User talk:Hawbz/Archive 1


 * Note: The following messages were sent to me, First Tiger Hobbes, on the OblivioWiki, prior to its merge with the Elder Scrolls Wiki.

Article Pictures
If those pictures are originating from UESP then we're not supposed to be adding them. Great Mara (talk) 05:33, February 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * As far as adding new pictures to the site from UESP, it's more their policy than ours. Mara is not incorrect in saying that we're not supposed to take pictures from UESP, as they have a very strict copyright policy.  Any text copied over HAS to be deleted, and if any unregistered user adds a photograph, it is usually deleted as well.  Registered users, however, we usually just tell them not to copy images, but rather take a print-screen and upload their own image.  If a registered user uploads multiple photos AND properly licenses them, as far as I know the image is kosher.  BUT, it is my stance that a user create original works using their own computer and copy of TES:IV Oblivion.  If you'd like to see the conversation in which I was informed of the precedent by which we stand today, read [here] and [here].  I hope that this clears a few things up. Mbjones90 (talk) 17:32, February 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * It's no problem at all, and it's not like I would hold anything against you. It's another website's policy that isn't stated anywhere official that I know of on our site.  As for a sentence that may be worded in a similar manner as another sentence, that's not even in what I would consider a gray area, regarding plagiarism.  Unless it's just stupidly obvious that the sentence had to be directly copied, then it needs to be changed.  Anyway, thanks for being a constructive editor; we're hard pressed to find many of those nowadays. Mbjones90 (talk) 21:54, February 28, 2011 (UTC)