User talk:Casbboy

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Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. -- Linkspamremover 17:10, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Linkspam

You set off the spam radar because you were doing nothing but inserting external links to a wide range of related articles, and links to the same site too. We would prefer you add content instead of links. Your links were removed because they did not appear to add much, in accordance with the external link guidelines. Wikipedia is not a repository for links. If you see other external links which don't meet the guidelines, please remove them. -- Linkspamremover 18:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] June 2006

Please stop adding commercial links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks.

[edit] December 2007

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Madagascar 2: The Crate Escape. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. You have a good source of information and a good reference but don't just cut and paste from the source as that IS a copyright violation and against wiki policy. Try to paraphrase content in your own words or summarize then it would be OK. NrDg 17:45, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

NrDG,

I have edited the page again with a reference link. Does that satisfy the copyright rules?

Afraid not. I reverted it again. The reference link and references were good, I have no problem with that. The problem is that the text is an exact copy of the text from the reference. That is not permitted by Wikipedia rules. What you need to do is restate it in your own words. Read the original text. Then write a summary of what you read, using your own words, in the article. Still include the reference. If you do that, all will be well and it will be a good addition to the article. --NrDg 01:13, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Movie poster fair use requirements

Concerning the uploading of non-free images (such as movie posters, DVD covers, screenshots, magazine covers, pictures you didn't take, etc.), in order for us to use them on Wikipedia they need to be small in size since we must follow the fair use requirements because it's an image we didn't create (this is based on 3(b) of the non-free content criteria). For non-free images, guidelines recommend that one of the dimensions should be only 300-400px in size, so for the image you uploaded it was initially at 470x800 or so. I reuploaded it to 300x444px. If you upload any other images in the future, just save the image to your desktop and use any image editing program and reduce it in size so that one of the dimensions is below 400 (I usually do 300 just so nobody argues and also since movie posters go in the infobox anyways which displays the image at 200px). Keep up the good work and I hope you continue to help with film-related articles on Wikipedia. If you're interested, there is a WikiProject Films that you can join, and it also lists recommended guidelines for images and other aspects of the article. If you have any further questions on uploading images or anything else let me know. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 22:20, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] January 2008

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Jodhaa Akbar. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Anshuk (talk) 20:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)