User talk:24.86.124.111

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[edit] Sea monkey copyright

Thank you for your contributions to the Sea-Monkey article. Please make absolutely sure you do not copy any text from a Sea-Monkey package, instruction manual, or packet. That would be a copyright violation; text other people wrote cannot be included in Wikipedia without permission. Jdavidb 18:04, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

No, I did not copy from anything.

I'm not sure how you can say for sure that you didn't copy from anything in the sea monkey article, yet you have apparently been copying for the Pokemon articles. Please understand that you absolutely cannot put text into Wikipedia unless it is your own words. Are you sure there is nothing in the sea monkey article that did not come from a sea monkey package, book, or advertisement? Jdavidb 19:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, Pokemon and Sea-Monkeys are two very different subjects. My methods for typing artices depends on what the subject in question is. For Pokemon, the material in question is rather basic knowledge which you see all over the place. This sort of Pokedex data can be found in various Pokemon websites. You can even find it in the pokemon games. I have a Pokemon game myself. Kindly understand that this sort of data is knowledge that is copied many times over. Who knows, the websites themselves could have copied stuff from each other many times over. Note that I am trying to settle the dispute with other users. Now, Sea-Monkeys are something else. The Sea-Monkey's official website is the main source of material for Sea-Monkey information. As there are considerably less Sea-Monkey websites that pokemon websites, Sea-Monkey data can be very limited. For Sea-Monkeys, I look at the information in question and put it in my own words. So, if you are asking whether I copy or not, I would say up to a degree as the information is true but I write it in my own words. Please note that the Pokemon information is standard and repeated many times over while the Sea-Monkey information can be expressed in the person's words amd can be different in writing depending on the writer's skill. I hope that you understand all this as I have tried my best in explaining to you.

[edit] The Pokédex entries

Please, stop adding the verbatim Pokédex entries to the Pokémon articles. They're borderline copyright violations (as verbatim duplication of copyrighted text), as well as rather non-encyclopedic as a list of factoids about the Pokémon.

Instead, why not take a look at the Pokémon manual of style, then register a username (it only takes a second, and you don't even need an e-mail address) and join the Pokémon Collaborative Project? We've got a lot of Pokémon articles to whip into shape, and we could use your help. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 05:26, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

I left a note for you on Starblind's user page.

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