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Sorry! I hope I'm not being really annoying... I'm new to wikipedia... I'm not trying to start an edit war. I was able to find a source for the fact that sandsledding is an actual thing that is different from sandboarding. I also want to put this image into the article http://www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/images/web285sandsledding_girl2012.jpg but don't know how... Also I think it actually might need to be listed as sand sledding with two words but I dont know how to change it. Thanks for any help!
Good morning. You sent a message that my new page appeared to be advertising. I am still in the process of building it out, but rest assured, it is not advertising we are seeking. We are one of a group of higher education schools, and our other campuses have Wikipedia entries, so my administration asked me to create one for our school as well. It will simply be our history, founding, etc. There will be no content related to current enrollment, etc. Hopefully this will be acceptable.
I am brand new to Wikipedia, so if there are any suggestions you have to make, I am certainly open to ideas or pointers. 22:07, 8 September 2014 (UTC)Thank you, Brian (mrdullins) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrdullins ( talk • contribs) 16:16, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
" Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia."
OK, thanks for the info. From what I was reading, I thought that one of the options for creating a page was to build it first in my user space and then copy it over. I'll work to resolve that issue asap.
Also, it is the administration of the college (who owns the website you referenced) that requested the page be built in the first place. So how do we go about clearing the copyright issue you pointed out?
I'll check out your links as well, but any "short answers" you can provide would be most appreciated. My comfort zone is the classroom, not building online web pages. :)
Thanks again. Mrdullins ( talk) 19:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
I am opening a case for Arbitration. Can I add you as a party, so you will be able to comment.
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Hello admin! Not sure what to make of this, so I'm looking for feedback/advice. Over the last 2 days there's been an odd pattern popping up on New Page Patrol: A new account will pop up, add a 2-3 sentence blurb about Columbus GA to their talk page or user page, and make no further edits (1 exception follows). The blurbs don't come back as a copyright vio, and though they're a little promotional in tone, nothing really serious.
I cleared a few of the talk pages and replaced with a standard welcome message. One of the users reverted that and restored the Columbus blurb. It's slightly surreal! I don't know if this is a class project, a very low-level attempt at SEO for Columbus, or what. The pages in question are below (unlinked so as not to Ping):
What do you make of this? Thanks for your time, Crow Talk 00:10, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the work you are doing at SCV. Regarding Shade (Living Colour album), the matching site is a known mirror. See:
Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Pqr#potiori-- S Philbrick (Talk) 00:54, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
You asked a question about the handling of Draft:Daikin Europe. I think G12 is an option but I will tell you why I didn't go that direction in this instance. In many cases, new editors are unaware that they cannot simply copy material from elsewhere. If they do so and CSB tags it, in some cases they simply abandon it. If that were the case G12 might make sense. In this case the editor remove the tag. Using AGF I assume that the editor either believes that the tag is invalid or believes they have addressed the issue. I think it is worth trying to have a conversation about that so as you can see I left a note with the editor.
My hope is that they will respond that the material it compares closely to is in fact a copy of some properly licensed source or Wikipedia or something else. That happens. Next best, they didn't appreciate the need for rewrite, but will do so when explained. If they do not respond or do not have an adequate response then I would move to removal or rewrite if that's feasible.
I generally do not do the blank option. Especially in the case of a draft which is already noindexed. In my view the blank option is for an editor who identifies a potential copyright issue but doesn't wish to do with it themselves or at least doesn't wish to deal with it at this moment and wants the material blanked until it can be addressed. If I'm planning on staying on top of that I'm not particularly worried that it might be visible for a few days.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:13, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to make sure we are on the same page when it comes to SCV. I think I know what's happening but I don't want to be guilty of assuming and making a mistake. I see that you've been contributing quite a bit to SCV recently. That's extremely welcome; as you can see we don't have all that many people helping out.
I think you are assuming that because you are new, the best thing to do is review the item and add an explanation as text under the item. Then you expect that someone with more experience will come along and confirm your conclusion or correct it if you make in error. That's exactly the right sequence of events. In almost all cases your conclusions have been spot on. I think I found one instance early on when you missed something but when I pointed it out you realized it and have dealt with similar situations subsequently and gotten them right.
