User talk:Trasman

You have placed an Interwiki-Link between Slavery in the United States and de:Atlantischer Sklavenhandel. The latter article in fact is the appropriate Interwiki for Atlantic slave trade, and there is no equivalent article in German for Slavery in the United States.--Bhuck (talk) 10:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not copy-and-paste text from news sources into Wikipedia articles. That is a copyright violation, and has to be removed. You must write any material in your own words, and then add a reference citation to the news source to support the facts you are stating. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:10, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- Copyright paranoia. Quotation, even without attribution, is specifically allowed in international copyright law, and single sentences are generally not protectable. Trasman (talk) 12:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Credible author[edit]

Hello. A credible authors' reference is being "overrided" by edit-warring. I recently tried to add to the telescope article but this editor seems to think that his opinion overrides a VERY credible author in Mr. Richard Powers. I've been blocked before for edit-warring recently, so I don't want this to be another incident on my record.

Anyway, the other editor seemed to have asked his friend-type editors to form a consensus, so I will do the same. The Islamic connection here is, Al-Haytham. He is FUNDAMENTAL to the telescope and the FATHER of optics. By definition, the summary can include him since the radio and electro-magnetic telescopes are derogatory to the average person looking at the article; I wanted to add it to the history section since it looked cleaner. Can you help your fellow InternetHero?? InternetHero (talk) 21:02, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]