User talk:Schrei
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Welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope your leg gets better soon! I'm sorry if I have been a bit shirty about your nomination of جرمنی for deletion, but it is hot here in Spain! In general, pages which are marked as needing translation should not be sent to VfD unless they have sat around at WP:PNT for 14 days or unless someone has mentioned at PnT why they are not worth translating. The logic behind this is that there are many fixes that we can use for these pages, of which translation and deletion are only two, and it can take a bit of time and thought to come up with the best solution. Feel free to stop in at PnT if you feel like it, an Arabic speaker can come in handy and a Spanish speaker is often useful! Physchim62 16:30, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] List of John Doe episodes
For legal reasons we cannot copy summaries from other web sites and add them to wikipedia. - Peregrine Fisher 01:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Even if we were the ones who added them in the first place? Schrei 01:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- You added the summaries to TV.com? Anyways, I don't think it matters if you did. Once added to tv.com, they have the copyright on it, I believe. Basically, you gave them those words, and now they own them. If you write them again, in different words, then they can be OK for wikipedia. - Peregrine Fisher 02:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I realized that once I looked at the copyright information from TV.com. I apologize for the misunderstanding, and yeah, that's what I was getting at; a year or two ago, I concluded that I could add information to both Wikipedia and Memory Alpha, but in the case of TV.com, it's a bit harder to simply say "okay, it's in the public domain, everyone can have it". Schrei 02:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- So you'll remove the summaries? - Peregrine Fisher 02:52, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, I already did; the wording is different now as you mentioned. Schrei 03:15, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- When I google the summaries, I'm still coming back with hits that make it look like they're copied: [1], [2], [3], etc. - Peregrine Fisher 03:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- I think Harry Mudd put it best: "Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!" Anyway, do what you will to keep up "appearances" I guess, although I think it's humorous that the first link only turned up one exact match -- the page on Wikipedia. Schrei 11:38, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- When I google the summaries, I'm still coming back with hits that make it look like they're copied: [1], [2], [3], etc. - Peregrine Fisher 03:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, I already did; the wording is different now as you mentioned. Schrei 03:15, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- So you'll remove the summaries? - Peregrine Fisher 02:52, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I realized that once I looked at the copyright information from TV.com. I apologize for the misunderstanding, and yeah, that's what I was getting at; a year or two ago, I concluded that I could add information to both Wikipedia and Memory Alpha, but in the case of TV.com, it's a bit harder to simply say "okay, it's in the public domain, everyone can have it". Schrei 02:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- You added the summaries to TV.com? Anyways, I don't think it matters if you did. Once added to tv.com, they have the copyright on it, I believe. Basically, you gave them those words, and now they own them. If you write them again, in different words, then they can be OK for wikipedia. - Peregrine Fisher 02:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
