User talk:LV MEL

Nevada Commission on Ethics
This article which you created contained only copyrighted material from the official website. Please don't submit writing you don't own (or isn't under an ok license). Have any other of your contributions contained copyrighted material? --Banana (talk) 05:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Dear "Banana. " first of all, your change makes no sense; it is incorrect as you obviously have no idea what are you talking about. Your message is based solely on conjectures superimposed on lack of empirical knowledge. I suggest you do your "homework" before questioning others and making yourself look ignorant, which you did. Regarding your "copyright infringement" accusation, it made me laugh; this is why: I am the creator of the article you referred to. Therefore, I cannot violate my own copyrights. If you really wanted to know, I started working on the article in September 09 and never had the time to complete it; sure, it was vague and it surely needed more info. However, that alone doesn't give you right to make uneducated assumptions and change the (I admit) vague article to something making no sense. Any other questions? Hope you have learned something new today.
 * You added the material to Wikipedia on September 1, 2009. The text has been on the Nevada Commission of Ethics website since at least February 11, 2005. You can find an archive of the Nevada Commission of Ethic's website here. It is therefore impossible for the content to be originally yours.
 * Wikipedia cannot legally cannot use material not under an acceptable license (the official policy page is at Copyrights). One possible source for your confusion is that much of what the federal government of the United States produces is in the public domain and thus under an acceptable license for use on Wikipedia. Nevada is not part of the federal government and has a copyright notice on their current page.
 * I checked the rest of your contributions for copyright violations and did not find any. I've rewritten the article on the Nevada Commission of Ethics so that it is no longer a copyright violation. If you feel my rewrite is confusing, feel free to edit it into something better. Please do not add material to Wikipedia unless you own the copyright or it is under an acceptable license. If you have any questions about copyright on Wikipedia, I'd be happy to answer them. --Banana (talk) 02:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)