User talk:Ohhellomai

November 2010

Your addition to BoA has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. TJRC (talk) 19:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

February 2011

Your additions made on February 9 to the following articles have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder.

Each of these additions was copied from http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu and pasted either verbatim or near-verbatim into the articles identified.

For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images copied and pasted from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. TJRC (talk) 00:55, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Ohhellomai. I see that you've already been around awhile and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 07:28, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

CCI Notice

Hello, Ohhellomai. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Contributor copyright investigations concerning your contributions in relation to Wikipedia's copyrights policy. The listing can be found here. For some suggestions on responding, please see Responding to a CCI case. Thank you. Good raise 04:39, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Following message was copied from my talk page. Good raise 10:52, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I received a CCI Notice from you for my latest Wiki edits. I work as the PR for a magazine and I have been editing our news onto Wikipedia, but apparently I have violated some rules by doing so. I think I was confused before as I thought if I completely cited our website as well as directly linking the exact news article I posted information from would suffice as a proper citation. I have re-edited my earlier posts, in hopes of editing the Wiki pages in an appropriate manner. From this point on, if I were to refer to our news articles as a source of information and re-write our news in a Wiki edit, would it be possible to have this CCI Notice revoked? I apologize for still being unfamiliar with all the editing rules on Wikipedia and violating these rules, but now that I am fully aware of my errors, I would greatly appreciate it if I could be forgiven for my errors and given another chance to properly contribute to the Wiki pages.Ohhellomai (talk) 09:21, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have withdrawn the request. That is not to say that everything is alright now. Let me try to explain what the problem is: When someone writes a text, that text becomes the intellectual property of that person. When that person puts said text on a website, he or she still owns that text, even if it's there for everyone to read. If now someone else comes and copies that text (or part of it) onto Wikipedia, that person is violating the author's copyright, i.e. breaking the law. Worse, that person is causing Wikipedia to break the law also, because Wikipedia becomes a distributor of the text copied onto it. Obviously, we cannot allow that. Citing the source, as you are apparently always doing, is unfortunately not enough. The source text needs to be paraphrased or (where appropriate) quoted. Alternatively, if you are in possession of the material's copyright, you can grant appropriate permissions. WP:IOWN explains how to do that. Either of these options will have to be taken for each of your text contributions for which that has not yet happened (of course excluding contributions not in violation of any copyright). In addition to fixing these problems with your past contributions, I strongly suggest you read WP:COI (in particular the section WP:COS) as well as refraining from adding more content from your magazine to Wikipedia until this has been sorted out. If you wish, you can reply to this message here or on my talk page. Regards, Good raise 10:52, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:25, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]