Mantrafilms
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May 2010
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Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Joe Francis, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Falcon8765 (talk) 20:57, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Falcon,
I explained my removal of the following statement on the Joe Francis discussion page:
"In 2002, Becky Lynn Gritzke discovered that she had been covertly filmed flashing her breasts at a Mardi Gras festival and that the image had been used without her permission on billboards advertising Girls Gone Wild videos and on the cover of a video. She sued Mantra Films and settled for an undisclosed sum under an agreement according to which GGW agreed to cease distributing all material bearing Gritzke's image.[14]"
I removed this because when you click on the source (citation #14 cnn.com) It says that the web page cannot be found. I believe this is a valid reason to remove this statement from his page due to the fact the source does not exist. Please consider this. Thank you. Mantrafilms (talk) 23:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Falcon,
What happened? I thought we were cool? :( Why did EVERYTHING revert back? I thought this was a work in progress? Even when I make modifications on Joe Francis' page I always post them on the talk/discussion page thing to justify the edits. Please work with me on this. Joe does not believe his life should be defined by legal matters especially when a lot of these charges get dropped or dismissed. Please tell me how to go about this before I loose my job. You cooperation and professionalism is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Mantrafilms (talk) 19:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
- Only your most recent edits were reverted, and those were just the picture change. See [1]. Falcon8765 (talk) 00:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Sorry this is super confusing... I haven't changed the picture in over a month and i thought it was cool w the free license and all. Do you know what happened to his second picture? Any chance we can get rid of the statement about Beck Gretzy. THe source for the site cannot be found. THanks again! Mantrafilms (talk) 02:33, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah the whole site cna be pretty confusing if you aren't used to it. Don't know why the second picture was removed, but I'm not familiar with the image style policies. The Beck Gretzy thing has a reliable source, the link is just broken. News websites often don't archive their online stories so the links rot after a while. I googled it and found references to the CNN story from other sources to confirm that the story actually existed. Falcon8765 (talk) 11:04, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Yes I am trying to learn the policies and go about doing this the right way, where can I get information on how to put the other picture back on? Mantrafilms (talk) 15:25, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
{{unblock|Your reason here}} below this message. Thank you. TNXMan 15:37, 7 May 2010 (UTC)