User talk:Asylument818

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Asylument818, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Gangsters: America's Most Evil have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:06, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

September 2017
Your addition to Gangsters: America's Most Evil has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ''Plot descriptions cannot be copied from other sources, including official sources and IMDb, unless these can be verified to be public domain or licensed compatibly with Wikipedia. They must be written in original language to comply with Wikipedia's copyright policy.'' — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:40, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

More removal
I also removed material from Gangsters: America's Most Evil, for the reasons explained by Diannaa in the post above. I do note that you included an edit summary in one of the edits:

These edits are approved by production company Asylum Entertainment.

I would like to add a couple comments about that statement. The first is that content in Wikipedia should be added by independent editors, and the approval of any organization is neither necessary nor desired.

As a preface to my second comment, I am not familiar with the organization but see that it is the producer of the material. If you are associated with that organization, then you have a conflict of interest, and should not be directly editing the article. We do have a process by which people with conflicts of interest can recommend changes and improvements to articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_COI_request

My third comment relates to the inclusion of copyrighted material in Wikipedia articles. This can be done in some circumstances if the material is properly licensed. However, while many editors check with the copyright holder to a tame permission, they miss that arranging for permission is essentially a two-step process:
 * 1) get the permission from the copyright holder
 * 2) file the permission with OTRS

Your edit summary suggested that you may have completed the first up but you almost certainly did not complete the second step.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:11, 20 September 2017 (UTC)