User talk:26242

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 * Please do not copy and paste material from other websites. This is a copyright violation, and is against Memory Alpha rules. In addition, user images are not permitted to be uploaded to the site. If you wish to display an image on your user page, please upload it to your own webspace, and link to it from there. Thank you. -- Michael Warren | Talk 06:36, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Why would it be copyright violation?!?!?! It was a public site that is copy unprotected (they say you can copy stuff)! User:26242


 * StarTrek.com was the original source of your summaries (10 seconds on Google showed me that), and StarTrek.com certainly do not say "you can copy stuff"!. -- Michael Warren | Talk 17:20, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

A glaring problem with this is that you have not even told us the name of the site you copied from -- but if the material you posted exactly matches something is the Star Trek Encyclopedia or StarTrek.com, then reposting it here is a violation of our community's decision to create an original database. Both of the sources we named are strictly copyrighted by Paramount Pictures, and we don't want any problems from them so we routinely check StarTrek.com and the Encyclopedia to make sure archivists are not copying from there.

Even if you visited a third party website that copied the above copyrighted sources and offered them freely -- posting them here still places plagiarized text because the copyright of Paramount's material is not licensed tio be given away by every third-party website that has ripped it off before -- the end effect is still that this site ends up with copied text when we would prefer original contributions. -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 17:22, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay. I didn't know that! Thanks .. i'm sorry~

No problem -- administrators here need to delete articles and suggest policies for archivists to vote on -- so we don't mind helping your work find its best placement in th database -- if you ever need anyone to explain their actions, just ask. -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 15:16, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)