Hello,
Cyrius is a reasonable and informed editor. I am quite certain he only blocks you because
you adopt a certain attitude, which you probably should not. Reinserting repeatedly and on
purpose links to copyrighted images is a behavior that may grant blocking. Cyrius is not
in violation of any rules in doing so.
It also seems clear that the hurricane picture originated from the World Book. You may be
the original author of it... but in any cases, you do not hold the copyright. Whether the
information should be free to use and people should have or not to pay for it is
irrelevant in this case. The World Book has a copyright on this image, so it should not be
in wikipedia. If you disagree with World Book holding the copyright on one of your image
or graphics, please contact the World Book to discuss the issue directly with them.
Thanks for your understanding.
Anthere
Rickyboy <turbo_benar(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:45:40 GMT
To: Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Wikipedia e-mail
From: Rickyboy <turbo_benar(a)hotmail.com>
Hello,
I have contributed some images under the user name Rickyboy. Unfortunately, another user
named Cyrius thinks that they are from the World Book site, so he has blocked me. I
created the graphics and took the pictures, and I discussed this issue on my talk page
extensively with the user DavidH. Further, Cyrius has blocked me indefinately, which I
understand is in violation of Wikipedia rules as well.
Please un-block me as his complaint has been logged on the images and he has no proof that
they're from World Book.
Thanks,
Rickyboy
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