User talk:LyndaCarson

Welcome

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licensing the article

I believe u're ready to release the Oakland housing project article under a CCA license. you can do this in two ways - 1. post a notice on the Indymedia article, saying "Released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License", or 2. E-mail a Wikinews administrator from the author's e-mail address listed on Indymedia, tenantsrule@yahoo.com, stating that u're willing to "Release ...". this will confirm for us that the author of the Indymedia report is agreeing to the release, not someone who's impersonating the author by using the author's name as a wikinews login.

it'd be great if u can do this quickly, as, if we don't get a reply soon, we'll have to consider blanking or deleting the article since it is potentially a copyright violation.

thanks for contributing the article, and for confirming ur identity.  — Doldrums(talk) 06:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

also, do note that, even if the two articles are not identical, they're still substantially alike in content and expression, and that is enough to make one a copyright infringement of the other, unless suitable releases are posted.  — Doldrums(talk) 06:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

just one more note, it'd be helpful if u remained signed-in to wikinews while posting. (u can check the "stay logged in" option the next time u sign in, in order to remain signed in without logging in each time).

you can also "sign" ur comments by typing four tildes in a row (~~~~) at the end of ur comments. only posts on talk page should be signed though, article contributions are not signed on bylined, since usually many contributors work on each article.  — Doldrums(talk) 06:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)