Shortright
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Deletion discussion abd copyright violation
editHi Shortright, first off I'd like to welcome you to Wikipedia, and thank you for your efforts to improve the encyclopedia. I just looked over the page on Andrew Swords, and it indeed seems that the article as it stands is a copyright violation. We really can't accept any material that is copyrighted, even if you hold the copyright yourself. This is because of how wikipedia is licenced itself for reuse. It seems indeed likely that the text originates from here http://www.andrewsords.com/content/view/26/40/ . If you are the holder of that copyright, you have the option of releasing the text in the public domain, or releasing it under a licence that is compatable with Wikipedias licence. You can find more information on WP:COPYRIGHT. A far better alternative is to rewrite the article from scratch, preferable using reliable, independent sources. Right now, I will remove the text that violates copyright from the article (that is, most of the article), and make it a stub. It could be expanded from there again, if it survives the deletion debate. I hope this clears things up. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 16:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
I am ok with rewriting this... however I can't even find the stub to work from there. Help? Shortright (talk) 16:20, 16 January 2008 (UTC)