User talk:Contributor777
Welcome!
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Welcome to Wikipedia, Contributor777! I am Chemistrygeek and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Chemistrygeek (talk) 19:50, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
License tagging for Image:914715 27693 front.jpg
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License tagging for Image:Terminalreality.jpg
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Your image uploads
[edit]Hi Contributor777, thank you for your contributions. However, there are problems with the images you have uploaded to Wikipedia. You cannot release book covers and images from comics into the public domain. They are copyrighted images and must be tagged as such. If they are not, these images are copyright violations that must be deleted. Each copyrighted image you have uploaded needs the following:
- Attribution of the source of the material and, if different from the source, of the copyright holder. See: Wikipedia:Citing sources#When uploading an image.
- A copyright tag that indicates which Wikipedia policy provision is claimed to permit the use. For a list of image copyright tags, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Non-free content.
- A fair-use rationale for each use of the item, as explained at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline
I have fixed a few of the book covers (Image:Megbook.jpg, Image:Altentrench.jpg) that you have uploaded to show how this should be done. Please go through the other images you have uploaded and add the required information, or the images will be nominated for deletion. Please feel free to contact me on my talk page if I can help you with this. Regards, Bláthnaid 19:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
List of your image uploads and fixes needed
[edit]Thanks again for getting in touch via email. I'll repeat my note from our email exchange, just to keep our discussion in one place :-)
I understand that Wikipedia's image policy can be very confusing, but it is important that copyright images are correctly labelled. Please do not upload any other images of book covers, DVD covers, or comic characters as public domain images. On Wikipedia, this is a copyright violation and a blockable offence. The only images that you can release into the public domain are photographs that you have personally taken or drawings that you have made.
I will list the images that you have uploaded on your Wikipedia talk page, and tell you what each image needs, so you know exactly what each image needs. If the images are not fixed, they will have to be deleted soon.
I have removed the {{PD-self}} notice from your images, as they cannot be released into the public domain. Here are some of the problematic images, and what they need to be acceptable on Wikipedia. Please go through them and add what is needed.
- Image:Jane campion.jpg amd Image:Pt janecampion narrowweb 200x253.jpg -- These need a sources. Did you get them from websites? If you got them from a website, please write down its url on the image page.
- Image:PARTS ECRX-353-Coptic.jpg -- Also needs a source. Please add the source to the image page.
- Image:AinuCouple.jpg -- Also needs a source. Please add the source to the image page.
- Image:386528-133651-ebony-white large.jpg -- Needs a source. Did you get the image from a website, or did you scan it from a comic? It also needs information about the copyright holder: who publishes the comic, and who is the artist? Add this information to the fair use rationale that I have added to the image here.
- Image:103228-4211-grace large.jpg and Image:Fathom aspen poster-1.jpg -- have the same problems as the Ebony White image, so you can use the same rationale as the Ebony White image, and add the sources and copyright holders.
- Image:SPIRIT1.jpg -- All copyright images need to be included in an article. Please put this in a suitable article, or it will be tagged as an orphaned image and deleted.
- Image:Meg4big.gif -- Put this in a suitable article, or it will be tagged as an orphaned image and deleted.
- Image:Jackbrowndvd.JPG -- this needed a fair use rationale, which I've added. Please copy and use this rationale in any other DVD covers you upload.
- Image:APLogo.jpg -- also needed a fair use rationale, which I've added. Please copy and use this rationale in any other logos you upload.
- Image:Aspen MTL.jpg -- copy the rationale from the Image:APLogo.jpg logo, and add the source and copyright holder.
- Image:Minor6 b.jpg, Image:Minor5 b.jpg, Image:Minor9 b.jpg, Image:Minor8 b.jpg -- Where did you get these images? "Matti Tibbi", "Timo Korbela", and "Advisory Board on Romani Affairs in Finland" are written at the top of the images, so they are not your own work.
- Image:11930865bl7.jpg, Image:Mollytheghost.jpg, Image:Choopie2.jpg, Image:Big1.jpg, Image:Mg.jpg, Image:Arisa.jpg, and Image:Print EkosPreviewSE.jpg, are in articles that have been nominated for deletion, so I'll leave them until the discussion about the articles is over. Bláthnaid 19:40, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free media (Image:Meg4big.gif)
[edit] Thanks for uploading Image:Meg4big.gif. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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Follow up from email
[edit]Thanks again for editing the images you want to try and keep :-)
Image:386528-133651-ebony-white large.jpg. Image:103228-4211-grace large.jpg, Image:Jackbrowndvd.JPG Image:APLogo.jpg, Image:Aspen MTL.jpg Image:APLogo.jpg, Image:Fathom aspen poster-1.jpg are all perfect now. Thank you for helping to fix them.
