User talk:OriginalManicGardener

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Good luck! -- Herby talk thyme 19:18, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Welcome, fellow gardener!
Hi there!

I saw you did a bunch of work on the Gardening/Tomato page... nice work! Only problem is that that book is being moved to wikisource (if you look at the oldest versions, they're actually just a transcription of an old public domain book).

The working garden book is A Wikimanual of Gardening. It's best to keep it all in one book for now to allow for easy linking between chapters (for example, I'm going to link the pests you mentioned to individual pages about those pests, with photos, organic and non-organic controls, etc). I probably won't get to merging it for a couple days, but it you want to add any information from A Wikimanual of Gardening/Tomato to the chapter you were working on, that'd be great! -- SB_Johnny | talk 12:24, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Uh-oh.
Sorry, but I had to revert your edits... the copyrights from the sources you copied from are not compatible with the GFDL. OSU, for example, says: "All or part of the Fact Sheets contained on Ohioline may be copied without permission for educational, non-profit purposes." The GFDL is specifically designed to allow both non-commercial and commercial use, so posting that here is a violation of OSU's copyrights.

You could probably patch it back together using imported pages from wikipedia or pages already in the wikimanual of gardening or the Gardening book, but pasting large sections from non-commercial-use websites is unfortunately a no-can-do on wikibooks :(. I'm sorry i didn't catch it earlier... that was a lot of work! Good work too, but bad for the copyrights. -- SB_Johnny | talk 16:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)