User talk:Scottfoster005

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Ann Kobayashi
Your recent addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. 青い(Aoi) (talk) 02:48, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

The text you added to Ann Kobayashi in this edit is under copyright. We cannot accept this text. You will be blocked if you add this text again. —C.Fred (talk) 04:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Look, I'm the person who reverted your original edits. I don't appreciate you accusing me of working for Nathanial Kinney. I did not even know who that person was until you accused me of working for him.

I reverted your edits not because I disagreed with the content. I reverted the edits because the biography you posted was clearly copied directly from Ann Kobayashi's official website, which is copyrighted material. Wikipedia policy clearly states articles may NOT include any copyrighted material. Your edits violated this policy, and that is why I (and later, another editor C. Fred) reverted them.

The bottom line is that, while you are free to edit Kobayashi's article, you cannot use material that has already been copyrighted, simply because it violates copyright law. 青い(Aoi) (talk) 06:25, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello,. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 青い(Aoi) (talk) 07:18, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

July 2009
Your recent edits could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that this is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Triwbe (talk) 07:38, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Triwbe (talk) 07:39, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first.

See related thread: Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.  Sandstein  07:54, 24 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Hello Scott. I'm sorry to see that your first day on Wikipedia has been quite eventful. If you want to continue editing Wikipedia, the section "Conclusion of legal threat" of the policy page about legal threats will be of interest to you. Concerning the page of Ann Kobayashi, as mentioned above you might want to limit yourself to giving input on the talk page, and not editing the article directly. This is for two reasons, really: First, you are probably biased if you are involved in her election campaign, which is problematic since we strive for neutral articles. Second, it might actually be a problem for the candidate if it is made public that a person affiliated with her campaign have or are seen as whitewashing her article here - this quite regularly backfires. If you have any question, feel free to ask them here. Kind regards, Amalthea  08:29, 24 July 2009 (UTC)