Howdy, Joe! I'd like to see an article about "Canuck", it's origin, etymology and meaning in today's world- and Canadian society. Something you could look into? --User:Pinkerton
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
Hello. I see that you've uploaded a few photographs of Formula One racing drivers recently. Do you have the relevant permissions to use these photographs? (See Wikipedia:Copyrights.) Whether you do or not, you need to indicate the copyright status of all the images you upload on their image description pages. That is, say, "Copyright Joe Canuck", or "Copyright Fred Bloggs but released by him under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License", or "Copyright Fred Bloggs but used here as fair use". I'm not sure if you can claim fair use for the photographs you're uploading, but I am not a lawyer... -- Oliver P. 04:24 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I think you are DW. Are you? --Camembert
Hi, Joe. I've realised that you seem to be threatening people with lawsuits at least twice, and I wonder why you're doing it. While I understand you're a lawyer, I don't think you'll get very far on Wikipedia threatening people. Since you're threatening them, some people think you're an other user who has since been banned from Wikipedia, named DW, but I know that's not true. But if you lighten up on the threats, I think they will stop with these false accusations. LittleDan 18:39 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I guess others on Wikipedia have been falsely accusing you. But there is one thing wrong with your work. We at wikipedia are against coppying all pictures without permission. We believe it is unethical. Wikipedia believes very stronly in intelectual property, whether it is prescribed by law or not. This is our policy for all users. I'm sorry if this disappoints you. LittleDan 00:42 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Unfortunately, when you say you are a lawyer and that this is discrimination, it is often misconstrued as a threat. Also, we at Wikipedia can't keep our eyes on everyone. Saying that we're discriminating against you is like saying that it is discrimination to arrest someone going for going 150 kph is discrimination against you and for the others going 110 kph, still over the speed limit. You're going 150 kph. You've uploaded several pictures without proper permission, and you have done what some would call threatening at least once (to me). Others (like oliver) have had similar episodes where they say something slightly critical to you and then you respond and, by their interperatation, you threaten them. LittleDan 15:08 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Hi Joe,
The issue of the copyright of some photos used by you remains unclear. Could you please clarify the status of these photographs? You appear in your comments elsewhere to presume that this issue being directed against you is some sort of discrimination: it isn't. All users are supposed to clarify the source of photos. Not every person does this to an adequate extent and when these gaps are found (often when someone is changing an article and they find an image lacking the necessary information) they are picked up on it and asked for more information in private conversations on their talk pages. However it is strictly enforced in particular towards newcomers. Experienced users have a track record so that if they leave off the information the presumption is they know the rules, have the information but inadvertently left it off. (But it is checked with them just in case.) But new users often do not understand the legal complexities and simply think they can take any image from any website for use. Or that unless a website explicitly states copyright, the image can be presumed not to be. In fact the opposite is the case. Unless it explicitly indicates it is copyright free, waves copyright restrictions on the image is of a certain age (pre 1923 if I remember correctly) it cannot simply be used. The request for information is not discrimination; it is simply seeking to clarify whether a new contributor who has not the experience of downloading images to wiki before understands the restrictions and has sourced the images from an unambiguously copyright-free location. Many new users make a mistake on the first couple of downloads and end up checking back at source to make sure they are images wiki is entitled to use. (Some of those users, having gotten it wrong initially, are now some of the most prolific users of images on wiki.)
That is the reason we need to know the origin of the images. As an obviously competent and intelligent contributor, I have no doubt you can easily check the sources. If an image is copyright and you wish to contact the owner of the copyright, there is a template form available that can be used to send to them. The danger is that if the status and origins of the images isn't stated on the relevant pages, users as they come across them may delete them from articles and place them on the Votes for Deletion page to be removed from wiki altogether. That would be unfair to all your hard work in sourcing the images and they were absolutely OK from a copyright point of view. So it is in wiki's interest legally and your interest in order to avoid having your images deleted, to clarify for the records where they come from.
