User talk:Petermgiles

Your addition to Heinz Poenn has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 22:27, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi. Recognize that there is a bit of a copy-and-paste problem with the obit, agree with your flag, and I could of course rephrase it. However, let me ask you a different question - I am in fact the President of CanoeKayak Canada, the organization that wrote the original content. I am fairly confident that the author and the organization would be perfectly happy to have it used on this Wikipedia page. So is there a way for me to get that permission recognized? Thanks for your help. Petermgiles (talk) 23:13, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi, that is very cool you are the president of CanoeKayak Canada, I am sure its okay, however you would need to speak with an admin. I have tagged one for you here. @Ymblanter: can you clarify this please? Thanks! Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 02:48, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

This would be great, but the text should be marked on the website as licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 (or instead of marking it one can send a WP:OTRS permission). The problem is that texts from Wikipedia can be reused by third parties, including the commercial reuse, and can be modified, and therefore we explicitly ask for the free license which means the permission also includes re-use for any purposes and modification.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:50, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

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