User talk:IngridSFP

Copyright problem: Sahara Forest Project

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Sahara Forest Project, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://saharaforestproject.com/fileadmin/uploads/press_releases/SFP-PM-11012011-2.docx http://saharaforestproject.com/news/news-stories/sahara-forest-project-and-selmer-sign-agreement.html http://www.yara.com/media/press_releases/1589132/press_release/201202/pioneering-environmental-project-taking-root-in-the-sand http://tedxmaastricht.nl/speakers/joakim-hauge/ and likely others, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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 license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:

If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Sahara Forest Project and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Sahara Forest Project, in your email. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0", or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Sahara Forest Project 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 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Sahara Forest Project. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.

It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Sahara Forest Project saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! MER-C 10:51, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your note regarding this at the talk page of the article. Unfortunately, we cannot accept content from press releases on Wikipedia without verification of license.Per Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright:

Occasionally, the question is raised about the copyright status of press releases. While press releases are by nature intended to be reproduced widely, there is no inherent permission to alter them or create derivative works based on them, or to use them for commercial purposes. Accordingly, press releases are handled like other copyrighted content. In the absence of explicit disclaimer or permission, these may not be freely reproduced.

In the absence of permission as described above, the content has had to be removed. If you are in position to provide that permission, it can be restored later. Again, please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:07, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

COI for Sahara Forest Project

Hi Ingrid,

You appear to have a clear conflict of interest on the Sahara Forest Project page. I am going to have to ask you to only make Non-controversial edits on the page from now on. Please see https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Advice_for_editors_who_may_have_a_conflict_of_interest — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrVentureWasRight (talk • contribs) 02:18, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]