User talk:Hobisfried

Context Sensitive Solutions

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Context Sensitive Solutions, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.contextsensitivesolutions.org/content/topics/what_is_css/core-principles/. As a copyright violation, Context Sensitive Solutions appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Context Sensitive Solutions has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

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 GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Context Sensitive Solutions. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Context Sensitive Solutions, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Kimchi.sg 04:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Material from another website is not public domain unless it says clearly and explicitly that "this text is in the public domain". By default once a piece of text is made available on the Internet, the writer will gain copyright on it automatically with no further action required on his/her part. That several other websites reproduce it does not alter its copyright status. The best way to ensure your article gets a chance to stay is to write it totally in your own words. You can do so at a temporary page (I suggest User:Hobisfred/CSS) and then when you are done writing about the idea in your own words, make a request at deletion review to ask an administrator to move the temporary page into the article space. Kimchi.sg 00:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you wish to have this text reproduced on Wikipedia, a representative from the Department can send a email to permissions (at) wikimedia (dot) org, and it will be accepted as confirmation. Alternatively they can indicate that the text is freely usable by making a note permitting reuse under the GFDL "at the site of the original publication," which I presume means the PDF itself (this is taken from the banner text of Wikipedia:Copyright problems).

However, I have thought of other possible opposition to having an article dedicated to this concept. Do keep in mind that the majority of the audience of this website do not know a thing about the field of transport planning. They will think of this article as an essay because it only goes into length on the details of the concept and does not touch how it is relevant to the world at large, or how this concept has been applied. I read the article and it actually has only a single source. I suggest that you omit the list altogether, and write a brief summary of this concept in the transportation planning article, where the general audience will be able to see it in context. There is already a section in that article about the UK specifically; you could start a new section for the United States and write a summary of CSS there. Regards, Kimchi.sg 05:30, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I notice you have not been given a formal welcome yet, so here goes:

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We're so glad you're here! Kimchi.sg 05:30, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]