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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Evans new.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Evans new.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 Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Scm83x hook 'em 00:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Enthusiasm

While I find your enthusiasm about Plano related topics interesting and certainly close to my heart, at the same time, I believe that you need more time on Wikipedia contributing to articles in a group situation where others may help you along the way before you go it on your own and start creating dozens of articles concerning people and things of questionable notability. Also, several of the images that you have uploaded have been uploaded against Wikipedia's copyright policy. Claiming copyright on images which do not belong to you is in violation of our policy (as you have for the images of Jasper and Mayor Evans). You are new to Wikipedia, and you have been making many of the same mistakes that all new Wikipedians make. However, you do not seem to be learning from them; instead blazing ahead to a new set of articles. Please take some time and read up on WP:MoS and other process pages. I think you'll be a better Wikipedian for it. Thanks. — Scm83x hook 'em 00:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Again, I ask you to please halt making new articles and templates when you are so unfamiliar with processes and procedures here on the Wiki. You're good-natured efforts are actually hurting the quality of the articles to which you are contributing. Please take the time to look around the Wiki at how things are done and consult similar articles and participating users before taking action on your own. — Scm83x hook 'em 02:26, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Regarding List of Superintendents of Plano Independent School District - I am listing it as WP:CSD. Questionable notability and no context or room for expansion. I'll have to agree and suggest you familiarize yourself with WP:NN among other things before you keep making these articles.
Hello Longhornsg, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some recommended guidelines to help you get involved. Please feel free to contact me if you need help with anything. Best of luck and happy editing! UlTiMuS - ( T | C ) 02:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Getting started
Getting your info out there
Getting more Wikipedia rules
Getting help
Getting along
Getting technical


--UlTiMuS - ( T | C ) 02:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ==Re:Questions==

Thank you for your help with the articles. Just wondering, did you graduate from Plano Senior. What year? Longhornsg

Due to privacy concerns across the Wikipedia, I do not discuss personal information with users.
I have to agree with the previous user to comment here. Most of the articles that you have created are concerning people of dubious notability who will never have more than 2-3 paragraphs in their articles. You need to stop, as I suggested before and as this other user suggested, and read some guidelines in an attempt to familiarize yourself with, most importantly, article notability guidelines. Your article about Jasper High School is borderline notable for most people, but I am very sure that a high number of people would take issue with articles such as Doug Otto and Scott Johnson (politics). Although these people are somewhat important on a local scale, on a global scale, they are terribly unimportant. Wikipedia works on a global scale. Please consider this when creating new articles from now on. Additionally, it is considered rude that you have continued to be non-responsive to both my comments and those of others, instead going on creating more articles of dubious notability. Please take some more time on the Wikipedia before creating any more articles. Thank you. — Scm83x hook 'em 22:04, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AMA Roll Call

There is currently an AMA Roll Call going on. Please visit the page and sign next to your name to indicate whether or not you're still active. :-) אמר Steve Caruso (desk/poll) 18:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Advocacy request

Heyo, Steve Caruso here. There is a Request for assistance by Joehazelton (talk) on Peter Roskam. Would you be willing to take their case? If you will, please leave a note and sign under the entry on WP:AMARQ and change "(pending)" in the heading to "(open)." When you're finished with the case, set it to "(closed)". If you're not able to take the case, please leave me a message on my talk page so I can continue searching for a willing Advocate. Many thanks! אמר Steve Caruso (desk/AMA) 18:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Longhornsg! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Computerjoe's talk 12:21, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jasper Image

The image is under a fair use license. However, it is reasonable that someone living in Plano close to the school could replace the image with a freely licensed one, so it is a fair use temp image. However, you, the article's main editor, have made no effort to replace the image over your tenure working on the article, despite the fact you live in Plano and clearly attended. The fair use replace image template clearly states that images for which there has been no attempt at replacement over a reasonable time period may be removed. This is what I did. You uploaded the image on July 1 2006, almost 3 months ago. You have made no effort to replace the image with a free use one (occassionally removing licensing and claiming improper copyright), so I removed the fair use one. — Scm83x hook 'em 02:58, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop

From your continued actions on various image uploads, such as this, it is eminently clear that you have no grasp of Wikipedia image policy. I have tried to inform you about different rules regarding image policy and yet you still do not understand that there are copyright issues with images that are simply taken from Google Image or a random website. When the image tagging bot, OrphanBot, places a tag on an image you have uploaded, removing the tag does not make the image correct. Please try to understand why the image tag was placed there and fix it instead of removing it.

