User talk:Proskauer

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Mark Weber

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Mark Weber, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.adl.org/holocaust/weber.asp. As a copyright violation, Mark Weber appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Mark Weber has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Mark Weber. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Mark Weber, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. NawlinWiki 20:55, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I went back to the website, which which had published this highly negative article on Holocaust denier, Mark Weber. There was no mention of copyright anywhere on the website, that I could find, so apparently there is an assumption of copyright these days. Proskauer 17:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Mark Weber -- I think you will find that any Wikipedia article that is a cut-and-paste from a website will be deleted as a presumed copyright violation, whether or not the website specifically asserts a copyright. See the following notice that now appears at the bottom of every edit screen:

Do not copy text from other websites without permission. It will be deleted.

Rather than taking the time you took to write me a nasty note, why not rewrite the article in your own words? I have no argument with Mr. Weber's notability, only with the cut-and-paste. NawlinWiki 18:52, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure my note quite rose to the level of nasty; I was aiming more for "irony with a certain edge" which I had hoped would fall just short of facetiousness. On the other hand, "nasty" is on the polite side of sarcastic so I guess there's some room for us to agree. I should have added that I concede your are maintaining standards on a public-forum encyclopedia, which is probably on the far side of impossible, so credit where credit's due to you.

Frankly, I'm not a terribly "visual" person. Nothing wrong with my eyesight that reading glasses won't successfully interfere with, I'm just more auditory, so I tend to miss things on the screen page that others find obvious. Probably there are a lot of people out there like me who don't consider themselves otherwise mentally deficient. Thanks for responding and explaining. I had another article deleted and blocked permanently, recently, on the basis of "lack of notability". This was IMHO a thinly veiled attack on the subject matter -- however neutral the article -- and was also IMO outright censorship and information control. However that's another issue and if you delve more deeply you'll see I have been stuck with one of the most malignant and evil disapprobations imaginable. Yes, even worse than "cigarette smoker", which I don't even do any more. Will get around to writing article later. I'm too busy trying to be humorous.Proskauer 20:53, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]