User talk:Megawave

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The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Kim D. Petersen (talk) 18:36, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not insert material directly copied from other websites into Wikipedia. That is a copyright violation and it will be removed. And you may end up getting blocked for it. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 22:56, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. You are still inserting copyrighted material, that is not allowed. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 23:13, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please note the text at the bottom of http://www.tsunamisociety.org/AboutUs.html which says "© 2008 International Tsunami Society - All rights reserved". Part of the rights in question mean that you may not copy the text to Wikipedia. If you have questions, please ask. However, continued addition of the copyrighted text will result in your account being blocked. —C.Fred (talk) 06:00, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Concerning your contribution, User:Megawave/Publish artlcle to appear online user article online prefix:Wikipedia:FAQ, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.tsunamisociety.org/AboutUs.html. As a copyright violation, User:Megawave/Publish artlcle to appear online user article online prefix:Wikipedia:FAQ appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. User:Megawave/Publish artlcle to appear online user article online prefix:Wikipedia:FAQ has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at User talk:Megawave/Publish artlcle to appear online user article online prefix:Wikipedia:FAQ and send an email with the message to permissions-enwikimedia.org. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note at User talk:Megawave/Publish artlcle to appear online user article online prefix:Wikipedia:FAQ with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on User talk:Megawave/Publish artlcle to appear online user article online prefix:Wikipedia:FAQ.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. Kim D. Petersen (talk) 23:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as your recent edits on Tsunami Society. If you infringe copyright on Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. —C.Fred (talk) 06:29, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am owner and author of tsunami society website - as well as holder of CC-By license for this website. This was not a copyright infringement. What do I need to do to get past this hurdle? I must update the Tsunami Society information on Wikipeda. Go to http://www.tsunamisociety.org . CC-By license is displayed. In addition - I am author of that website and the copied material is material I have written. (Megawave 07:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)).

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 07:33, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Tsunami Society, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Teapotgeorge^Talk 17:14, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Wikipedia. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Teapotgeorge^Talk 17:56, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]