Rhatter1906

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Hello Rhatter1906, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Rhatter1906, good luck, and have fun. --KuwarOnline ^Talk 16:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Rosiland A. Jordan

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Rosiland A. Jordan, 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.msnbc.msn.com/id/3688729/, 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 license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Rosiland A. Jordan and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Rosiland A. Jordan, in your email. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• 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:Rosiland A. Jordan 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:Rosiland A. Jordan. 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.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Rosiland A. Jordan saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! –– Jezhotwells (talk) 17:44, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

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Hello, Rhatter1906. You have new messages at WP:EAR.
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Copyright problems with Rosiland A. Jordan

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Rosiland A. Jordan, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3688729/. As a copyright violation, Rosiland A. Jordan appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Rosiland A. Jordan has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Rosiland A. Jordan and send an email with the message to permissions-enwikimedia.org. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note at Talk:Rosiland A. Jordan with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Rosiland A. Jordan.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 16:06, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

If you rewrite the article in your own words in you user space you may be able to get it into mainspace. If you do so, leave me a note and I will look at it. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 17:00, 3 July 2010 (UTC)