If you're here because I removed your article as a possible copyright violation, there are a couple of things you should first understand. Firstly, your article is not gone, it has simply been written over by the removal notice. It can be restored at any time. If you are able to make it clear that you own or have permission to use the copyright for the material you posted, please do so on the talk page of the article in question, as well as on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Your article won't be deleted for about a week after it has been reported, so there is no need to panic. Secondly, your original contributions to the Wikipedia are still welcomed. Any further questions may be addressed to my talk page. |
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Hi Vague Rant, welcome to Wikipedia. Just a quick note - you recently changed [[walkthrough]]s to [[walkthrough|walkthroughs]] in an article, and this is not accepted practice. The former is preferred over the latter because it takes up a marginally smaller amount of space. Thanks, – Andre ( talk) 20:24, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, see Talk:Passenger Pigeon for caps policy, jimfbleak 14:08, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi there I have made changes to the Opposition to Castro will you reconsider your vote. If you do not think that satisfy the NPOV policy please help me do so. It is hard for me to not have a POV on the matter. I love democracy and the Internet and this great country we live in. Thanks and regards! SilentVoice 23:13, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Could you have another look at Opposition to Castro? I'm not sure what it was like when you looked at it (I gather is started out very POV), but at this point it looks to me like the nucleus of a good article. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:15, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
MegaMan is one word in the Battle Network/NT Warrior series. See: http://www.viz.com/onlinemanga/mm-hi-chapter-1.html WhisperToMe 06:33, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I've noticed a shit load of the sites off of my user page, wot i did, have been trolled through by your good self in search of spelling errors and stuff. Cheers, but I can't help wondering why you picked my stuff, is it that bad? Also, I think the songs on Noel Gallagher were supposed to be in italics - i dunno for sure but there must be some ruling. Nice page, good work, God bless.-- Crestville 14:31, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC) (also, if you wouldn't mind, would you reply on my user page)
Regarding Your comments on my articles on Faroe Islands. I am new to Wikipedia and I don't know where to answer to Your comments... So I do it here. You wrote:
"Actually, Ricky, they're copyvios. 194, I just thought I'd give you this link: Wikipedia:Copyrights. Have a read of that, it should teach you what you need to know about copyrighted material. - Vague Rant 09:07, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC) Whoa there, IP! In the link, it essentially says "Don't copy material from other sources," which, unfortunately, is what you're doing. Why don't you to try your hand at writing your own articles? - Vague Rant 09:17, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)"
What I am pasting into the articles is text from my own homepage regarding these villages. So I did write it myself. But the information is not relevant for Wikipedia then I will not wast my time on it.
Jon.
Thanks dude for fixing my GLA article. it was pretty shit until you fixed it up a bit. thanks Wifki 12:12, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for pointing out that the bg on my user page wasn't quite right. I've made the background change you suggested. But yeah, feel free to use any element of my page you want. I kinda got the inspiration for it from Tεx τ urε, although I took a more minimalist approach to that design. I've also taken a while making it better and better, and will probably keep screwing around with it. For some reason, its one of the best parts of wikipedia heh. gl with whatever you do with yours — siro χ o 04:44, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
PS: Thanks for signing that unsigned comment on my user-talk page too. (;
Are the capitalisation changes you're making (The Rutles -> the Rutles, e.g.) part of any wikipedia policy? Varitek 01:41, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I noticed that you marked Keiyo for speedydeletion back on Oct. 30th... but that notation was deleted by an anon, and the page seems to have remained. I've re-marked it for speedy due to it's copyvio and apparent reposting of another deleted article, but if you could mark down why you initially marked it for speedy and any other comments you had on it's talk page, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Arcuras 16:07, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
Hey there, Vague. I noticed a lot of the great work you've been doing, and I think that you would make a great administrator. With about 41/2 months of experience, >1000 edits, and admirable work with copyvios, I think that you'll be supported by most. I also know you a bit from personal experience, and I'd be honoured to nominate you. If you accept, please leave me a note on my talk page (this is unofficial), and I'll put in a nomination (you should accept again there officially). I look forward to your response :) -[[User:Frazzydee| Frazzydee| ✍]] 04:01, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
You had said: Hey there. I just noticed that your latest article was imported from another source. If you own or have permission to use the copyright for this material, please indicate this on the talk page of your article. Otherwise, we can't accept it here. If you want to rewrite the article in your own words, please do so on the "/Temp" subpage of the article. Also, regardless of whether this article infringes on copyright, we welcome any other original contributions you may wish to make. Thanks! - Vague | Rant 10:04, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
I am a student of Saveetha Engineering College and I have posted the information from my college prospectus. I have got the permissions to use this information. So I would like the page to be restored so that I can add more info.
