User talk:Mastersplinter

Welcome!

Hello, Mastersplinter, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! The leftorium 15:41, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright policy advisement regarding articles

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Regarding your contribution to Making the History of 1989, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from web sites or printed material without the express permission of the author or copyright holder. Lacking this, the copied content you added has been removed, rephrased or replaced by a boilerplate copyright template.

Although brief quotations are permitted in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline, please ensure that your contributions to Wikipedia are primarily written in your own words. If you believe that using language from a source is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 3.0 (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 the talk page of the article and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the CC-BY-SA or compatible license or released into the public domain leave a note at the talk page of the article with a link to where we can find that note.
If you own the copyright to the material, you may either 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 CC-By-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on the talk page of the article, or place a note releasing the material as above at the external site. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.

If you need any help, you can create a new section on your talk page and add {{helpme}} followed by your request below it, someone will be along shortly to assist you. Alternatively, you may also leave me a message on my talk page. Best regards, The leftorium 15:41, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Making the History of 1989

Your addition to Making the History of 1989 has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. The leftorium 17:52, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]