As you probably know chief copyright expert is moonriddengirl. If I have understood your approach to this task correctly and you are interested in continuing I'd like to ask her to take a look so we can decide when to transition from offering your opinion to simply handling them.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 15:54, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
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I procedurally declined your PROD at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tachfin as PROD is not valid outside of article space. However, I have taken it to Miscellany for Deletion. The discussion is located here: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tachfin. Safiel ( talk) 01:26, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, since this is my first article, and I wanted to post it as draft first to get all the valuable contibutions before I post it to articles, and you have removed very important parts of the article that are the facts about the person and told me not to re-add them, I would like to ask you if that means I can add those facts but in different form then before so they don't look exactly like the sentences removed? Thank you and Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ljiljana K ( talk • contribs) 21:26, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
While eligible for speedy deletion, I declined it in light of including this in a series of articles on organized crime. Bearian ( talk) 21:35, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
@ Bearian: You do realize that large chunks of that may be fictitious, yes? Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Malusia22 Crow Caw 21:41, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to say what a great job you seem to be doing at WP:SCV, it's a pity there aren't ten of you. I've noticed some of the questions you've asked there, but haven't really felt qualified to try to answer them – I see that Sphilbrick has, though. As you've probably noticed, I've sometimes looked at what you've done, mostly agreed with it, and occasionally followed up on it a bit.
I'm not too sure what should be done about Matt Bish, listed in Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2014-09-07 (I'd like to close that day up); you've done a lot of good cleaning up, but I feel that we still have a foundational copyvio that hasn't been fully removed. I may be completely wrong here, but I was wondering if you'd like either to ping Sphilbrick or MRG or someone for their view, or instead just go ahead and list it at WP:CP where others will surely see it, and where there's a good chance it'll get completely rewritten? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:25, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I have been editing the Drinker, Biddle & Reath Wikipedia entry over the past two years by inserting three court decisions of national importance in which Drinker Biddle & Reath's Insurance Department was involved. One of the cases was the topic of a front page article in the Wall Street Journal in 2010. The cases are very similar as they involve the same legal issue and were litigated in California and New York. Shortly after I make my edits, the entries are deleted. I don't know who is making the deletions. Today, I saw a message on Wikipedia to me that I should stop making the edits. Is this message coming from Wikipedia? I am an insurance lawyer and my edits are entirely accurate and extremely relevant. The court cases are referred to as the Kramer, Teren and Fishman decisions. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your input. Lockpen ( talk) 21:39, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Crow. As the only other contributor to the article's talk page, your input would be welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EZSource. Psychonaut ( talk) 21:12, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting the page-move vandalism on my user pages! Gparyani ( talk) 02:42, 12 October 2014 (UTC) |
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Hi! I missed your ping on Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2014-09-17, don't know why. There are some templates you can use for PD attribution in an article, either {{ Source-attribution}} or {{ CC-notice}}; probably the latter would have been the better choice for that page if the hand-written notice hadn't already been there. Also, I think you may not be aware of {{ Translated page}}, which is probably easier to use than {{ Copied}} for attribution of interwiki translations (it goes on the talk page, like Copied). I'm not aware of any obligation to acknowledge translations in the source wiki, but I suppose a note of thanks on the talk page is unlikely to give offence. Many thanks for all the work you are doing, it's really making a difference. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 01:18, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, question: Is placing Category:Wikipedia administrators on one's user page, when not actually an admin, considered impersonation? If not, does it fall under the "rare exceptions" to editing that user's User Page to remove such? (Not a hypothetical, as you may have guessed.) Crow Caw 22:19, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi crow. You removed my external link i left on user PUA-bcn's talk page. It was an invite for PUA-bcn to come join my wiki site since I noticed that that user likes to work on articles related to the seduction community. I'm not sure if you, Crow, are PUA-bcn. If you are then I didn't mean to mess up your talk page on the PUA-bcn user page. If you do enjoy writting article about the seduction community check out my site wiki at www.puapedia.com. If not you go ahead and remove this post. thank you.