Good work, BTW, on the years in sport articles. There is a list on wiki of images in the public domain which you might like to check out too. They are handy for sourcing images for articles. I don't know the address off hand but if you leave a message at the village pump some user there will no doubt have the information and get able to supply it to you. Happy wiki-ing. FearÉIREANN 02:51 17 Jun 2003 (UTC) (Joe deleted with the comment (removing an attempt to harass by repeating nonsense and already clarified matters).
Since you refuse to answer the question and delete everyone's requests for the answer or leave agressive statements on their pages, let me put it bluntly. If you do not supply the information the shows that there is no breach of copyright in the images you have downloaded, the images will be removed from articles and placed on the Votes for Deletion page. And if you try to remove this from this page without answering, it will be reinserted, and the fact of your behaviour informed to other users. BTW other users have asked me to inform you that tone and content of the messages you have been leaving on other user's pages breaches basic rules of politeness and co-operation on wiki. While many wiki users are adults capable to dealing with your rudeness, there are children and retired people who are wiki contributors too and they should not have to experience agressive attacks if, like LittleDan, in a spirit of co-operation and respect they simply ask you a question. Such behaviour has in the past and will in the future lead to the banning from wiki of individuals guilty of it. FearÉIREANN 03:28 17 Jun 2003 (UTC) (Canuck removed with the comment (Removing irrational diatrible that included a threat)
I am removing the offensive and threatening statements for the second time. The conduct of the person placing this here and reinstating with the addition of the words: # of times removed and un-answered: 1 after I have deleted it, contravenes User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles, and constitutes harassment. Any further harassment will result in this matter being e-mailed to the site owner for immediate remedial action. Joe Canuck 12:18 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Why didn't he just say??!! Its easy enough to say "I already answer the question on Talk:....." But as you pointed it out, its fine by me. - fonzy
Actually, that doesn't answer the question, since he has not said what the copyright nature of the images is. I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it, a photograph is by default copyrighted by the person who took it. It doesn't need to be labelled as copyright, since it can be assumed, unless the photograph is old enough for the copyright to have expired, or has been explicitly released into the public domain. So it seems that we have to assume that the photographs are copyrighted by someone, even if we don't know who that someone is. So we either have to get permission to use them under the GNU FDL, or claim fair use. And according to Mr. Daniel Mayer, who also isn't a lawyer, incidentally, "to be considered 'fair' a basic requirement is that the image's source needs to be given."[1] -- Oliver P. 15:40 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
That is not an answer. Unless he states clearly that a picture is not copyright, wikipedia has to presume that there is a question mark over its status at best, that it is copyright at worst. But because wiki is not just a website by an encyclopædia and has to be ultra-careful, if the user has not stated explicitly that it is copyright-free then it is removed from articles, the person who downloaded it is asked where they got it and if they cannot (or as is usual with DW, will not) say its status and origins, it is listed on the VfD page and unless satisfactory information is supplied within one week, deleted. But then DW knows that. In every one of its identities, he goes through the same nonsense of refusing to provide information. As to fair use, to avoid complications, it is thought preferable to be able to say where it came from so that that can be acknowledged alongside the picture or in the page that is opened when someone hits the picture and opens up its page. Using an acknowledgment is a necessary cover because it allows us to say that everything is above board. Without stating that, in the event of a challenge by the owner of the image, they can assert that it was simply stolen from their site. As an encyclopædia looking to be taken seriously, wikipedia cannot allow itself to earn for itself the reputation as a sourcebook that steals copyright images. If it does so, people who may have allow wiki to use its images will decline to do so and wiki could face legal problems that in a worst case senario would lead Bomis to terminate the project. As such the behaviour of any user, including this one, cannot be allowed to endanger the reputation of wiki and the work of thousands of people over the last two years. But DW has consistently shown contempt for other users in this and other issues. FearÉIREANN 22:42 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
My position in fulfilling my full and complete legal obligation in accordance with the rules established by the owners of Wikipedia.org with respect to posting photos at this Website has already been clearly stated. Any discussions others might wish to have on photos, bananas, or any other subject should be between those parties but not on my personal page. I repeat, if anyone disagrees with my unequivocal assertion with respect to my photos, do not harass me, do not vandalize my legitimate work. Instead, take up this issue with the only legal authority: the owners of Wikipedia.org. to which I will willingly and totally cooperate if my assertions are incorrect and they wish to amend the policy under which they operate this site. I am now deleting unwarranted discussions of which I have no involvement or responsibility for of any kind. Joe Canuck 23:15 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
If someone disagrees with you and then asks you about it, you do not start saying they are harassing you. They are mearly asking a question. We in wikipedia try and co-operate, to improve the articles. Pictures, articles, etc. are dealt by Wikipedians, not by "the owners of Wikipedia.org", Jimbo Wales has left it up to us to run Wikipedia. I ask you just to be abit more co-operative in future. Thankyou. -fonzy. Also by deleting messages taht are contraversal, you are creating suspicions. When you delete them you rave on about legal mumbo jumbo.
