Nasibu,

I was curt and rather blunt; however, there are a very large number of websites that will freely carry a press release or other promotional article you wish to distribute. That is not Wikinews.

I placed a welcoming template on your user talk page very shortly after you signed up for an account. Please read this. In particular, the following two links:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/WN:ARTICLE http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/WN:NPOV

As you have done your best to confirm you are the copyright holder on what you would have liked published, one of the other Wikinews regular contributors has reviewed it. It has failed this review; again, I refer you to the above two links.

As a last point which particularly annoys me; the website is Wikinews, the "n" in the middle is not capitalised.

Please continue any discussion of this issue on the wiki.

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:36 +0100, Nasibu Mwanukuzi wrote:

Dear Brian McNeil,

I submitted an article today “Ras Nas release a new music and poetry CD - Double Focus” at WikiNews but to my dismay, the story was removed with a claim that I have infringed copyright laws. What I do not understand is, I am the owner of Kongoi Productions (where the story originated) and thus I do not need to ask for any permission to reuse the story. In addition, I am also the artist of whose work is being referred! I really do not see how I could infringe copyright laws here.

I hope this mail will help settle the matter and that the article in question gets reprinted for the good of both parties concerned.

Obs! I have also tried to use the talk page though I am not sure whether I have done it right. I have also sent this mail to the moderator using my Kongoi Production's admin e-mail.

Best regards,

Nasibu Mwanukuzi aka Ras Nas

CEO

Kongoi Productions E-mail: admin@kongoi.com www.kongoi.com

+47 41 62 89 37