User talk:Visitsunnhordland
Hello, and welcome to Wikivoyage! Thank you for your contributions; however, please remember the essential rule of respecting copyrights. Edits to Wikivoyage may not contain material from copyrighted sources unless used with permission. It is almost never okay to copy extensive text out of a book or website and paste it into a Wikivoyage article with little or no alteration. Content that does not comply with this legal rule must be removed. For more information on this, see: Wikivoyage:Copyright-related issues. --Saqib (talk) 13:02, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Copying from a website
[edit]Hi there. Welcome to Wikivoyage and thanks for creating the article about Sunnhordland. Unfortunately, there may be a problem with a lot of the text you are contributing, as it is copied directly from this website without attribution. I don't know if the text is copyrighted or under another license, but to use it here we need express permission from that organization to re-release the text under our license. Otherwise, we will have to delete the text. Please read Wikivoyage:Copyleft for more information. Texugo (talk) 12:18, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello!
We are VisitSunnhordland, and this text is beeing used in different medias in our marketing of our region. What can I do now, to make it possible to use this text at wikivoyage??
- As far as I know, you need to give a statement on the talk page stating that you understand our license and are authorized to release the text under our license, with the understanding that it can be edited, altered, adapted, abbreviated, or reused under the terms of the license, including a link to the site from which the text originates. Texugo (talk) 13:29, 9 August 2013 (UTC)