User talk:Vague Rant/Archive 1

If you're here because I removed your article as a possible copyright violation, there are a couple of things you should first understand. Firstly, your article is not gone, it has simply been written over by the removal notice. It can be restored at any time. If you are able to make it clear that you own or have permission to use the copyright for the material you posted, please do so on the talk page of the article in question, as well as on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Your article won't be deleted for about a week after it has been reported, so there is no need to panic. Secondly, your original contributions to the Wikipedia are still welcomed. Any further questions may be addressed to my talk page.

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Some arrangement modified by me to fit with my preferred style.

Welcome message

Hi Vague Rant, welcome to Wikipedia. Just a quick note - you recently changed [[walkthrough]]s to [[walkthrough|walkthroughs]] in an article, and this is not accepted practice. The former is preferred over the latter because it takes up a marginally smaller amount of space. Thanks, –Andre (talk) 20:24, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Oh, I see. My apologies. - Vague Rant 05:02, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

Passenger Pigeon

Hi, see Talk:Passenger Pigeon for caps policy, jimfbleak 14:08, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you. - Vague Rant 10:35, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

Corrections to Opposition to Castro

Hi there I have made changes to the Opposition to Castro will you reconsider your vote. If you do not think that satisfy the NPOV policy please help me do so. It is hard for me to not have a POV on the matter. I love democracy and the Internet and this great country we live in. Thanks and regards! SilentVoice 23:13, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Could you have another look at Opposition to Castro? I'm not sure what it was like when you looked at it (I gather is started out very POV), but at this point it looks to me like the nucleus of a good article. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:15, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Ah, that's very nice. It was quite POV originally, and still somewhat yesterday, but this is good. I'll head off to VFD to change my vote. - Vague Rant 00:05, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

MegaMan

MegaMan is one word in the Battle Network/NT Warrior series. See: http://www.viz.com/onlinemanga/mm-hi-chapter-1.html WhisperToMe 06:33, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, I was trying to be careful not to add the space in any Battle Network references. Did I screw up? My apologies. - Vague Rant 06:35, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

Cheers Dad.

I've noticed a shit load of the sites off of my user page, wot i did, have been trolled through by your good self in search of spelling errors and stuff. Cheers, but I can't help wondering why you picked my stuff, is it that bad? Also, I think the songs on Noel Gallagher were supposed to be in italics - i dunno for sure but there must be some ruling. Nice page, good work, God bless.--Crestville 14:31, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC) (also, if you wouldn't mind, would you reply on my user page)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

Hey there, Crest. Sorry if it seemed like I was going after your work. I'm a bit of a Beatles nut, so I was looking around the articles which linked to it, and tried to pep them up a bit as I went. And yeah, the usual style is that albums are italicized, while songs are in "quotes". Nice work, regardless. - Vague Rant 03:26, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

No, no, I'm actually greatful. If you want to tidy up the rest of me stuff, be my guest ;o)--Crestville 17:05, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Faroe Islands

Regarding Your comments on my articles on Faroe Islands. I am new to Wikipedia and I don't know where to answer to Your comments... So I do it here. You wrote:

"Actually, Ricky, they're copyvios. 194, I just thought I'd give you this link: Wikipedia:Copyrights. Have a read of that, it should teach you what you need to know about copyrighted material. - Vague Rant 09:07, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC) Whoa there, IP! In the link, it essentially says "Don't copy material from other sources," which, unfortunately, is what you're doing. Why don't you to try your hand at writing your own articles? - Vague Rant 09:17, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)"

What I am pasting into the articles is text from my own homepage regarding these villages. So I did write it myself. But the information is not relevant for Wikipedia then I will not wast my time on it.

Jon.

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

Sorry, I wasn't aware that the site you were taking the info from is your own. I'll restore your articles. Please, feel free to continue to contribute to Wikipedia, we value what knowledge you can bring. - Vague Rant 10:06, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks. Jfo 07:20, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

GLA

Thanks dude for fixing my GLA article. it was pretty shit until you fixed it up a bit. thanks Wifki 12:12, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

No problem, glad I could help. - Vague Rant 12:16, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

transparent bg

Hey, thanks for pointing out that the bg on my user page wasn't quite right. I've made the background change you suggested. But yeah, feel free to use any element of my page you want. I kinda got the inspiration for it from Tεx τ urε, although I took a more minimalist approach to that design. I've also taken a while making it better and better, and will probably keep screwing around with it. For some reason, its one of the best parts of wikipedia heh. gl with whatever you do with yours —siro χ o 04:44, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

PS: Thanks for signing that unsigned comment on my user-talk page too. (;

capitalisation 'corrections'