Until you have fully grasped image policy on Wikipedia, or at least admitted your ignorance of it and allowed others to help you, you cannot be a competent whole editor. Please stop uploading random images and asserting your own copyright on them. Please stop removing orphan tags when you haven't taken the time to understand why they've been placed. And please start discussing your edits and asking questions of other more experienced editors. We are here to help. Thank you. — Scm83x hook 'em 00:57, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Final Warning

This is your final warning. I have attempted multiple times in the past to inform you about image copyright policy on Wikipedia. However, instead of heeding my advice or even asking me concerning your clear misunderstanding of policy, you ignored me. Tonight, you claimed that you took two photographs (Image:Jasper Cafeteria.jpg and Image:Jasper Outside.jpg ) that can be clearly demonstrated were taken by someone else and are not yours as you claim in this edit summary. You have done this before with Image:Mainschool.png and others.

For me, this is the last straw. Lying about copyright is not acceptable behavior from any Wikipedian. In fact, continuing such behavior can result in punitive action. Don't let this happen! Ask questions; we have the answers. Do not continue as you have. Understanding copyright is an important part of editing Wikipedia. I hope you will contact me and cease these deceiving actions, instead of continuing and facing possible punishment. — Scm83x hook 'em 02:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshots

Screenshots are not OK. They are fair use. — Scm83x hook 'em 02:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tags

The tags should not be removed. Please consider the things you have put in the article as if you hadn't attended Jasper. Consider them as if you lived in Dallas, Denver, and then Djibouti. You will then see that much of the article needs to be cut because it is not truly important to our audience. — Scm83x hook 'em 03:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plano ISD and Dallas ISD templates

Hi! Instead of creating a new template, I noticed that you instead inadvertently moved Dallas ISD to Plano ISD and changed it. Another guy moved the template back, causing Plano ISD to redirect to Dallas ISD. I fixed the problem; both templates are now separate :) WhisperToMe 03:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Dallas

Hello! Nice to see that you signed up for the rickety WikiProject Dallas, which I've again picked up interest in. I'm not very good with administrative tasks.. but I do know that the WikiProject needs a lot of work. I added a rating system which is really just hijacked from the film articles.. it probably can be customized for our project but I'm not sure if it needs to. I put the Dallas, Texas article as an A-class article.. its the only one graded so far! ahha. I made some pretty kickass pages for the first few highschools in the {{Dallas ISD}} template, I might go put them in as B-class or something.. maybe lower, dunno, they're pretty comprehensive for their "importance level." Anyway, I need help getting this thing off the ground. I'm good at going around and adding the template to articles and grading and such, and looking for articles to add, but I'd really like some help getting the categories built per the WikiProject Film style of doing things.. Dallas articles are already some of the most comprehensive on the Wikipedia (check out the History of Dallas, Texas article and its subarticles if you haven't.. they're my babies and I'm proud of them (how lame)).. anyway.... im probably rambling, im tired, im going to sleep. see you around drumguy8800 C T 05:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jasper Review

This is my lite version of a peer review for the Jasper article: User:Scm83x/jhs. I simply can't truly peer review an article that is in the current state that this one is. I don't even know where to start. These are my best suggestions of what to do to make it closer to acceptable. — Scm83x hook 'em 02:29, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I removed some of the paragraphs you deemed unimportant, however, I do not know why you want me to remove all the faculty and student information. If it is wrong just copied from the fact sheet, then why, is this correct? (The part about the class profile) It is straight copied as well. Also, about the campus additions--how are those incorrect? --Longhornsg 02:45, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
The difference is that the PSHS information is notable. These are things that not all schools have (special vocational classes as was the original intent of the school, second most AP tests, 29/31 tests offered, 97% of graduates go to university). The Jasper info is simply mundane stuff (ethnic makeup, attendance rate, GPA breakdown). Also, the PSHS information is not copied near verbatim. — Scm83x hook 'em 03:08, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dallas, Texas FAC

Dallas, Texas is currently a featured article candidate.. I encourage you to vote on the matter. drumguy8800 C T 22:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks so much! drumguy8800 C T 03:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Association of Members' Advocates

Hi, you are receiving this message because you have listed yourself as an active member of WP:AMA. If you aren't currently accepting inquiries for AMA, or if you have resigned, please de-list yourself from Wikipedia:AMA Members. If you are still active, please consider tending to any new requests that may appear on Category:AMA Requests for Assistance. We're going to put AMA on wheels. :) Sorry for the template spamming - we're just trying to update our records, after we had a huge backlog earlier in the week (if you've been taking cases, then sorry, and please ignore this :)). Again, sorry, and thanks! Martinp23 21:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple edit tendency

Could you consider making your edits all at once, as opposed to in tiny increments? It would be a lot easier to follow and less annoying on the watchlist. You might also find it easier. — Scm83x hook 'em 05:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Plano District Map.gif

Thanks for uploading Image:Plano District Map.gif. 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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[edit] WikiProject Dallas proposals

As a member of WikiProject Dallas, your vote is requested on two new proposals outlined at the project's strategy forum. Following voting, it is also requested that you participate in a quick critique of new additions to the project. drumguy8800 C T 09:57, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Troydungan.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Troydungan.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

  1. Go to the image description page and edit it to add {{Replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template.
  2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --Chowbok ☠ 21:58, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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