User talk:Captainbill47

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Rezmir
Hi. Thanks for joining, but I had to delete the Rezmir article as it was copied directly from the source. We can't accept copied material on the wiki of any form. Have a look at our Plagiarism. You are welcome to remake the article in your own words. Have a look at other articles about characters to get a feel for the style and the use of an infobox and categories. We'll help and patch up the rest. — BadCatMan (talk) 09:42, February 16, 2015 (UTC)

More Plagiarism
You once again directly copied material from a source, for your edits to Tavaray. They were removed. Besides being against our policies, plagiarism is illegal. If you wish to contribute to this wiki, please follow policy and make edits in your own words. ~ Lhynard (talk) 21:28, October 17, 2015 (UTC)

I just saw your comments on BadCatMan's page, requesting for help. To answer your questions there, yes, ideally, they would become two separate pages. You are welcome to replace the redirect on Lizard Marsh with new information, but that information must be written in your own words.

If the information came from a supplement, you would cite the supplement. You can use the Cite publication template, or just do your best and request someone else to make up a citation template for you.

Thank you for contributing to the wiki; I hope my first comment here does not scare you off. It is just important that we do not violate copyright laws on this site.

~ Lhynard (talk) 21:38, October 17, 2015 (UTC)

You know, I never really looked back at the Rezmir article or this page after my first edit to see what you responded with. I just kind of assumed it would be reviewed and added. I sincerely apologize for the plagiarism. It makes sense that if this is an "unofficial" site (I never really thought about that being the case before), it would require non-paizo/wotc verbiage. I assumed the citation would suffice. I will go back and try to reword my description.

Thank you for the explanation. It also looks like I was blocked from editing that page by Lhynard. How should I submit my new description to you? Captainbill47 (talk) 22:09, October 17, 2015 (UTC)
 * The block has been undone. -hashtalk 22:18, October 17, 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, I should have unblocked you about 3 minutes after I first did, once I saw that you had been trying to contact one of us after posting. Sorry about that! ~ Lhynard (talk) 23:53, October 17, 2015 (UTC)

New Citation
Hi there Cap'n. I'd be happy to make a citation template for you if you can give me the information. If it has a URL, then I can probably figure everything else out from there. If not, then please fill out as much of this as you can: Thanks, and I hope to see you around the wiki. Don't forget to sign your replies with four tildes ( ~ )&mdash;Moviesign (talk) 02:09, October 18, 2015 (UTC)
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 * Date: (The date it was released)
 * Publisher: (I'm assuming Paizo?)
 * Pages: (If it has numbered pages, then list them here, including any pages with related graphics)