how to verify copyright permission for article felling cricket club hello fellingcc thank you for your interest in donating material from to wikipedia since we do not currently have a method in place to verify the identity of account holders at account creation we must verify such donations through external processes the article has been blanked to allow time for that verification to proceed the simplest way to verify is to place a release on that external website putting the material into public domain or releasing it under a license compatible with gfdl which permits modification and reuse even commercially as long as authorship credit is given this release is irrevocable and must continue to be displayed or the material will need to be removed a statement such as the following including the link to the gfdl would be sufficient the contents of this website or page if you are specifically releasing one section are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the gnu free documentation license version and later if you decide to take this route please put a link to that release on talk felling cricket club so we can restore the contents alternatively you may choose to send an e mail to the wikimedia foundation from an address associated with the original publication to permissions en wikimedia org or a postal message to the wikimedia foundation permitting re use under the gfdl there is a boilerplate release form at wikipedia declaration of consent for all enquiries which can be helpful please provide a clear link to the website in your e mail and specify by name the article on wikipedia in which the material is being used once your e mail is received and processed by a member of the communications committee the article's contents will be restored if your release is legally sufficient please make a note that you've done this on talk felling cricket club to help guard against premature deletion of the page you can compose a note or very simply paste the following on the talk page brackets and all otrs pending if you decide you don't wish to release the material into public domain or under the terms of gfdl you are welcome to rewrite the text from scratch at this temporary page as long as the material is otherwise compliant with wikipedia's policies and guidelines it will be used to replace the previous contents please leave a note at talk felling cricket club saying you have done so if you are not familiar with wikipedia's policies and guidelines you may wish to review wikipedia starting an article or wikipedia your first article if you are closely related to the subject matter you may also want to read our conflict of interest guidelines to get an idea how best to proceed it may be necessary once permission is verified to address other concerns in the text if it is otherwise inconsistent with our policies and guidelines we apologize for the additional steps necessary but as copyright is a matter of legal concern we must ensure that we not only protect the rights of copyright holders but also guard the wikipedia project against inadvertent infringement the article will be revisited in about a week to see what additional steps have been taken or may be necessary if you have any questions or comments please feel free to let me know at my talk page we also have a help desk which is typically manned around the clock by volunteers thank you talk