User talk:Samvscat

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

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¡Dustimagic! (T/C) 05:53, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

Your addition of a copyrighted image to 24 Hours of Love was in violation of WP:FUC and has been reverted. Sorry. --Yamla 00:21, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to MTV

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Samvscat! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, and try to reinsert the link again. If your link was genuine spam, please note that inserting spam into Wikipedia is against policy. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 13:08, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The programs template

Nice work. That's what I had in mind but I had problems getting it to space properly and got frustrated. Thanks for stepping in. :) Lambertman 03:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiquote transwikis

Please do not transfer material from Wikipedia to Wikiquote or other projects, as you did for MTV (to q:MTV slogans), without following the guidelines at Help:Transwiki on the target project. Simply copying and pasting material violates GFDL, as the editors who actually contributed the material are not given credit for its presence in the Wikimedia projects. If you have any questions after reading the material, feel free to ask me. Thank you for your assistance. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conflicting Edit

i was just putting the ref tags outside the punctuation, and at the end of the paragraph for windows vista. great minds think alike? i could be lying, but your edit was great ;) The undertow 06:50, 9 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:MTV2.gif

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our Criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Iamunknown 07:53, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:24hoursoffoo.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:24hoursoffoo.jpg. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Suggestions on how to do so can be found here.

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[edit] Image source problem with Image:949thesound.JPG

Image Copyright problem

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:CBS Evening News w Katie Couric.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:CBS Evening News w Katie Couric.jpg. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Suggestions on how to do so can be found here.

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:MSN program viewer.gif

Image Copyright problem

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[edit] Re: Frankie Valli

This is in response to "I ran across the Frankie Valli article and saw a huge notice about copyright infringement that you placed on the page. I'm not challenging your claim, but I can't find a full explanation on the talk page. For the sake of clarity, can you state why it's plagiarism and name the original source of the text in the article? Thanks, Samvscat (talk) 23:07, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

UPDATE: Nevermind, I found a resolution at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 March 19/Articles. User:Silver Spoon said, "This is no copyright violation. This site is a wikipedia clone. Everything we change here is shown there. The site now also has the Possible copyright infringement on top of the page. What this site lacks is a statement that says that the information shown is orriginaly from wikipedia." Given this information, I'll remove the notice. --Samvscat (talk) 23:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)"

"Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Slater79"

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Sorry about that. I really had no way of knowing that, because there was no thing on the bottom of that website that said that the information was legally taken from Wikipedia. There really should be, as there is on other websites that do the same.

I think that it's potentially dangerous for other websites to take copy from Wikipedia, being that Wikipedia has such a track record of mis-information and non-verified "facts," not to mention poor grammar! I think that if they are copying from Wikipedia (even if it is "legal"), then Wikipedia is having a "contagious" and negative effect on the rest of the internet. This is potentially dangerous to information on the internet in general, as Wikipedia is hardly the most dependable and authoritative source for information on the internet. Maybe there should be a HUGE sentence at the top of these websites that copy from Wikipedia that say CAUTION: THE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE IS FROM WIKIPEDIA. That way, the reader will know to take the "information" in that particular website with a grain of salt.

Slater79 (talk) 05:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Mtv2 2005.jpg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Mtv2 2001.gif)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Mtv2 1996.jpg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:MTV2OLD2.jpg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:NKU seal.gif)

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