Verybluesky
Copyright violations - YOU MUST COOPERATE
editYou seem to have removed a large number of image related warnings on your talk page. It is your right under our policy to remove warnings off your talk page. HOWEVER - and this is very important - you also appear to have uploaded a very large number of images which you did not yourself take, tagged them as your own creations, and thus violated copyright law and the actual owners' intellectual property rights.
Wikipedia administrators as a whole, and myself personally, take this very seriously. This type of action on your part can easily lead to permanent or long-lasting blocks on your editing Wikipedia. It's not OK, and it has to be fixed.
Please review these policies:
We need you to cooperate in identifying the actual source of each and every image that you have uploaded to Wikipedia. The list is part of your contributions: Special:Contributions/Verybluesky
If any of these were in fact your own photographs, we need you to confirm that, and preferably provide us with information about how, when, and where you took them so we have confidence you answered accurately.
The ones which you scanned in from books and other sources on the web, we need you to identify the book, website, or other source information you have. If the answer is that you don't recall for sure anymore, that's ok. Any images we can't confirm will have to be deleted, but that's not a serious problem.
We will have to review whether the other images where the source is known are usable under our non-free image policy. Some of those will probably have to be deleted as well, but we'll give them a fair review.
This all assumes that you cooperate with us on identifying the photos. If you do so, we can probably let you off with the equivalent of probation - if you obey the image policy in the future, you can keep editing and are welcome to be here. You do seem to care a lot about the one article you're focused on, and nobody has complained about the content improvement.
If you refuse to cooperate and help identify the image sources, the alternative is probably that you will be permanently blocked from editing, and all images will have to be deleted. This is not what we want to do, but it's what we have to do if we can't confirm who they belong to.
I urge you to not delete this notice, agree to accept the deal above, and start helping us identify the sources of the images. I really am hopeful that you can cooperate here and continue participating constructively. There's no sign that you did this maliciously. We understand that many people don't understand our policy. But we do take it seriously, and this is a limited time offer. If you start cooperating in the next couple of days all should be ok. If you refuse for several days, we're going to assume you won't cooperate and take the other way.
Thank you. If you have any questions or need any clarifications please feel free to post them here. I am additionally engaging the attention of some other administrators who spend more time working on copyright violation cases.
Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 07:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
- I am highly concerned to see you change the source of an image once our right to publish it has been challenged, as you did here: not once, but twice. The source of the image is not unknown; you took it from page 2 of [1]. You can't copy images from other places and license them for reuse. Those images belong to somebody else, and they must be the ones who give us permission. I agtree with the administrator above that you must be honest about the origin of your images and help us remove the ones you did not yourself personally create. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
As you have not responded here in a number of days, your account is now indefinitely blocked. If you come back here and cooperate on identifying image sources and agree to abide by copyright policy going forwards, I or another administrator can unblock you. But if you fail to cooperate the block will be made permanent. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 18:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
{{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.