User talk:Word Sliver

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May 2011

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary for your edits. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Shearonink (talk) 02:22, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Word Sliver, thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please remember to mark your edits as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thanks again! Shearonink (talk) 02:24, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you've been getting in a lot of edits since signing up as a contributor recently. I have a few requests...

please use edit summaries for your edits and
use the Preview button before you hit 'Save'.

Edit summaries let other editors know what your intention is for your edits and the Preview button is a great way to make sure that your edits don't have misspellings, are free of grammatical errors and that everything looks the way you want before you hit 'save'. Using the Preview Button can also keep the edit summary from getting clogged up with needless small edits. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 02:38, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've opened a discussion about word choices and adjectives on the Steven Spielberg article here. --Shearonink (talk) 02:57, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use File:PTTP.jpeg

Thanks for uploading File:PTTP.jpeg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

Go to the media description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Melesse (talk) 08:05, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:Guinevere Turner in Preaching to the Perverted.jpeg

Thanks for uploading File:Guinevere Turner in Preaching to the Perverted.jpeg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 19:05, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Guinivere Turner image in bondage hood article

Please stop re-uploading this image as an illustration for the bondage hood article. There are strict restrictions on Wikipedia's use of the fair-use copyright exemption: your use of this image to illustrate the bondage hood article is not one of them. Please see Wikipedia:Non-free content for more details.

If you want to refer to the Guinevere Turner image as an iconic representation of the bondage hood (and it's unclear as to whether it truly is a bondage hood -- there is, for example, no implication of the possibility of the costume's hood as a restraint in that image) you will need to provide verifiable reliable sources that back up that assertion. -- The Anome (talk) 09:20, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May 2011

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Talk:Bondage hood. Such edits are disruptive and appear to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.Shearonink (talk) 10:39, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please start using the following good editing practices in your future edits:

Use the minor edit button only for truly minor edits.
Use edit summaries for more of your edits.
Use the Preview button as you work on articles to keep their edit histories from getting clogged up with extraneous edits.

Shearonink (talk) 11:08, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clogging up the history

Yes, PLEASE stop filling up the history with all these tiny edits--I counted some 200 edits over the course of a few days. Also, you have provided two (2) edit summaries in all your career here. Please start using edit summaries. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 02:41, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:Rihanna sm.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Rihanna sm.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 07:05, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop

Will you please stop trying to upload copyrighted bondage hood images without making a proper fair use justification for their use?

It appears to me that you are just trying to use these images to illustrate articles on general topics, without sufficient justification. It doesn't matter how "iconic" an image is, or how many times you keep on doing the same thing over and over again, unless you can make a proper fair use justification (based on the strict interpretation of the fair-use rules -- a mixture of loose interpretation and special pleading is not enough), you are not going to be able to use any of these images, and they will keep on getting deleted over and over again, until you finally get blocked for abusing the process.

Please also read WP:OR. When you put your own analyses and interpretations into articles, without giving sources for those ideas, you are engaging in original research, which is not permitted in Wikipedia articles. When you do it in such a way as to provide a coatrack on to which to hang non-free-use images, you risk appearing to be gaming the system.

To spot the difference, please note that I have not deleted File:Jordan in Jubilee.gif, another image you have recently uploaded under a fair-use justification. Can you see the reason why this is different from the other images and uses? If not, please read WP:FAIRUSE again, until you can see the distinction. -- The Anome (talk) 13:27, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Bondage hood, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. You need to consider that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and that statements are to be backed up by references to reliable sources. Without such sourcing, editors are free to make whatever cuts they think are appropriate. Drmies (talk) 03:12, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have a page full of warnings and notifications, yet you never respond to any of them. I am not surprised that you are not responding here, even though it should be obvious now that WP:V does not allow you to just insert anything you like. The argument that more pictures would help you make the point is the clearest indication that the requirement for reliable sources is lost on you. That "the admins won't let [you]" suggests that you either don't get the point or don't want to get the point. Now, since you reverted three times, you'll get a 3R warning, and I am going to ask other editors to look into this. Drmies (talk) 03:41, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

3R warning

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Bondage hood. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.

In particular, the three-revert rule states that:

Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Drmies (talk) 03:41, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notification

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

Bondage hood

I have reverted your recent edits to Bondage hood. Wikipedia:Verifiability, a core Wikipedia policy, mandates that "all quotations and anything challenged or likely to be challenged be attributed in the form of an inline citation that directly supports the material". Drmies (talk · contribs) and I have challenged your unsourced additions to the article. The additions are currently either Wikipedia:Plagiarism ("the incorporation of someone else's work without providing adequate credit") or original research. Both are prohibited by policy or guideline.

When you have found the "external references" you promised in an edit summary, feel free to restore the content. But make sure that every paragraph you add is sourced to a reliable source. From Wikipedia:Plagiarism:

You can avoid inadvertent plagiarism by following these three rules:
INCITE: Cite your sources in the form of an inline citation after the phrase, sentence, or paragraph in question.
INTEXT: Add in-text attribution when you copy or closely paraphrase a source's words (see below for attributing public-domain sources).
INTEGRITY: Maintain text-source integrity by placing your inline citations in a way that makes clear which source supports which part of the text.

If you continue to revert the removals of the unsourced material, you will be blocked for edit warring. Cunard (talk) 08:20, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Jordan in Jubilee.gif listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Jordan in Jubilee.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:17, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]