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First archive

Greetings, fellow Wikipedian, I took the liberty of setting up an archive of your old talk which most people do every couple of months or so. Of course, one of the beauties of this place is that, if you don't like what I've done, you can feel free to revert it or to change it around as you wish. There are also bots that can help with your archiving if you choose to use one of them. I hope this helps. Cheers. — Rgoodermote 19:15, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism and blocking users

You can report people yourself, y'know. Just go to WP:AIV and follow the instructions. I'm going to report this Stunticons IP again, dunno what on Earth it's playing at. Chris Cunningham 09:15, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Rank

I'd rather not rehash the whole non-notability and insignificance of rank in the Transformers infobox. It is insignificant, trivial information. Note that User:The Matrix Prime has a history of disruptive editing and ignoring policy/guidelines; his assertion that it belongs is not substantiated by policy. --EEMeltonIV 01:18, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sunstorm-minicon.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sonar-armada.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Shrapnel-ww.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 18:44, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Runabout-marvel.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Tarantulas-tx.jpg

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Warnings for vandalism

Hi Mathew, I just wanted to say that you should use the warning templates when you are warning vandals. It's usually more systematic and the language has been hashed out forever. For User:170.215.130.65, I declined to block because he seemed to have stopped after you warned (good job!) and policy is that blocks are for prevention, not punishment. If you catch someone else doing the kind of stuff, post it to AIV again (the rule is sort of let's tell him a few times to knock it off and if he doesn't, then block). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 02:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Boxart images

I see you've once again been uploading boxart and other copyrighted images. Can you point me toward the talk-page discussion or IFD discussion where a consensus was reached to permit these images? If not, why are you uploading material that has previously been deleted as in violation of Misplaced Pages's fair-use policy? --EEMeltonIV 03:02, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

You've made several edits since I posted my earlier message. Please offer a rationale for the return of the boxart images, or I'll once again go through and have them deleted. Fair-use images need to the subject of critical commentary -- in the fair-use rationales you provide, you say they're there to show Hasbro's distinct style, but the articles themselves make no mention of this. --EEMeltonIV 09:14, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Prowl-attacktix.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 23:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Prowl-lion.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Energon023-cover.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 06:20, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Cosmos-animated.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 14:25, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Autobots-universe.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 05:09, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Als-cover.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 08:09, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Boss-toycar.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Cobybot.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Checkpoint-fp.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 08:39, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Carelessness and AN/I

Your dubious fair-use claims for toy boxart (e.g. lack of article discussion on Hasbro's "distinct style" that the images supposedly illustrate, and inaccuracy as to source) coupled with unwillingness to engage in talk-page discussion have led me to post a heads up about your editing behavior at the administrators' noticeboard. While waiting for a response, you may want to review WP:NONFREE.

Also, you continue to make careless edits, such as your removal of {{fair use reduce}} here and a spelling correction here. Please be more careful. --EEMeltonIV 13:16, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I do apologize for removing the {{fair use reduce}} edits. It was an accidnet. Mathewignash 18:48, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

It is absolutely imperitive that you respond to talk page comments about fair use. Failure to do so will likely get all your uploads deleted. I have already deleted box art that you recreated after it was deleted as replacible. If you reupload them again I will block you for disruption. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 13:42, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Noted. Thanks for the warning. I'm sometimes unsure how to do things here, but I am trying. Mathewignash 18:48, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Block

It has become painfully obvious that the only way you know how to contribute to this project is by uploading fair use images with dubious claims or uploading copyright violations. As such, you are indefinitely blocked until you realize the problems you are causing to the project itself due to your lack of knowledge of Misplaced Pages's non-free content guidelines.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 22:59, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Mathewignash (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Excuese me, but the last admin who came on this page asked me not to upload certain box art or I'd be blocked, told him I understood and agreed. So why did you block me AFTER this was settled?

Decline reason:

Mathew, the issue here is not that today or over the past few days you uploaded a few fair use images with dubious sources/rationales, but that this is a neverending problem with you. You constantly upload fair use images, often several per day, and far too many of these fall outside of the non-free policy. The concerns EEMeltonIV raised at ANI earlier are exactly the same concerns I had with you back in June. Everytime you are taken up on a non-free concern you make a haphazard effort at correcting the problem, if indeed you make any effort at all or even respond to the person leaving the complaint, and prattle off the same lines about how you don't understand the rules and how you'll be more careful in future. Frankly, if I AGF and you really don't understand WP:NONFREE after so much time (your first upload was April 2006!), after so many uploads and after so many blocks then you really should not be uploading anything at all. You are not behind this project's aim of being a 💕 and I have absolutely no doubt that you would continue paying minimal attention to policy as you have always done if unblocked. – Steel 02:47, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Okay I'm obviously not doing this right. I will agree NOT to upload ANY fair use images to Misplaced Pages. Then we can't have this problem again. Deal? Mathewignash 03:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

After a short discussion with Ryulong, we are willing to unblock you under the following conditions: You agree to (a) upload no images at all (fair use or otherwise), and (b) make no edits to the 'Image:' namespace. – Steel 03:10, 28 October 2007 (UTC)