User talk:Akulatribal

American Tribal Style Belly Dance
It is not appropriate to insert the ® symbol into articles regardless of the trademark status of the subject. Please consult WP:MOS before making any further edits of this nature. Thank you. Trusilver 17:17, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

August 2012
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ANI
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 17:51, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for informing me, I no longer have any desire to contribute to a page that is factually incorrect and has no desire to change. I would therefore like to delete my profile on here but cannot find how to do so. I am not threatening anything other than trying to make changes which we have all been instructed to do by the owner of the trademarks. If the owners of this site do not wish to make changes or correct this there is nothing further I can do.


 * Wikipedia has well-established standards, vetted by the WMF's legal advisors, regarding the use of trademark, copyright, and registered symbols (in a nutshell: don't), as encoded in the Manual of Style. That said, if you still wish to vanish from Wikipeida, please see WP:RTV. - The Bushranger One ping only 18:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Akulatribal please could you elaborate further on what you consider to be factually incorrect in the article, then others can make the required changes. Thank you.Theroadislong (talk) 18:38, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

You state there are several American Tribal Style® Bellydance troupes in the United States and throughout the world when there are actually hundreds of them. There are also over 150 FCBD® Sister Studios of which I am one and have been since 2009. It has cost FCBD thousands of pounds to register the names FCBD, American Tribal Style, FatChanceBellyDance, ATS and they should all be used anywhere in the world in the first screen shot of any page that mentions these words each first mention should be followed with the ®. If you doubt my word check this out with www.fcbd.com/about/legal.shtml If you are not part of the inner sanctum you cannot be expected to understand the subtle differences between ATS and Tribal Style belly dance which is why I thought you allowed pages to be edited if they were incorrect, If this is the case then why not take away the right to edit but ensure the information you have on any page is at least correct and current? The best place to ensure it is correct is to take information that is provided on the FatChanceBellyDance website www.fcbd.com. Also the picture you have on the page should also really be of FCBD or Carolena Nericcio as you correctly credit her as creating American Tribal Style Belly Dance. The history is also highly documented, however you are most probably not aware of the complications and implications that have arisen because of linking Tribal Style Belly Dance to American Tribal Style Belly Dance together on the same page and even in the same sentence. Quite honestly I give up, I have not informed Carolena as yet but I can because I talk to her regularly and she asks that we notify of this type of thing. If you don't care then continue to run the page in its current outdated and incorrect format as quite frankly I have stopped caring. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.35.19 (talk) 19:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC) Akulatribal (talk) 19:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I have removed the incorrect assertion for you, but as you have been told before above... It is not appropriate to insert the ® symbol into articles regardless of the trademark status of the subject. I still can't work out, what exactly you consider to be incorrect in the article, apart from the lack of trademark signs?Theroadislong (talk) 19:23, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone is challenging your assertion of facts in this article provided you have verifiable sources to back up those fact. You seem to be missing the point in this respect. The primary issue at hand is your incorrect belief that any use of the subject's name requires a registered trademark symbol. To quote WP:MOS: "Do not use the ™ and ® symbols, or similar, in either article text or citations, unless unavoidably necessary for context (for instance, to distinguish between generic and brand names for drugs)." Trusilver  20:39, 13 August 2012 (UTC)