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Hello, Diannaa.
See my note in the Talk section of this article: Old Order Mennonite. I don't yet know how much of that article is copied from sources such as http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/eng/Old_Order_Mennonites#cite_note-1 but some of it certainly is, like the Beliefs and practices section.
Over the next day or so, I will work on that section to paraphrase, get info from additional sources, add citations, etc. (I have just started doing so.) Not sure I can single-handedly do so for the entire article if much of it is copied from sources, however. Your thoughts? Peter K Burian ( talk) 14:37, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Interesting; thanks for letting me know. Still, very little of the content had citations. I have re-written most of those sections, with info paraphrased from many sources, and added relevant citations. Peter K Burian ( talk) 21:32, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Another editor and I are doing a lot of work to improve this article. It does not have a Climate chart, and should.
I'm sure articles with such a chart got them from somewhere, but we have no idea where. Could you give us instructions for doing so? Thanks, Peter K Burian ( talk) 14:57, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Howdy. I was reviewing an edit to this page and it looks like you protected it back in 2013 with a note that it might be time to unprotect it soon. Looks like edits have been fairly normal lately. I thought I would put possible unprotecting on your radar. Cheers Gtstricky Talk or C 19:09, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello. All edits by Special:Contributions/103.245.196.90 today added copyvios, so they're easy to find in the page history. Links to websites the material was copied from are in my copyvio-warning on their talk page. Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W talk 18:17, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa. I received a note from you about copying information from Bian-na-Bato to Judeo-Christian ethics. That was yesterday. Earlier today, I was doing a lot of moving around of material *within* Judeo-Christian ethics. I have never been anywhere near Bian-na-Bato. I suppose your note must have been information from some Wikipedia software running in the background somewhere; but I'm afraid it is giving you false positive. I documented my moves from "Judeo-Christian" to "Judeo-Christian ethics" on the Talk pages of both articles. I hope this meets the requirements for inter-Wikipedia attribution. Please let me know if I need to do more. Best, Person54 ( talk) 21:24, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
You did delete my entire contribution for the article " Taboo" for alleged copyright violation. However, the "Storyline" section which you delete for copyvio was taken from IMDB and was properly referenced, with author's name and source. I never pretended I was the author. If all the referenced material taken from another source of information is considered "Copyvio" so the entire Wikipedia should be deleted, since all the article must to have references and all the information must to be taken from a reliable source outside Wikipedia. In the same article for the film "Taboo" I used several quotes from several reviews websites. I referenced all the quotes, with author and source and you didn't delete them. I really don't understand your criteria. It's very discouraging spend a lot of time to research for an article and another amount of time to write it, just to have you work deleted. Even when you try to make a good job, finding reliable sources and using a lot of references.-- SirEdimon ( talk) 21:48, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. You removed my edit for the plot for the Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets. That was not a copy of copyright information. I rewrote that plot based on the information from the press release which has been used in its entirety on a number of websites around the world. My version was different. J Bar ( talk) 22:45, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. You nominated Miyota 9015 page for Speedy deletion, and you sure that the page was translated from http://easternwatch.blogspot.co.id/2015_09_01_archive.html. But I open the link and that page not even mentioned about Miyota 9015, that page talk about Miyota 8000 series, which is a different product. thank you ( Bkusmono ( talk) 01:09, 3 May 2017 (UTC)).