Thanks.
Cnu 10:58, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, re: your kind remarks regarding another copyright violation. Hu 07:11, 2004 Nov 24 (UTC)
Hi Vague. I recently noticed that a bunch of articles related to Rebellion were in a bit of a tangle. I wrote a description of the problem with a request for advice, but I can't find anywhere to put it as all the collaborative pages seem to deal only with single articles. I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at my post (currently pasted at the bottom of my talk page) and tell me where the most appropriate place to put it is. Thanks! BanyanTree 09:57, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Whoah! Talk about having my mind blown! I don't recall hearing about the "racist" accusations before. I believe you, but do you think it needs to be sourced with an external link? BTW, nice job on your edits. I would love to upload an image, too. Any ideas on where I could find an acceptable (such as non-copyvio) image for the page? -- Viriditas 08:51, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip. I hadn't realized that non-English articles were so common that they had their own dedicated tag... I should of course have checked for copyvio though. — Asbestos | Talk 11:24, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out that copyvios have to be reported on a separate page. I had been under the impression that the copyvio tag/category would be enough. I've meanwhile also added the older copyvio candidates I had identified previously. -- MarkSweep 07:38, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
In addition.
Hello Vague, also thanks for the remarks about copyrights. I've added some words about it in the talk page of the new article (universal virtual computer).
--
Jrvanderhoeven 11:19, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Your reversion suggesting that I was "disrupting" Wikipedia by adding a caption to a photo is misguided. You need to re-read Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. It's not about that kind of edit - it refers to disingenuous changes, moves, or arguments. - Nunh-huh 04:27, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The anon who began both of these articles informed me on my Talk page that you had marked the latter as a copyvio. The anon placed the same text on both pages, as well as the Temp page. I've looked at the source, and it seems to me that Leo Gaje, as it currently stands, is sufficiently reworded. Would you disagree with deleting Leo T Gaje Jr and recreating it as a redirect to Leo Gaje? -- Slowking Man 23:22, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
I am the inventor of Unemployment Score and the CEO of Scorelogix and have full copyrights to all the content that I had tried to post related to unemployment, unemployment risk, unemployment risk, job migration, Scorelogix, living standards, etc, since I believed that all of these topics are very well related and I wanted to share our research and insights through this encyclopedia.
Note that we are the pioneer in the field of unemployment and employment risk scoring and our product is very simplistically called Unemployment Score, so it appeared to some moderators that we are trying post commercial links, but that's not the case since. We have many other ways to sell our product, but our prime intention here is to share the research and knowledge only through relevant topics. I would like to hear from anyone who thinks 'unemployment' and 'unemployment score' and Scorelogix are not related and why anyone would consider them not worthy of this medium.
If you have any doubts about our company or solutions pertaining to unemployment (which is a major problem affecting millions of people) then visit our website at www.scorelogix.com and read about us on the 'about us' page. Users and companies that know Scorelogix already respect us, and I think it is a question of time before we become well-known for the problem we are addressing and eventually it will get here anyway.
Sincerely,
Suresh Annappindi CEO, Scorelogix
This is a reminder that one week ago you added Delta Chi and Delta chi to Wikipedia: Copyright problems. I have rewritten them as a stub at Delta Chi/Temp and a redirect at Delta chi/Temp. --[[User:Tony Sidaway| Tony Sidaway| Talk]] 12:26, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Does Megatokyo really need its own subcategory? - Vague Rant 10:15, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
I agree but I'm new here an I'm not sure how to get rid of it as a subcategory. user talk:RJFJR 00:45, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
So how do we get rid of it and replace it with just a regular page?
Thanks for removing extra tilde at User:Utcursch/wel. I never noticed it. utcursch 12:32, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Re: Copyright query from user Vague_Rant
Wednesday 8 December 2004
Dear mudthang
As we previously discussed, I'd like to bring responsible education and training to governments and honest citizens concerned with personal safety, wherever they may live.