If you want to keep Image:SPIRIT1.jpg and Image:Meg4big.gif, you need to put them into a suitable article as soon as you can. Copyrighted images have do be in at least one article.
As I said in my email to you, the discussion about the Perhapanauts articles is here, if you want to take part in it. If the articles are deleted, I'm afraid the images will have to be deleted too.
Finally, I have nominated Image:Jane campion.jpg, Image:Pt janecampion narrowweb 200x253.jpg, Image:PARTS ECRX-353-Coptic.jpg, Image:AinuCouple.jpg, Image:Minor6 b.jpg, Image:Minor5 b.jpg, Image:Minor9 b.jpg, Image:Minor8 b.jpg for deletion.
Phew, that's everything :-) Please let me know if I can be of anymore help in the future. Bláthnaid 19:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
A further note about images
[edit]You really, really need to read through Help:Image page, particularly with regards to copyright and fair use rationale. Everything you've been uploading is copyrighted stuff, and yet it's all been uploaded with "public domain" copyright tags, which are grossly inappropriate. People have reached out to you multiple times--as recently as yesterday--about your image uploads. And yet today, after your conversation with Blathnaid, you uploaded Image:Boney.jpg and Image:AphroditeIX.jpg, which share the exact same problems as your earlier uploads.
You also consistently upload enormous images and should take a second to read our guidelines about size and resolution of non-free comic book images.
Given my own proclivities, I really appreciate your taking the time to upload comics-related images, but you need to get a handle on how to properly do image uploads, or else people are just going to start deleting these images, and you'll have wasted your time. Why not take a little while to figure out how to do them right so they'll last and won't create work for other people? Cheers. Ford MF (talk) 14:18, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Spirit (comics)
[edit]I have to ask, seeing that now two editors have now reverted your undiscussed image change, to please not remove the SHB image at Spirit (comics). We work via consensus here on Wikipedia, and discuss major changes on article talk pages. As I gather from some of the posts above, this may simply be a matter of having the time to read through some of the policies, both of Wiki in general and the Comics Project in particular. Thanks for understanding, and happy Wiki'ing. --Tenebrae (talk) 00:35, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free media (Image:SPIRIT1.jpg)
[edit] Thanks for uploading Image:SPIRIT1.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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Your recent edits
[edit] Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Matthew (DC Comics). Thank you.
Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Matthew (DC Comics), as minor if (and only if) they genuinely are minor edits (see Help:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.' Thank you. --Oneiros (talk) 11:23, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
- Sigh. It's a year later and you haven't learned.--Oneiros (talk) 21:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- You know, I was going to make the same reminder before I realized you were a fairly experienced user. Is there any reason why you have such an aversion to edit summaries? Adding one makes it much easier on those of us who watch pages, especially those which are frequently vandalized or which can be contentious. Please, do it for us! --Midnightdreary (talk) 17:32, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Comic images
[edit]Image:Boney.jpg, Image:AphroditeIX.jpg, and Image:The Sandman Endless Nights 1600x1200.jpg have been tagged for deletion because you claimed that they were in the public domain. As I said above, you cannot claim that comic images are in the public domain because you are not the copyright holder. Claiming that the work is in the public domain is a copyright violation and may result in being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you for adding the sources, but the images also need:
- A copyright tag. For comics this is {{non-free comic}}. Copy and paste {{non-free comic}} onto the images.
- A fair-use rationale for each use of the item. Examples of rationales are here, or you can copy a rationale from your other images.
Please add these to the images as soon as possible. Regards, Bláthnaid 19:22, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of A Mother's Recompense (film)
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Proposed deletion of Gangsta M.D.
