User talk:ScottSafier

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Eric Stern
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Eric Stern, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. (The text seems to be a straght copy from http://www.stonewalldemocrats.org/trailmix/bio/stern/) For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! DES (talk) 18:27, 4 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I see you created a revised version of the page. I presume you are suggesting this as a replacement for the copyvio version. I have therefore moved it to Eric Stern/Temp which is our usual method for handling such suggested replacements. If there is agreemetn that the original versiion was a copyvio, adn that the replacemt version is not, I (or another admin) can deelte the original page, and move the replacemetn page to Eric Stern, thus not leaving the copyvio version in the histrory, but preserving the edit history of the replacement version. Please feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have questions about this process. Ypu might want to read our copyright problems page as well as our copyright policy. DES (talk) 19:24, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * You wrote (on my talk page): Sorry... I thought by rewriting the page I could resolve the issue.
 * Basically you can, but there are a few hoops we need to go through. If you simply create a new version by an ordianry edit, the old copyright infringing version stays in the edit history. Instead, the procedure is to create the new version in a different location (as I described above). That location is Eric Stern/Temp. Then when it is confirmed and aggreed that this is an acceptable replacement, the old version is deleted and the new version takes its place. In this case I think that can be done later today, but I need to do a little checking. (note that the default process can take 2 weeks or more). I understand you were attempting to fix the problem, and I am sorry if I sounded abrupt or hostile -- you wouldn't belive how many people think they have the right to paste something into wikipedia because it was posted to the web soemwhere else, and keep trying to restore the infringing version, so I am probably over-sensitive on the issue.
 * Also you maight want to be sure that the replacemetn article makes it clear just how and why the subject is significant or important. Otherwise someone may suggest deleting the article altogether -- again, you wouldn't belive how many people want an articel about their highschool buddy on wikipedia. See our biography standards, our style sheet for biographies, a page about "vanity" articles and WP:SPAM.
 * Also, please sign your comments on talk pages, such as this one, with four tildas (like this ~ ). The software will convert this into your user ID and a link to your user page, plus a time stamp. You can customize your signature in your user preferences if you wish to. DES (talk) 19:35, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, some things came up. I have delted the infringing version of the Eric Stern artilce, and moved the non-infringing temp version to replace it. The copyright violation notice is now gone from the article. Agaion I'm sorry for the delay on this. DES (talk) 17:56, 10 November 2005 (UTC)