Thank you for following through and posting information at various websites, including Wikipedia, as I requested.
Any further postings on my behalf are greatly appreciated.
Yours in self-protection, Tom Sotis Founder of IBFG/AMOK!
/ends
Thank you for being a diligent wikipedian and banishing my Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington page to the copyright section. I would have removed that line myself if you had given me 4 1/2 minutes. 194.201.20.90 11:29, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC) (unsigned)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here: I understand that your article was a WIP, but it included content from other sources, and as such I had to remove it as a copyvio. I know that by the time you were finished, it would have been reworded enough that it would no longer be a copyvio, but the copyvios would still be in the history, meaning we'd still be breaking the law. Sorry about this. Do feel free to do your rewriting in Word before posting it here. Thanks. - Vague | Rant 11:16, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
So, what's up with deleting my working copy and inserting your copy vio stuff while I am still working on it, within less than one hour? I am using multiple sources, referencing all used, and my word processor is on the fritz. This is helpful? Why not a Q to my talk page or are your some kind of automated thing? Vaoverland 11:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Switch to divs, trust me on this one. Not unless you explain what's wrong with [[Image:]] :-) JRM 12:34, 2004 Dec 12 (UTC)
that was fast, I already was confirming that, so copyright is granted under the GNU Free Documentation License ;), an the text needs much more improvements, try my best and hope I will get some support. Thanks again. http://wackowiki.com/SkipPer
I'm not sure which article you are referring to, but I forgot all about copyrights. I don't know how to, so can you just delete it for me. Thanks , Anonymous User
P.S. I'm signing off too. Thanks again.
Brad Levicoff, the article created in the space to which your former redlink from Zophar's Domain had led, is up for deletion. You might want to contribute comment and to vote at its entry there. Cheers! Samaritan 01:20, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Dear Vague Rant Due to your trigger-happy copyvio finger… A few people are feeling more than a little sore and bruised http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers 14:50, 18 Dec 2004 (GMT+2)
Dear Vague Rant You seem quite manic about flagging pages for copyvio problems but only suggest that users make a note on the problem page's talk page. Then you don't even bother to check back at the copyvio talk page, which you flagged in the first place.
Surely you are being remiss in not also telling the contributor to post a note on the Votes_for_Undeletion VfD page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion
Mmm… Now there's a thought…
Possible suggestion for comment: This entry was deleted as a copyvio. However, the original contributor has added a note re: permission to the talk page. The contributor did not know that she should also have mentioned this on WP:CP. The usual in cases like this, where we have been given email permission, is to restore (unless there is reason to disbelieve the statement of permission given, or there is a later complaint from the copyright holder of course). -- 15:10, 18 Dec 2004 (GMT+2)
For your wise and insightful feedback…
You are obviously extremely gifted at all things and unlike lesser mortals, you appear to be beyond making even stupid mistakes.
The humility and grace with which you dispense advice is truly a fine example to me.
Keep well
mudthang 18 Dec 15:55 (GMT+2)
Vague|Rant
In the blurb at the top of your user and this talk page, you clearly state:
If you are able to make it clear that you own or have permission (my emphasis) to use the copyright for the material you posted, please do so on the talk page of the article in question.
I followed this note, and tried to contact you, yet you allowed two pages to be deleted for copyvio.
You have asked me to be civil to Wiki users. I have not been "uncivil" to any other Wiki-user to date, besides the offense you have taken.
Yet, after suggesting that people contact you at your forum page, you ignored my request for contact and removed my posted query from your forum page. You also seem to have ignored my posting of copyright permission on the talk pages you yourself flagged for copyvio.
So really, in all due process, who has been uncivil? I have tried to contact you at the forum you posted a link to, and posted the source permission at the original Wiki-article talk page. But no response from you. Nada.
I am as unimpressed as you seem to be, with due cause.
Any feedback would be a pleasant and unexpected surprise.
Can you look The Ancient Track:The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft for me? it seems it might be copied verbatim from the back cover of the book. Is that fair use? (It's in the deadend list which is how I found it). RJFJR 02:59, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I reported it (my first time, I hope I did it right). Thank you for the clear directions.