Are the capitalisation changes you're making (The Rutles -> the Rutles, e.g.) part of any wikipedia policy? Varitek 01:41, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

It's not so much Wikipedia policy as it is the regular format of English. Album titles, bands, etc. which begin with "a," "the," or such aren't capitalized if the name appears in the middle of the sentence. As an example, "The Rutles parody the Beatles." I won't get into an edit war over it or anything, if you'd rather have it as The Rutles, then hey, be my guest. It won't detract from the information within. - Vague Rant 06:33, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

In th example you give, my instinct would be for "The Rutles parody The Beatles", but compare with "The Rutles parody the Beatles' songs" - as the object in the first is the proper noun The Beatles, but in the latter the object is the songs. I don't know what the likes of Fowler say about it, but I do think that it's contentious enough that mass-replacing it in many articles is a little presumptuous. Varitek 16:13, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

Well, if we're going for uniformity, then "the" is probably the way to go. Of the "the Bandnames" articles, a few which probably get the most attention are the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and the Beatles, all of which follow the same system of capitalization as I do. As I say, feel free to change it. It's no big issue for me, I don't mind it either way. I don't go searching it out or anything, I just change it if I come across it while making other edits. It's a Wiki, I don't make the rules, you can do what you like. Have a good one. - Vague Rant 22:32, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Keiyo

I noticed that you marked Keiyo for speedydeletion back on Oct. 30th... but that notation was deleted by an anon, and the page seems to have remained. I've re-marked it for speedy due to it's copyvio and apparent reposting of another deleted article, but if you could mark down why you initially marked it for speedy and any other comments you had on it's talk page, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Arcuras 16:07, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

Hey there, Vague. I noticed a lot of the great work you've been doing, and I think that you would make a great administrator. With about 4¹/₂ months of experience, >1000 edits, and admirable work with copyvios, I think that you'll be supported by most. I also know you a bit from personal experience, and I'd be honoured to nominate you. If you accept, please leave me a note on my talk page (this is unofficial), and I'll put in a nomination (you should accept again there officially). I look forward to your response :) -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 04:01, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

I'm flattered that you might think I could be an admin, but I don't think I'll accept at the moment. Maybe in a couple of months. You see, I, personally, wouldn't support the adminship of someone who'd been here less than five months, so I couldn't justify having others vote for me. No offense. So anyway, raincheck. - Vague | Rant 04:33, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

Sure, it's up to you :). While I feel that you would make a great admin, if you wouldn't vote for yourself...well then that's what matters. If you change your mind in the future (and don't get offered again before that), you know my home number :). -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 04:41, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

copyright vio of Saveetha Engineering College

You had said: Hey there. I just noticed that your latest article was imported from another source. If you own or have permission to use the copyright for this material, please indicate this on the talk page of your article. Otherwise, we can't accept it here. If you want to rewrite the article in your own words, please do so on the "/Temp" subpage of the article. Also, regardless of whether this article infringes on copyright, we welcome any other original contributions you may wish to make. Thanks! - Vague | Rant 10:04, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

I am a student of Saveetha Engineering College and I have posted the information from my college prospectus. I have got the permissions to use this information. So I would like the page to be restored so that I can add more info.

Thanks.

Cnu 10:58, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

I restored your article. Your continued contributions are welcomed. - Vague | Rant 11:06, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your action.

Copyright violations

Thanks, re: your kind remarks regarding another copyright violation. Hu 07:11, 2004 Nov 24 (UTC)

Question about multiple article issue

Hi Vague. I recently noticed that a bunch of articles related to Rebellion were in a bit of a tangle. I wrote a description of the problem with a request for advice, but I can't find anywhere to put it as all the collaborative pages seem to deal only with single articles. I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at my post (currently pasted at the bottom of my talk page) and tell me where the most appropriate place to put it is. Thanks! BanyanTree 09:57, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments! They'll be useful. I think I'll just try to get people to look at my talk page and make comments as I start working on it, rather than post it somewhere inappropriate. BanyanTree 04:26, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oompa Loompas

Whoah! Talk about having my mind blown! I don't recall hearing about the "racist" accusations before. I believe you, but do you think it needs to be sourced with an external link? BTW, nice job on your edits. I would love to upload an image, too. Any ideas on where I could find an acceptable (such as non-copyvio) image for the page? --Viriditas 08:51, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