Puapedia ( talk) 04:31, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear Crow, I am not the native speaker in English and I really appreciate when someone helps me to do this page. But, I am the author of the text on linkedin page and I also made this page. So how to make this working? I also changed a lot of this bio text and even then you removed my post. Can you explain me why? Drudipepo Druidpepo ( talk) 13:00, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
I see more and yet more whole vast swathes of SCV listings very competently dealt with, so came to offer some more thanks. What you are doing is really making a difference. You left a sort of question about wikimapia. I don't know the answer, but my take is this: it's a wiki, so not WP:RS, and we don't have any guarantee (as we've seen) that the content licenced as free is in fact free; so my inclination is not to attribute it, but simply to remove any content copied from it. Anyway, that's what I did at Sharif Jalalpur; I think the attribution there may be unnecessary, but I don't know. Anyway, thanks again, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:24, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Part of the article is copied from the findagrave site, but most part of article is not copied from the findagrave site. So, the article should not be deleted -- Mirno talk 20:15, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, now I know what to do. That part of the article I will write in your own words.-- Mirno talk 20:24, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for responding to my copyright issues. I am not sure how to communicate with you directly regarding my questions on it. (thanks for your patience, as well). The artist I am working with is extremely tech/internet deficient and trying to explain the issue and posting the free license option was a nightmare. Anyway, I am looking more in to it and the explanation you so generously offered me and will probably be back with more questions soon. Thank you!!! Tammydunst ( talk) 19:43, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
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Many thanks TomStar! Crow Caw 22:11, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks again for your reply. We were about to move forward with option 1 that you suggested for the copyright and it turns out that the page was deleted. This is so frustrating and seems stupid for someone (me) that has no idea what they are doing to even attempt. I don't know the artist personally but agreed to help her create this page. I don't know what else to do. Are there people that can be hired to construct legitimate wiki pages? Tammydunst ( talk) 06:44, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for clearing that up, I was in the middle of declining it, but got called away (should have marked it as under review). Rankersbo ( talk) 23:28, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I notice your name all over the suspected copyright infringements page, that's some solid work. I've just started dipping my toes in the water with entries from the 7th. Please feel free to let me know if I mucked anything up! Cheers, Basie ( talk) 14:07, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I've just seen your CCI request, which I'm about to go and add my 2c to, as I've also been having dealings with the same editor in relation to
MP Anil Kumar. But ... is it possible that you might have forgotten to put a {{subst:CCI-notice}} ~~~~
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Hi again. Under what circumstances does an article need to be deleted and recreated to remove offending material from the history? Cheers, Basie ( talk) 23:52, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
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Honestly, Im new here. I just created an article about myself, I didnt know about the references and all...will u help me? because I want to maintain my article and not be marked for deletion — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dominic James O26 ( talk • contribs) 00:33, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the slight undo you did to the page I created White Christmas due to the copy violation. I just copied the information from the main Black Mirror page as it wasn't really relevant to that page, but I didn't notice that the whole thing was a long quote, so thanks for spotting and removing it, I will try to be more careful in future. MisterMeph ( talk) 22:59, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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This is good news indeed, I'm very pleased to see it! Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
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Crow, I have started a discussion on the E-Government talk page. I'm not sure if this is a topic you are interested in, but seeing as you're one of the most recent editors in a while I figured I'd see if you had any comment on it. Thanks, Discant X 21:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
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Just a quick constructive comment about one of your posts. Your statement that if the author is not willing to do so, then the image can only be used here under Fair Use ... is not entirely correct. We do not accept fair use as an alternative but apply a much stricter non-free criteria, and if an image is not released freely it cannot just be claimed as fair use. It must comply with all 10 non-free content policy guidelines which is not exactly what you told the poster. It is best to be very specific about the rules especially as many editors questioning on WP:MCQ are newbies or not familiar with copyright. Good luck ww2censor ( talk) 23:42, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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I've finally had a chance to re-work the page you and I discussed back in September 2014. (That discussion is in your Archive 2, but I couldn't figure out how to add to that string so I started a new conversation here.)
