Talk:Pawn Stars

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My removal of copyright-protected material

I have removed copyright-protected material that was plagiarized by User:DisneyRah and User:68.96.200.190 from History.com. This is copyright infringement, and can get Wikipedia in legal trouble, and can result in loss of editing privileges for the editors who engage in this behavior. DisneyRah, in fact, has been blocked for two weeks, as this is his fourth copyright violation, her third and final warning having been given to him seven days ago.

Although the Episode Guide at History.com does not display a complete list of all the episode summaries, and appears to be a schedule of only some of the episodes currently airing (meaning that its content is not immutable), I concluded that all of the ones added by DisneyRah and User:68.96.200.190 were copied from that site, and removed them, based on several factors: First, all of them had the History.com ref name tag placed at the end of them as a source. Second is DisneyRah's history of blatant copyright infringement, which includes deliberately ignoring and blanking repeated warnings on her Talk Page. Third is her Edit Summary, in which he admitted that she had no intention of paraphrasing the material, but merely cutting and pasting it for someone else to deal with. In addition, the summaries are written exactly like the sort of promotional pieces one would find on a site for the show, filled with colloquialisms, metaphors, POV, and rhetorical questions, which are not appropriate for the formal tone required in an encyclopedia. Finally, a couple of them, like this one by Bigblueplanet, are for episodes that have not yet aired, which means that History.com source would fail verification.

There were two summaries for episodes that have aired, and did not contain these informalities, so I paraphrased them and kept them in. Nightscream (talk) 00:19, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of Wikilinks to articles

I would like to know why are some people editing out the proper wikilinks to items. For example, Chrysler Imperial in the article should actually redirect to Imperial_(automobile)#1964-1966 due to the model year repeatedly stated in the show (and the fact that the car in that model year range was "just" an Imperial). The purpose of Wikipedia is the free dissemination of information, not hindrance of information.--Cantthinkofausername 10:04, 31 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cantthinkofausername (talk • contribs)

Okay, why is my signature now making a bot say i'm doing it unsigned?--Cantthinkofausername 20:39, 31 December 2009 (UTC)