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Your page has been deleted because it is an exact reproduction of copyrighted text from a newspaper. Kimchi.sg 23:15, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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Your edits to the Rod article

Hi. While you are free to make whatever statements you like in the talk pages, it is explicitly a violation of WP policy to include ANY "original material" in an article; please acquaint yourself with the guidelines at WP:NOR. It is also a violation to keep re-adding material that has already been justifiably removed; the policy in this case is WP:3RR. Perhaps more to the point, the article ALREADY indicates that rods are a known video artifact, and your additional "original explanation" does little to improve upon what is already there. If you would really like to contribute, then if you could find additional links to technical discussions as to how video cameras produce rod-like images, and add those links, that would be the most constructive possible thing to add to the article. Thanks, Dyanega (talk) 19:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I'll say it one last time: WP DOES NOT ALLOW original material. If you revert back again, it will also violate WP:3RR, and it will be reported to an admin. It is not worth getting your account blocked just to insert your personal opinion into an article that already agrees with you. Dyanega (talk) 01:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

OH NO!!! Don't Block my account, considering that ANON IPs can edit material!!!

Again, I REMOVED the Original Material and left only the legit research that you STILL removed. I am marking this article with software to AUTO undo any edit to my content.

Please DO contact an administrator.

You are Violating my Civil rights and also violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A) of 1990. "The.gov ADA Law" "The EOC.gov ADA Website"

I am aware that this website is run under the laws of FLORIDA and I just happen to be a legal Florida resident. Any further suppression to the information I add will result in legal action. The information I add follows the rules and are well within bounds. YOU just want to take credit for things and you want to continue to shove your "authority" around, but you have none. Again, Wiki "Rules" do NOT trump United States LAW! Period. The Cyndicate (talk) 06:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

After receiving your message on my talk page, I contacted a former admin who had helped one other time where I had been threatened with legal action and the person making the threats had been blocked immediately as a result (in that case, I did not report the legal threat - the admin read it themself); in that earlier case, the offended editor was reasoned with, and later the block was lifted. I'd hoped that maybe they could step in and help resolve the dispute before it came to a block, but they passed it along to a different admin who put the block in place immediately, because WP evidently has a pretty much "zero-tolerance" policy about legal threats. Whether you believe it or not, that was NOT my intent; I'd only wanted an experienced admin to look at the edits, and see whether they agreed with them, or instead felt I was applying WP:NOR and WP:3RR inappropriately - if the former, they would explain it to you, and if the latter, they would explain it to ME. I would've been content to accept whatever they said on the matter. In effect, though, the legal threat trumped any hope for a simple resolution. If you can get an unblock request put through, I have no objection to attempting again to have an admin look over the edits, and see what a third-party observer says. I am NOT here to censor anyone, nor shove anyone around; I was trying to edit according to policy, plain and simple. Dyanega (talk) 23:33, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Blocked

Nakon 22:48, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

legal threat explanation

The tone of the message that you left is very harsh. Please try to calm down the tone whatever the tone of the other editor.

The rules of what wikipedia calls a legal threat is clear. Editors are blocked but may be unblocked upon withdrawal of the threat. What wikipedians consider a legal threat is very broad so keep this in mind.

If you become unblocked, try not to get mad. WP is considered a privately owned website. Therefore, it can dictate its rules, including the one about legal threats. The legal threat prohibition makes sense because we don't want people threatening to sue each others. Also note that reporting someone to the authorities is considered a legal threat in WP even though in real life it's not a legal threat.

I think that once you state that the legal threat was not intended and that it is withdrawn (or simply that it is withdrawn) a few editors will unblock you. Once you are unblocked, don't try to test the system by editing angrily. Archtransit (talk) 00:38, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

The comment that "I am marking this article with software to AUTO undo any edit to my content" would also need to be withdrawn. I don't know if this is even possible to do, but it certainly would contravene the whole purpose of a wiki on which anyone can edit. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:46, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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