Your original concerns related to copyright issues and the possibility that the website I had created about our school might be seen as a sales nature. I have removed comments related to our course offerings, how to contact the school (except for a link to our website), etc. to try to avoid the sales "feel." And the content itself has been totally re-written and quotes cited where they occur so we can avoid the copyright questions.
Before I submit for review, however, I'd like to add links to the appropriate categories as I have seen done in other articles, but I'm not certain how to LOCATE those categories in the first place. I know that seems very elementary, but when I search for what might be a category name, I get specific articles instead. Is there any way to see which categories exist out there without merely browsing through the category list?
Thanks so much. Mrdullins ( talk) 18:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)Mrdullins
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Hi, Crow! I wanted to thank you for all you've been doing to keep the fragile vessel Copyright afloat - time and again I look at a day at SCV and find it all done and dealt with thanks to you. I hope that others sometimes mention to you how valuable your help is; I know it's been ages since I did. So it makes me particularly uncomfortable when I step on your toes, as I've just (carelessly and inadvertently) done at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, where I failed to notice your name in the history until I went to do the copyvio-revdel request; I'm truly sorry, I should of course (a) have seen that you had edited there and (b) therefore asked your opinion before doing anything else. If you think that I have made any sort of a wrong call there, please let me know, or just go ahead and put it right. Right, now I'm going to go and see if that day can be crossed off yet ... Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 18:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I hope you are well, I would like to know the factors that will prevent deleting Doctors Worldwide, because it is an International non-governmental organization registered in UK and in Turkey, and we are working in 30 countries around the world,& this is our English website http://www.doctorsworldwide.org/ & our Turkish website https://www.yyd.org.tr/tr of course I would like to see my INGO in the Wikipedia if it has the indication of notability, Best.-- Drmustaffa ( talk) 12:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
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— Crisco 1492 ( talk) 01:27, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Sorry! I hope I'm not being really annoying... I'm new to wikipedia... I'm not trying to start an edit war. I was able to find a source for the fact that sandsledding is an actual thing that is different from sandboarding. I also want to put this image into the article http://www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/images/web285sandsledding_girl2012.jpg but don't know how... Also I think it actually might need to be listed as sand sledding with two words but I dont know how to change it. Thanks for any help!
Good morning. You sent a message that my new page appeared to be advertising. I am still in the process of building it out, but rest assured, it is not advertising we are seeking. We are one of a group of higher education schools, and our other campuses have Wikipedia entries, so my administration asked me to create one for our school as well. It will simply be our history, founding, etc. There will be no content related to current enrollment, etc. Hopefully this will be acceptable.
I am brand new to Wikipedia, so if there are any suggestions you have to make, I am certainly open to ideas or pointers. 22:07, 8 September 2014 (UTC)Thank you, Brian (mrdullins) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrdullins ( talk • contribs) 16:16, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
" Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia."
OK, thanks for the info. From what I was reading, I thought that one of the options for creating a page was to build it first in my user space and then copy it over. I'll work to resolve that issue asap.
Also, it is the administration of the college (who owns the website you referenced) that requested the page be built in the first place. So how do we go about clearing the copyright issue you pointed out?
I'll check out your links as well, but any "short answers" you can provide would be most appreciated. My comfort zone is the classroom, not building online web pages. :)
Thanks again. Mrdullins ( talk) 19:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
I am opening a case for Arbitration. Can I add you as a party, so you will be able to comment.
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Hello admin! Not sure what to make of this, so I'm looking for feedback/advice. Over the last 2 days there's been an odd pattern popping up on New Page Patrol: A new account will pop up, add a 2-3 sentence blurb about Columbus GA to their talk page or user page, and make no further edits (1 exception follows). The blurbs don't come back as a copyright vio, and though they're a little promotional in tone, nothing really serious.
