User talk:WikiJJ42

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Copyright violations

 * I'm very sorry to do this, but I'm about to remove a lot of information from your user page. The problem is that it violates Wikipedia's rules about copyright infringement.  Please see the page WP:COPYVIO, which explains Wikipedia's policies on copyright violations.  In addition, the guidelines for user pages states, "The same rules for copyright apply on userpages as in article space. Text must either be non-copyright or out of copyright, otherwise only a short quote can be used."  One thing you may not be aware of is that copyright rules can potentially apply, even for just links to other sites that violate copyright.  Specifically, here, many of the music videos you've linked to are definitely copyright violations, because they are not being posted by the copyright holder.  As such, Wikipedia does not allow these links anywhere, even on user pages.  If you have links to sites that you know are owned by the copyright holder (like, for example, the band's official site--not myspace, or facebook, but an official, commercial site), then it may be possible to link to that.  You would want to look for some sort of copyright statement somewhere on that site itself.
 * Again, my apologies, because this will look harsh. Normally I don't like to alter someone else's user page, but policy on copyright violations is very clear because of the very serious consequences violating copyright can have for Wikipedia.  If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or on my talk page. Qwyrxian (talk) 00:14, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Purpose of Wikipedia
Also, I wanted to start a conversation right away about the purpose of Wikipedia. Please know that we are not a personal webhost or blogging site. The purpose is to build an encyclopedia; user pages are just a small space to provide a little bit of personal information, with the main goal of improving our ability to edit the main article space. If you are not here to contribute to the encyclopedia, then you are misunderstanding the situation. Please ask if you have any questions. Qwyrxian (talk) 00:32, 18 September 2010 (UTC)