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As you might know, it is against the rules to edit on behalf of a blocked user, see WP:BLOCK#Proxying. So I have to form my own opinion first. When I followed the link provided by you, I hit a computer game and stopped right there, since a redirect from a title of a fictional character to an article about a real-world person makes little sense anyhow, and I did not research further. Викидим (talk) 17:30, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
@Викидим: The redirect is not from a "title of a fictional character to an article about a real-world person". It is a redirect from a title of a real-world person in a fictional game to an article about a real-world person. GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 20:21, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
There is no escape from the fact that nobody outside the game uses this title. The real person's titles were different and IMHO would not have triggered an RfD. If you check the redirect target, the title "sultan" is conspicuously absent there. So here we have a case of game imitating the reality, not replicating it. Викидим (talk) 20:34, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
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I would like to apologise for any copyright violations that I have committed and I can assure that I will not commit any in the future.
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Unblock request 2
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I would like to apologise for any copyright violations that I have committed and I can assure that I will not commit any in the future. I will now answer in my own words the following questions which were asked by Yamla in my previous unblock request:
What is copyright?
Copyright is a type of "intellectual property" (IP), which relates to the right to copy creative works, these could include books, movies, paintings, photographs, movies, songs, plays, computer software, sculptures, and architecture.
Copyright is intended to protect the rights of authors, to financially incentivise the creation of creative works, and to prevent the unauthorised copying of and profiting from works which the author has created.
Copyright applies only to the tangible expression of an idea and not to the idea itself (this is known as the "idea–expression dichotomy"). Furthermore, in order to obtain copyright protection, works must meet the "threshold of originality", meaning that they must be sufficiently original in order to obtain protection. This means that copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans or short phrases, which in some cases may be protected as trademarks.
There are several limitations and exceptions to copyright which may vary by jurisdiction, such as "fair use" and "fair dealing". Fair use is usually decided by a court of law with several factors being used to determine whether or not something is fair use.
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Why is copyrighted content not allowed on Wikipedia?
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Under what circumstances can we use copyrighted content?
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Non-free content is permitted as long as it meets the 10 criteria of the Non-free content criteria also known as the "Exemption Doctrine Policy".
How do you intend to avoid violating the copyright policy in the future?
I intend to avoid violating the copyright policy in the future by not committing the same mistakes that I have made in the past such as being under the assumption that close paraphrasing did not count as copyright infringement. In the future, I shall take better care to not commit copyright infringement such as by noting key information from multiple sources (rather than using phrases) and then revisiting it after some time to clear the original phrasing from my mind.
Closing request that was archived. If you can, I suggest turning off any automatic archiving you have on. 331dot (talk) 07:25, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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