User talk:Pjotr Morgen

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Hello, Pjotr Morgen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Extraordinary Machine does not need to claim to own the copyright to remove the lyrics from the article. Please see Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry. Brief quotations are acceptable in the context of sourced interpretation of the work. However, including a Lyrics section of a copyrighted work is copyright infringement and should be removed from articles. 17Drew 22:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from User talk:Extraordinary Machine. Please be careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. 17Drew 23:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Extraordinary Machine made no assertion to owning the copyright; his edit summary was "rm copyrighted lyrics". Copyrighted lyrics can and should be removed from Wikipedia by anyone, not just the copyright holder. 17Drew 23:23, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
No problem. The issue isn't so much that fewer copies would be sold. It's more that Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia that others can reuse or modify however they want. Unfortunately, this means we have to avoid using any large sections of copyrighted text, and we sometimes can't include information that could be helpful for the reader. 17Drew 19:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)