User talk:Garion96

Why you delete Major-Articles?
Why you delete Major articles? You delete the artist King TMD for copyright violations! Check MTV and www.kingtmd.com or whats the problem? Its not a copyright violation! GEVEN1 (talk) 16:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Maria Desylla-Kapodistria
Dear Garion, before you deleted this page I wish we could have had a conversation. First when I wrote the page this wikipedian was made aware by a bot that there seemed to be an infringement so he changed the wording, so therefore the designation was made before the changes which should have been made evident from the editorial history. If more changes needed to be made could you not have informed me so appropriate edits could have been done. Can you restore it and then we can make the necessary moves together? It is the subject of the article which is worthy the first female mayor in the history of the modern state of Greece and the great grand-daughter of its first head of state. Looking forward to your reply.Masterknighted (talk) 04:00, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Really now if the material from the violation was removed and the source material remained in a way which it was altered so as that it was no longer a violation then it would not have to be removed becasue properly citing a source is not a violtaion. So I would appreciate if you would repost it with the violation removed so that I can improve it where it needs to be done.  If somebody swipes a pack of gum you do not shoot them you instruct them not to do that again, you in effect rehabilitate them. This article just needed to be corrected.Masterknighted (talk) 14:28, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Subway Surfers
I've been looking through the page history and been seeing a lot of addition of unsourced content. I think it would be a good idea to put Semi-Protect into Pending Changes so every edit that comes in could be subject to review. This would reduce unsourced content from coming. ///Euro Car GT  03:43, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Now that the main problem user has been indef'd, can you put it back to semi? We're not supposed to be using PC2 at all. Jackmcbarn (talk) 18:23, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

SPI
I just want to let you know I'm assuming some users on the Subway Surfers article for sock puppetry, for abusing multiple accounts, illegit reasons and disruptively editing. So I put them up on SPI. The SPI is at Sockpuppet_investigations/Amazzing_Me_King. ///Euro Car GT  21:43, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks (seriously)
Thanks for taking out the copyrighted lists from the SF and Fantasy 100 novels lists. I had created them a while back, and was not aware that such lists are copyrighted. oddly enough, i had just discovered this last month, but i didnt have the heart to remove the lists myself. i was also just a little unsure of the rule, and didnt know if i was overly cautious or overly lenient on myself. anyway, im glad you did this, now they are clean and guilt free for me.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 21:26, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, Mercurywoodrose :) Garion96 (talk) 09:02, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Copyright restriction of best lists
Hi. Can you provide a source for the copyright protection of lists such as David Pringle's 100 best novels? We should know precisely what constitutes a violation and avoiding deleting such lists entirely. There must be thousands of such lists here, maybe 10000 including best players of every sports season. --P64 (talk) 19:47, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * See Copyright_in_lists for when a list can be posted or not. Garion96 (talk) 09:05, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Most influential books
Can we add something like... "the list has torah, upanishads,(more 2-3 names) as one of the most influential books." Bladesmulti (talk) 12:00, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * That is no problem. Just the complete list is not allowed. See Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, and Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Garion96 (talk) 19:51, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Since you have proven that they are violation of copyright(if whole list copy+pasted again), I think you must delete all previous changes. You are a admin, and copyright watcher. Bladesmulti (talk) 13:05, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not a requirement to purge a copyvio from from the history, although if not too difficult I always do it. Since this one is so easily to remove and the copyvio is not integrated in the text it doesn't need to be removed from history. Garion96 (talk) 19:15, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I see, anyways, I got a question, can I copy+paste the table from this page?, can be used for Classical_element. I am not good at verifying the copyrights, but this writer is using the text from Ayurveda, written thousands of years ago. So thought of asking from you. Bladesmulti (talk) 13:43, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

The Joy of template current and its relatives
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Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
is there any way we can remove the full list from the edit history of the article? that would stop anyone from casually adding back the list. if the publishers ever surrender copyright, we could uncover the list, so nothing would be lost. i was the original creator of the article, and created the list, before i understood that such lists are under copyright.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 14:48, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Deleted "Jan Scully" Wikipedia Page - Looking to Create New Page
I am new to Wikipedia and looking to start a new page/article on "Jan Scully." When I searched for her, it shows a previous page was deleted by you due to copyright issues. Before I start a new one, it's suggested I contact the administrator who deleted the first page/article first. Jan Scully is the current Sacramento County District Attorney, so not sure if it's the same person.

Please advise on how I should proceed. Thank you!

Deleted "Jan Scully" Page - Creating New "Jan Scully" Page
Hi Garion - I am new to Wikipedia and looking to create a new page/article on "Jan Scully." When I searched the name, it shows there was a previous "Jan Scully" page that was deleted by you due to copyright issues. The results page says to contact the administrator who deleted the previous page. The Jan Scully I would like to create a page for is the current Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully, so I'm not sure it's the same person as the previous, deleted page.

Please advise. Thank you!

Syorio (talk) 18:41, 14 November 2014 (UTC)ShellySyorio (talk) 18:41, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

neutral RfC notification
Template_talk:Succession_box  has a discussion on succession box usage. You had previously noted or opined at Templates for deletion/Log/2009 April 6 thanks. Kraxler (talk) 17:21, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Joe Williams (jazz singer)
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RfC: Religion in infoboxes of nations
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RfC announce: Religion in infoboxes
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Nomination of Justine Suissa for deletion
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This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on
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Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:


 * 15 June 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:


 * 31 December 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion in infoboxes.

The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

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Please leave it with those of us that know to determine what is correct.
Editors here seem to ignore that technology can have an origin outside the US and photos must be claimed by a US company the a wiki-tag. But Steve Jobs could also upload photos of Apple computers taken by himself of early variants of things, and photos in the private sphere belongs to Steve Jobs and not Apple. It becomes "disputed" the moment Apple dispute the photo. Steve Jobs uploaded the photo and all arguments between this dispute is then between Mr. Jobs and Apple to resolve. With Steve Jobs dead, Apple can dispute the origin of his photos, but they have to show that it was not taken by him, but by someone working for Apple Inc. Had Apple Inc been gone, the proof goes the other way. Had you approached me about what you delete and remove, Wiki could claim neutrality, and a factual presentation. But following repeated removal, you are hereby notified that the order of proof has changed. I have the original photos, know the technology, have the evidence where most were submitted on the net, also here on Wikipedia. But there is a limit, and your "Bots" and "editors" and inability to monitor content has another victim. Wikipedia is loosing grounds, the articles are loosing focus as they are gradually polished to offend nobody. KHF 09:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, I have a number of times "donated" photos to the public domain, and referenced them here on Wikipedia according to the terms set for uploading photos for use here. But you keep on removing them, and then when the article loose interest, you delete them.
 * I will not upload the photos. I will not reset the wiki article, but I will adamantly insist in court and claim compensation in full for the omissions and deletions of wiki articles where referenced articles were used by others to claim that competing technology had no competition, and no competing alternatives existed.

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