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editGood job with the summaries!
I always feared plot synopses becoming dangerously long. Now there's a summary. Good! --Doppelgangland 13:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks, i thought it would be useful too, the synopses were from my site, and written by a number of peeps. -- BuffyGuide 17:41, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Hi LIAR! Care to explain why you are stealing Buffyguide's content, and presenting yourself as the webmaster of that site? Oh, and please, don't waste my time by claiming I'm wrong. The webmaster of Buffyguide is my WIFE, so I know perfectly well that you're LYING and STEALING. Ricaud 23:15, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks very much for stealing content from my site and even going so far as to pretend to be me. Nice. (And I would never say "peeps".) Actual BuffyGuide 01:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- This account was set up by myself to represent and respect BuffyGuide's hard work. My understanding from the web master when we corresponded earlier this year was that it would be perfectly fine for the short summaries to be added under an account called BuffGuide.com (since that wasn't allowed, I did this under 'BuffyGuide'). I have explained the situation to the user, Actual BuffyGuide here, hopefully this whole situation will be cleared up, because to be honest I am very confused as to why I was told that using the summaries was fine after contacting the site through http://www.buffyguide.com/mail/contact.shtml, and now Actual BuffyGuide stating that material has been used without permission? - Paxomen 10:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[text of an email just sent to Paxomen, who emailed me about this]:
Hi [Paxomen],
Hmm, this is… interesting. “Actual BuffyGuide” is me – because I didn’t grant permission for this. I have allowed small amounts of my content to be used on other sites here and there, but Wikipedia isn’t one of them. The reason for that is that content posted on Wikipedia becomes public domain (GNU Free Documentation License), and I’m not okay with my content becoming free for every Tom, Dick and Jane to post wherever and whenever they want. Under this license, it is even permissible for someone to sell and profit from my work. Hence, my lack of having ever given permission for posting on Wikipedia, and my irritation at discovering it. (Indeed, the reason I discovered it was because another site had some of my content, and when I confronted them about using my content without permission, they replied that they had merely taken it from Wikipedia.)
And yet… you have these emails, and indeed searching my own old email pulls them up as well. Barring the possibility that I have multiple personality disorder, which I’m pretty sure I don’t, the only explanation I can think of is that someone I know replied to you as me. I had some family staying with me for some time earlier this year, including the time of these emails – I think that possibly one of them may have been checking my email, and even responding to some, unbeknownst to me. I don’t see evidence of anything exceptionally nefarious or strange, so perhaps they were actually trying to help (some of the text of the replies to you seems to actually have been pasted from replies I had sent to others seeking similar permissions, perhaps indicating that they thought that was my standard response?)… although why they wouldn’t mention it to me, or indeed why they would think that was a good way to help, I’m not sure. At any rate, that’s my issue to explore and deal with. (Another explanation, that some outside party hacked into my email, seems pretty unlikely. Surely if they did, they’d have found something more interesting to do than grant permission to put some of my content on Wikipedia. Although I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to bump up the regularly scheduled change of passwords.)
Well, the surrealism of this strange situation aside, the unfortunate fact is that I do not want my content on Wikipedia, for the reason I outlined above.
I do apologize for the confusion this has caused you, and I trust that you were acting in good faith and under the belief that you had my permission. It certainly does appear that you had every reason to believe that.
Although – I do find it very strange that you replied to a comment on Wikipedia with the following: “Thanks, i thought it would be useful too, the synopses were from my site, and written by a number of peeps.” Although I see that in these emails, “I” gave you permission to post the content under a Wikipedia account called BuffyGuide, it seems a bit of a leap for you to go ahead and impersonate me.