User talk:Logan1939

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Hello, Logan1939, 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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[edit] Copyright status of Alphabet Effect

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Alphabet Effect. For legal reasons, we will delete copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites (http://electronicmedium.blogspot.com/2006/09/some-communication-theorists-notably.html 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 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:Alphabet Effect 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 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:Alphabet Effect with a link to the details.

Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own original words to avoid any copyright infringement. Thank you. ArglebargleIV 14:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I must admit I am not enjoying the editing experience. The material that is a so-called copyright infringement was actually lifted fron the original Alphabet Effect article on Wikipedia which you can confirm with the wayback machine. If you go to the talk page for the article Alphabet you will see that someone suggested moving the Alphabet Effect section to its own article and having a link to it from the Alphabet article. (I included it below for the convenience of the reader) I think this was a good idea but a self-appointed censor who did not agree with the article just removed it which I do not think was fair. I was trying to reinstate the article by going to the Wayback machine when your staff or a bot perceived a copyright infringement when in fact the material supposedly being infringed was originally lifted from Wikipedia. Is it possible to reinstate the article as it was and reverse the arbitrary action of the self appointed censor. I include the discussion surrounding the Alphabet Effect for your convenience. Two peope thought it was fine as is - one thought it should be a separate article and one did not agree with the ideas and deleted it. Not very democratic - something wrong when any person can delete something they do not agree with that others appreciate.

I hope you are a human reading this and not a bot. The notice I received did not indicate how I could communicate directly with ArglebargleIV. If you read this ArglebargleIV please communicate with me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Logan1939 (talk • contribs)

  • Hi, I'm ArglebargleIV, and I'm not a bot. At the end of my note above, if you click on my name in blue, it will take you to my page, and then click on the discussion tab to leave me a note. If you end you posts on discussion pages with four tildes like this : ~~~~ it will put a signature like mine on the end of your post.
  • I've done some further research on the copyright status, and it's getting muddier. The source I found from September 2006 may have taken it from Wikipedia (!), but I'm not sure if the IP address editor who inserted it didn't take it from somewhere else. I'm removing the tags for now, and will continue to figure out where it came from, and if it's okay -- I hope it is, because it is well written, and deserves to be expanded, in my opinion.
  • I'm sorry that your intro to Wikipedia was so harsh -- it's my fault, and I hope that you can forgive me. -- ArglebargleIV 17:44, 17 August 2007 (UTC)