RJFJR 01:00, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
If you're here because I removed your article as a possible copyright violation, there are a couple of things you should first understand. Firstly, your article is not gone, it has simply been written over by the removal notice. It can be restored at any time. If you are able to make it clear that you own or have permission to use the copyright for the material you posted, please do so on the talk page of the article in question, as well as on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Your article won't be deleted for about a week after it has been reported, so there is no need to panic. Secondly, your original contributions to the Wikipedia are still welcomed. Any further questions may be addressed to my talk page. |
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Hi Vague Rant, welcome to Wikipedia. Just a quick note - you recently changed [[walkthrough]]s to [[walkthrough|walkthroughs]] in an article, and this is not accepted practice. The former is preferred over the latter because it takes up a marginally smaller amount of space. Thanks, – Andre ( talk) 20:24, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, see Talk:Passenger Pigeon for caps policy, jimfbleak 14:08, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi there I have made changes to the Opposition to Castro will you reconsider your vote. If you do not think that satisfy the NPOV policy please help me do so. It is hard for me to not have a POV on the matter. I love democracy and the Internet and this great country we live in. Thanks and regards! SilentVoice 23:13, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Could you have another look at Opposition to Castro? I'm not sure what it was like when you looked at it (I gather is started out very POV), but at this point it looks to me like the nucleus of a good article. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:15, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
MegaMan is one word in the Battle Network/NT Warrior series. See: http://www.viz.com/onlinemanga/mm-hi-chapter-1.html WhisperToMe 06:33, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I've noticed a shit load of the sites off of my user page, wot i did, have been trolled through by your good self in search of spelling errors and stuff. Cheers, but I can't help wondering why you picked my stuff, is it that bad? Also, I think the songs on Noel Gallagher were supposed to be in italics - i dunno for sure but there must be some ruling. Nice page, good work, God bless.-- Crestville 14:31, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC) (also, if you wouldn't mind, would you reply on my user page)
Regarding Your comments on my articles on Faroe Islands. I am new to Wikipedia and I don't know where to answer to Your comments... So I do it here. You wrote:
"Actually, Ricky, they're copyvios. 194, I just thought I'd give you this link: Wikipedia:Copyrights. Have a read of that, it should teach you what you need to know about copyrighted material. - Vague Rant 09:07, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC) Whoa there, IP! In the link, it essentially says "Don't copy material from other sources," which, unfortunately, is what you're doing. Why don't you to try your hand at writing your own articles? - Vague Rant 09:17, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)"
What I am pasting into the articles is text from my own homepage regarding these villages. So I did write it myself. But the information is not relevant for Wikipedia then I will not wast my time on it.
Jon.
Thanks dude for fixing my GLA article. it was pretty shit until you fixed it up a bit. thanks Wifki 12:12, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for pointing out that the bg on my user page wasn't quite right. I've made the background change you suggested. But yeah, feel free to use any element of my page you want. I kinda got the inspiration for it from Tεx τ urε, although I took a more minimalist approach to that design. I've also taken a while making it better and better, and will probably keep screwing around with it. For some reason, its one of the best parts of wikipedia heh. gl with whatever you do with yours — siro χ o 04:44, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
PS: Thanks for signing that unsigned comment on my user-talk page too. (;
Are the capitalisation changes you're making (The Rutles -> the Rutles, e.g.) part of any wikipedia policy? Varitek 01:41, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I noticed that you marked Keiyo for speedydeletion back on Oct. 30th... but that notation was deleted by an anon, and the page seems to have remained. I've re-marked it for speedy due to it's copyvio and apparent reposting of another deleted article, but if you could mark down why you initially marked it for speedy and any other comments you had on it's talk page, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Arcuras 16:07, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
Hey there, Vague. I noticed a lot of the great work you've been doing, and I think that you would make a great administrator. With about 41/2 months of experience, >1000 edits, and admirable work with copyvios, I think that you'll be supported by most. I also know you a bit from personal experience, and I'd be honoured to nominate you. If you accept, please leave me a note on my talk page (this is unofficial), and I'll put in a nomination (you should accept again there officially). I look forward to your response :) -[[User:Frazzydee| Frazzydee| ✍]] 04:01, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
You had said: Hey there. I just noticed that your latest article was imported from another source. If you own or have permission to use the copyright for this material, please indicate this on the talk page of your article. Otherwise, we can't accept it here. If you want to rewrite the article in your own words, please do so on the "/Temp" subpage of the article. Also, regardless of whether this article infringes on copyright, we welcome any other original contributions you may wish to make. Thanks! - Vague | Rant 10:04, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
I am a student of Saveetha Engineering College and I have posted the information from my college prospectus. I have got the permissions to use this information. So I would like the page to be restored so that I can add more info.