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Image without license
[edit]Unspecified source for Image:AinuCouple.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:Arcana.jpg
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Flag icons
[edit]Hello and thank you for your editing here at wikipedia. Please be aware that per the guidelines at WP:FLAG we are no longer putting flags in the infoboxes on any pages. Your help in following this policy will be appreciated. Thank you for your time and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 22:51, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
- I concur with MarnetteD; we are not using flag icons in infoboxes, like you just did here. Please just link directly to the countries. Thanks, Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:49, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
- Hello, did you not read my message about adding flag icons? Please stop adding them. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:20, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Actor infboxes
[edit]Hello again. You seem to be using an out of date actor infobox which contain several fields that have been discontinued or which have been renamed. Please feel free to copy the infobox from this page Template:Infobox Actor for future entries. MarnetteD | Talk 22:59, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Re:Image mistakes
[edit]Hi, sorry for not replying earlier (I've been on holiday). If you want to get an image you uploaded deleted, copy and paste this:
{{Db-g7}}
onto the image's page, and an administrator will delete the image for you. If you want me to see if the images are suitable for Wikipedia before you upload them, you can post a link to website the image is on on my talk page or send me an email. Your new uploads look great, you just need to add a non-free use rationale to them. You can copy the rationale from this image. By the way, there is no need for you to apologize as you are doing good work :-) Bláthnaid 18:27, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
The "language" of a film
[edit]Please stop adding inappropriate language categories to films that feature a few words of that language. There may be some very brief Swahili dialogue in it, but by no stretch of the imagination is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to be placed in Category:Swahili-language films. Thanks. Ford MF (talk) 16:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
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The above articles
[edit]Hi. I've moved the two articles referenced above to your userspace. You can find them at User:Contributor777/Cinema of Bolivia and User:Contributor777/Cinema of Venezuela. While both of these were valid WP:CSD#A3 candidates, as each consisted only of a phrase and some templates, it seems that you may intend to develop them further, even though you had already left them and moved to other articles. If you do not intend to develop them further, please mark them {{db-u1}} to indicate that you are finished with them. If you do, please feel free to move them back to article space when you have brought them into line with guidelines. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:40, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
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Flag icons
[edit]Hello, you have been asked to stop adding flag icons to film articles, but you did so again here, not to mention that you overlinked Coppola in the infobox. Please follow the guidelines! —Erik (talk • contrib) - 03:42, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Contributor777!! I just noticed that you added Ran to the List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. Ran was never nominated for the award, and since this list currently has "Featured List" status, you should have first thoroughly checked this out before putting an erroneous piece of information into an article that is part of Wikipedia's very best. Therefore, please stop making unuseful contributions to this article.BomBom (talk) 19:54, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Films roll call and coordinator elections
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WikiProject Films coordinator elections - voting now open!
[edit]Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 20:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Kingdom Hearts Project
[edit]Hi, some members of the Video games project noticed the creation of the KH Project and task force. Given that you created the task force page immediately after the project page, I assumed you had no intention of furthering the project and sent it to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion and you are encouraged to leave some comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Kingdom Hearts. (Guyinblack25 talk 05:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC))
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Flag Icons
[edit]You have been asked more than once to not add flag icons to infoboxes yet you continue to do so. Please stop making unnecessary extra work for others. You help in this will be appreciated. MarnetteD | Talk 18:54, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Comic book creators
[edit]I see you have made Category:Comic book creators and are adding it to comic writers and artists but I can't quite work out what it is for, because:
- The creators are already in a much more specific category: like American comics writer.
- We already have Category:Comics creators which is the parent category of the comics writers and comics artists categories.
So even if we did need that category we would try and avoid categorising people in it and move them off to more accurate categories (where it is clear a it isn't in some stubs, it is clear in those articles you've added to the category you made). Although I may be missing something. (Emperor (talk) 03:01, 15 October 2008 (UTC))
- You've started adding this again and I still don't know why. We do need to resolve this first. (Emperor (talk) 22:58, 22 October 2008 (UTC))
- It is worth noting that you shouldn't be adding people to Category:Comics creators unless it is unclear what their nationality/area is (which should be rare for articles that are notable) and, as you'll see in that category, all articles should be moved off to more specific categories. I have undo any additions you've made (that I found) and will be aiming to clear that category out, as much as possible so I'd ask you not keep trying to add the category back again. (Emperor (talk) 05:03, 16 December 2008 (UTC))
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Flag Icons again
[edit]You've been adding flag icons inappropriately to articles without stating your reasons. Please state your reasoning in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups#Using national flags to represent expatriate people. DHN (talk) 19:21, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Portal:Neo-druidism
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WikiProject Films November 2008 Newsletter
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Copyright
[edit]Please don't add text you have taken from other published sources to Wikipedia. This is a copyright violation and is not allowed. You can check WP:COPYRIGHT for more info on this. I have already deleted two articles, including Vampire Hunter D: Tale of the Dead Town, because they were partly lifted literally from websites. Fram (talk) 14:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
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January 2009
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Konami portal
[edit]I've deleted Portal:Konami per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Konami. In case you have further use for it in your userpage, let me know.--Tikiwont (talk) 09:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Films January 2009 Newsletter
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WikiProject Films February 2009 Newsletter
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WP:FILMS Coordinator nominations
[edit]WP:FILMS Coordinator Election
[edit]WikiProject Films March 2009 Newsletter
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Flags redux
