Poor, Edmund W (Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com) [050815 23:18]:
It is not true that you did this because it was REQUIRED. You did it to direct traffic to your web site. You even created a sock puppet account with your web site address as its username. You have 2 choices at this point:
- Donate the words you wrote DIRECTLY to Wikipedia (agreeing with the
disclaimer you surely saw, next to the 'save' button, which licenses Wikipedia to use that text in accordance with the GNU Free Documentation Licenses); or, 2. We will rewrite the article completely - making a fresh start of it. This will remove the issue of an attribution notice. If you don't make a choice promptly (and politely!) I will make the choice for you, and it will be #2. I remind you of [[Wikipedia:Gaming the system]]; have you read it yet? Also, it seems likely that you do not understand GFDL. Once you license some text under the GFDL, it is no longer "yours". A republisher need only comply with the minimum requirements, which is to credit you as the author. There is no obligation to link to a website you are trying to advertise.
*applause* I concur with every word, and the proposed action is IMO the correct one.
- d.