User talk:Russell Cushman

Welcome!

Hello, Russell Cushman, 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:

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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! Active Banana (talk) 22:08, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cross Road Blues[edit]

thank you for your interest in Wikipedia. Please note that content added to articles must be supported by reliable sources. Feel free to return the content to the article when you can supply a citation to the source for verification purposes. Thanks!

Copyright problems with Kathleen Blackshear[edit]

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Kathleen Blackshear, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://russellcushman.blogspot.com/. As a copyright violation, Kathleen Blackshear appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Kathleen Blackshear has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (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 Talk:Kathleen Blackshear and send an email with the message to permissions-enwikimedia.org. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note at Talk:Kathleen Blackshear with a link to where we can find that note.
If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.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 Talk:Kathleen Blackshear.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While contributions are appreciated, Wikipedia must require all contributors to understand and comply with its copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. Acabashi (talk) 23:27, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is so unnecessary. Acabashi? Did you even LOOK at the blog? My blog has my name as its address, my picture, dozens of followers, and years worth of writing to establish that I exist. So all you had to establish is that I put the post here as an article. A simple thing that could have been done easily and quickly. This position supposes that another person, using my name, has possibly registered as a user on Wikipedia and then used my blog without permission, possibly violating copyright laws... and then risking the whole dastardly plot being exposed during this editing process, so that nothing comes of any of this afternoon of work. There is no such idiot. And so what if "he" had? This is all free! Am I going to sue somebody for "stealing" free information on my blog? I gave it up when I wrote and posted it! You guys are making this harder than it has to be, by eliminating common sense from the equation. It's a good thing Wikipedia is worth it.

Your request for advice[edit]

Hello! I saw you'd asked for advice, so hopefully this will help to clarify.

As to the copyright question, we unfortunately cannot just take your word for it that you are the copyright holder of material posted. We do have an OTRS team who can help to verify this if you do want to release your work on Wikipedia. Please keep in mind this involves much more than "permission to post on Wikipedia"—we require that all work on Wikipedia be released under a free license. If you did choose to release under a free license, this would mean that anyone in the world would be allowed to copy, modify, or reuse your work, without asking or needing your permission and without payment to anyone. You can require, as part of the free license, that you be attributed as the author of the work, and that derivative works or copies remain under the same free license.

That aside, the work submitted wouldn't work anyway, so the point is rather moot in this case. We require all articles to be strictly neutral in tone. Your article served to promote the person in question. We do not allow promotion of anyone or anything in an article, nor attacks. A strictly neutral tone is required, containing only information coming from reliable sources. You may, of course, express your personal admiration or like for someone on your personal blog, but this would not be appropriate for an encyclopedia. Ideally, the reader of an article should not be able to guess the writer's opinion of the subject.

If sources have covered this person in depth, it's still possible she's an appropriate subject for an article. If that is the case, I can help you write an appropriate article. You might also wish to take your cues from heavily trafficked articles which are about historical artists, such as Vincent van Gogh or Pablo Picasso. That may give you a good idea of how an article is expected to look and what type of tone is necessary for neutrality. If you have any questions, you're welcome to ask. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 00:57, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback[edit]

Hello, Russell Cushman. You have new messages at Seraphimblade's talk page.
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Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

You recently made a submission to Articles for Creation. Your article has been reviewed and some issues were found because of which it could not be accepted in its current form; it is now located at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kathleen Blackshear. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. Feel free to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} to the top of the article.) Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) ^(Shout!) 04:41, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kathleen Blackshear concern[edit]

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kathleen Blackshear, a page you created has not been edited in at least 180 days. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace. If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements. If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13. Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 15:51, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]