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Sysop rights

If you are leaving Misplaced Pages for some time to come, if not for good, you may wish to ask for your sysop privileges to be suspended. Current thinking is that you can request them back again if you ever return to editing Misplaced Pages. Dormant accounts with sysop privileges seem to me to be a security problem waiting to happen. I imagine a note at WP:BN is all that's needed. Best wishes, Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:01, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violations?

Hello. I see your notice, but I also see that you are still active editing, so I hope you'll have time to reply.

I recently took pictures of some 43 pilot wings (mostly US Army WWII era). While prepping these images for upload I came across the page Obsolete badges of the United States military which includes a great many drawings of badges. Since it didn't include some of the badges I had photos of, I was keenly interested in finding out if I could find more of these drawings.

Your image pages didn't help much because you claimed {{PD}} without comment. By googling around some, and then consulting the wayback machine I was able to determine that these images were created some years ago by "RWD Ploessl" whos website claims no affiliation with the US Government. Although the underlying designs of these images should be public domain, the actual images themselves are copyrighted by their creator.

Are you RWD Ploessl? I looked at some of your other uploads, and you seem to have many copyrighted images from many sources tagged as public domain. I'm very confused. Are you simply disregarding our copyright policy, or am I missing something important? Please reply here or on my commons talk page, I don't make it around to my enwiki talk page often enough these days.--Gmaxwell 08:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I am not that person, I do not even know him. Those images are all from the image database at NPRC which, in turn, were uploaded from a CD received in 1999 from Randolph Air Force Base. I've run into that guy before online, and he is usually very upset shouting copyright violation. However, the very images themselves are of United States military badges which are not copyrightable by anyone, even if you were to redraw them. An added mystery is all of his pictures, which he claims to have personally created, in one way or the other wound up on a CD at Randolph. The original contact for that CD was Staff Sergeant Pat Ratzel, long since transferred, and the NPRC customer service number (which can verify those images are public) is 314-801-0800. They can also verify who Sergeant Ratzel was. Noone is trying to streal images from that persn you mentioned, in fact he was invited at least twice to establish a full time Misplaced Pages account so we could work it out. All I ever saw was temporary red link accounts or anon ip addresses claiming copyright infringement with occasional hit and run tag changes to the images. I am no longer active on this site, but will check my talk page every so often. I'd be interested how all of that gets resolved. -Husnock 09:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage

Husnock, I have removed the section from your userpage which discusses the incident on WP:AN recently. You have repeatedly been advised that this incident was nothing more than a misunderstanding, which no-one would hold against you. You have repeatedly been assured that the community recognises that the other end of the misunderstanding, the suggestion that you would have harmful intent towards someone, caused you personal distress. Morwen has acknowledged that the misunderstanding was only a temporary affair, and that once she calmed down she realised that you of course did not intend any harm. Yet you were the one who raised the issue on WP:AN, and pursued it despite much encouragement from sympathetic individuals like myself that the situation would be best resolved by agreeing to move on. Ultimately you apologised for the unintentional harm that resulted from your comment, and the community was satisfied with a peaceful resolution.

There is only one way for me to interpret this edit to the departure message on your userpage: that you are unwilling to let the issue go. I have removed the section in the hope that this issue may be abandoned permanently. If you continue to pursue the issue, I will have no choice but to take further action. --bainer (talk) 00:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Nothing I'm saying on my user page is untrue. I was stalked, threatening e-mails were sent, and User:Morwen posted for all to see (its still on the talk page of the original article) that she was in fear of her life. None of that is in dispute. I have the right to state why I left editing on this site. Removal of my statement is possibly censorship. Please just let me speak my mind. -Husnock 03:39, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I will be blunt: I and many other members of the community consider your inability to let this matter go to be disruptive within the meaning of the blocking policy. You are about to exhaust the community's patience on this matter. If you choose to continue to prolong the dispute, by restoring the message or by any other means, then you will be blocked. --bainer (talk) 04:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)