[edit]And again, please stop adding flags to infoboxes. You have been asked to stop this multiple times now. Garion96 (talk) 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, there shouldn't be a flag on Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth either. Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons). Garion96 (talk) 16:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Films April 2009 Newsletter
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Kingdom Hearts
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Copyright problems with Domain (novel)
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Jack Kirby
[edit]Hey there. In case you weren't aware, I nominated Jack Kirby for "Good Article" despite some issues we knew it had; we figured we'd take a chance and see if we're able to fix it up on the go. The review has just started, and the reviewer has identified a number of trouble spots in need of work. We may not be able to fix it up enough to get it to GA at this time, but I think this would be a great opportunity to put some work into improving the article in general. See the reviewer's comments and fix anything you can, or just have a look at the article and work on anything you can identify yourself. Thanks, and thanks for what you've already done on this one. :) BOZ (talk) 23:22, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Copyright problems with The Children of the Pool
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Proposed deletion of The Children of the Pool and Other Stories
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Copyright problem: Romani people in Brazil
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- Also a concern, Alan Moore's Songbook. It has very little text in it, but what it has seems to be copied from [1]. Another Suburban Romance is copied almost verbatim from [2]. I've listed this two, as they need rewriting. Since there was other material on the page 30 Days of Night: Red Snow, I've just removed the plot description. I wonder from these if you are unaware that official synopses and advert blurbs may be governed by copyright and can't be used without verification of compatible licensing, just as with any other previously published text, unless handled in accordance with WP:NFC. While we might suspect that publishers and other advertisers are happy to have their material disseminated in this way, we can't presume that, particularly as our license allows commercial reuse and modification. Many companies that do allow reuse of press releases, for instance, do not allow modification or commercial reuse. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:58, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
- Other articles blanked pending revision or verification of permission include Eduardo Sánchez, Fountain Society, Niceland (Population. 1.000.002), Clive Barker: Visions of Heaven and Hell and Born (film). In each of these, the majority of the article is made up from text copied from other sources. Since there is little other text, you may wish to consider writing new versions in the temporary spaces listed at the front of each that do not contain this copied text. If you have questions about the process, please let me know. Meanwhile, although you were notified on May 14th of the potential of blocks if you continued to place copyrighted text on Wikipedia, I see that you did it again yesterday in The Children of the Pool and Other Stories. Please, if you do not understand our copyright policies, seek clarification. I would happy to explain if you need assistance. I will be watching your talk page for a time. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:35, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
←It seems as though you may have copied the article Native American cinema from another Wikipedia article, but since you didn't identify its origin (which would be a GFDL violation unless you were the only contributor of creative content), I can't be sure. In any case, the text was used prior to the establishment of that article in [3]. Unless it can be verified that this material was on Wikipedia prior to August of 2007, we have no choice but to assume it is a copyright violation. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:13, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Additional articles, copyright concerns
[edit]I have blanked Frank Marshall (film producer), as text you added to that article was previously published at Yahoo.com. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:22, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Carlos Meglia also seems to be an issue. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Frankly this is not acceptable. I ask that you remove all offending material or post a list of articles that you have added copyright material to. If you post anymore copyright material then you will be blocked. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 04:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
When adding names to this list, please do not just copy the reference used for preceding names. An editor spent a long time looking for those sources, and if they are simply copied for authors that are not found in those sources, it makes them useless and a BLP violation.YobMod 08:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Copyright concerns, discussion
[edit]Thank you for your note. I am not surprised to hear that your infringement resulted from misunderstanding, but I do have to emphasize that you must not continue placing copied text on Wikipedia. Most of the time, other websites will not be usable in this way. I understand that you were just looking to contribute. From the majority of your edits, I can see that you have good intentions. But it's important to understand that Wikipedia requires that we write the text we add in our own words unless we can prove that the text is free for use (public domain or from another GFDL site) or unless we use little bits in quotation marks as the rules say at WP:NFC. Wikipedia is based in the United States, and it has to comply with US copyright law, or it can get into trouble. Let me know if you have any questions about this. As I said above, I would happy to explain if any of this is unclear. You can also ask me if at some point you want to add text and aren't sure if you can (I'm sure you might also find answers to that at the help desk). I would by no means want to see you blocked from editing over misunderstanding, but policy requires that we protect the project from this legal problem, so I do ask you to be careful with text you add from now on. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:28, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, you certainly can, but rewriting is not always as easy as it sounds. You'll want to be careful to rewrite the material completely in your own words. If it follows too closely on the original source, it will still be a copyright infringement. It can still be a copyright infringement even if it doesn't use the original language, if it is in the same structure and includes the same information as the original. (For example, you couldn't take the sentence "Jessica's daughter is a beautiful girl, with skin like ivory and eyes like Caribbean waters on a sunny day" and rewrite it "Jessica's daughter is a lovely woman, with bone-white skin and eyes like the waters near the Caribbean islands when there are no clouds in the sky." If you're only substituting words that mean the same thing, in more or less the same order, you aren't revising enough. I'd be happy to help you if you have any questions about a particular paraphrase. (See Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing for a user essay on the matter.) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:39, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- I wanted to note that the first batch came due for processing today at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 May 21. Some of these were deleted, some were cleaned. This depended in part on how much non-infringing material remained and in part on whether or not what remained led to a conclusion of notability. The ones that were deleted can certainly be recreated with clean text. Please consider adding reliable sources to verify how they meet the various notability guides. If you want access to any of the infoboxes in deleted versions for new articles, please let me know, and I will be happy to retrieve them for you.