Hello Joe. I don't know if you're DW or not, but your arguments are very similar. If you're not DW, I think you would greatly benefit from reviewing the discussion we had with that user. You should read the archives of Wikipedia talk:Image use policy, where we explained in detail that:
-- Tim Starling 00:55 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
All images for which satisfactory information as to their copyright status has not been supplied or for which because of lack of adequate information claims of fair use may not be appropriate, have been listed for deletion and have been removed from the relevant article. Any attempt to reinstate the images in the articles in the absence of adequate information as to their copyright status will be reverted and such efforts will be reported. Each image for which the necessary information as to copyright status has not been supplied will be deleted after one week. FearÉIREANN 03:04 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
You now appear to be completly ignoring your talk page, is it becuase you wish not to answer? -fonzy
I repeat: You cannot discriminateJoe Canuck 13:52 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Who's discriminating? We delete suspected copyright violations no matter who they're from. Some people don't get the message immediately and they get annoyed. You're in that class; there's been plenty of others. If we let you get away with it, it would be favouritism. -- Tim Starling 14:26 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Who's discriminating? When a Wikipedia user obeys the requirements of the owners, and someone, be it they alone or as a cabal, usurps the owners authority and imposes their personal views, is discriminating and harassing. Do you support overriding the owners of Wikipedia and discriminating against a few selected users? I hope not, but as this matter will now be taken to the proper levels, I have no more to add to my already clearly stated position. I might however, suggest you ask the owners of Wikipedia if I am wrong rather than making wild unfounded claims while continuing to harass and discriminate. And, before you continue, you might also ask the site owners what the consequences for Wikipedia.org are when a user discriminates and harasses another user. I, for one, would never do anything to jeopardize Wikipedia.org. Joe Canuck 14:42 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Bomis owns the servers. They don't own Wikipedia. We each own our own contributions. You've been told this before. But even if Bomis was the owner, Jimbo Wales has explicitly given us (the Wikipedia editors) the authority to make decisions like this, so no usurping is necessary. You've been told that before, as well. We are in some sense accountable to Jimbo, so you're welcome to take your case to him.
Deleting images posted by you is not harassment. It is the normal system of quality control in action. You don't complain when we revert the edits of a user who replaces entire articles with "hello i am john", do you? What is so different about your case?
-- Tim Starling 15:17 20 Jun 2003 (UTC) (Joe deleted with the comment answer Theresa knott, deleted irrelevant rantings)
From the Wikipedia:Overview FAQ:
Who owns Wikipedia?
