User talk:MisterBorgia
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Ziphon (ALLears) 06:18, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free media (Image:JusticeLeague.png)
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Copyright problems
[edit]Hello. Concerning your contribution, International Justice network, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.ijnetwork.org/content/view/77/1/. As a copyright violation, International Justice network appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. International Justice network has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyright problems
[edit]Hello. Concerning your contribution, Tina Monshipour Foster, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://tinafoster.com/. As a copyright violation, Tina Monshipour Foster appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Tina Monshipour Foster has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Spamming and copyright violations
[edit]You cannot cut and paste material directly from other sites as this is a violation of copyright law and is taken very seriously here. Second, all of your contributions fall far short of meeting the site's NPOV policy, not to mention they're all written like advertisements. I urge you to stop and to read WP:NOT, WP:NOTABILITY and WP:BIO for starters. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Please don't waste your time trying to contest the deletion of copyrighted material. What you're doing is tantamount to vandalism of the site. Once more, I urge you to please stop and read this site's rules. Thank you. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- This is largely but not entirely true. If you were the author of that material when it was contributed to that other site, and you continue to own the intellectual property rights to the material, then you are perfectly free to contribute it here as well. Or, alternately, if the owners of that material authorized you to copy it here and release it here. There is a procedure for proving one has that kind of permission.
- Similarly, if you were plagiarized, if some site got hold of a paper you wrote, that had not been previously published on the net, and they copied it from you, with or without your permission, you would be allowed to contribute it here.
- And depending on the circumstances, you should have felt free to challenge the {{copyvio}} claim. I have done this exactly once. The guy who filed it was my first malicious wikistalker. He used to game the system, to impede my work, and this was one instance. At that time there was a backlog of almost a month in the processing of copyright violation claims. What I found when I defended myself against that bogus {{copyvio}} accusation was that lots of contributors with even less experience with the wikipedia were getting those kinds of accusations leveled at them -- but they didn't know where to respond. Some of the other victims had responded on their personal talk pages, with what sounded to me like credible explanations -- credible explanations that were very unlikely to be read by the administrators making the decisions. So, from my experience, the advice not to consider challenging the {{copyvio}} was not good advice.
- If you aren't sure if your challenger was correct I can help you try to get that material restored. Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 17:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi
[edit]Hi- R. fiend (talk) 16:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you VERY much!
[edit]I greatly appreciate your efforts to remove the copyrighted content from your article and I've withdrawn my objections. Thanks for your contribution and I hope you'll stay to contribute more. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 16:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
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a heads-up
[edit]I saw you worked on the Tina Monshipour Foster article.
I worked on some other articles on lawyers who worked on Guantanamo captives' cases. And maybe I got tunnel vision, and started too many. Articles on fourteen other lawyers were nominated for deletion two days ago. I started going through the articles in Category:Guantanamo Bay attorneys, and moving to my user space articles for which I was the sole author. This will give me the liesure to either find more material, so they could survive a nomination for deletion, or allow me to cannibalize the references, to use elsewhere. But those other people worked on, of course, I have left.
You worked on Ms Foster's article, is it still on your watchlist?
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 05:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
a heads-up
[edit]I guess you heard that Jawed Ahmad was killed yesterday. Sad. Geo Swan (talk) 05:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
- I heard, I just did a little updating on his profile... suggestions and tweaking would be greatly appreciated. thanks for the help. I haven't been on here for a while so my apologies for not getting back to you on your previous message. Now, if you can't tell, im a bit of a novice here - im not even sure if i should respond to your message here on my talk page or yours? at-any-rate, i hope you get this and look forward to helping clean-up some of these articles with you.
- Cheers!
- --MisterBorgia (talk) 11:39, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
- People differ on where they prefer to respond. I prefer to respond where the dialogue was first initiated, but I will sometimes leave a brief note on the other person's talk page, telling them I responded, as you did.
- Since you are a newcomer I took the liberty of putting a colon before each line of your response. When the page is rendered each colon indents the line one tab stop. The convention is that each response in a dialogue should be indented one stop further than the preceding one.
- I'll give you a list of the articles -- User:Geo Swan/review/Guantanamo Bay attorneys. Geo Swan (talk) 15:57, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
- You should also feel free to email me. If you go to User:Geo Swan or User talk:Geo Swan you can see a button labelled "email this user". I have registered a (hidden) email address with wikipedia. Other wikipedians can e-mail me. If I choose not to respond they don't learn my address. But I will respond to one from you. Actually, I think I have responded to every email I have received.
- Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)