Good point on the need for an external link. I went in and added one. Thanks for the compliments on my editing. As for an image, that could be hard to find. Since (obviously) Charlie hasn't passed into the public domain yet, we can't use images straight out of the book, unless we want to pull fair use. Likewise, "fanart" couldn't be used, because even though the art itself is by the artist who draws it, they themselves are breaking copyright by making the art (sounds crazy, I know). Unless Joseph Schindelman or one of the later artists has released his work into the public domain, with permission from the owners of the Charlie works' copyright, there is probably not any free images of an Oompa Loompa. - Vague | Rant 09:07, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I suspect that I'll probably scan in a DVD cover or something for fair use. Also, after reviewing the current page, I think your information should be included in its entirety, but that some rearranging is in order. For example, Oompa Loompas are currently dwarves from Loompaland in not only the present book form, but in the current film version(s), so that should be the main lead. However, since these creatures were once pygmies from Africa, that should be included in the next section, perhaps in an "origin" of the concept section. I wanted to run that by you before I changed it. Let me know what you think on my talk page, or feel free to make the change yourself. --Viriditas 10:02, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Non-English Speedy

Thanks for the tip. I hadn't realized that non-English articles were so common that they had their own dedicated tag... I should of course have checked for copyvio though. — Asbestos | Talk 11:24, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Copyvios

Thanks for pointing out that copyvios have to be reported on a separate page. I had been under the impression that the copyvio tag/category would be enough. I've meanwhile also added the older copyvio candidates I had identified previously. --MarkSweep 07:38, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In addition. Hello Vague, also thanks for the remarks about copyrights. I've added some words about it in the talk page of the new article (universal virtual computer). --Jrvanderhoeven 11:19, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Regarding woman

Your reversion suggesting that I was "disrupting" Wikipedia by adding a caption to a photo is misguided. You need to re-read Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. It's not about that kind of edit - it refers to disingenuous changes, moves, or arguments. - Nunh-huh 04:27, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

From WP:POINT--

Understanding the inconsistent nature of Wikipedia and accepting it as a good thing inherent in the processes and values of the project helps relieve Wikistress and limits the temptation to make disruptive edits.

You cited the lack of a similar photo at "man" as a reason why the image was not acceptable. Wikipedia will always be inconsistent, and your caption clearly made a point, and was, it appears, generally not accepted, though that is only by Rhobite and myself. I agree that the photo is not appropriate, but I don't think drawing attention to the image's inherent flaws within the article is the right way to go about it. If your comments were on the talk page, rather than in the image caption, I would readily agree with them. Thanks. - Vague | Rant 04:41, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

They are on the talk page. I hope you'll feel free to express your agreement with them there. - Nunh-huh 04:44, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Leo Gaje and Leo T Gaje Jr

The anon who began both of these articles informed me on my Talk page that you had marked the latter as a copyvio. The anon placed the same text on both pages, as well as the Temp page. I've looked at the source, and it seems to me that Leo Gaje, as it currently stands, is sufficiently reworded. Would you disagree with deleting Leo T Gaje Jr and recreating it as a redirect to Leo Gaje? --Slowking Man 23:22, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

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Yeah, Slowking, I'd be okay with that. Not too impressed with this guy's conduct, though. - Vague | Rant 01:12, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

Scorelogix, Unemployment Score and Patent-pending copyvio

Hello,

I am the inventor of Unemployment Score and the CEO of Scorelogix and have full copyrights to all the content that I had tried to post related to unemployment, unemployment risk, unemployment risk, job migration, Scorelogix, living standards, etc, since I believed that all of these topics are very well related and I wanted to share our research and insights through this encyclopedia.

Note that we are the pioneer in the field of unemployment and employment risk scoring and our product is very simplistically called Unemployment Score, so it appeared to some moderators that we are trying post commercial links, but that's not the case since. We have many other ways to sell our product, but our prime intention here is to share the research and knowledge only through relevant topics. I would like to hear from anyone who thinks 'unemployment' and 'unemployment score' and Scorelogix are not related and why anyone would consider them not worthy of this medium.

If you have any doubts about our company or solutions pertaining to unemployment (which is a major problem affecting millions of people) then visit our website at www.scorelogix.com and read about us on the 'about us' page. Users and companies that know Scorelogix already respect us, and I think it is a question of time before we become well-known for the problem we are addressing and eventually it will get here anyway.

Sincerely,

Suresh Annappindi CEO, Scorelogix

Copyvios rewritten Delta Chi and Delta chi

This is a reminder that one week ago you added Delta Chi and Delta chi to Wikipedia: Copyright problems. I have rewritten them as a stub at Delta Chi/Temp and a redirect at Delta chi/Temp. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 12:26, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

Great job on those stubs. I'm sure they'll be moved into the main namespace as soon as possible, but as I'm not an admin, I don't really have any influence on when that happens. All I do is report them, then they're someone else's problem. *winks* But given it's been a week, it shouldn't be too long before the originals are deleted and your revisions can be moved. Have a good one. - Vague | Rant 12:35, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

On discussion for Category:Megatokyo you posted

Does Megatokyo really need its own subcategory? - Vague Rant 10:15, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)

I agree but I'm new here an I'm not sure how to get rid of it as a subcategory. user talk:RJFJR 00:45, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

So how do we get rid of it and replace it with just a regular page?

