Dear sir,
Some material that I hold copyright on has been copied in large pieces and included on the page http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_rank .
This was originally written in 1998 and is on the web at http://users.sisna.com/justinb/cop.html .
I do not want the page to be removed, but would ask my credit, by name only, to be associated with the article.
Sincerely,
Justin T. Broderick Salt Lake City, Utah
I'm very sorry for that - we try to find and fix copyright violations as they are created.
Thank you for giving us permission to use your text on our website, but your message was unclear as to whether or not we could relicense your work under terms of our license. See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
What that basically means is that anyone will be able to copy and modify the text at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_(rank) and distribute it in any way they see fit - including commercially - so long as they pass those same rights onto their downstream users and give credit to the top five authors of the text (which would include you).
I've also included this reference in the article:
Reference *Originally based on text by Justin T. Broderick, Salt Lake City, Utah. [1] Used with permission. [2]
[1] is a link to your website and [2] is a link to Jimbo Wales' first email on this issue.
Please edit the reference as you see fit here: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Commodore_(rank)&action=edit
Is all this OK? If not please say so and we will delete the article from our database and replace it with a minimal "stub" article.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)