to the content. Editors upload quite an amount of copyrighted material each day, and staying on top of it is a Sisyphean task. The only way to do it is to require proof from the editor in such cases.
And in the end, writing such an email is rather easy, the hardest part is getting the details right is.
Anyway, thank you that you're still with us, and you weren't scared off by all those hurdles. Cheers, Amalthea 09:28, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

How to verify copyright permission for article First Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York)

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Concerning this change: As Moonriddengirl said, such information would need to be placed on the website where the content was originally released, not here on Wikipedia. But don't worry, the licensing trouble with that one should be over now. Cheers, Amalthea 19:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I see you were asked to co-licence it ... --Amalthea 19:16, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

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Copyright problem: Miles P. Squier

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• Please submit the appropriate documents to donate your work. Gsingh (talk) 17:37, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Walter Clarke (minister), Thaddeus Osgood and Matthew LRP Thompson

I've deleted these three articles as they have been listed at WP:CP for over 7 days and no permission has been forthcoming and so we can not keep the text. Please follow the procedure outlined in one of the many messages above if you wish to release the text under an appropriate license. I would also note that the Walter Clarke (minister) article appeared to show no sign of notability so even if permission is forthcoming this article may not be kept. The other two articles appeared to show some signs of notability although I did not investigate that aspect thoroughly so it's possible that they too could end up being deleted for lack of notability even if we receive permission. Dpmuk (talk) 06:13, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

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The original photograph was taken over 100 years ago. I will locate the higher resolution of the image and replace the image. 98.117.183.30 (talk) 02:29, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:David R. Frazer.jpg

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