User talk:Srodinfo

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[edit] Welcome and Shepherd's rod

Welcome!

Hello, Srodinfo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I raised a number of issues on the article Shepherd's rod you created, which you may want to check. An introduction would be welcome as it's hard to tell what the "Shepherd's rod" is, also the entry needs to adhere to the Manual of Style and other guidelines explained in the links above. Equendil Talk 17:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link spamming

Could you please stop adding the link to the Davidian website into the Seventh-day Adventist Church website? The Manual of Style mandates that external links should be in the external links section and relate directly to the page in question, which the Davidian link does not do. Thank you and happy editing. MyNameIsNotBob 20:23, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Another thing that makes your links unacceptable is that they are put in as if there was only one Davidian website, when there are different groups with different sites. It is improper to give primacy to one site over others, as if it were the clear official Davidian site. --WacoKid 04:31, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyrights and Wikipedia

A quick word about the copyright issue. I don't know the copyright status of the page you used, for all I know you could be the author of it. However, note that every contribution to Wikipedia is put under the GNU Free Documentation License, and when it comes to things written by someone else, except for material that is in the public domain (either through time or choice), few licenses are compatible with the GFDL

For instance, suppose you run across an article, which says that you are free to copy and distribute it, so long as you don't charge for it. You could add its contents to Wikipedia, right? Nope! You can freely copy works under the GFDL, but it also allows people to charge for copies, so in fact you would not have the right to put something written and distributed with a non-profit clause under the GFDL.

(How can this be, with a "Free" Documentation License? Well, the "free" in GFDL does not refer to price, but to freedom, and one of the freedoms the authors of the GFDL believe in is the right to charge for making copies! It was written by the Free Software Foundation, the same group that wrote the GNU General Public License, the license Linux uses. If you're not familiar with open source and the free software movement, you may be unfamiliar with the concept of copyleft. If you really want more details about the FSF's ideas of "freedom," those entries will probably fill you in.)

Note that another common condition on works that allow copying, is that they be redistributed "in their entirety," and the GFDL allows re-editing, which also makes them incompatible.

Also, while the fact that "anyone can edit" Wikipedia can give new users the sense that "anything goes," in fact copyright and plagiarism is taken very seriously on Wikipedia. --WacoKid 02:31, 10 June 2006 (UTC)