I Jazz. I hope your accidented start will not discourage you. I check the last versions of some of your articles, and It appear to me that they are not copyrighted. The first version apparently were, but I think you already learned that lesson. The tone is still a bit too enthusiastic (not NPOV),probably the cause of Ross's "product placement" epythet. Anyway, welcome to wikipedia.--AN
Hi, Jazz, I'm the guy who says that facts are not copyrightable in objection to Ross deleting all of your contributions because of copyright problems in some of them. Not the best way of fixing something like that by a long shot. Steve
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Gotcha. I can leave out comments like "critics loved this album" or whatever. That's not necessary, I just thought it gave more of a feel for who the band was. When I read articles in an encyclopedia, there are usually descriptive comments made... if you look up "The Beatles", it will probably say that the band was extremely popular, and had enormous hits, etc. The artists I'm putting up never reached that sort of success, but it still seems like pointing out hit singles or whatever makes sense.
My mistake originally was using some promotional material for some of these artists. I do not believe those bios are copyrighted (promotional print material from record companies usually isn't because the record companies want people to print it - anywhere, anytime), but perhaps that wasn't the best thing to do. Apparently some of those bios are even on other websites, which I was not aware of. That was not intentional on my part. However, some of what I had posted originally was original, and everything I posted today was original.
One other problem I had... As soon as I was aware of the problem with my posts, I was already banned. These pages said I could discuss the problem with site administrators - but that was impossible because I couldn't post anything to the site, and no email addresses were listed. It may be a good idea not to ban people so quickly in the future. (I'm using someone else's computer right now, because I am still banned on my machine).
What's the IP that's banned?