Thermalsnowball

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Welcome; please say hello (note - you might want to RIGHT click on that, and open in in a new tab or something - and when you get there, please wait a few mins for a reply)  Chzz  ►  04:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, Thermalsnowball. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck!  Chzz  ►  04:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

ようこそ You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people. Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes. Play in your user area. For example, create User:Thermalsnowball/test. Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009. When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references. Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page. There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia! --  Chzz  ►  04:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Grade sources • Cite sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists • Best articles Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Pages needing attention • Peer review The missing manual

June 2009

The recent edit you made to Ted Schmidt has been reverted, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Matt (talk) 06:48, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at Ted Schmidt. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. f you are indeed Ted Schmidt, then please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials (specifically, the section titled "Granting us permission to copy material already online") for information on how to grant Wikipedia permission to use your work. Matt (talk) 00:59, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Please note that article space is not the place to send a message to the OTRS team. Please send the request through email, from an email address that can be linked to the site that your material was copied from. Thanks, Matt (talk) 04:33, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Ted Schmidt

Dear user,

If you are indeed Ted Schmidt, then I have some notes for you about the Ted Schmidt article:

1. Writing articles about yourself is strongly discouraged -- you should wait for someone else to write the article about you instead. This helps to ensure that other people think you are notable under Wikipedia's guidelines for notability about people.
2. Wikipedia has strong policies against copying copyrighted material. As it stands right now, you have not satisfied those policies enough to be able to copy material from your website to Wikipedia. To do this, you need to do one of the following:
   1. Edit the original web page (http://www.epluri.com/TSA/TSAstuff/TSAcompanyhistory.html) so that it contains a notice specifically stating that the text is public domain (or otherwise available under another free license, such as GFDL or a Creative Commons license).
   2. From an email address that can be linked to your website, send an email to permissions-enwikimedia.org, specifically stating that you release the text, either into public domain, or under a free license, such as GFDL or a Creative Commons license. Do not put the request into the article itself. Once you have done that, edit the talk page, and put {{OTRS pending}} into the talk page.

If you are not Ted Schmidt, then you must request permission to use the text of his website. See WP:COPYREQ for instructions on how to do this.

If you continue to add the copyrighted information without first satisfying Wikipedia's guidelines, you will be blocked from editing.

Sincerely, Matt (talk) 02:13, 16 June 2009 (UTC)