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Please do not make personal attacks on other people as you did at Ken Orabone. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. BigDT 02:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Pleasing fungus beetle, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/beetles/pleasing_fungus_beetles.htm. As a copyright violation, Pleasing fungus beetle appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Pleasing fungus beetle has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Pleasing fungus beetle. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Pleasing fungus beetle, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. BigDT 02:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I really don't get how to reply to this message, but I don't get how to do several things on Wikipedia yet, as its not friendly for new user's. Despite that, if you are seeing this, please know that the top article on Ken Orabone is not a personal attack. It is the first part of a larger character project used with each person's permission. What do I need to do to show this to you?

As for the copyright violation, I have added and edited information from a site that is copied all over the web. It's a school which allows their informaiton to be used freely for purposes exactly like this. What's the exact issue that you find fault with? CSC-2020 21:13, 21 December 2006

Is there a tag on the original site somewhere saying that it is licensed under GDFL, or something like that? If you can provide a link to that, people will understand that it's not a copyvio. The issue is that Wikipedia does not copyright its articles -- that's why you'll see copies of them all over the internet. For this reason, we have to be very careful about not taking material that has copyright protection -- it would be a bit like borrowing someone's car and then giving it to charity...However there are other sites that operate under the same principle. However, one can't assume that that is the case, they have to state it on the site. If they do however, just post that link on the talk page of the article when you create it, and mention in the edit summary that the work is not copyrighted and that other editors should see the talk page -- you won't have any problems. I'm sorry you're not finding Wikipedia friendly for newcomers. Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have on my talk page. Welcome! (really :)) Dina 22:10, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Please don't remove speedy tags

Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles, as you did with Pleasing fungus beetle. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please do the following:

1. Place {{hangon}} on the page. Please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag(s).
2. Make your case on the article's talk page.

Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. Dina 03:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought that was the point. I did this on both pages listed above, but it won't happen again. CSC-2020 21:14, 21 December 2006

Don't worry about it, mistakes happen! Cheers Dina 22:04, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Image:KOrabone.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:KOrabone.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. —Remember the dot (t) 23:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)