User talk:Jessealbert

United Talent Agency

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the United Talent Agency article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! Melchoir 06:02, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Melchoir, I appreciate your efforts, however I am an employee of the United Talent Agency and am authorized to post the content that I have and gladly waive all copywrite issues that might apply to it's posting on Wikipedia. Thanks and please repost. Jesse Albert, Special Programs Manager, United Talent Agency.

I see. Well, ordinarily I would direct you to Wikipedia:Copyright problems, which explains how to donate content under "Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia". You could go through that process... However, in this case, I have to be frank and warn you that the text in question is way too promotional for Wikipedia; see WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a soapbox and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. It would save everyone's time and effort if you just wrote something new! Melchoir 06:33, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And I will, however leaving copyright infringement notification up is still incorrect and considering that we represent writers, directors, authors, etc, sends a horrible and potentially newsworthy message that would be incorrect. Just being frank.

I sympathize, but considering how seriously some writers, directors, and authors take their copyrights, I'm going to do this by the book. I'll restore the copyvio tag, which says rather clearly, "Please do not edit this page for the time being. If you plan to write a new article, please follow this link to a temporary subpage." This procedure is done for technical reasons you might not have anticipated; for one, it eliminates the copyrighted text from the page history. Don't worry, the ugly notice will be gone in a few days. This is completely routine and very common on Wikipedia, so I doubt anyone will take note of it in the interim. Melchoir 19:33, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, it's gone already! Melchoir 19:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]