Talk:Teledyne FLIR/Archive 1

Archive 1

Copyrights

Hello,

Recently we submitted a page giving the history of FLIR Systems Inc. This submission was done with permission from David Francoeur, Marketing Director at FLIR Systems Inc. The submission contains accurate historical descriptive content from http://www.flirthermography.com/about-flir.asp . FLIR systems is a client of ours and has requested that we perform this submission in Wikipedia.

Thank you for your time and the great work you do for the Net community.

Respectfully,

Creativeunit 23:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC) James W. Barker, President ~ jbarker@transcendigital.net Transcendigital LTD ~ http://www.transcendigital.net 520 Burlington Road Harwinton, CT 06791 P: 860.689.0077 x 118 F: 860.689.0088

Hi,

To copy verbatim content from an external website, you need the authorization of the copyright holder (which apparently you requested, thank you for that) to publish it on wikipedia, but also the copyright holder must make it available under the W:GFDL licence, which states that anyone can reuse this text as long as they keep the resulting work under the same licence. That is usually the stumbling block, because that means that the original author has no longer control on derivative work. A statement from FLIR that the text is licensed under the GFDL is what's missing from the article you created.

Thank you for your helpful explanations, please feel free to recreate the article once you have a confirmation of the license (an email from FLIR is usually enough, but you have to put a copy of its content in the discussion page. -- CyrilB 12:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, and I forgot to mention that the text of the article has to be heavily edited to suit the encyclopedic purposes. Statements like "... has given FLIR an engineering team and a sales and support infrastructure that are unmatched" are simply not W:NPOV and should be removed. -- CyrilB 12:33, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Seeing that this concern had not been addressed I went ahead and deleted the content that was from that page. No great loss, as I left in a one-sentence summary and a link to the original. If anyone cares, they can read it there.

I'm a little disturbed that so many editors have worked on this page while ignoring this issue (and ignoring the other problems noted in CyrilB's last paragraph above.

Ccrrccrr (talk) 03:08, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Semiprotected

Per a recent thread on the admin noticeboard, I've semiprotected the article for a month to prevent further IPs (all from the Oregon area - hmm) from vandalising the article. If this is a problem, or if any non-logged in people wish to make edits, request them here or let me know via email or my talk page. Thanks. Neil ☎ 11:00, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Just for your information, most of FLIR is not actually in Oregon. I'd be surprised if even 10% is, actually. (This whole thing makes me somewhat keen on looking up what the vandal in question did to the page, though. But luckily, I have better things to do.) Pnyxtr (talk) 20:38, 8 April 2009 (UTC)