Thanks.
Cnu 10:58, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, re: your kind remarks regarding another copyright violation. Hu 07:11, 2004 Nov 24 (UTC)
Hi Vague. I recently noticed that a bunch of articles related to Rebellion were in a bit of a tangle. I wrote a description of the problem with a request for advice, but I can't find anywhere to put it as all the collaborative pages seem to deal only with single articles. I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at my post (currently pasted at the bottom of my talk page) and tell me where the most appropriate place to put it is. Thanks! BanyanTree 09:57, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Whoah! Talk about having my mind blown! I don't recall hearing about the "racist" accusations before. I believe you, but do you think it needs to be sourced with an external link? BTW, nice job on your edits. I would love to upload an image, too. Any ideas on where I could find an acceptable (such as non-copyvio) image for the page? -- Viriditas 08:51, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip. I hadn't realized that non-English articles were so common that they had their own dedicated tag... I should of course have checked for copyvio though. — Asbestos | Talk 11:24, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out that copyvios have to be reported on a separate page. I had been under the impression that the copyvio tag/category would be enough. I've meanwhile also added the older copyvio candidates I had identified previously. -- MarkSweep 07:38, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
In addition.
Hello Vague, also thanks for the remarks about copyrights. I've added some words about it in the talk page of the new article (universal virtual computer).
--
Jrvanderhoeven 11:19, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Your reversion suggesting that I was "disrupting" Wikipedia by adding a caption to a photo is misguided. You need to re-read Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. It's not about that kind of edit - it refers to disingenuous changes, moves, or arguments. - Nunh-huh 04:27, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The anon who began both of these articles informed me on my Talk page that you had marked the latter as a copyvio. The anon placed the same text on both pages, as well as the Temp page. I've looked at the source, and it seems to me that Leo Gaje, as it currently stands, is sufficiently reworded. Would you disagree with deleting Leo T Gaje Jr and recreating it as a redirect to Leo Gaje? -- Slowking Man 23:22, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
I am the inventor of Unemployment Score and the CEO of Scorelogix and have full copyrights to all the content that I had tried to post related to unemployment, unemployment risk, unemployment risk, job migration, Scorelogix, living standards, etc, since I believed that all of these topics are very well related and I wanted to share our research and insights through this encyclopedia.
Note that we are the pioneer in the field of unemployment and employment risk scoring and our product is very simplistically called Unemployment Score, so it appeared to some moderators that we are trying post commercial links, but that's not the case since. We have many other ways to sell our product, but our prime intention here is to share the research and knowledge only through relevant topics. I would like to hear from anyone who thinks 'unemployment' and 'unemployment score' and Scorelogix are not related and why anyone would consider them not worthy of this medium.
If you have any doubts about our company or solutions pertaining to unemployment (which is a major problem affecting millions of people) then visit our website at www.scorelogix.com and read about us on the 'about us' page. Users and companies that know Scorelogix already respect us, and I think it is a question of time before we become well-known for the problem we are addressing and eventually it will get here anyway.
Sincerely,
Suresh Annappindi CEO, Scorelogix
This is a reminder that one week ago you added Delta Chi and Delta chi to Wikipedia: Copyright problems. I have rewritten them as a stub at Delta Chi/Temp and a redirect at Delta chi/Temp. --[[User:Tony Sidaway| Tony Sidaway| Talk]] 12:26, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Does Megatokyo really need its own subcategory? - Vague Rant 10:15, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
I agree but I'm new here an I'm not sure how to get rid of it as a subcategory. user talk:RJFJR 00:45, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
So how do we get rid of it and replace it with just a regular page?
Thanks for removing extra tilde at User:Utcursch/wel. I never noticed it. utcursch 12:32, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Re: Copyright query from user Vague_Rant
Wednesday 8 December 2004
Dear mudthang
As we previously discussed, I'd like to bring responsible education and training to governments and honest citizens concerned with personal safety, wherever they may live.
