Moogel

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Images, copyright, user pages.

Hi there. I'm sure you didn't mean any harm, but most of your edits have not been productive and some have been actively harmful. First of all, I want to make sure that you understand copyright law as it applies to Wikipedia: Basically, Wikipedia only allows content, either text or images, that are released under a free license. Now, there are exceptions to this, and that's called fair use, but that should be very rare and only used with the greatest of care -- see Wikipedia:Fair use. In essence, all of these "fair use" images -- images that aren't under a free license, and that the editors of Wikipedia don't own the copyright to -- can only ever be used in the main article namespace, never on userpages (this is why I had to delete Image:RsSymbol.PNG), and only when absolutely necessary and a detailed rationale for its use can be written. This is very important, and if you violate these rules further, you will be blocked from editing. I hate to be so strict, but, sadly, not enough people heed these warnings.

On that same note, I am fairly sure that the other images you uploaded, marked as "PD-Self", were in fact stolen from other sources. Please do not lie about the copyright status of your images, or, again, you will be blocked from editing. If they were in fact your images, I apologise, but I will not restore them unless you produce proof that you took them.

I have deleted your user page, because it contained a large ammount of content that was not relevant to your work on Wikipedia. You are free to recreate it, but only if you do not use it as a free webspace provider and only include content that is relevant to editing Wikipedia.

I do not wish to frighten you, and I don't want to make your experience here unpleasant, but I need to ensure that you keep your edits here remain within the scope of this project. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks.--KR | T 05:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)