User talk:Greenguitar3

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July 2009

Your recent addition to Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 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 web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:15, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Copyright block

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating copyright policy by copying text into Wikipedia from another source without verifying permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. Please take this opportunity to be sure you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to quote non-free text. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:55, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

You have again added copyrighted material to Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3. The sentences, "The next challenge took place...represented their new look" are copied verbatim from [1]. The sentences, "The girls woke up to a ‘Jay Mail’ that told them beauty is skin deep...still have to face the world." are copied verbatim from [2]. As I pointed out on the 27th, you must not copy text from other websites without verifying permission. This is against policy. You may in some situations use limited quotations of text, but in all cases the text must be clearly identified and attributed. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:55, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

The sentences that I quoted as examples were taken directly from this series of edits by you. If you place sentences that are taken verbatim from the source, you are not putting them into your own words. It's great that you put some of the summary into your words, but you can't copy any sentences from the source. This is a very important policy. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:56, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

If you want to talk to me, you should put your conversation to me outside of the unblock template. A different administrator will review the unblock request and will not understand them. I reverted back to the last edit (which was also yours) before you introduced copyrighted text to Wikipedia. Since you copied sentences directly from the official site, a careful examination would be needed to ensure that you did not copy material from other sites. I left a note about it at the article's talk page, here. You are welcome to add summaries in your own original language, including whatever text of that which was removed may be original to you when you are no longer blocked (but be careful not to paraphrase too closely; see for an overview; the user essay Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing may give more detail). --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:47, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I haven't blocked you from editing your talk page. So far as I'm aware, you should be just as able to reply here as you are within the unblock template. You copied material from the website in the edits I've linked, which were placed in the article today. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:00, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

As long as you put your notes inside the curly brackets (}}), you'll be placing your comments inside your unblock request. To reply to me directly, you can edit the section immediately above it and just put your comments under mine. I'm not sure what you mean by "And the sentence that you added back was not the only sentence that I put into my own words." --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:06, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Then why did you remove the sentences that I DID put into my own words?
     I can't since you blocked me from edits. And I was not the one who put all the episode summaries copied from the CNTM website. And the sentence that you added back was not the only sentence that I put into my own words. 
          This is my talk page... 
                Ok then. And I mean that you only added back one sentence. There were more sentences that were not copyrighted.
                     K.
                          Ok. Thanks.

I had intended to clean the copied text until I realized there was text copied from more than one page. At that point, I simply restored the last text that seemed free of infringement. The edit to which I reverted was the last edit you made before that pasted text was put into the article. The unblock request queue is backlogged. I would myself be willing to unblock you, as the originally blocking administrator, if you would give some indication that you understand that text cannot be copied from other websites to Wikipedia except as allowed in the copyright policy. It seems that you intend to be a good faith contributor, and I'm not interested in stopping you from that. I only want to keep you from adding text here that we can't legally display. As you may have realized from the recent mass clean up of that same article, it does far more damage when such material is discovered later. Whole articles have had to be deleted when early edits infringe copyright. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:43, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I've unblocked you, and you should be able to edit now. If there's a problem, you can indicate as much on your talk page. Please be careful not to copy text onto Wikipedia. If text is removed because it is copied, please do not restore it. If you are blocked again for copyright violation, it is likely to be for a longer time. If you aren't sure if text is copyrighted or if you have changed enough in writing it in your own words, please seek feedback. You're welcome to come to my talk page. Alternatively, we do have a help desk where volunteers are typically available around the clock to help you out. There's also a project specifically for copyright matters at WP:COPYCLEAN. You can leave questions at its talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:09, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Unblock

{{unblock|Accepting contributor's indication that he or she will not copy text from other websites on good faith. Undoing my own block. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:07, 3 August 2009 (UTC)}}

2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Barack Obama's comment about Kanye West's outburst

Is it important to you for "jackass" to be specifically mentioned? If so, state why on the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards talk page. I am going to remove the specific "jackass" mention again. As I stated in one of my edit summaries, "...I don't see why it's so important to state exactly what Obama said. All that is going to do is further incite removal of the mention altogether." Flyer22 (talk) 01:58, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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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) 14:11, 24 November 2015 (UTC)