User talk:Tucsonpaint

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October 2011
Your addition to Brooks Reed 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 websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  02:25, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without verifying permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted, as you did at Brooks Reed. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  03:55, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

(EC)DoRD hits the high points - using the talk page will avoid any issues that your clear conflict of interest could cause. I'll watchlist that page and assist as I can - and, in the meantime, I'll try to track down some additional references for the article. Personally, I look forward to seeing what Brooks can do - he's on my fantasy team with the Texans defense. Hell of a game the other day. Best, UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 12:40, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Now, with my administrator's hat off, and as a fan of his team, I agree that Reed's article could use some improvement. You might stop by WikiProject National Football League for more information and to solicit the help of project members to assist you in improving the article. Cheers ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh, I'm not a fan at all - but my Colts are dead to me. So, yay Texans. ^_^ UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 13:10, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Brooks was impressive today with 4 tackles and a sack. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 23:53, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks DoRD and sorry I didn't reply before. I didn't quite know how. Thanks also for being a fan of Brooks and the Texans. It sure is fun for his Dad to see! Brooks has a younger Brother, Lucas, who is a TE at the U of New Mexico. He, too, shows promisewas a conference first teamer in his sophomore year, last year. He's not having a great year this year, cause they're having trouble getting him the ball, but his blocking has improved a quantum leap. So, on the weekends I'm pretty obsessed with footballalso go to the kids old highschool games occasionally and of course the U of A, where Brooks played and I still know a lot of the players. It's great! Tucsonpaint (talk) 00:14, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Offer to help your future Wikipedia editing efforts
Hi, Mr. Reed. I edit a lot of college football and NFL-related articles, and I would be more than happy to assist you with your future editing efforts&mdash;regarding Brooks or any other article in which you have an interest. Please feel free to leave me a message here on your talk page (I've added it to my watch list), on my talk page, or through the email link under "tools" on the left side menu on my user page. If you have any questions about Wikipedia policies such as verifiability (see WP:V), reliable sources (see WP:RS), biographies of living persons (see WP:BLP), or copyright violations (see WP:COPYVIO), please just ask. I'm a practicing lawyer and I've been editing Wikipedia articles for the last two years as a hobby, so I can answer most of your questions and help keep you out of the ditch in the future. Once you get a feel for our basic policies, I'm sure you'll be editing like a pro. Given your personal relationship to Brooks, however, we do want to be careful about maintaining the neutral point of view of the article (see WP:NPOV). Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:51, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Dirtlawyer. As I told Jimmy Wales in an email, I really appreciate your site and use it all the time for reference. I added that editing it is a little arcaneI don't even have tildes on my key board!

As for the conflict of interest, I also emailed Jimmy that Tucson was misspelled on Brooks' page, but again because I live here, I didn't want to edit it, for fear of conflict of interest issues.....JK, of coursebut it is misspelled. I also said that the photo of Brooks is a little sub-par and sent three others as attachment that you guys might use---although I don't know who took them, and again there might be copyright issues.

Basically, all the information I would like to see on Brooks' page is already out there in one form or another. Today, someone did a little digging through recent article and added some material.

If you are able to see my deleted additions, you will be able to see the majority of what I would like to see addedand as I told Jimmy, it's as much out of wanting to see something about my son which is complete and accurate, as much as it is to help you guys out in your desire to be informative.

If you have an Email, Dirtlawyer, I can probably concoct some little things and send them your wayphotos, sources, etc. I don't really have to learn how to edit Wikipedia. As I say I use it a lot (mostly because I don't know much) but don't know enough about any subject (except Brooks) to use the editing function.

Oxford must have been fun! I once went to Cambridge to apply for entrance to their grad school in Philosophy. I was turned down, but very politely :-}

If you feel OK with letting me know your email, I'll send you some info.

Again, thanks for your offer to help.

Regards,Tucsonpaint (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Bob Reed


 * Hello, since this page is public and viewable by everyone, even if they don't have a WP account, I removed your email address to protect your privacy. If you wish to send an email to Dirtlawyer1, click on one of the links in their signature, then use the "email this user" link on the left side of the screen under "toolbox". You can also leave them a message on their talk page as they have done here.
 * Anyway, since your block has now expired, you are once again free to edit just about any page on the site. You can practice editing in the sandbox if you like. If you have any questions, I'll be glad to try to answer them. Cheers ​—DoRD (talk)​ 11:29, 28 October 2011 (UTC)