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Hi, Evan -- I noticed in your edit summary for the Quickswitch entry that you took some text from Wikipedia. With such a small amount of text, it's not really a big deal, but I wanted to let you know that in general we don't like to take text from other sources, even Wikipedia. Their text is licensed under the GNU FDL just like ours, but we prefer original material. Of course, if you are the original author of text that appears elsewhere and you want to put it here as well, that's totally fine. And in this case, like I said, it's not that big a deal. It's probably not worth the bother to "rewrite" it. Anyway, thanks for helping out. The seiyuu stuff you've been doing today is great, as a lot of our contributors don't have expertise in that area. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 23:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div> | Hi, Evan -- I noticed in your edit summary for the Quickswitch entry that you took some text from Wikipedia. With such a small amount of text, it's not really a big deal, but I wanted to let you know that in general we don't like to take text from other sources, even Wikipedia. Their text is licensed under the GNU FDL just like ours, but we prefer original material. Of course, if you are the original author of text that appears elsewhere and you want to put it here as well, that's totally fine. And in this case, like I said, it's not that big a deal. It's probably not worth the bother to "rewrite" it. Anyway, thanks for helping out. The seiyuu stuff you've been doing today is great, as a lot of our contributors don't have expertise in that area. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 23:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC) | ||
''I'm guessing that Techspec info & mottos are not OK or is it?'' | |||
Right -- there are many sources out there already where people can look up stats and official bios, including TFU.info, which we link to for toy info for many characters. For images, we try to stick to official images only and include copyright disclaimers, but for text, we'd rather avoid copyrighted text altogether. So, no official bios. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 02:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div> | |||
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Don't worry. I don't think we can consider anything about Transformers "non-noteable" so long as we have a webpage for Rorza, the Rocket-cycle Racer from Rigel III. --ItsWalky 03:57, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Evan -- I noticed in your edit summary for the Quickswitch entry that you took some text from Wikipedia. With such a small amount of text, it's not really a big deal, but I wanted to let you know that in general we don't like to take text from other sources, even Wikipedia. Their text is licensed under the GNU FDL just like ours, but we prefer original material. Of course, if you are the original author of text that appears elsewhere and you want to put it here as well, that's totally fine. And in this case, like I said, it's not that big a deal. It's probably not worth the bother to "rewrite" it. Anyway, thanks for helping out. The seiyuu stuff you've been doing today is great, as a lot of our contributors don't have expertise in that area. --Steve-o 23:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm guessing that Techspec info & mottos are not OK or is it?
Right -- there are many sources out there already where people can look up stats and official bios, including TFU.info, which we link to for toy info for many characters. For images, we try to stick to official images only and include copyright disclaimers, but for text, we'd rather avoid copyrighted text altogether. So, no official bios. --Steve-o 02:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