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

Unfortunately, I'm not so sure on how to remove subcategories myself. I'll have an ask around and see what I can do. - Vague | Rant 02:15, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

DarkLordSeth has listed subcategory megatokyo for category deletion. That answers the question about 'how to' do it. I'm not sure if this is someone you contacted about how to do this or just someone who found it. RJFJR 02:41, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Oh, and by the way, I discovered that subcategories are just categories which have been placed in other categories. For example, if I put Category:Pokémon into Category:Nintendo, it would become a subcategory. Same thing in reverse to remove them. - Vague | Rant 04:48, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for removing extra tilde at User:Utcursch/wel. I never noticed it. utcursch 12:32, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Feedback

Re: Copyright query from user Vague_Rant

Wednesday 8 December 2004

Dear mudthang

As we previously discussed, I'd like to bring responsible education and training to governments and honest citizens concerned with personal safety, wherever they may live.

Thank you for following through and posting information at various websites, including Wikipedia, as I requested.

Any further postings on my behalf are greatly appreciated.

Yours in self-protection, Tom Sotis Founder of IBFG/AMOK!

/ends

Originally posted to your user: page by 168.209.97.34 (moved here by Hadal 06:05, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC))

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

I think you must be a little confused. I'm not Mudthang. In fact, he shares your IP. - Vague | Rant 07:09, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you!!!

Thank you for being a diligent wikipedian and banishing my Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington page to the copyright section. I would have removed that line myself if you had given me 4 1/2 minutes. 194.201.20.90 11:29, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC) (unsigned)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

copy vio in clearly labeled working copy?

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here: I understand that your article was a WIP, but it included content from other sources, and as such I had to remove it as a copyvio. I know that by the time you were finished, it would have been reworded enough that it would no longer be a copyvio, but the copyvios would still be in the history, meaning we'd still be breaking the law. Sorry about this. Do feel free to do your rewriting in Word before posting it here. Thanks. - Vague | Rant 11:16, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

So, what's up with deleting my working copy and inserting your copy vio stuff while I am still working on it, within less than one hour? I am using multiple sources, referencing all used, and my word processor is on the fritz. This is helpful? Why not a Q to my talk page or are your some kind of automated thing? Vaoverland 11:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ok, I suppose I understand, but... Vaoverland 11:23, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

OK, I think I understand, and I apologize. I never intend to use copywrited material inappropriately, and misunderstood that I could use WP indicated of my word processor when gathering from many sources and going though to pull out appropriate data for editing and etc. I have entered an article stub all of which is from my personal factual knowledge only. (I worked in the bus industry for 35 years). It is listed under Perley A. Thomas Car Works/Temp, and i am not sure what happens next. I have plenty of other articles to work on. Vaoverland 03:24, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

No need to apologize. As for what happens, the admins will move your stub article into place after about a week. Possibly sooner. Good luck. - Vague | Rant 05:39, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia

Switch to divs, trust me on this one. Not unless you explain what's wrong with [[Image:]] :-) JRM 12:34, 2004 Dec 12 (UTC)

I suppose people have already brought this up for fixing? The <div>-construction can't be a permanent solution, right? JRM 12:40, 2004 Dec 12 (UTC)

I think bug #691 is the one: [1]. JRM 12:46, 2004 Dec 12 (UTC)

WackoWiki

that was fast, I already was confirming that, so copyright is granted under the GNU Free Documentation License ;), an the text needs much more improvements, try my best and hope I will get some support. Thanks again. http://wackowiki.com/SkipPer

Copyrights

I'm not sure which article you are referring to, but I forgot all about copyrights. I don't know how to, so can you just delete it for me. Thanks , Anonymous User

P.S. I'm signing off too. Thanks again.

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Brad Levicoff

Brad Levicoff, the article created in the space to which your former redlink from Zophar's Domain had led, is up for deletion. You might want to contribute comment and to vote at its entry there. Cheers! Samaritan 01:20, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks for the tip. - Vague | Rant 02:23, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Biting

Dear Vague Rant Due to your trigger-happy copyvio finger… A few people are feeling more than a little sore and bruised http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers 14:50, 18 Dec 2004 (GMT+2)

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Thank you for the multitude of comments posted on my talk page. I suppose I shall address them in order.

