Revolutionary

Please see my comments on Talk:Romanian Revolution of 1989. I don't want to bite your head off, but I think you need a lesson on the nature of copyright law. -- Jmabel 09:56, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

Copyright issues

Revolutionary, the rules of Wikipedia state that you may not submit material for which you do not own the copyright. You can only submit material if:

1. You created it,
2. The material is public domain, or
3. Wikipedia has written permission from whoever created it.

Furthermore, anything that you create and then submit is GFDLed, which means you no longer own exclusive copyright. This assertion on your user page is redundant -- by contributing, you are automatically giving permission to everyone and anyone to mercilessly edit your submissions.

There is a more thorough (and authoritative) description of the rules at Wikipedia:Copyrights. More things to read: Wikipedia:Tutorial, Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial (POV and NPOV discussed), and Wikipedia:Image_use_policy.

I am writing this because I saw your post to Main Page. While the tip was in good faith, it is not a good way to acquire images for Wikipedia (most of them are not free for the taking).

I do appreciate the work you do on Wikipedia, and I hope that you will continue to contribute. I just want to make sure that you are aware of the policies. -- Tim McCormack 19:47, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)

I came by to drop you a message for other reasons, then saw this. Have you by now either read and been able to understand the materials about copyright or found someone to explain them to you? (By the way, it's usually considered somewhat poor form to remove comments from your discussion page without archiving and linking.) -- Jmabel | Talk 18:43, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)

Apparently, you still don't understand. Revolutionary, I just saw the way you added an entire article from Encyclopaedia Britannica to the Apartheid article, here on Wikipedia. While the content is surely valid, there are rules that prevent users from adding that kind of content here, because it's copyrighted. That means that information is protected by law. It is considered intellectual property of whoever created it, and for that reason, you can't add it here. What you can do, however, is to read all that, create your own understanding of the text (interpreting it), and then add to the Apartheid article all the things you feel that could be good contributions to the page. That you can do. It's also a good idea to cite your information sources, when it's clear that you're basing yourself on somebody else's work.

Please, don't ignore the things we're writing on your talk page. We're just trying to help you. To make you understand the way things work on Wikipedia. I promise that, once you learn it, you'll see things can be quite enjoyable here. Think carefully.--Kaonashi 00:18, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

1989

...But what I really came to drop you a note about is that since you obviously have pretty good access to sources about December 1989 and a strong interest in the subject, you might want to look at the recent edits to History of Romania since 1989 and expecially the recent discussion at Talk:History of Romania since 1989. You may have more specifics to contribute than I do. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:43, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)

copyrights again

Glad to hear we are (at least potentially) covered; please see my question to you at Talk:Romanian Revolution of 1989. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:55, Nov 1, 2004 (UTC)

Song lyrics and copyright

Lyrics to songs such as Another Brick in the Wall are under copyright and cannot be posted to Wikipedia. -- Cyrius|✎ 16:15, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ole, Revolutionary

Ce zici să dai o raită şi pe la ro.wiki, să-ţi creezi şi acolo un utilizator şi să contribui? Te aşteptăm cu mare drag, şi bine ai venit în echipa Wikipedia! Dacă deja lucrezi la ro.wiki însă pe o adresă necunoscută, te invit să-ţi faci un cont de utilizator. --Danutz

Copyrights once more

Large chunks of text in Occupied Japan and Post-Occupation Japan lifted straight from Britannica Online. Please don't; see the numerous comments from others on this talk page, and also the big warning at the bottom of every edit page:

DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

-- JTN 23:47, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

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Image Tagging Image:Jhonen Vasquez IPEX 2002.jpg

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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags. -- Carnildo 07:26, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Liam_Lynch.jpg

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Image Tagging Image:Protestatar înarmat încearcă să-i apere pe cei din jur de forÅ£ele de represiune, TimiÅŸoara.jpg

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Propaganda Due

Hi! You may want to have a look at Propaganda Due and especially at reference. Any translation or bits of translation in a "Ceaucescu & Propaganda Due" subsection would be welcome. Santa Sangre

Image copyright problem with Image:Rodney_Caston.jpg

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Revolutionary's response: I don't know the license... and I have no idea how copyright works... Just... delete that picture if it violates anything before it causes some hassle. I don't know why I keep myself on this site if I have no idea how copyright works. I don't want to go through something like the beginning again.

Image Tagging Image:Liam Lynch.jpg

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Fred Gallagher's age

Hi Revolutionary, last October you added Fred Gallagher's year of birth to the article. What's your source for this? All I have is a rant, from which I concluded he was born either 1968 or 1969. Thanks, da Pete (ノート) 09:14, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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