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Welcome

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Hello, Alex earles, 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:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Jimmy Pitt (talk) 15:16, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem: R. Clarke Cooper

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as R. Clarke Cooper, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://online.logcabin.org/r-clarke-cooper-bio.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:R. Clarke Cooper saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:47, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 I hope you enjoy editing here and being a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]]! Please [[Wikipedia:Signatures|sign]] your messages on [[Wikipedia:talk page|discussion page]]s using four [[tilde]]s (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out [[Wikipedia:Questions]], ask me on [[user talk:Jimmy Pitt|my talk page]], or ask your question on this page and then place <code><nowiki>{{helpme}}</nowiki></code> before the question. Again, welcome! <!-- Template:Welcome -->
 [[User:Jimmy Pitt|Jimmy Pitt]] ([[User talk:Jimmy Pitt|talk]]) 15:16, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
+==Copyright problem: R. Clarke Cooper==
+Hello, and [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|welcome to Wikipedia]]! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as [[R. Clarke Cooper]], but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://online.logcabin.org/r-clarke-cooper-bio.html, and therefore a [[Wikipedia:Copyright violations|copyright violation]]. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|copyright policy]]. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] from editing.
+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 license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:
+:*If you have permission from the author to release the text under the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License]] (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at [[Talk:R. Clarke Cooper]] and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, '''R. Clarke Cooper''', in your email. '''See [[Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission]] for instructions.'''
+:*If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted ''"under the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License]] (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0'', or that the material is ''released into the public domain'' leave a note at [[Talk:R. Clarke Cooper]] 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 [[wmf:Contact_us|Wikimedia Foundation]] permitting re-use ''under the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License]] and [[Wikipedia:Text of GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]]'', and note that you have done so on [[Talk:R. Clarke Cooper]]. '''See [[Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials]] for instructions.'''
+It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow [[Wikipedia:Guide to layout|Wikipedia article layout]]. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines|Wikipedia's policies and guidelines]].
+If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [{{fullurl:Talk:R. Clarke Cooper/Temp|action=edit&preload=Template:Copyvio/preload}} this temporary page]. Leave a note at [[Talk:R. Clarke Cooper]] saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved.
+Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing!<!-- Template:Nothanks-web --> [[User:Moonriddengirl|Moonriddengirl]] <sup>[[User talk:Moonriddengirl|(talk)]]</sup> 15:47, 13 September 2010 (UTC)