I cleared a few of the talk pages and replaced with a standard welcome message. One of the users reverted that and restored the Columbus blurb. It's slightly surreal! I don't know if this is a class project, a very low-level attempt at SEO for Columbus, or what. The pages in question are below (unlinked so as not to Ping):
What do you make of this? Thanks for your time, Crow Talk 00:10, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the work you are doing at SCV. Regarding Shade (Living Colour album), the matching site is a known mirror. See:
Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Pqr#potiori-- S Philbrick (Talk) 00:54, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
You asked a question about the handling of Draft:Daikin Europe. I think G12 is an option but I will tell you why I didn't go that direction in this instance. In many cases, new editors are unaware that they cannot simply copy material from elsewhere. If they do so and CSB tags it, in some cases they simply abandon it. If that were the case G12 might make sense. In this case the editor remove the tag. Using AGF I assume that the editor either believes that the tag is invalid or believes they have addressed the issue. I think it is worth trying to have a conversation about that so as you can see I left a note with the editor.
My hope is that they will respond that the material it compares closely to is in fact a copy of some properly licensed source or Wikipedia or something else. That happens. Next best, they didn't appreciate the need for rewrite, but will do so when explained. If they do not respond or do not have an adequate response then I would move to removal or rewrite if that's feasible.
I generally do not do the blank option. Especially in the case of a draft which is already noindexed. In my view the blank option is for an editor who identifies a potential copyright issue but doesn't wish to do with it themselves or at least doesn't wish to deal with it at this moment and wants the material blanked until it can be addressed. If I'm planning on staying on top of that I'm not particularly worried that it might be visible for a few days.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:13, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to make sure we are on the same page when it comes to SCV. I think I know what's happening but I don't want to be guilty of assuming and making a mistake. I see that you've been contributing quite a bit to SCV recently. That's extremely welcome; as you can see we don't have all that many people helping out.
I think you are assuming that because you are new, the best thing to do is review the item and add an explanation as text under the item. Then you expect that someone with more experience will come along and confirm your conclusion or correct it if you make in error. That's exactly the right sequence of events. In almost all cases your conclusions have been spot on. I think I found one instance early on when you missed something but when I pointed it out you realized it and have dealt with similar situations subsequently and gotten them right.
As you probably know chief copyright expert is moonriddengirl. If I have understood your approach to this task correctly and you are interested in continuing I'd like to ask her to take a look so we can decide when to transition from offering your opinion to simply handling them.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 15:54, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
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I procedurally declined your PROD at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tachfin as PROD is not valid outside of article space. However, I have taken it to Miscellany for Deletion. The discussion is located here: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tachfin. Safiel ( talk) 01:26, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, since this is my first article, and I wanted to post it as draft first to get all the valuable contibutions before I post it to articles, and you have removed very important parts of the article that are the facts about the person and told me not to re-add them, I would like to ask you if that means I can add those facts but in different form then before so they don't look exactly like the sentences removed? Thank you and Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ljiljana K ( talk • contribs) 21:26, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
While eligible for speedy deletion, I declined it in light of including this in a series of articles on organized crime. Bearian ( talk) 21:35, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
@ Bearian: You do realize that large chunks of that may be fictitious, yes? Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Malusia22 Crow Caw 21:41, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to say what a great job you seem to be doing at WP:SCV, it's a pity there aren't ten of you. I've noticed some of the questions you've asked there, but haven't really felt qualified to try to answer them – I see that Sphilbrick has, though. As you've probably noticed, I've sometimes looked at what you've done, mostly agreed with it, and occasionally followed up on it a bit.
