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image resizing
Hi, I understand your frustration and I'm sorry to see you leaving over the issue. For a long time Misplaced Pages had a higher tolerance for fair use images and as a result there are many. A lot of them violate fair use laws and prevent us from being a truly "free" encyclopedia. As a result, there has been a crackdown as of late and it has driven a lot of users away. However, it must be done and there are reasons for sizing the images down, etc. There are also many sources of free images but some articles (like articles about movies) will never have free images. --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 15:13, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Warning
Comments such as this, this, this, and this are extremely inappropriate for conduct on Misplaced Pages and violate our personal attacks policy. If you persist in these kinds of comments, you may be blocked from editing.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 06:36, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
September 2007
Unblock reviewed
Stco23 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
I'm sorry about those threats. I was upset at them and I did not mean no harm. This rule about resizing got me so upset that I wanted to put every single photo of mine uploaded up for deletion. If you ban me I hope it's for 1 or 2 days because I did not ever have a problem with wikipedia until now. What should I do, stop editing or stop coming here. I never had to quit editing here, Never. Please give me one or two days to think it over. Thank You.
Decline reason:
those comments were utterly unacceptable. Dark Falls did the correct thing - fair use pictures must be low resolution. If you do not like this, then perhaps you should not upload pictures. Reuploading the pictures and trying to get Dark Falls desysopped for simplying applying rules was also out of order. However, indefinitely blocking you for your first offence seems harsh. I've reduced the block to a week from now - please take this time to consider your future editing here on Misplaced Pages. When you come back, I strongly suggest you think about what you said, and whether you would like others to speak to you in the same way, or to be civil. — Neil ム 09:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
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- I'm ok with the block shortening :) -- lucasbfr 05:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- I have no choice but when I am unblocked, I will have to get rid of all my uploaded photos and quit uploading photos of pictures that I took unless it is a picture of me or something I have been to. I found out that the rule has been on there for the entire life of wikipedia. I only did high res pics for information and not for piracy. If you think I have did piracy, I'm sorry. I will not threating anymore administrators and will have to do uploaded photos from amazon.com or other sites that have low res photos. I'm sorry. Bye.--Stco23 07:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- Stco23, of course any pictures that are free (ie, that you created of something you have been to, or that you took of a famous person, and so on) can be high resolution. But when an image is "fair use", this means it is not free to use because someone else owns it, and so we have to use a low res picture. I don't think anyone thought you were guilty of piracy here, just perhaps you didn't understand the rules. As I can see you now do understand the rules, that's good. I hope when the block runs out you will carry on contributing to Misplaced Pages, your effort is appreciated. Neil ム 09:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Unblocked
While reviewing my recent contributions, I decided to unblock you since you apologized for your behavior. At the moment, the block is only punitive, and blocks are not made to be that way. Please keep in mind that a cool head is needed when editing :). Cheers, -- lucasbfr 12:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
- Well the best quality for an admin is not to be perfect (very few are ;), but to know how to learn from your mistakes. I'll have a huge advice for you, though: Don't aim for adminship. Start by being a contributor, get involved, and at some point you'll see that you have a use for the tools. :) -- lucasbfr 22:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
- hehe, sorry for the confusion I think there is a misunderstanding (it was kinda late and English is not my primary language). I didn't take it as a threat of course :]. -- lucasbfr 12:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)