User talk:Gk demian

March 2008
Please do not create hoaxes. Cease and desist from introducing misinformation into Wikipedia if you are attempting to test our ability to detect and remove it. This has been done before, with universally negative results. Hoaxes are marked for deletion shortly after they are created. Kindly — do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. If you are interested in how accurate Wikipedia is, a more constructive test method is to try to find inaccurate statements that are already in Wikipedia, and then to check to see how long they have been in place and, if possible, correct them. Feel free to take a look at the five pillars of Wikipedia policy to learn more about this project and how you can make a positive impact. Thanks, / edg ☺ ☭ 15:49, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Reprimand for adding link to page
I appreciate the criticism of my post to the doors page about the album Full Circle. Could you please explain to me how adding a link to an external site (without changing any wording within the wiki) can be construed as creating a hoax. Especially when the external site is a legal depository of rare music which is what the wikipedia page was referring to.

Thanks, I value your input.

Gk demian (talk) 21:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)gk_demian


 * My apologies. The recording was not a hoax. I have struck the warning message I left. However, it still needed to be removed because it is not free content, and the full length recording exceeds what is allowed under Wikipedia's "fair use" policy, which is very exclusive and more stringent than fair use law requires. There was some brief discussion of this on Wikipedia talk:Non-free content criteria. Wikipedia's external links policy also forbids linking to copyrighted media.


 * Again, very sorry for the hoax accusation. This was rash and unwarranted of me. / edg ☺ ☭ 05:31, 29 March 2008 (UTC)