User talk:Gsautter

You're clearly violating the rules on copyright infringement with many if not all of your new species pages. You need to stop creating new ones now, and either go back and rewrite them from scratch with broadly useful encyclopedic knowledge (the information you're giving is of use only to biologists) that does not copy directly from your sources or have them deleted. —ShadowRanger ^(talk|stalk) 17:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, didn't notice the lack of copyright on the linked page. That said, the material on the linked page is nigh unto useless for a general knowledge encyclopedia. It includes too little context to be useful to anyone but a biologist. —ShadowRanger ^(talk|stalk) 17:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not delete taxonomic treatments that are copied from Plazi servers. Here's why:

The text used in the articles stems from a scientific publications (the references). As a pure description of nature, these pieces of text do not qualify as intellectual property and therefore are not copyrightable. The copyright notice in the referenced pages clearly states this.

The purpose of the texts being replicated in Wikipedia is to

• make them available to a wider audience
• have them embedded in Wikipedia's greater network of the knowledge of mankind

Therefore, please allow the article to stay online even though the texts are replicated from another source.

Gsautter (talk) 10:16, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All the descriptions of new species (aka new discoveries) are all we know about them at the very moment. There is nothing more that can be added at the moment, other than rewrite what is published and now available on this page. There is always a great interest in the discovery of new species in the public, that is, however, not so much aware of at what rate this occurs. Every single species is part of our global heritage and thus deserves a place in Wikipedia. Wikipedians will certainly contribute substantially to the knowledge of many of the very creatures we know so little about by refining the pages in the future.

Myrmoteras 19:15, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for because it is admittedly a role account used by workers at Plazi. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Orange Mike | Talk 20:24, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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