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== Sukhomlinsky article ==

Some time back I submitted an article to Wikipedia on V.A. Sukhomlinsky, using text from my own posted web pages at <members.optusnet.com.au/~achcockerill/>. To my knowledge I am the only English language writer to have published a study of Sukhomlinsky, and it is based on the thesis for which I was awarded my Ph.D.. My book has been well reviewed but not widely circulated (hence my web pages and my attempt to contribute to Wikipedia).

Someone has found that my article shares text with my web pages and has suspected a breach of copyright. I can assure you that both the text of the article and the text of the web pages are my own, and also that they are substantially different from the text of my book, (which is subject to copyright). The publishers of my book (which appeared in 1999) were very happy to see it promoted through my web site, and I am sure they would have no objection to my contributing an article to Wikipedia.

Yours sincerely,

Alan Cockerill
e-mail: acockeri@bigpond.net.au

: Thanks for bringing this up, Alan (and thanks also for your original submission).  I assume you mean [[Sukhomlinsky]].  I hope you'll understand that the person who tagged your submission was merely being cautious, as we have rather a lot of cases of some teenager or other grabbing someone else's copyright material and dumping it in wikipedia (causing legal woes for all concerned).  I recommend you do the following:
:* create an account (it takes about 10 seconds, it's free, and it makes it easier for folks to talk with you on an ongoing basis)
:* pop over to [[Wikipedia:Copyright problems]] where you'll see an entry for '''Sukhomlinsky'''.  If you reply to that entry, giving the info you've added above, I'm sure everything will be sorted out.
:Thanks again, and I do hope you stay around. -- [[User:Finlay McWalter|Finlay McWalter]] | [[User talk:Finlay McWalter | Talk]] 10:57, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

:: Hmm, on looking further, it's no longer on the Copyright problems page.  I've restored your original text.  I will shortly list the article for "cleanup", which means someone will come along and impose wikipedia's house formatting style, add wikilinks etc. (so don't be offended). -- [[User:Finlay McWalter|Finlay McWalter]] | [[User talk:Finlay McWalter | Talk]] 11:04, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick and helpful response, Finlay. I have created an account. I think Wikipedia is a great initiative.  - Alan Cockerill