Dear Diannaa Hello , I am Mohamed Elkady one of Fathi Hassan's mangers (the other one is " Dalas Barii ") , we have made major edits the last few days concerning the Fathi Hassan's Biography , latest work and solo works and pics of his latest work mostly everything we made , we were just about to add the references so you can make sure , you can go to his official website www.fathihassan.com and contact him on his email : (Redacted) to ask him about these changes we made and about us being his mangers so please do tell me what are the steps I can do to retrieve the last edit , my email is (Redacted) please contact me as soon as possible Thanks & best regards Mohamed Elkady — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohamed Mahmoud Elkady ( talk • contribs) 03:15, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
? See my page Nishidani ( talk) 12:59, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
At Harbor City International School. And if you're so moved, long term semi protection is certainly in order. It has been protected before. I'll guarantee your ultimate source is a University of Idaho student. This has been going on a while. U of I's network is a source of much garbage editing to the school, other Idaho universities, Idaho high schools and this school. Thanks for all you do. John from Idegon ( talk) 16:54, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Please enlighten me - I don't see that you've deleted anything. Plus I thought that I included proper attribution for the material. The data are from the same source as the original page and raised no copyright issues since its creation. Craigthebirder ( talk) 00:38, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Just lately you removed something from kettlebell lifting article under excuse that it was copyright material. Yes it was copied (but what was copied? a list), but because they had almost all possible grips and holds in one place (saved some time, and editing instances). Grips and holds are not copyright material neither is their description. For example hook grip is hook grip and there is only one way to describe it. Description was really basic and there is nothing there that could be considered copyright. If it was copyright material you'd have to close down 99.9% of all gyms in the world. List of something is not copyright material. 213.149.51.107 ( talk) 14:39, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure what's going on here... Does anything other than WP:A7 apply here? I'm just asking for future reference. Thanks! Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 19:00, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice, I will try to do better next time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bijun yang ( talk • contribs) 15:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa. I appreciate your comments regarding my edits. I would like to know, though, what you removed, so that I can revise it appropriately, but I don't see any way to do that. (Comparing your revised version to the version I edited doesn't do it.) Please advise. Also, I'd be happy to do what I can to fix/clean up the comments you made to a prior editor but I don't know to which sentences/sections your comments refer.) Thanks! (I hope I did this right!) LDella ( talk) 22:27, 5 May 2017 (UTC)LMDella
Hi,
Kindly see the last two edits at
Draft:Collaborations between Central Intelligence Agency and American Mafia. I hope they follow the wiki procedure. If they do not, kindly let me know. (Please ping me in the reply) Thanks. :-) —usernamekiran
(talk) 23:02, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
I disagree with your action regarding the said article.
The content was mostly referring to the website of Senator Marco Rubio, which you have aware and I have cited. Having the same prose appeared from HongKongfp.com does not necessarily mean a violation of copyright in Wikipedia. Rather, there is a possibility of copyright violation made by Hongkongfp.com - which they have copied from the Senator's website. In fact, I never referred to Hongkongfp.com when I was writing the respective article.
After all, since the content of the said act is largely factual, the prose from different sources cannot differ in a large extent. In the light of the citation that I have made before your removal of content, I urge for a restoration of content. Universehk ( talk) 10:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
{{
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so our readers are award that you copied this prose rather than wrote it yourself. Sorry about the mistake. —
Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 11:11, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, it is good to clarify. It is reasonable for you to check more carefully about the date, like what you have mentioned.
Universehk (
talk) 03:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed your [1] edit on User:Zingvin's talk page regarding using quotations from sources in Edsger W. Dijkstra. Could you check if this [2] revert is correct? Marcocapelle ( talk) 11:49, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello: I intend to request permission from the Creative Music Foundation (I already had their permission, but I will do so formally according to Wikipedia guidelines) to use content from their website to use content on the "Creative Music Studio" Wikipedia page.
I'm puzzled by something that appears in the sample request-for=permission letter, which appears on /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission#For_text
It says:
"This user claims on the talk page *[TALK PAGE ADDRESS] to *[have the authority to release this material under CC-BY-SA/ be the original author of the material], but for the page to remain on our site, we need further evidence that this is the case. Please be assured that if you do not grant permission, your content will not be used at Wikipedia; we have a strict policy against copyright violations."
What does this mean? Does "This user" refer to me (Resweet)? Why would I make such a claim, and which talk page could this be referring to? I don't understand this bit.
Thanks,
Bob (Resweet) Resweet ( talk) 16:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Thank you Diana I work in the Central Bank and the text in Spanish I did. For me it was important that Mario Marcel was on Wikipedia in English. But as you see, this language is not mine. So that's my first article. I will try to have others who master the language translate their profile into Spanish. (translated by Google) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuidro ( talk • contribs) 00:47, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Copyright problem on Chloroplast sensor kinase Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1538167/. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:25, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, Diannaa. However there was no copyright violation at any stage in edits. No text was copied from the page http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1538167/ or any other. That page itself is derivative and seems to have been copied from the original source: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/29/10061 Note "Author and Info" there states: "Freely available online through the PNAS open access option."
The original is publicly available, open source, and was referenced accurately in Chloroplast sensor kinase prior to your edit.
Please restore the deleted text and previous edits.