Thank you for following through and posting information at various websites, including Wikipedia, as I requested.
Any further postings on my behalf are greatly appreciated.
Yours in self-protection, Tom Sotis Founder of IBFG/AMOK!
/ends
Thank you for being a diligent wikipedian and banishing my Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington page to the copyright section. I would have removed that line myself if you had given me 4 1/2 minutes. 194.201.20.90 11:29, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC) (unsigned)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here: I understand that your article was a WIP, but it included content from other sources, and as such I had to remove it as a copyvio. I know that by the time you were finished, it would have been reworded enough that it would no longer be a copyvio, but the copyvios would still be in the history, meaning we'd still be breaking the law. Sorry about this. Do feel free to do your rewriting in Word before posting it here. Thanks. - Vague | Rant 11:16, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
So, what's up with deleting my working copy and inserting your copy vio stuff while I am still working on it, within less than one hour? I am using multiple sources, referencing all used, and my word processor is on the fritz. This is helpful? Why not a Q to my talk page or are your some kind of automated thing? Vaoverland 11:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Switch to divs, trust me on this one. Not unless you explain what's wrong with [[Image:]] :-) JRM 12:34, 2004 Dec 12 (UTC)
that was fast, I already was confirming that, so copyright is granted under the GNU Free Documentation License ;), an the text needs much more improvements, try my best and hope I will get some support. Thanks again. http://wackowiki.com/SkipPer
I'm not sure which article you are referring to, but I forgot all about copyrights. I don't know how to, so can you just delete it for me. Thanks , Anonymous User
P.S. I'm signing off too. Thanks again.
Brad Levicoff, the article created in the space to which your former redlink from Zophar's Domain had led, is up for deletion. You might want to contribute comment and to vote at its entry there. Cheers! Samaritan 01:20, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Dear Vague Rant Due to your trigger-happy copyvio finger… A few people are feeling more than a little sore and bruised http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers 14:50, 18 Dec 2004 (GMT+2)
Dear Vague Rant You seem quite manic about flagging pages for copyvio problems but only suggest that users make a note on the problem page's talk page. Then you don't even bother to check back at the copyvio talk page, which you flagged in the first place.
Surely you are being remiss in not also telling the contributor to post a note on the Votes_for_Undeletion VfD page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion
Mmm… Now there's a thought…
Possible suggestion for comment: This entry was deleted as a copyvio. However, the original contributor has added a note re: permission to the talk page. The contributor did not know that she should also have mentioned this on WP:CP. The usual in cases like this, where we have been given email permission, is to restore (unless there is reason to disbelieve the statement of permission given, or there is a later complaint from the copyright holder of course). -- 15:10, 18 Dec 2004 (GMT+2)
For your wise and insightful feedback…
You are obviously extremely gifted at all things and unlike lesser mortals, you appear to be beyond making even stupid mistakes.
The humility and grace with which you dispense advice is truly a fine example to me.
Keep well
mudthang 18 Dec 15:55 (GMT+2)
Vague|Rant
In the blurb at the top of your user and this talk page, you clearly state:
If you are able to make it clear that you own or have permission (my emphasis) to use the copyright for the material you posted, please do so on the talk page of the article in question.
I followed this note, and tried to contact you, yet you allowed two pages to be deleted for copyvio.
You have asked me to be civil to Wiki users. I have not been "uncivil" to any other Wiki-user to date, besides the offense you have taken.
Yet, after suggesting that people contact you at your forum page, you ignored my request for contact and removed my posted query from your forum page. You also seem to have ignored my posting of copyright permission on the talk pages you yourself flagged for copyvio.
So really, in all due process, who has been uncivil? I have tried to contact you at the forum you posted a link to, and posted the source permission at the original Wiki-article talk page. But no response from you. Nada.
I am as unimpressed as you seem to be, with due cause.
Any feedback would be a pleasant and unexpected surprise.
Can you look The Ancient Track:The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft for me? it seems it might be copied verbatim from the back cover of the book. Is that fair use? (It's in the deadend list which is how I found it). RJFJR 02:59, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I reported it (my first time, I hope I did it right). Thank you for the clear directions.
RJFJR 01:00, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)