User talk:Giantgrant

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Hello, Giantgrant, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 20:33, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
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May 2014
Hello, I'm C.Fred. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Scott Gessler without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The material you removed is backed up by reliable sources that support the text in the article. —C.Fred (talk) 20:33, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

You can't just call a sourced edit "defamation". If you think there's a problem, you need to explain your concerns with the source at the article's talk page. —C.Fred (talk) 20:38, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Scott Gessler, you may be blocked from editing. Your repeated removal of sourced information gives the appearance that you are trying to whitewash the article and remove all negative information from it. Per the neutral point of view guidelines, articles should contain positive and negative information. —C.Fred (talk) 20:44, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Scott Gessler
Hi,

this is not how things are handled here. Do not empty the article and promise to come back with allegedly correct information if there is already information that is both referenced and consistent. -- O.Koslowski (talk) 20:46, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

June 2014
This is your last warning; the next time you harm Wikipedia, as you did at Scott Gessler with this edit, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪  ߷  ♀ 投稿 ♀ 00:06, 1 June 2014 (UTC)


 * What are you talking about? I added history and updates with references. You guys are nuts. Everything I added is true. What will it take to have you write true statements? A lawsuit? Your active promotion of lies is defamatory.


 * Giantgrant, are you saying you will take legal action? Also: Please sign your comments using four tildes: ( ~ ). Thank you. 「 dsprc 」   [ talk ]  07:41, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Giantgrant, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Scott Gessler has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. (Under U.S. copyright law, all creative text is copyrighted on publication unless it is ineligible. Content at Gessler's official website is not ineligible.) 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 a cited source. 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.
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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. Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:21, 5 June 2014 (UTC)