I'm not too sure what should be done about Matt Bish, listed in Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2014-09-07 (I'd like to close that day up); you've done a lot of good cleaning up, but I feel that we still have a foundational copyvio that hasn't been fully removed. I may be completely wrong here, but I was wondering if you'd like either to ping Sphilbrick or MRG or someone for their view, or instead just go ahead and list it at WP:CP where others will surely see it, and where there's a good chance it'll get completely rewritten? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:25, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I have been editing the Drinker, Biddle & Reath Wikipedia entry over the past two years by inserting three court decisions of national importance in which Drinker Biddle & Reath's Insurance Department was involved. One of the cases was the topic of a front page article in the Wall Street Journal in 2010. The cases are very similar as they involve the same legal issue and were litigated in California and New York. Shortly after I make my edits, the entries are deleted. I don't know who is making the deletions. Today, I saw a message on Wikipedia to me that I should stop making the edits. Is this message coming from Wikipedia? I am an insurance lawyer and my edits are entirely accurate and extremely relevant. The court cases are referred to as the Kramer, Teren and Fishman decisions. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your input. Lockpen ( talk) 21:39, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Crow. As the only other contributor to the article's talk page, your input would be welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EZSource. Psychonaut ( talk) 21:12, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! I missed your ping on Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2014-09-17, don't know why. There are some templates you can use for PD attribution in an article, either {{ Source-attribution}} or {{ CC-notice}}; probably the latter would have been the better choice for that page if the hand-written notice hadn't already been there. Also, I think you may not be aware of {{ Translated page}}, which is probably easier to use than {{ Copied}} for attribution of interwiki translations (it goes on the talk page, like Copied). I'm not aware of any obligation to acknowledge translations in the source wiki, but I suppose a note of thanks on the talk page is unlikely to give offence. Many thanks for all the work you are doing, it's really making a difference. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 01:18, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, question: Is placing Category:Wikipedia administrators on one's user page, when not actually an admin, considered impersonation? If not, does it fall under the "rare exceptions" to editing that user's User Page to remove such? (Not a hypothetical, as you may have guessed.) Crow Caw 22:19, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi crow. You removed my external link i left on user PUA-bcn's talk page. It was an invite for PUA-bcn to come join my wiki site since I noticed that that user likes to work on articles related to the seduction community. I'm not sure if you, Crow, are PUA-bcn. If you are then I didn't mean to mess up your talk page on the PUA-bcn user page. If you do enjoy writting article about the seduction community check out my site wiki at www.puapedia.com. If not you go ahead and remove this post. thank you.
Puapedia ( talk) 04:31, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear Crow, I am not the native speaker in English and I really appreciate when someone helps me to do this page. But, I am the author of the text on linkedin page and I also made this page. So how to make this working? I also changed a lot of this bio text and even then you removed my post. Can you explain me why? Drudipepo Druidpepo ( talk) 13:00, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
I see more and yet more whole vast swathes of SCV listings very competently dealt with, so came to offer some more thanks. What you are doing is really making a difference. You left a sort of question about wikimapia. I don't know the answer, but my take is this: it's a wiki, so not WP:RS, and we don't have any guarantee (as we've seen) that the content licenced as free is in fact free; so my inclination is not to attribute it, but simply to remove any content copied from it. Anyway, that's what I did at Sharif Jalalpur; I think the attribution there may be unnecessary, but I don't know. Anyway, thanks again, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:24, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Part of the article is copied from the findagrave site, but most part of article is not copied from the findagrave site. So, the article should not be deleted -- Mirno talk 20:15, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, now I know what to do. That part of the article I will write in your own words.-- Mirno talk 20:24, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for responding to my copyright issues. I am not sure how to communicate with you directly regarding my questions on it. (thanks for your patience, as well). The artist I am working with is extremely tech/internet deficient and trying to explain the issue and posting the free license option was a nightmare. Anyway, I am looking more in to it and the explanation you so generously offered me and will probably be back with more questions soon. Thank you!!! Tammydunst ( talk) 19:43, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
