User talk:George cowie

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, George cowie, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Newcomers help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -- stillnotelf is invisible 17:37, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fish and pics

If you must tell us whether you have been to the Laughing Fish, tell us on talk:Laughing Fish pub not in the article.

You have uploaded lots of pictures, most of which will have to be deleted because they are copyright violations. Please check all your image uploads. Give an exact source, ie. link to the image itself at its external location. And, if the source has given a free licence, state that here, otherwise please mark the image {{db|copyvio}}. -- RHaworth 18:43, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Berwickpic3.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Berwickpic3.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. --Hetar 20:21, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Pr berwick-8.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Pr berwick-8.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. Please note that the same problems also apply to:

  • Image:Beddinghampic1.jpg
  • Image:20040403130029370 3.jpg
  • Image:Alcistonpic1.jpg
  • Image:Buxtedpic3.jpg
  • Image:180px-Boston terrier b&W.jpg
  • Image:250px-Rottweiler212.jpg
  • Image:9671a.jpg
  • Image:Chaileyc21.jpg
  • Image:Camber3.jpg
  • Image:Camber9.jpg
  • Image:NaturalDiscoveryCamberSands.jpg
  • Image:AAB226510.jpg
  • Image:Fletching 1109511768.jpg
  • Image:Raminn.jpg
  • Image:Wrj3-18-firle-PO g.jpg
  • Image:Ditchling2003.JPG

Thanks. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 21:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop

Hi George. You have uploaded a number of images where you've not provided the copyright information. Stealing images from websites is illegal and could get you into a lot of trouble. You are also putting these images back into articles after they've been removed and a clear note left telling you not to put them back.

Stop this now, please George. You are causing people a lot of trouble and are getting yourself into trouble. We want you to keep contributing to our encyclopedia, but you need to work with us by not breaking the law and not ignoring your fellow editors.

If you keep going like this, you will be blocked from editing. Please stop, George, and get in touch with me (here) if you've got any questions you'd like answering about this. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 08:59, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:FletchingChurch2005.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:FletchingChurch2005.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. The following images also do not have copyright information and will be deleted in 7 days unless it is provided:

  • Image:AlfristonLion.jpg
  • Image:2402 BRO.jpg
  • Image:ClergyHouse.jpg
  • Image:AlfristonStAndrew2004.jpg

Thanks ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 09:12, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked

George, I've blocked you from editing for 15 minutes in an attempt to get your attention.

Your response to the above messages was to upload a duplicate copy of one of the images - again without letting anyone know the copyright status - and to remove the note on the other copy asking for the copyright information to be provided.

You must stop this behaviour now, George. It won't do. You are breaking the law by stealing other people's images to use in articles. We can't let you get Wikipedia into trouble for this as well.

You are welcome to resume editing in when the block expires, but if you remove the tags or upload more duplicate copyright images, you will be blocked again and for longer. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 09:49, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I took a somewhat stronger view and blocked you for three hours on the basias of your removal of a tag from Image:AlfristonStAndrew2004.jpg despite all the messages above. -- RHaworth 09:52, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Arlingtonpic1.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Arlingtonpic1.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Image legality questions. 12:49, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:250px-Afghan_Hound_600.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:250px-Afghan_Hound_600.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Image legality questions. 11:00, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Barcombepic1.jpg

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Image legality questions. 11:31, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Blackboyspic3.jpg

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 10:28, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Chailey61.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Chailey61.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 09:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright

This user appears to have performed a large number of copyright infringements. Please see

To George: By uploading copyrighted information, you have caused people an awful lot of worked wasting our time as well as your own. Jooler 11:51, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violations

George: myself and other editors have just spent a couple of hours of our time deleting, refactoring and reporting on all the material you cut-and-paste from other websites. Posting copyrighted material without the express permission of the copyright holder is a violation of applicable law and of our policy. We will still welcome any original contributions from you, but the next time you upload material from other websites to Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Please take note. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 12:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I echo that. I though you had learned but clearly you have not. Do not copy material. -- RHaworth 13:09, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alabama

So you could not keep away. We shall be watching you closely for copyvios.

Please note we already have {{Alabama-geo-stub}} and its associated category. I have deleted {{Alabama-stub}} and Alabama stubs (which is not the right way to create a category anyway). -- RHaworth 07:15, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Club Penguin

You have recently created the article Club Penguin. This was deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies. Please do not recreate the article: if you disagree with the article's deletion, you may ask for a review at Wikipedia:Deletion review. - CobaltBlueTony 20:15, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please use edit summaries

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be extremely low:

18% for major edits and 0% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 12 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 20:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] England geography stubs

Hi - your five new English geography stub types have all been nominated for deletion. As explained in Cat:England geography stubs, all new splits of that category (and all other stub categories) should be firstly proposed at WP:WSS/P. The category also explains that England's geography stubs are split by ceremonial county - none of these new splits is a ceremonial county. In any case, the stub categories for Tyne and Wear, Lancashire, and Bedfordshire are nowhere near large enough to consider for splitting (usually splits are only considered once a category reaches about 600 stubs - Lancashire - the largest of these three stub categories - has only 200). Grutness...wha? 00:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New userboxes

I have deleted a userbox template you recently created, as userboxes should no longer be created in templatespace per the terms of the German userbox final solution. Here is the userbox code so that you can recreate the userbox in your userspace ("userfying") if you wish.

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--Cyde Weys 14:09, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of products in The Simpsons

Hello George. I see you've been actively making additions to List of products in The Simpsons. It is good that you're enthusiastic about the list. However, I would like to suggest that you might be going a bit overboard. There are literally thousands of products and stores in The Simpsons that are seeing in single shots as throwaway jokes, etc. If one were to list them all, the list would be fairly bulky and useless (this has happened on other Simpsons lists already and have had to be cut back). I'd like to suggest the following guidelines:

  • Stores aren't products, so I would suggest you not list stores such as "Herman's Military Antiques".
  • Bulk groups of products like the "many antiques at Herman's Military Antiques".
  • Do not include real-world products like "English Muffins". If you do that, it's pointless. Everything in the house is a product. TVs, couches, drapes, carpet, etc. Besides which, I would argue that noone in the world would ever need to look up whether English muffins are sold on the Simpsons. Real world products are assumed to exist on the show since it is rarely shown otherwise.

The list should really be for Simpsons-invented brand-names or invented products.

The next issue is subjective, but I believe crucial to keeping the list from spiraling out of control: Products on the list should only be included if they are used more than once on the show. Throwaway jokes like Itchy & Scratchy Land Personalised License Plates are basically just describing a joke on the show. The list is really designed more for things like Laramie cigarettes, squishys and things that make up the Simpsons lore than a list of throwaway jokes. That doesn't mean some of your edits aren't perfect for the list; I believe you added "Radioactive Man Comics", "The Springfield Shopper" and "Li'l Bastard Kits". These are great ones, but things like "Disemboweller IV" needn't be included.

I am going to be deleting some of the ones that fall into the bullet point list above (real-world items and bulk groups) but I'm not going to immediately delete single-appearance items, but I suggest you join a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Simpsons#List of products in The Simpsons. Thanks :) TheHYPO 21:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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