User talk:Jezarnold

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I have been reading Wikipedia (and related wikis) for some time, am going to start editing bits, little by little.. Jezarnold 13:18, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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Contents 1 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 2 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008) 3 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVI (April 2008) 4 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008)

[edit] 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

I've just noticed your recent contributions to the page - the bulk of the text seems to be taken from the MOD site and cleaned up a bit. I'm sorry to be a pain about this, but we can't just copy text - we can add the information, but not the verbatim wording of it, which is protected by copyright. (There's a discussion of this at Wikipedia:Copyrights#Using copyrighted work from others)

If you could rewrite the material rather than simply adding it and polishing it, that'd be great - the more content the better! - but otherwise I'm afraid we're going to need to go back and remove it... Shimgray | talk | 17:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Royal Artillery Batteries - Thanks for your comments at User_talk:Jezarnold Whilst I (sort of) understand Copyright law, I assumed that as this information is under the jurisdiction of [1] and Crown Copyright, and is NOT copied word for word (but rather changed slightly) from an official record page then it would be ok.. Any advice gratefully received --Jezarnold (talk) 17:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Crown copyright's still copyright, unfortunately (it just expires a bit sooner); we've discussed the matter with HMSO in the past, and the conclusion was that their reasonably generous terms just isn't compatible with the "derive and redistribute" licensing we use. We don't have the convenient "no governmental copyrights" thing the Americans do, sadly, or that'd avoid this whole problem!

To avoid making a copy, what we basically need to do is to rewrite from scratch, rather than just changing bits here and there - "in your own words" as the teachers used to say ;-) - as it stands now, I can still easily pick out unchanged material. Ideally, what we're looking for is two completely different bits of text which convey the same information...

Thanks for your response.. I was getting lazy during the 1RHA Regiment Section, and have now rewritten and taken out a lot of "cut n paste". I will be more vigilant in future. --Jezarnold (talk) 17:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for putting up the battery articles, though! I've been mulling over doing this for a while, since it's quite hard to get a decent historical perspective by just dealing with the parent regiments/brigades. Shimgray | talk | 17:46, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008)

The March 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVI (April 2008)

The April 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008)

The May 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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