User talk:Sturm br
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[edit] Marina Dias
- Please don't up-load and use copyrighted images.
- If there is any genuine (encyclopædic) information on this woman, please add it; some reputable source for the description "supermodel" would also be welcome. At the moment, there is nothing in the article to indicate her significance, and it could therefore be deleted without warning. I'm holding off for the moment, but if something that she's done or been isn't added soon, the article will probably go. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
"Fair use" is fairly narrowly defined; the image that you up-loaded seemed to have been copyrighted, and didn't meet normal fair-use criteria (and you didn't gve an explanation of its fair-use status).
The problem with the article is that just being a model isn't usually enough to warrant an article in an encyclopædia (there are hundreds of thousands of models). Calling her a supermodel wouldn't be enough either, but there's in fact no evidence that she is one; the links were to two pages of photographs of her, and didn't establish anything. Is there anything that she's achieved – prizes or awards, etc. – that could justify the article? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:11, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Help
What do need help with?--Rayc 22:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rodan of Alexandria
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your creation of the article, Rodan of Alexandria, but we cannot accept copyrighted text borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems for more information on this topic, or generally, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines. Please do not remove the copyright violation notice placed in the article or repost the suspected infringing text. However, if you would like to rewrite the article in your own words, follow the link in the posted notice to create a temporary subpage. If your new article is appropriate, and not a further copyright violation, the reviewing administrator will move that new article into place once the copyright status of the original has been resolved. Happy editing! Instance 04:20, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of companies that do animal testing
Hello, concerning your contribution, List of companies that do animal testing, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.caringconsumer.com/pdfs/companiesDoTest.doc. As a copyright violation, List of companies that do animal testing appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. List of companies that do animal testing has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:List of companies that do animal testing. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at List of companies that do animal testing, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia.
All that notwithstanding, your source is PETA, which is not reliable with regards to information on each of the companies listed. Finally, please read WP:NOT - Wikipedia is not a directory. Thanks. Rockpocket 02:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
- You make a fair point, but cutting and pasting content is not allowed, at the very least make some sort of effort to make it look as if you wrote the list. More importantly, if you want to claim companies test on animals, your need a reliable source for each one, which you must cite. Taking PETA's word for it violates WP:NPOV. Rockpocket 10:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Persistant copyright violation
Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. See Wikipedia:Copyrights. Copyright violations are unacceptable and persistent violators will be blocked. Your original contributions are welcome. Rockpocket 02:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
