User talk:Ifmanbearpig

March 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Quail Hollow Middle School, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.
 * Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
 * Cluebot produces very few false positives, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been detected as unconstructive, please report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
 * The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Quail Hollow Middle School was changed by Ifmanbearpig (u) (t) making a minor change adding "!!!" on 2010-03-24T00:38:51+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 00:38, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

November 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Pubic hair, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. DC  T • C   02:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

April 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to False awakening, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. Gscshoyru (talk) 14:31, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at False awakening. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. Gscshoyru (talk) 14:32, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at False awakening, you may be blocked from editing. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. Gscshoyru (talk) 14:33, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

This is your last warning; the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at False awakening, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. Gscshoyru (talk) 14:33, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Syrthiss (talk) 14:33, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

unblocked
User:Ifmanbearpig requested via UTRS ticket #3397 that they be unblocked as they've grown up a lot since being blocked. I've agreed to them being unblocked but with the understanding that anymore vandalism and they'll get blocked without warning, and that they'll then stay blocked. They've agreed to this. Secretlondon (talk) 23:06, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:A-0 geyser.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:A-0 geyser.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails the first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:


 * 1) Go to the media description page and edit it to add, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
 * 2) On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on [ this link]. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 01:23, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Geyser picture
The message above isn't that helpful. It says that you uploaded a copyrighted photo but didn't give a reason why we could use it. What would be more useful is to explain to you about our policy on using non-free photos. FAIR is good to read. The criteria we use are at Non-free_content_criteria_exemptions. In this case it comes down to whether the picture is replaceable - it looks like the geyser is still there so anyone could go and take a photo of it. Therefore we cannot justify using this person's photo when we could find a free one to use. There may even be free photos of the geyser on flickr, or from the US government. Someone who lives locally could go and visit it to take a photo as well.

Also always find a source to defend what you are adding to articles. Some articles don't have very good sources at the moment but all new information needs to be verifiable, we need to see where you got it from. Secretlondon (talk) 15:50, 4 September 2012 (UTC)