Rrude

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Kenneth Lay

Hello! I've noticed that you've been involved in the dispute over the following trivia item in the Kenneth Lay article:

• Lay recruited fellow Beta Theta Pi fraternity brother Jeffrey Skilling to work at Enron.

Rather than continue to edit war, I invite you to discuss the item over at Talk:Kenneth Lay and try to come to some sort of consensus. -- MisterHand 15:29, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

question

on the page saul steinberg (business) you removed vandilization did you also block this user from making further changes?--Holden Steinberg 22:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Arturo Ritti

Thanks for cleaning out Arturo Ritti's garbage. Check out this page for more info on his vandalism. Nova SS 16:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• Following up on the Jeffrey Skilling article... I had previously maintained a semi-neutral stance on the so-called "trivia" about him and Kenneth Lay being frat brothers. When he added all those sarcastic remarks about it being coincidental, as I had expected him to, the game was up and I deleted that so-called "trivia" altogether, from both articles. I will continue to do so (1) if and when it arises again and (2) if you don't beat me to it and (3) in the continued absence of any actual evidence that their being frat brothers has anything to do with the Enron scandal, or anything else for that matter. Maybe that user was blackballed by that frat, or maybe he's just got some axes to grind in general. Wahkeenah 05:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• I've had it with that guy. I'm not reverting any more of his nonsense. I'll let you and others figure this one out. Wahkeenah 20:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Thank you for your help in combatting his vandalism. I will continue to keep an eye out for his vandalism and I encourage you to do the same. You are not alone in this fight against vandalism. Rrude 20:51, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• What I will do is stop making comments to him, since that only seems to encourage him. "Don't feed the squirrels", right? Wahkeenah 21:02, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• You might want to check the wording on your latest comment. I think you meant to say that "trivia" posting should NOT be on the Jeff Skilling page. Wahkeenah 03:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Corrected. Thank you for pointing that out. Rrude 03:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, check out my user page again. I have more thoroughly documented this guy. I authorize you and Wahkeenah to edit that page if you can document him more thoroughly. Nova SS 03:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• I recommend that we stop interacting with this guy, and just silently revert his "work". I'm sure part of the thrill is the "dialogue", and if we don't interact, he will probably get bored with it eventually. Wahkeenah 11:34, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Agreed. Novasource will continue to track this guy and we can hopefully get him banned for his vandalism. Novasource has already started by giving him a warning on his page. Rrude 11:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
  • A good start would be for Novasource to request semi-protection for the pages in question, so that that looney can't use either an IP or a recently-registered user ID to mess with those pages. But we can let Novasource pursue that. Wahkeenah 11:44, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Beta article and blatant copyright violations

Stating an opinion on a talk page is not discussion. What you did replacing that copyrighted text was to violate the copyright of the Beta Theta Pi organization by releasing their work under your own name and sublicensing it for free use internationally. If you don't understand what that means or how you did so you need to reread the welcome message above and closer attention to what you are doing. When you added that back you ignored the text written above the Save page button warning you. You also deleted the following source note I wrote specifically addressing this issue: Please don't add copyrighted content to this article. It is clearly stated below (just above the edit summary box) that copyrighted content will be deleted because it is incompatible with the GFDL license under which you agree to release your contributions. I am giving you your last warning about copyright violation. For your convenience the text you willfully disregarded was: Content that violates any copyright will be deleted. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable. You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL. You are endangering the legal standing of the Wikimedia Foundation by your actions. They are unacceptable. I will not hesitate to block you for any future copyright violations. Any attempts to replace the copyrighted content while editing from an IP address will result in semiprotection of the article.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 19:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Copyrights. When a website has (C) 2006 Beta Theta Pi Fraternity written at the bottom of it that means that whom or whatever is written after the date is claiming copyright on the content of that page. This means that you do not have ownership of it. It also means that unless otherwise explicitly stated you do not have the right to publicly distribute and sublicense it. It is not possible to copyright and idea or concept, merely the text or image conveying it. Thus you can rewrite all of the historical details in your own words and contribute them, however copying the text (plagiarizing) an entire website is not acceptable. An analogy would be when writing a paper for college and using a journal article you could summarize the main points and add a footnote saying where you got your information from or you could copy twenty paragraphs out of the middle of the journal article and make no mention of the source of your information. One of these would be appropriate while the other could get you suspended from my alma mater on the first offense and permanently kicked out on the second offense.

I don't know about other frat articles. I don't follow them much. I noticed the copyright violation on this page in particular while watching the Special:Recent changes feed. Your logic of allowing violation here because there is a violation elsewhere is illogical. An appropriate analogy would be never to fix any potholes because there might be another one somewhere else. The specific text you are trying to add is not compatible with Wikipedia's licensing as we do not have permission to use it. It can be rewritten in different words or permission from the appropriate organization contact (like the president of the frat) could be granted to license it under the terms of the GFDL. You can learn more about it at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. As a hard and fast rule as mentioned above and which you are reminded of every time you hit the edit button, content that violates any copyright will be deleted. This would happen faster if a) more copyright violations weren't added, and b) if copyright violations weren't replaced after being removed. If you know of any other articles on fraternities, sororities, or any other subject that have copied the exact text of a written work in violation of copyright please let me know so I can delete that content as well. Better yet, you could delete it yourself. Be sure to cite the exact location of the source from which it was copied in a transparent way so that others can see why and what you did.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 21:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

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