- Again, I do ask you to be careful with writing your own versions to avoid further infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Most of the copyright problems have been removed without needing to delete the articles into which they were placed. However, the entire text of Native American cinema seems to have come from [4]. It's a shame to lose the article altogether, so I thought to point it to you in case you had opportunity and interesting in creating at least a new stub in your own words. If you do, and you want access to any of the formatting (templates, infoboxes, etc.) in the old, please let me know, and I'll be happy to supply this for you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:04, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Films May 2009 Newsletter
[edit]The May 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 23:20, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Official language of Morocco
[edit]Dear Contributor777,
Unfortunately you added in an unsourced inaccurate statement that Berber is an official language in Morocco. Only Standard Arabic is official recognised, with the majority of people speaking Moroccan Arabic (which is a dialect) as their mother tongue. I have therefore had to revert.
Regards,
AlexandrDmitri (talk) 16:34, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Films June 2009 Newsletter
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WikiProject Films July 2009 Newsletter
[edit]The July 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 00:48, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Copyright violation again
[edit]Contributor777, I have reverted this edit you made today because it is plagiarized from press copy such as this. Considering your recent and lengthy history with copyright violations, and the subsequent advice given you by Moonriddengirl, I am surprised that you would be copy-pasting text again. Even small infractions of copyright infringement must be taken very seriously. if I discover that you are again violating the Wikipedia policy on use of copyrighted text, you will be blocked from editing. — CactusWriter | needles 19:38, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
LGBT issues
[edit]Please do not add names to the list of bisexual people without a source, especially not living people, who must be self-identified as bisexual and use the label on themselves. Also, just an FYI, LGBT categories and religious categories are not supposed to be used on biographies of living people unless the subject self-identifies with the label in question and the label is relevant to their public lives. Thank you. Asarelah (talk) 02:42, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Dates
[edit]Hello. Please note that we no longer wikify dates. Thanks. The JPStalk to me 16:35, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Films August 2009 Newsletter
[edit]The August 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 03:38, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Flag icons -- final time
[edit]Contributor777, you have been requested repeatedly to please stop adding flag icons to the infoboxes of articles. It is contrary to WP guidelines at WP:MOSFLAG. These messages [5], [6], [7], [8], [9] extend back for an entire year now. Continuing to add the flag icons is considered disruptive editing for which you can be blocked. If you any questions about this, feel free to contact me. — CactusWriter | needles 18:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
September 2009
[edit] Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary for your edits. Thank you. Omarcheeseboro (talk) 16:42, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
WP:FILM September Election Voting
[edit]The September 2009 project coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting seven coordinators from a pool of candidates to serve for the next six months; members can still nominate themselves if interested. Please vote here by September 28! This message has been sent as you are registered as an active member of the project. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 01:35, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
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WikiProject Films September 2009 Newsletter
[edit]The September 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Whit
[edit]Thanks for your self-reversion there. Definitely not a Culture novel. --John (talk) 20:35, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
October 2009
[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to William Blake, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 16:40, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
WP:FILMS October Newsletter
[edit]The October 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. The newsletter includes details on the current membership roll call to readd your name from the inactive list to the active list. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 05:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Metal Gear
[edit]Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Metal Gear, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Metal Gear and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Metal Gear during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. MrKIA11 (talk) 22:59, 5 November 2009 (UTC)