User talk:Wnbrowndc: Difference between revisions

Your edit to Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia has been removed in whole or in part, 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 information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. 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 very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Belbury (talk) 16:18, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I AM the owner, creator, editor of the AOI website via Weebly therefore there should be NO copyright or permission issues. Even the medallions are our design and one of those,for unknown reason, was rejected while it’s reverse was approved. ~2025-41339-77 (talk) 19:09, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying that! I don’t know what the medallion issue was, but Wikipedia (and our sister project for images, Wikimedia Commons) will always start from the assumption that content taken from elsewhere on the internet is copyrighted, until the owner of the content tells us otherwise.

There’s some guidance at WP:DONATETEXT if you’re willing to update your website to say that the content is released under a suitably free licence. You should definitely do that for the images you’ve uploaded to Commons, and include the URL in the “source” field of those images on Commons, so that they don’t get deleted by someone else in the future who mistakes them for copyright violations.

Since you have a connection to the group you’re writing about, you should familiarise yourself with Wikipedia’s guidelines on conflicts of interest – see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.

Let me know if you have any questions! Belbury (talk) 19:33, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I’ll pursue your suggestions.

Bill Brown, Past-President AOI of DC ~2025-41339-77 (talk) 19:55, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]