User talk:JoshGator

September 2009
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Smokin' Joe Kubek
I'm sorry, but we cannot accept a contribution that is copied and pasted from Kubek's MySpace page. See WP:COPYRIGHT for more information. Chubbles (talk) 04:14, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Michael burks
A tag has been placed on Michael burks requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. MuffledThud (talk) 16:27, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Michael Burks
A tag has been placed on Michael Burks requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. MuffledThud (talk) 16:28, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Michael Burks
A tag has been placed on Michael Burks requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. MuffledThud (talk) 16:42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Michael Burks
A tag has been placed on Michael Burks requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. MuffledThud (talk) 16:58, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Michael Burks
Hi. There's a copyright notice at the bottom of http://www.reverbnation.com/michaelburks, so there is a copyright problem with what you've copied several times to Michael Burks. Please don't post this copyrighted material again: Wikipedia has to keep strict control of plagiarizing copyrighted material for legal reasons. Thanks, MuffledThud (talk) 17:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Please read WP:IOWN for info on how to release copyrighted material for use on Wikipedia. However, you've indicated in the talk page for that article that you work for Alligator Records: this constitutes a WP:Conflict of interest for this subject, and it's not a good idea for you to be creating articles about your company, as it will be almost impossible for you to be objective about the subject. Please wait for someone else to create an article about the subject instead. Thanks, MuffledThud (talk) 17:16, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Article deleted and recreation prevented. Mr Gator, if you would follow the instructions about donating material that is linked above I have no problem with allowing the article to be recreated. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 17:16, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

If I include a note at the beginning of the article that I donate stating...

permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License

Would the article be permitted? I was instructed to read the WP:IOWN info and from what I can surmise, none of the content that I wanted to donate seemed subjective. It's factual background info.

Please let me know. I don't think having no article at all serves the wiki community.--JoshGator (talk) 21:30, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * No. Our copyright policy is there to protect your rights (and the rights of all the other copyrighted content out there).  You could place those statements on the source website (as IOWN says), or email the foundation (as IOWN says), or rewrite the information in such a way that it isn't patently obvious that the text is the same.  I agree, factual information cannot be copyrighted.  "Mr. Burks was born on January 1 1980", etc etc.  However if the text beyond that point is the same we start to run into issues.  To your last point: I agree, but if the choice comes to a plagarized article or no article I'll take no article.  Without outside confirmation that you have the authority to release that text, you could just be some good intentioned fan trying to infringe on Mr. Burk's and his recording company's rights.  Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 12:52, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Lonnie Brooks
I have reverted your recent edit to this article. The edit summary of 'merge text' was hardly accurate, as it was simply a reversion to your previous version. Please read Manual of Style before proceeding further. Thank you,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:21, 27 November 2009 (UTC)