User talk:Mizribble

December 2012
Hello, I'm Denisarona. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Albert S. Ruddy without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Denisarona (talk) 22:59, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Albert Ruddy
I'd like to ask you to stop what you are doing on the Albert S. Ruddy article. The wholesale changes you are making are not in keeping with the desired style for Wikipedia articles. You are taking away most of the formatting, for example. Also, you are posting text that is taken word-for-word from another website. We cannot have the text match word-for-word to someone else's copyrighted website unless we have written permission from the copyright holder. If the person who wrote the other website's text wants to give permission to use it, then they need to follow the instructions provided at Donating copyrighted materials. Also, if you are in fact Ruddy's assistant as you claimed in a recent edit summary, then you should look at our conflict of interest guidelines before doing any further editing.

If there is mistaken information about Ruddy in the article, then we definitely want to correct that! However, I would strongly suggest that you point out the mistakes on the article talk page and let others work on making the corrections. This will help avoid any potentially embarrassing mistakes caused by your personal unfamiliarity with Wikipedia's editing guidelines. Feel free to contact me on my own user talk page if you have questions about what I am suggesting. --RL0919 (talk) 00:08, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm trying to help you out here, but if you continue to post copyrighted material without written permission being provided, then your account may be blocked from editing. You can post a reply below this message to ask for further assistance. --RL0919 (talk) 00:58, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate your help! I hope I'm doing this right... I think there's a miscommunication- there's NO copyright infringement as I wrote what is posted on all websites and try to post here...

What's missing:

while working at Rand corporation he and Bernard Fein created Hogan's Heroes (his first credit and introduction into the industry) and pitched it to CBS- getting an On-air deal... after deciding not to work on the show as a producer he went on to produce "Little Fauss and Big Halsey" with an unknown Robert Redford- because the movie was delivered under budget and ahead of schedule Paramount asked him to produce "The Godfather"- a movie no one else wanted to do and no one thought it would be successful.

"The Longest Yard" (produced and created by Ruddy) made Burt Reynolds a leading man and earned Ruddy a Golden Globe and is considered the first sports movie and one of the highest grossing of its time.

"Cannon Ball Run" movies were the first ensemble comedy movies- the cast and producers of "Oceans 11" refer to it as the first of it's kind- reunited Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior and Dean Martin.

"Death Hunt" made money and Megaforce (along with the "Cannon Ball" movies) paired Ruddy with Hal Needham- which just earned him an honorary Oscar- which Ruddy presented to him at the Governors Awards at the Academy.

"Cannonball Run 2"- made an enormous amount of money at the box office.

There's also nothing about Ruddy producing/creating "Walker Texas Ranger" which ran for 7 seasons or "How the West Was Won" with famed icon James Arness.

There's "Running Mates" a TNT movie- the rating were so high that TNT did a distribution of it in Europe as an actual movie.

I'm also trying to add to his filmography the movie "Ten" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sam Worthington.

Is there a way for Wikkipedia to go further back with their Ceasar (French Academy Awards) listing- I think it starts at 1975- Ruddy got his two before then.. also Heraldo (Mexican Academy Award) aren't included and he has two of those...

Gulp!

I think that's it for now- again I appreciate your help!


 * These all seem like reasonable changes. I will try to work on them this evening. Regarding the material that you wrote for the other website, I hope you understand that we can't just take the word of a Wikipedia account that they are the copyright owner. Wikipedia accounts are basically anonymous, so anyone could show up claiming they are you and start giving away your stuff! The permission needs to come from a source that can be reasonably confirmed as the owner or their representative. If you go to Donating copyrighted materials, it explains different ways you could confirm that. --RL0919 (talk) 18:48, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate you providing the help we need... I will work on doing the appropriate things to "donate copyright"... [] is the link to see Ruddy give Needham his Academy Award if that helps! Thanks again... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.12.169.166 (talk) 19:04, 4 December 2012 (UTC)