User talk:Westcoaster.ca

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Westcoaster.ca
Who are we? We’re a bunch of people who have some expertise, or are gaining expertise, in the media. We’ve got business experience and experience with web development, print-journalism reporting, photography, film and even pod casting. We were looking for interesting and informative news about our communities, but found it hard to find. We live and work on the West Coast of Canada. Tofino, Ucluelet, Port Alberni, The Alberni Valley, Clayoquot Sound, the Alberni-Clayoquot all on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

What and why are we doing this? Like we said, we found it hard to find interesting and informative news about our communities, so now we’re stepping up to the plate. Our news has been fed to us by one and only one multinational news media con-glom for over 50 years. Our www.westcoaster.ca is the first online news source for our communities.

We are providing a place for new talent (young and old) to shine and a place for ours, your, concerns and opinions.

We are all volunteers. You can support us by simply visiting the site. www.westcoaster.ca

Thank you.

Copyvio
The story you created on wikinews, Can the big M help save the West Coast fishery? Senator Mahovlich On Fisheries is a copyvio of a story found at http://westcoaster.ca:8080/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=76. The website westcoaster.ca doesn't appear to have a license compatible with CC-BY and the individual story has no disclaimer/statement of license for the story. I've not yet tagged the story as I wanted to communicate with you first. --Chiacomo (talk) 18:37, 29 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I can't really give you legal advice as concerns the licensing on your website, but, Wikinews publishes it's content under a Creative Commons license that requires, among other things, attribution to original author (in this case, Wikinews). I'm not certain what license you'd have to use to copy verbatim an article from your website. The easiest thing, of course, would be to re-write the article :D. Perhaps someone else watching RC would be able to help out here.