Dpermut
Welcome! edit
Hello, Dpermut, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
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Copyright and Wikipedia edit
Hello Dpermut, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:17, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
August 2019 edit
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Yunshui 雲水 05:55, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Dpermut (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
Your reason here -- Hi Yunshui. Pleasure to meet you via this Talk Page. While I understand why you may think the edits I made were promotional, I would like you to please consider reading a revised bio I created that strictly just lays out annotated facts about David's career. I promise you, everything written in the bio is factual, and backed by reliable news sources. The purpose of updating the bio and add more information, is not for promotion, but to correctly and fully display David's breadth of work - similarly to most, if not all, bio pages written for other producers. I am very new to the editing process on Wikipedia, and all processes including communication to be honest, so I am unsure as to what is the best way for me to show you a copy of the revised bio. Please let me know when you get a chance and thank you so much for your consideration. I really am just trying to do my best here and any help on your end is greatly appreciated.
Decline reason:
Sorry, I cannot unblock you. As you do not recognize the promotional nature of your edits. You will also need to affirm that you will not add content copyrighted elsewhere. Please read and heed WP:COI and WP:PAID. If you are not he, you need to be renamed. If you are he, I will leave a message templte. to follow. -- Deepfriedokra 02:24, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
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If you are not David Permut, you will need to propose a new username. Please describe your affiliation with Mr. Permut. Please also review WP:COI and WP:PAID. 331dot (talk) 02:27, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
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Request reason:
Hello again, Yunshi and thank you for your response. The bio that I would like to submit is not copyrighted material. Where is the best place for me to submit the bio for you to review? If you would please just read the new version, with annotations, I think you will agree that it is not promotional, nor is it copyrighted. It is simply a thorough representation of David's work.
Decline reason:
You have not followed the identity verification process described above. Additionally, your suggested edits were blatantly promotional, very clearly in violation of WP:PROMO. Additionally, they look likely to have been in violation of WP:COI. Yamla (talk) 16:26, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
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The deleted content edit
was taken, word-for-word in large blocks, from the IMDB page. IMDB copyrights it's content. Material copyrighted elsewhere is unsuitable on Wikipedia. Please see NJP's copyright notice above. We cannot unblock you unless you can verbalize understanding of the rules it links to.-- Deepfriedokra 17:56, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
If you are David Permut, or writing on his behalf, edit
please read Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help. It is best if subjects of articles and their representatives not edit the articles about them directly. It would be best to make suggestions on the talk page. Also, all content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking, and suggested edits should be backed by cites to reliable sources.-- Deepfriedokra 18:03, 26 August 2019 (UTC)