User talk:Pads1Fan13

Welcome to Wikibooks, Pads1Fan13!

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I notice the original work isn't freely licensed. We would need it released under the GFDL (or better yet, CC-by-sa-3.0) to host it on Wikibooks. Normally the UN has no problem doing this - lots of their work is in the public domain, and they're generally amenable to free licensing if you ask. Do you work for the UN? If not, one of us should contact them to get a release. Thanks for your attention. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 23:13, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Same for a bunch of other stuff. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 23:17, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I notice you just removed a lot of content from these pages. I've reverted those edits; it's generally perceived as disruptive to do that. If you think the pages should be deleted, let me know or add to the top of the pages you want deleted. However I'm optimistic that we can get an appropriate release from the copyright holder. I'd appreciate if you'd help me with this. You can respond here; I'm watching for changes to this page. Thanks. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 16:55, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Just saw your message right now. I'm new to uploading images on Wikipedia/books so it looks like I selected the wrong copyright option. I work for the UN so we have the copyright - I'll take your suggestion and change the licensing on it (if that's possible after I've already uploaded it. Maybe I'll have to re-upload it with the licensing you recommend.).

I removed the "About UNISDR" sections and instead inserted a link to the those sections on the UNISDR website since those sections were not relevant to the particular book. Thanks. &mdash; Pads1Fan13 &#124; talk 15:09, 8 November 2008
 * Thanks great! Can I get you to fire off an email from a domain associated with the UN to permissions-en@wikimedia.org to confirm that these works (& name them) are released under the GFDL (and CC-by-sa-3.0 if possible!). Then we'll have the permission confirmed and archived for future reference.
 * To change the license on images, you can't reupload (that doesn't do anything except replace the image) - you have to click the edit tab and edit the page as normal. If you need help with anything else, I'm still watching this page. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 19:57, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I sent an e-mail to that address so hopefully now it will be no problem adding these publications to wikibooks. Thanks &mdash; Pads1Fan13 &#124; talk 9:13, 11 November 2008
 * Great! Thanks a ton. I'll update the pages to note that we have permission. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 22:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Actually why don't we just go ahead and delete all these pages as I see we are running into problems with copyright. Someone nominated them for speedy deletion and that works for me. &mdash; Pads1Fan13 &#124; talk 1:49, 1 December 2008
 * That's because they don't know what's going on. It's probably a good thing they are no longer an administrator here, otherwise they would have just deleted stuff. I have left them a message, but they have ignored it. So, I'm just going to revert their edits. There's absolutely not a problem with the content you've added. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 17:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

There are still a couple of pages in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion: Climate Resilient Cities 2008 Primer and Lessons for a Safer Future. Should they be? --Swift (talk) 02:20, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No. Removed. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 18:33, 4 December 2008 (UTC)