Corrigen ( talk) 16:44, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the note on my Talk page regarding the need for attribution for material copied from other articles/contributors. However, as I also wrote the other article, I wonder how I should attribute material to myself? PiCo ( talk) 22:47, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello. The material added by Special:Contributions/197.133.9.80 on Sustainable Development Goals was copied verbatim from http://undp.org (see http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html and its subpages). Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W talk 06:50, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, it seems pretty clear (atleast for me), that the content [3] was copypasted or closely paraphrased from the given source, a Management Action Plan - the text's formatting, tone and structure aswell as the addition in one single edit indicate as much. However, the source is not available online, so I struggle to check and verify this conclusively. I will post some additional advice and details of my concerns on the contributing user's talkpage, but would appreciate if you could have a look and offer some experienced advice for Nokrek National Park. Ideally some of the source's factual details could be added in the editor's own words, without the park's own self-promotion and tourist guide details. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your pointers Diannaa. I've rewritten the sections you deleted, drawing on a wider range of sources and avoiding direct transcription. Mccapra ( talk) 16:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this. Oldest version seems to be copied from the organization, but can't be sure since wayback machine only goes to 2014. Definitely needs rev del from June 2012 until my edits, but might also need G12. TonyBallioni ( talk) 18:16, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Would have been nice If you revised it but, hay its always easier to delete. -- Janissarywiki ( talk) 02:52, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, thanks for your reminder/warning re: the use of {{
copied}}
template. I have been working on Maldives' History articles for few days now, and it would have been nice to also see an acknowledgement of the work done, rather than a block warning. Like this, I wonder whether I should just stop contributing if my effort is not welcome. Kind regards, --
Dans (
talk) 09:28, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, You removed my modifications on Euler Hermes because of content copyright from http://www.eulerhermes.com/mediacenter/Lists/mediacenter-documents/Euler_Hermes_2013_Registration_Document.pdf. However I didn't use Euler_Hermes_2013_Registration_Document.pdf. Can you explain me why you removed it ? Thanks Kind Regards
Your message was: Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page http://explore.moadoph.gov.au/timelines/milestones-in-australian-democracy. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 23:02, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Copied content from Jammalamadugu at this edit from this link.-- Vin09 (talk) 09:30, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
That was my unit for a very long time and the story about why we call ourselves First Attack was completely 100% wrong so I replaced it with the real history and reason for the nickname, there is only one true history about our unit and that was the one I copy and pasted it, was I supposed to invent a totally new history and chain of events that got us our nickname? And as for attributing...I'm not really sure what you mean because I got the information about 1/227 directly from 1/227 and the sources that were used before I fixed it were wrong or dead links or from 3rd parties not associated with us and I anything I else I added was because I was personally there and seen it with my own two eyes, I'm not really sure how to attribute myself and trying not to get offended because it sounds like you're calling me a liar :-( but I'm pretty sure (hoping) that wasn't your intention.
Now the 1/227 page looks retarded because there are two HISTORY sections, at least change it back to how it was before my edit. It was better when it was wrong because unless you already know the history you won't know it's wrong, now they won't read it at all because it's all stupid looking.
I was so tempted to add the things we were really doing in Iraq because it tears at my soul seeing lies go down as fact in th history books.
Here is from the journal I kept while I was there...could maybe make a special section for it somewhere yea?
Part 1 How I got my TOP SECRET CLEARANCE
When our unit 1/227 AVN BN 1 CD “First Attack!” got orders to deploy to Iraq they sent the Executive Officer and this skeleton crew of officers 30 days ahead of everyone else to spy on Saddam and pick out targets for our Apaches to strike the instant they arrived by boat from the States.
I was the CSM’s driver the lowest part (the b*tch) of the Command Group so I was in the room when they were deciding what to do and how when the X.O. says “Well…we need someone to do the…solider work.” The CSM looks at me and says “Take Backowski, anything else? Now get out, sir.”
I knew exactly what the X.O. meant they needed someone to clean up crap but I did not care I wanted to go so bad and I loved the X.O. all the officers were great, you just learn what they like and make them like you and they can’t help but not mind that you’re there and be nice to you.
When we get to Kuwait we were given a tent and plopped in the middle of Camp Udari, in deep shifting sand near this huge pile of rubble all the other counties in the coalition were using as a dump that someone had covered with a huge plastic tarp.
Nobody knew what to do, no one there knew English to ask for help, we had no help coming for 26 days ,when the rest of our unit arrived, then one of the female officers says to build wooden floors or something because it was hard to walk around in the sand and gets everyone talking about it.
I had already been told many times we couldn’t take the huge tarp covering the trash it was new the people who had just dropped it off were about to tie it down and there was no more time for arguments so I took it from them and dragged it our stuff and started setting our tent up on it as quickly as I could. The one officer that had the stupid idea about the wooden floors was the only hold up so I said if General or something pissed tell them you told me not to do it but I did it anyways, with that they all agreed because the equipment we had to unpack was extremely sensitive and needed constant dusting. They all helped set up the tent and they all didn’t stop talking about it the whole time, not complaining but like if a piece of the tent resembled an umbrella they would have to point it out, I wasn’t really listening because …there was just a lot of sh*t going on at the moment.
