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Please note that even if you hold the copyright on this bio and are willing to release it into the public domain, it is still inappropriate for purposes of the encyclopedia. Articles should be neutrally written, and as the subject, you have a [[WP:COI|conflict of interest]] with the article. —'''[[User:C.Fred|C.Fred]]''' ([[User_talk:C.Fred|talk]]) 16:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC) |
Please note that even if you hold the copyright on this bio and are willing to release it into the public domain, it is still inappropriate for purposes of the encyclopedia. Articles should be neutrally written, and as the subject, you have a [[WP:COI|conflict of interest]] with the article. —'''[[User:C.Fred|C.Fred]]''' ([[User_talk:C.Fred|talk]]) 16:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC) |
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== Autobiography == |
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[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hello, and [[Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia|welcome to Wikipedia]]. We welcome and appreciate [[Special:Contributions/Dmammana|your contributions]], but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself, at [[:Dennis Mammana]]. Creating an [[Wikipedia:Autobiography|autobiography]] is ''strongly'' discouraged – see our guideline on [[Wikipedia:Autobiography|writing autobiographies]]. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for [[Wikipedia:Notability (people)|articles about living people]], someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles|Wikipedians with articles]]). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: [[Wikipedia:Why was the page I created deleted?|Why was my page deleted?]], and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you.<!-- Template:uw-autobiography --> [[User:Astro4686|Astro4686]] ([[User talk:Astro4686|talk]]) 06:33, 11 January 2017 (UTC) |
Latest revision as of 06:33, 11 January 2017
Welcome!
Hello, Dmammana, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 16:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Copyright status of Dennis Mammana
[edit]Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Dennis Mammana. For legal reasons, we will delete copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites (http://www.dennismammana.com/about/biography.htm in this case) or from printed material.
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 the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:
- If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details on the article's talk page and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
- If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Dennis Mammana 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 GFDL, and note that you have done so on the article's talk page. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk:Dennis Mammana with a link to the details.
Otherwise, the article should be rewritten in original words to avoid any copyright infringement. Thank you.
Please note that even if you hold the copyright on this bio and are willing to release it into the public domain, it is still inappropriate for purposes of the encyclopedia. Articles should be neutrally written, and as the subject, you have a conflict of interest with the article. —C.Fred (talk) 16:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Autobiography
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself, at Dennis Mammana. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Astro4686 (talk) 06:33, 11 January 2017 (UTC)