Talk:Whippet
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I found this good description on the Web on Whippet Breed-FAQ (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=dogs-faq/breeds/whippets_1049366438%40rtfm.mit.edu&output=gplain). To be sure, that we can use this, I asked the emailer, Nancy Bennett [nancyb@ignet.com], and she replied:
- "Certainly. It is there for educational purposes. However, note that it has time-limited material, such as the address of the AWC secretary, etc. This is regularly updated on the site. Would be you putting a link to our FAQs (preferred) or making a copy of the material? Problem with a copy is, some of the info will get out of date and people will be contacting the wrong addresses, etc."
To get it right, I tried to eliminate the part that could contain the wrong addresses and added a link to the page where I found the article. Hope, this is ok. Fantasy 22:54 Apr 6, 2003 (UTC)
- Hi Fantasy. To be honest, I hadn't noticed the discussion here before I edited the page. I see now that you have taken the steps of contacting the mailer. I won't reverse the page if you revert the content, but I don't think that the above permission is quite good enough. To post content to wikipedia, we need more than just the "permission" of the owner, we need them to release it under the GFDL. This gives us the right to not just show the FAQ, but edit it and release it to future users as well. See Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission for more. -º¡º
- OK, thanks for the link, I will contact the copyright owner to sort this out. In the meantime i will enable the content, and if I am not able to get his full permission i will remove it again. Hope that is ok. Thanks, Fantasy 07:36 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)
- Hi Fantasy. I'll just leave it to you or others to figure out what is right. I was only over here to take a look at how different dog breeds were written up. -º¡º
Fantasy, I know you were going to check that the whippet FAQ was OK to use under the GFDL - did you ever get a reply to that? It would be nice to edit the information into a similar format to the other dog breed articles, but I'm not sure what the copyright status is at the moment so wanted to check with you first. Regards -- sannse 19:37 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Sorry Sannse, I forgot to add it. Here is the reply to the Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission, I recived on the 25.04.03 15:47 from Nancy Bennett:
- Ok, I agree. :)
- Nancy
- This should set the copyright-status clear, you can now change the text without worries ;-) Fantasy 19:49 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)
That's great, good work Fantasy :) -- sannse 15:25 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)
OK, I've had a go at removing the FAQ format. I also removed some bits that seemed more chatty than our usual article style. I think it would benefit from some more editing for style though. I'll leave it for now and see how (or if) it develops -- sannse 21:59, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)