User talk:Thomas Simpson

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Hello Thomas!
Nice work on those Saylor.org texts. Are more in the works? Is there a timeline for final draft production? You might want to leave a not about what you have in mind for them on the Reading room general forum. Sj (discuss • contribs) 23:17, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Cell Biology
Please see here; could you comment on the claim that the material is a copyright violation? Thanks QU TalkQu 15:43, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

That claim came internally here at Saylor. The material in the Cell Biology textbook was posted by an outside contributor to the organization who believed that the NCBI book, since hosted on a federal government website, was public domain. (Thomas Simpson (discuss • contribs) 15:59, 8 April 2013 (UTC))
 * Thanks - are you (or me) able to easily identify the material that needs removing, for example, by their username? QU TalkQu 16:17, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It's okay, I see that someone has edited the pages to remove the material. Given the circumstances I will delete these pages as they now have no content and allow a new clean page to be created QU TalkQu 16:20, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. Our apologies for not catching this sooner. (Thomas Simpson (discuss • contribs) 16:22, 8 April 2013 (UTC))
 * All questionable material has been deleted. I have also tagged all of the pictures (which came from the same source) for deletion - as these are hosted at Wikimedia Commons I can't delete them but they will be reviewed and a decision made there. Thanks for letting us know about the problem QU TalkQu 17:06, 8 April 2013 (UTC)