User talk:Boicevox

August 2009

Your recent addition to Doris Day has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. This is the third time in 3 days that I have removed your insertion of copyrighted lyrics into this article. You get no more warnings. By inserting these lyrics, you are breaking the law and placing Wikipedia in the same predicament. STOP. Wildhartlivie (talk) 02:02, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Because you knew the content had been removed and had to have seen the edit summary when you saw it removed, it's not as if you didn't know it was gone and why. It would behoove you to take some time to read the pages linked to WP:HELP and bother to learn how to edit here, the rules and policies involved in editing, how and what to reference and basic behavioral guidelines.

To answer your questions:

1) You were pasting in entire blocks of lyrics - 2 verses - while the other instances used small snippets of relevant lyrics, not a stanza about Sandra Dee. There is a current discussion on the same article talk page regarding the relevance of such sections.
2) A copyright warning is given once. There are no more warnings.
3) You will receive warnings from me or any other Wikipedia editor when you violate policy and guidelines, you don't get a golden pass to do as you want because I, or you for that matter, have a username. As I noted above, you were aware the content had been removed twice already. An edit summary was given each time about copyright violations. If you didn't understand why, you certainly could look in the page history and ask why yourself.

This is not a reference: "At the time it closed in 1980, Grease's 3,388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway history, although surpassed by A Chorus Line a few years later. It went on to become a West End hit, a hugely successful film, a popular 1994 Broadway revival, and a staple of regional theatre, summer stock, community theatre, and high school and middle school drama groups.[2] It remains Broadway's twelfth longest-running show." It is a copy and paste from the Grease page on Wikipedia. Please see WP:RS and WP:REF for what and how to cite references. You even left the reference number from the page in your copy and paste.

Finally, there's a difference between late night typographical errors and belittling someone because of them. There's one discussion called don't be a dick. Making fun of a typo qualifies. Wildhartlivie (talk) 19:03, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]