Talk:Iakovos Nafpliotis

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The article that appears on "analogion.com" is the one originally written by the author of this article, Georgios K. MICHALAKIS (otherwise known as "GKM") —Preceding unsigned comment added by G michalakis (talk • contribs)

Unfortunately, there are two issues with that:

1. We have no way of verifying that you are indeed the original author. While I believe you, that's not sufficient in case Wikipedia was to be sued for copyright violations.

2. Even if you are the original author, it is not clear you are the copyright holder. The copyright statement for the site says "(c) analogion.com, 2005-2008" and the names associated with the site are not yours. In many cases, work for hire become the copyright of the one paying, not the one writing. While I'm inclined to believe the site is just not diligent in presenting the proper copyright status, we have to go by what it says.

A claim that it's been released on a Wikipedia talk page is not sufficient as there is no way to ensure that the person making the claim is an authorized agent of the copyright holder. It is unfortunate, but too many people are willing to lie and so we have to be more restrictive than that.

In order for permission to be given, the original website needs to be modified to say released under the GFDL or specific permission to that affect needs to be sent to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" from an address that is identifiable as being authorized to provide such permission.

Instead of deleting it, I have marked it as a {{copyvio}} which gives you a week to formalize the release.

If you have any questions, please let me know. -- JLaTondre 15:47, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Based upon links provided to me on my talk page, I'm satisfied that User:G michalakis is the original author of the materials and still holds the copyright. As such, I'm removing the copyvio tag & restoring the content. -- JLaTondre 01:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)