User talk:Rabbisim

Welcome!

Hello, Rabbisim, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Purim

I removed the recipes you added on the article Purim, please don't be offended. I think it would fit better in wikibooks cookbooks. Jon513 19:31, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cut and paste from websites

Hi, I see that you've been adding material from www.askmoses.com to a whole variety of articles. I've reverted these as cut-and-paste moves are copyright violations. You need to condense and rewrite in your own words sections like this rather than straight copying material. - Peripitus 22:48, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I see that you reverted my posts to various Jewish articles from AskMoses.com. I am AskMoses.com. My name is Rabbi Simcha Backman, Director of AskMoses.com and as such I can post articles from the website in their entirety. Is there any other information or paperwork that you need? I would like to insure that my posts from AskMoses.com are not reverted in the future. Thanks.Rabbisim 23:52, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately all I could see was that the text was cut-and-paste material from a website with a copyright statement. Note that any material you post on wikipedia is licenced under the GFDL licence so that anyone can edit and derive works from your text under the same licence terms. You should mark the pages on askmoses.com as licenced under the GFDL or reword the text and reference back to the website. Text need to be wikified. The articles certainly need to be referenced and your material looks to be a good start but you need to address the copyright issue first - Peripitus 01:45, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If I add the GFDL on our copyright page and state explicitly that it is applicable to Wikipedia only, would that do the trick? Rabbisim 18:42, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, on the bottom of a Wikipedia article to which AskMoses.com has relevent information, can I add a link on the bottom to an AskMoses.com article (full URL) without actually inputting any text from the article?

Unfortunately if you use the GFDL on your website your applying the terms to anyone who accesses and reads it. I recommend that your read the licence and either agree to let your website be covered or ( and I think this is the better option ) write an extract of the material you are referencing for wikipedia. At the bottom of articles you can add a link to any website that has relevance for the page. Checkout Wikipedia Citation Guidlines for info on how to reference this back to the text and the Manual of Style for how to wikify any text you add. All the best Peripitus 09:42, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]