So, when you keep referring to the "owners" of Wikipedia, you are talking about you, me, Tim, Martin, FearÉIREANN, and anyone else who contributes. -- Wapcaplet 15:22 20 Jun 2003 (UTC) (Joe deleted with the comment answer Theresa knott, deleted irrelevant rantings)
What is or is not legal copyright here at Wikipedia.org is not for you or anyone to make an arbitrary judgment on. Wikipedia.org protected itself, it did not mandate users to be copyright lawyers. When a group of users form a cabal to impose their views, that is in fact discrimination and doing it selectively and repeatedly constitutes harassment. A user to Wikipedia is entitled to use the site in accordance with the owners terms -- not yours or mine. There are many "brave" loudmouths who hide behind their non-USA residence who don't worry about harassment because the prime and serious damage will be to Wikipedia.org, not themselves should a provoked user or rights group decide to protect themselves from abuse. In this regard, I find it incredible that you are willing to think that a totally unknown and unverifiable person logged into Wikipedia under any user name they choose can simply say: "I took this photo myself" or "The person who took this photo has given me permission to upload it to wikipedia and you accept it. Mind boggling that you would accept such implausible claims as adequate legal protection. The DMCA was created just so innocent website operators couldn't be held liable for the actions of the uncaring few. Joe Canuck 15:31 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Joe, I am starting to believe you are a reincarnation of a banned user. There is one thing that makes me believe this:
-fonzy
If I am a banned user, please provide your proof. Wikipedia.org will not tolerate harassment or false accusations from anyone. Joe Canuck 18:00 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Read the fine print above. Fonzy is starting to believe you are a banned user. He doesn't know for sure. Rickyrab 18:06 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Joe, that is not harassment (which acroiding to you almost everything is) its my opinion. And from now on i may get abit rude. "Wikipedia.org" or Wikipedia as everyone else calls it, WILL NOT TOLERATE YOU. YOU ARE BECOMING AN INCREASING NUISENCE!!! SPEAKING LOTS OF LEGAL NONSENCE AND MUMBO JUMBO. You are not helping Wikipeida. If you want to help answer are questions. Lots of images (even ones uplaoded by regular users) are checked. Its not just yours! As you are new people are more weary. You are on your last strands of being banned. So Co-operate now! - fonzy (quite annoyed which is unusal)
Joe instead of this reverting, why not just co-operate? It would be far easier. - fonzy
The above rantings and threat bolded by me was deleted from my page by me but reinstated four times by the vandal who is harassing me. Joe Canuck 18:31 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
See, you write so impulsively that you forget there is more than one Wikipedian that is annoyed at you right now.
Joe Joe Joe, if you want to compain about me ask other people. BTW please read part 3 of this: [2] -fonzy
Yeah, I already read it. I wonder if you understand what it means? Joe Canuck 18:43 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
P.S.: Read: User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles
I also wonder if you know lots of people are annoyd with you and your on the verge of being Banned. Also you again seem to show you know your way around Wikipedia for a new user. - fonzy Also do not chaneg otehr peoples text. ie turning mine in bold.
I will bold all I want as part of my response on my UserTalk page. Joe Canuck 18:50 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I apologize for turning your word banned into bold earlier. Rickyrab 18:52 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
did you? :-s tisk tisk, i forgive u for that as your apoligise. But Joe has delibratly done it. -fonzy
Obviously. Rickyrab 18:55 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I moved your discussion with Jtdirl in Wikipedia:Protected page from the article proper to the talk page. --Dante Alighieri 19:24 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Qouting from what you and I said on that page:
"The above statement by the person going by the user name: [[FearÉIREANN contains falsehoods and has abused their powers as a Wikipedia Administrator by protecting pages in which they were involved as part of the discussion. This is unacceptable conduct, and demonstrates the strong reluctance and lengthy delay by other Administrators in trusting this user with Administrator powers. I believe that a sincere and always polite User:Ed Poor set an excellent example of honorable conduct when he made only one mistake and abused his Administrative powers. Joe Canuck 19:09 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
If your "new" hwo the hell do you know what Ed Poor is like??? answer me that... -fonzy!"
acording to [3] he was only on Jun 12-13
acording to [4] you joned on jun 11.
Ed seems to have little to Nil Contact with you? So how can you judge? - fonzy