User talk:The demiurge

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On JC Denton - where was the text copied from? If you find a copyvio, please replace the text with {{copyvio|url=http://original.url}}, and edit the Temp page so we can delete the copyvio from the database. -- Jim Regan 04:54, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Most of it was taken from http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/april02/dxbible/dx1/index2.shtm and I thought I could rewrite it to get rid of that and make it better anyway. I'm not sure what you mean about editing the temp page though, I'm still a bit new to all this wikipedia stuff. --The demiurge 15:24, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

OK. What you do is replace the text on the page with {{copyvio|url=http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/april02/dxbible/dx1/index2.shtm}}, which shows up as: (the original version has been removed so that this talk page does not show up in the copyright violations category, see this link to see the template. -- Kjkolb 16:24, 10 April 2006 (UTC))

Note the link to a /Temp page, which is generated. This is where you place new edits. For JC Denton, you would use JC Denton/Temp -- Jim Regan 20:04, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Ah, ok. So this is to go through a formal procedure for copyright violations? I just figured I could remove the offending text and make a better article in one fell swoop. I guess there is a certain amount of bookkeeping that needs to be done. Thanks for the help. --The demiurge 20:39, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Deus ex machina examples

I think you might have been confused: in your edit summary, you implied that I did something with the "unsourced examples list", but I didn't; all I did was to tag the article with {{examplefarm}}. Unless I missed something here ... +ILike2BeAnonymous 22:18, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

My comment wasn't directed at you, it was at 84.187.213.54, who dumped all those examples in the page right before your edit. I assumed removing the list would invalidate your tag too. I should have added "revert to last version by WikiSlasher" in the summary. Sorry for any misunderstanding. The demiurge 23:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC)