User talk:Dr. Gregory House

OHOTMU stats
Your recent edit to the Spider-Man's powers and equipment article has been reverted. It is against Wikipedia policy to use power stats taken out of special encyclopedic comic books, such as the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe or Who's Who in the DC Universe. All of the informtaion used in the comic book character articles has been gathered from the various appearances a character has made in regular montly comic books over the years and are fair game. OHOTMU stats are used only in certain encyclopedic comics published by Marvel Comics or in certain other publications with Marvel's permission, such as Wizard Magazine. Wikipedia doesn't have Marvel's permission to use the stats as part of the articles and, since Wikipedia's articles on their characters could be interpreted by them as a competitor to their handbooks, using them violates copyright law just as copying text taken from the OHOTMU word for word and placing it in the article would be violating copyright. Whoever is ultimately in charge of Wikipedia is worried about Marvel suing the crap out of them, which could techinically happen if using the stats in the article were both allowed and encouraged. If an editor has been made aware of the policy and continues to add the stats, it is considered vandalism and can result in being temporarily or, in extreme cases, permanently blocked. Odin&#39;s Beard 20:10, 22 April 2007 (UTC)