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Many thanks TomStar! Crow Caw 22:11, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks again for your reply. We were about to move forward with option 1 that you suggested for the copyright and it turns out that the page was deleted. This is so frustrating and seems stupid for someone (me) that has no idea what they are doing to even attempt. I don't know the artist personally but agreed to help her create this page. I don't know what else to do. Are there people that can be hired to construct legitimate wiki pages? Tammydunst ( talk) 06:44, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for clearing that up, I was in the middle of declining it, but got called away (should have marked it as under review). Rankersbo ( talk) 23:28, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I notice your name all over the suspected copyright infringements page, that's some solid work. I've just started dipping my toes in the water with entries from the 7th. Please feel free to let me know if I mucked anything up! Cheers, Basie ( talk) 14:07, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I've just seen your CCI request, which I'm about to go and add my 2c to, as I've also been having dealings with the same editor in relation to
MP Anil Kumar. But ... is it possible that you might have forgotten to put a {{subst:CCI-notice}} ~~~~
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Hi again. Under what circumstances does an article need to be deleted and recreated to remove offending material from the history? Cheers, Basie ( talk) 23:52, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
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Honestly, Im new here. I just created an article about myself, I didnt know about the references and all...will u help me? because I want to maintain my article and not be marked for deletion — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dominic James O26 ( talk • contribs) 00:33, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the slight undo you did to the page I created White Christmas due to the copy violation. I just copied the information from the main Black Mirror page as it wasn't really relevant to that page, but I didn't notice that the whole thing was a long quote, so thanks for spotting and removing it, I will try to be more careful in future. MisterMeph ( talk) 22:59, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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This is good news indeed, I'm very pleased to see it! Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
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Crow, I have started a discussion on the E-Government talk page. I'm not sure if this is a topic you are interested in, but seeing as you're one of the most recent editors in a while I figured I'd see if you had any comment on it. Thanks, Discant X 21:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
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Just a quick constructive comment about one of your posts. Your statement that if the author is not willing to do so, then the image can only be used here under Fair Use ... is not entirely correct. We do not accept fair use as an alternative but apply a much stricter non-free criteria, and if an image is not released freely it cannot just be claimed as fair use. It must comply with all 10 non-free content policy guidelines which is not exactly what you told the poster. It is best to be very specific about the rules especially as many editors questioning on WP:MCQ are newbies or not familiar with copyright. Good luck ww2censor ( talk) 23:42, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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I've finally had a chance to re-work the page you and I discussed back in September 2014. (That discussion is in your Archive 2, but I couldn't figure out how to add to that string so I started a new conversation here.)
Your original concerns related to copyright issues and the possibility that the website I had created about our school might be seen as a sales nature. I have removed comments related to our course offerings, how to contact the school (except for a link to our website), etc. to try to avoid the sales "feel." And the content itself has been totally re-written and quotes cited where they occur so we can avoid the copyright questions.
Before I submit for review, however, I'd like to add links to the appropriate categories as I have seen done in other articles, but I'm not certain how to LOCATE those categories in the first place. I know that seems very elementary, but when I search for what might be a category name, I get specific articles instead. Is there any way to see which categories exist out there without merely browsing through the category list?
Thanks so much. Mrdullins ( talk) 18:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)Mrdullins
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Hi, Crow! I wanted to thank you for all you've been doing to keep the fragile vessel Copyright afloat - time and again I look at a day at SCV and find it all done and dealt with thanks to you. I hope that others sometimes mention to you how valuable your help is; I know it's been ages since I did. So it makes me particularly uncomfortable when I step on your toes, as I've just (carelessly and inadvertently) done at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, where I failed to notice your name in the history until I went to do the copyvio-revdel request; I'm truly sorry, I should of course (a) have seen that you had edited there and (b) therefore asked your opinion before doing anything else. If you think that I have made any sort of a wrong call there, please let me know, or just go ahead and put it right. Right, now I'm going to go and see if that day can be crossed off yet ... Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 18:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I hope you are well, I would like to know the factors that will prevent deleting Doctors Worldwide, because it is an International non-governmental organization registered in UK and in Turkey, and we are working in 30 countries around the world,& this is our English website http://www.doctorsworldwide.org/ & our Turkish website https://www.yyd.org.tr/tr of course I would like to see my INGO in the Wikipedia if it has the indication of notability, Best.-- Drmustaffa ( talk) 12:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
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