Svsmoke

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Richard Mercer

Unfortunately permission for use on Wikipedia is no good as the material still has restricted use. The licences the site uses allows free use, including for commercial purposes, by anyone, providing the content is licence under the same licence and the source is acknowledged. This means that you, I, or anyone can take the whole of Wikipedia and sell the infomation under the same licence (the GFDL), acknowledging Wikipedia and make a profit (though don't forget it is free here!). There are a number of mirrors and forks of Wikipedia about which provide Wikipedia content under their own name. Content copied here that is not licensed under the GFDL, as in this case, can be deleted without further discussion as a copyright infringement (speedy deletion criterion G12). If you want, you could ask them to release the text under a licence Wikipedia can use (the GFDL, or they can release it into the public domain), and there is information on this at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission including some example letters. Don't forget to email the permission to the permissions address on that page if you are successful, and the source page should also indicate the licence chosen. Although I haven't looked into it fully, the person in question may fail to meet the notability criteria, specifically those for people, and the reason why the person should be included in an encyclopaedia needs to be asserted. Until that release it obtained, I cannot undelete the article. Hope that explains, mattbr 21:57, 19 July 2007 (UTC)