Talk:Janet Freeman

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I created this page as a reference for the street name in New York City "Janet Freeman Way" so that passersby might know who Janet was and why the city named the street after her. I relied on three document sources, the Villager newspaper article that appeared shortly after she died in 2011, the Community Board resolution co-naming the street, and the obituary I wrote for Tenant/Inquilino published July 2011. The Tenant/Inquilino piece is also published on my blog "Save the Lower East Side." rob (talk) 14:03, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

The article identified by the Corensearchbot and the Wikipedia page were both written by me, the creator of the Wikipedia page. I allow myself to reuse my own writing on wikipedia.rob (talk) 14:28, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

I'm afraid we can't just take the word of an editor using a pseudonym for that, mainly for the protection of the copyright owner (obviously in this case you aren't impersonating the real owner, but it could happen). For the material to be usable in Wikipedia it would either have to be released under a compatible license, or be donated to the project. There's a blue link to that topic in the template below. To be honest, it's usually quicker and easier to rewrite the content. You should probably also be aware of our guidelines at WP:COI, which could be of interest. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:47, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

(Moved here from my talk. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:22, 7 July 2014 (UTC))I appreciate the work you do and its necessity and value, but for the Janet Freeman page I actually went to my blog (the source of much of the article) and added a permission to reprint at the bottom (http://savethelowereastside.blogspot.com/2012/02/tenant-advocates-mourn-janet-freeman.html -- here's the text I added there: "The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License"). It would be quite a task to rewrite the entire content in any way that wouldn't alert a plagiarism bot, and the content was rich in activist history, most of which is now lost to Wikipedia. I guess I'm just complaining, but I thought I did everything to comply, and still it's been deleted. rob (talk) 19:14, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

First, sorry I was slow to answer this. Second, I'm sorry, I didn't notice that disclaimer, which I should have done (it's written very small,and not at the foot of the page where such things usually go). However, it would have made no difference if I had, as that page was published on 28 February 2012, but this one, which does not carry a copyright disclaimer, is dated July 2011. Please understand that we have no way of knowing (as opposed to just having no difficulty in believing) that you are the author of the piece, nor of knowing what arrangements for copyright ownership were made between you and metcouncilonhousing.org when it was published. Sorry about this. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:22, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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