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Spot Fish

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a search with the contents of Spot Fish, and it appears to be very similar to another Wikipedia page: Spot croaker. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case. If you are intentionally trying to rename an article, please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to do this without copying and pasting. If you are trying to move or copy content from one article to a different one, please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and be sure you have acknowledged the duplication of material in an edit summary to preserve attribution history.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. CorenSearchBot (talk) 17:42, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Spot Fish

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Spot Fish. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Spot croaker. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Spot croaker – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Dewritech (talk) 20:31, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 22:35, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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Copy violation

This is to notify you that your article Spot fish has been tagged as a copy violation. Please read the Wikipedia policy on Copyright violations. --Epipelagic (talk) 22:28, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I moved the new post you made on User talk:Invertzoo to the bottom of the page, which is the usual place for a new post. I also made a comment there. --Epipelagic (talk) 23:44, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

You have removed the copy violation template with an edit summary referring to me as a vandal. You have also made the false claim that information from the Smithsonian Marine Research Department is is free for public use. You clearly are not familiar with their own terms of use. --Epipelagic (talk) 00:02, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

March 2015

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Spot Fish ‎, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Since it's your contributions that are in question as violating copyright, you should not remove the copyvio template. I've invited discussion at the talk page; feel free to provide a link to the site's terms of use where it says that these records are in the public domain or otherwise under a free license. —C.Fred (talk) 00:43, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Please stop continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Spot Fish, without resolving the problem that the template refers to. This may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing. Please see Talk:Spot Fish where the Smithsonian terms of use are quoted, and it's very clear from those terms that commercial use is not permitted—so this material is not under a free license. Regardless, you need to discuss the matter to get consensus before removing the tag. —C.Fred (talk) 00:53, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove the maintenance templates from Wikipedia articles without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Spot Fish. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:54, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Spot Fish shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:57, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Notice of report to administrators' incident noticeboard

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 01:06, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

WP:NLT

Wikipedia does not permit legal threats. If you wish to pursue legal action against Wikipedia, you are free to do so but you are not permitted to edit Wikipedia if you do do such. You are invited to retract such threats. The issue is that the text is under a certain license which restricts commercial use. Because Wikipedia is under CC BY SA 3.0, and permits commercial reuse of text this is an incompatibility with licensing which cannot be resolved. It's effectively a copyright violation. If you somehow own the copyright and can prove that you do, you can relicense this text via CC BY SA 3.0, then it will not be considered a copyright violation. But as it sits, it's a copyright violation. Tutelary (talk) 01:14, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Explanation

Whatever happens, there cannot be two Wikipedia articles both overviews about the same species of fish. So eventually the two will be merged. Invertzoo (talk) 17:27, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 04:55, 3 March 2015 (UTC)