Okay, the first one, on biting the newcomers. I don't feel that I have done so, if you could cite evidence of this, I would be very grateful. Removal of copyrighted material is in no way biting the newcomers. I'd remove anyone's copyrighted material, new user or no, and have done so in the past. I also make an effort to ensure that the user understands what has happened, with (usually) a message on their talk page and the boilerplate on my user and talk pages. - Vague | Rant 04:29, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Copyvio process

Dear Vague Rant You seem quite manic about flagging pages for copyvio problems but only suggest that users make a note on the problem page's talk page. Then you don't even bother to check back at the copyvio talk page, which you flagged in the first place.

Surely you are being remiss in not also telling the contributor to post a note on the Votes_for_Undeletion VfD page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion

Mmm… Now there's a thought…

Possible suggestion for comment: This entry was deleted as a copyvio. However, the original contributor has added a note re: permission to the talk page. The contributor did not know that she should also have mentioned this on WP:CP. The usual in cases like this, where we have been given email permission, is to restore (unless there is reason to disbelieve the statement of permission given, or there is a later complaint from the copyright holder of course). -- 15:10, 18 Dec 2004 (GMT+2)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

As for the copyvio process, my advice on where to address ownership or permission of copyright is correct. I don't delete articles, I just report possible copyright violations. Administrators are the ones who need to check the talk page in case a user owns or has permission, not I. The burden of deletion falls not on me. If an article is incorrectly deleted, it is by no fault of mine. - Vague | Rant 04:29, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you Vague|Rant

For your wise and insightful feedback…
You are obviously extremely gifted at all things and unlike lesser mortals, you appear to be beyond making even stupid mistakes.
The humility and grace with which you dispense advice is truly a fine example to me.
Keep well
mudthang 18 Dec 15:55 (GMT+2)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

Also, thank you for the compliments on my conduct, they are appreciated. - Vague | Rant 04:29, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Copyvio alerts by Vague|Rant

Vague|Rant
In the blurb at the top of your user and this talk page, you clearly state:
If you are able to make it clear that you own or have permission (my emphasis) to use the copyright for the material you posted, please do so on the talk page of the article in question.
I followed this note, and tried to contact you, yet you allowed two pages to be deleted for copyvio.
You have asked me to be civil to Wiki users. I have not been "uncivil" to any other Wiki-user to date, besides the offense you have taken.
Yet, after suggesting that people contact you at your forum page, you ignored my request for contact and removed my posted query from your forum page. You also seem to have ignored my posting of copyright permission on the talk pages you yourself flagged for copyvio.
So really, in all due process, who has been uncivil? I have tried to contact you at the forum you posted a link to, and posted the source permission at the original Wiki-article talk page. But no response from you. Nada.
I am as unimpressed as you seem to be, with due cause.
Any feedback would be a pleasant and unexpected surprise.

User:Mudthang 18 Dec 21:00 (GMT+2)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

As for removing comments from my "forum page", I can't say I'm fully aware of what you're speaking of. There was a comment on my user page at one point which appeared to be addressed to you (beginning with "dear mudthang") which Hadal then moved to my talk page, as is the usual process. I responded to the anonymous IP which posted the comment, see here: [2].

In conclusion, it is clear that I have not been uncivil at all. You simply seem to have misunderstood Wikipedia policy, which is neither of our faults. Good day to you. - Vague | Rant 02:07, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Update 20 Dec 2004. For the record, my original query (posted 2004-11-29 00:06) has reappeared on your Friends Only site at

http://www.livejournal.com/users/rago/135519.html?view=296799#t296799

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

As I said in my first comment on your talk page way back on the 5th, it's all well and good that you tried to contact me, but you would have been better off addressing such questions to my talk page, which is how conversation is usually conducted at Wikipedia. - Vague | Rant 04:16, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Copyvio?

Can you look The Ancient Track:The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft for me? it seems it might be copied verbatim from the back cover of the book. Is that fair use? (It's in the deadend list which is how I found it). RJFJR 02:59, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In the interest of completeness, my response is preserved here:

Yeah, I'd say that's a copyvio. The same text appears on this page: [3]. We may be able to claim fair use, but it's very unlikely we'd get away with it. If you'd like to report it yourself, just put this code on the page:

{{copyvio|url=http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/sources/at.htm}}

Then head to Wikipedia:Copyright problems and add this to today's date:

[[The Ancient Track:The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/sources/at.htm]. ~~~~

If you can't be bothered, I'll probably do it tomorrow. Have a good one! - Vague | Rant 04:13, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

I reported it (my first time, I hope I did it right). Thank you for the clear directions. RJFJR 01:00, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)