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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)

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.

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)

Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Volume 1 and al.

Just asking, but do you tink you can expand these articles further? As fas as I see it, it might be a much better idea to bundle your articles per series (eg. in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers) for ex. PS: Ow, I've just seen the messages above, hi again ;). -- lucasbfr 23:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I'll first give you my personal opinion: I don't think the DVD covers would add much in the article (I fixed my link). There's some controversy regarding the usage of DVD covers to illustrate articles. I checked List of The X-Files episodes for example and there is none. I think that's the safest way to go (our goal is to produce a 💕, and putting fair use images might cause legal problems one day or an other). That being said, if I were you I would extend the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers#DVD_releases section if you have more information (#of episodes, ...). You could also go for a whole List of The Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episodes, ordered by airing date if you have the time :). Just keep in mind that screencaps to illustrates episodes is a big no-no :). -- lucasbfr 23:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

That's intended, List of The Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episodes does not exist yet :). But that would be (in my opinion) the best way to expand the main article. You could use an other series episode list to see what's expected from an episode list. Cheers! (Going to bed now, good luck!) -- lucasbfr 00:08, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episodes does exist. To Stco23, please stop creating tiny little articles for individual DVD releases. Individual DVDs do NOT need separate articles. The releases should be listed in either the main article or in the episode list article. Collectonian (talk) 00:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Stco23, you do realize that going around asking others to redo your edits is considered Meat Puppetry and is a blockable offense, right? You not liking the enforcement of Misplaced Pages MOS, guidelines, and policies does not mean I was not rude to you. I removed the photos because they were unnecessary and you messed up the article with the way you added them. DVD covers are not a requirement in an article nor is it necessary (or normal), to illustrate every DVD release with an image. The fact that you have had "too many photos" deleted because you didn't get your way goes to show that I'm not the only editor to feel you are trying to add excessive images to articles. Read WP:Image. Collectonian (talk) 15:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Image:Crash 2-Disk Director's Cut.JPG

A tag has been placed on Image:Crash 2-Disk Director's Cut.JPG requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section I7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a non-free image with a clearly invalid licensing tag; or it otherwise fails some part of the non-free content criteria.

If you can find a valid tag that expresses why the image can be used under the fair use guidelines, please replace the current tag with that tag. If no such tag exists, please add the {{non-free fair use in|article name that the image is used in}} tag, along with a brief explanation of why this constitutes fair use of the image. If the image has been deleted, you can re-upload it, but please ensure you place the correct tag on it.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on ] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines. Collectonian (talk) 16:11, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

November 2007

Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from articles you have created yourself, as you did with ]. Please use the {{hangon}} template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion. Thank you. Collectonian (talk) 16:17, 21 November 2007 (UTC)