User talk:Hoffa fett

Cynthia Arden
Hello. Concerning your contribution,, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from. As a copyright violation, appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. FreeKresge 05:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Marc Schaeffer
Hello. Concerning your contribution,, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from. As a copyright violation, appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Turlo Lomon 05:57, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Will Thatcher
Hello. Concerning your contribution,, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from. As a copyright violation, appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Turlo Lomon 06:00, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Additional copyvio article creations
NOTE for legal reasons we must maintain a zero-tolerance policy on copyright violations. Any copyrighted content can potentially be propagated to other non-Wikipedia sites under Wikipedia's licensing scheme within minutes of initially posting here. Indicating without evidence that you have permission from the copyright holder and/or that the copyvio will be fixed by editing within a couple of hours are not acceptable. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 06:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sullivan (The Lonely Winds)
 * Angela Wright
 * Joseph Mathias Hawk

'Jake Osborne' article
Jake Osborne has been deleted at your request. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 06:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

This is your last warning for editing Marc Schaeffer (diff). The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. // AntiVandalBot 06:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Self-blanked a copyvio article. ---J.S (T/C) 06:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyright
You may want to read Wikipedia's policy on "using copyrighted work from others," which is here. I don't know much about Wikipedia copyright policy, but it would probably benefit you to read up on it if you want to keep your articles from being deleted. P4k 06:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

advice from Ceyockey: I've done some investigating at the behest of respondents to my request for review of my actions ... the methods for informing on an article's talk page that copyright has been secured are described at Requesting_copyright_permission. The contents of the page in which this passage sits, along with the link provided by P4k and the page Example requests for permission should be sufficient to help you overcome any copyright concerns that we (Wikipedia editors) might have over the copyright status of the material. I hope you understand why I was so ham-fisted over this matter and apologize if my actions seemed downright draconian. Avoiding copyright infringement is a big deal and a never ending exercise here on Wikipedia. Regards --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 15:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

response from Hoffa_Fett: I do understand why what's happened happened. I apologize for not thoroughly reading the policies and procedures for Wikipedia contributions. I will read the articles you have suggested. I have submitted an email request to have the block on my username and IP address removed. If you deem appropriate, I would appreciate your support in this matter.

example of resolved copyright issue: Here is an example of a resolved item, so you have a recent example of what a talk page looks like after the OTRS confirmation tag is affixed &rarr; Talk:Used hardware. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Unblock request
I've asked after the administrator who enabled the block, which is the appropriate first action - see User_talk:Tawker. My understanding is that the block was instituted due to perceived vandalism - please be careful in interacting with tags on articles; in most cases, simple removal is a no-no and there are instructions on the tags about how to dispute them. Also, article blanking is a no-no under most cases (there are some limited exceptions). Regards --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You have been unblocked. I'll go about undeleting the articles in question in a little bit; see Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents for what I'm planning to do.  Regards --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 17:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Jake Osborn
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Jake Osborn, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://thelonelywinds.com/characters/jake.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), you can comment to that effect on Talk:Jake Osborn. Then you should do one of the following:
 * Make a note on the original website that re-use is permitted under the GFDL and state at Talk:Jake Osborn where we can find that note; or
 * Send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Jake Osborn.

It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! -- S onicChao talk 00:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

George Manor
Hello. Concerning your contribution,, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from. As a copyright violation, appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Resolute 00:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Spamming
What you are doing is essentially spamming Wikipedia. Please stop. Thanks, Mak (talk)  00:48, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * By creating articles on every single character in a seemingly borderline-notable at best book, you are spamming. Mak (talk)  00:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

You're doing appears to be exactly the same thing you did before
Please stop this - you have not changed your activity at all as far as I can see. I will block you myself this time if you continue down this road. Respond here. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 00:53, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * responding here the text you are adding is exactly from the pages that you are being cited in the copyvio notes. See George Manor, Sullivan (TLW) (http://www.thelonelywinds.com/characters/sullivan.html), and Jake Osborn before it was deleted. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I will only briefly address the notability issue - that is something I will allow others to address. Please, no more copyvio text.  As far as the notability issues that have been raised ... it appears that people are interpreting the novel as non-notable and if that is the case, the character articles associated with the novel will be determined to be non-notable.  You asked about the difference between this and other novels/characters - just looking at what you are now putting up ... placing skeletons of articles with no content is a certain path to deletion of those articles (for instance G.R. Herald). --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Can the author post the content - your question
You asked whether the author of the book could post the content - thereby putting to rest the copyvio issues. That might help, but the demonstration of copyright needs to still be done as noted in links I provided up the page. There is the matter of notability, though - at this point, now that the novel itself has been deleted, unless you can determine how to establish notability of the novel and successfully recover that article via Undeletion I would not even start considering adding any other articles related to details of the novel. Without an established article for the novel from which the characters come, there will be no chance of those character articles being kept here. Your path forward is to see if it is possible to establish an article about the novel that can survive - mainly it needs to have it's Notability established; this should be pursued via Deletion review. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

G.R. Herald
I have deleted the above article, as it included little encyclopedic text and appeared to be spam. Daveydw ee b ( chat/review! ) 01:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)