Right away they made the tent this TOP SECRET off limit zone I wasn’t allowed to go in whenever they were doing anything important, they had always been really strict about it even in the states I wasn’t even allowed near the door which was guarded whenever they were having TOP SECRET meetings.
On the second day they kicked me out of the tent because they needed to have a TOP SECRET while I was right in the middle of highlighting power lines on maps so our Apaches wouldn’t fly into them (now that I think about it they were probably messing with me.), it pissed me off because I couldn’t even hang out near the tent to get out of the constant blowing sand.
When they got finished with their meeting the X.O. pops his head out and yells for me to dust everything, I run up to him and in a dejected voice “Sir I really want to but I can’t because there might be TOP SECRET stuff laying out that I’m not allowed to see and I don’t want to get anyone in trouble Sir.” He laughs and pats my shoulder “Ahhhh come on Backowski stop playing around get in there let's go, that’s an order.” Then I said “So if a General or something asks what I am doing in there I can say that Major (forgot his name) said it was ok?” then he said “Yes sure tell them that, now come on.” I finally flatly said “Sorry sir I cannot.” he just looked at me and went back into the tent.
The next day he hands me a TOP SECRET clearance orders along with a dust pan and broom, grinning “Now dust everything, all the floors too.” I said they need background checks it’s a fake and tried to give all that crap back but he said “No I walked it up the chain of command to General (so-and-so), it's TOP SECRET “intern” clearance it expires when you leave the unit.” I asked him “Sir you don’t want to dust that bad, is it that big a deal for you?” he said it was.
You have been so patient with me and I really want to do the right thing. I have a lot of respect for intellectual property. If you are not too busy, could you tell me if this document is in the public domain or not: Justice Department and then how should it be cited?
hi i need your help with something to improve the quality of this article. please i beg you, help me with this
PLamo kyoshiro comic cover original first volume
this image is under copyright. i tried to upload this image to commons. But i wich license apply. PLEASE can you make the upload for me please? using the correct license? i beg you i would give you the credit for the upload
-- Cheposo ( talk) 01:37, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
DIANA I LOVE YOU THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME WITH THISSS LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
may i have a link to your facebook? i would like to meet you
-- Cheposo ( talk) 12:50, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Please restore the revision so I can rewrite the whole thing in my words, and let me know on my talk page. I've been out more than five years and so I didn't pay attention to the need to reword the text. Thanks! Liberal Humanist ( talk) 05:02, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diana! I understant that, it seems I copied all the material. But it`s the translation of the article in Azerbaijani wikipedia. I can rewrite, but the content will be same.I`ll try to rewrite. Thanks! User:LadymooN —Preceding undated comment added 13:52, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diana,
I am writing to you with regard to what you saly on the talk page:
The owner of the website http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/ has sent an email to the OTRS team. I will restore the content once the ticket is processed. Ticket number is 2017030410000259 — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:31, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
What does this mean?
Regards, Hungarian David Biro ( talk) 18:30, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna, you left a message on my talk page regarding a copyright violation. I apologize for making the mistake, but since the material was completely deleted, it's impossible for me to see exactly where I erred. I believe I quoted a source directly, and correctly attributed the quote to the source using footnotes (or whatever they are called on wikipedia). In any event, I can't remember and would like to avoid making the same mistake in the future. Is there any way I can see at least a partial (redacted) version of what I originally wrote? Thank you in advance.
UPDATE: Never mind - I found an older version from a previous edit. I posted it on my talk page. Can you please take a look and let me know? Do I need to better source the Venture Beat article? Thank you in advance.
More importantly,, and on a related note (as it relates to the same page) I made an RFC on the Controversial Reddit Communities page, and have not yet heard from any editors. Since you seem to have quite a bit of experience regarding process and policy, would you mind taking a look? Koncorde seems to think I am barking up the wrong tree. I am genuinely curious as to what your thoughts are. Best Regards! 2602:301:772D:62D0:F122:F9AD:7CD1:4259 ( talk) 06:27, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I don't understand why you have deleted the article. There was no copyright infringement. The cited page is public domain and the city of Rijeka is the most transparent city in Croatia. It most certainly is not a primary source. So I don't see the problem. Thanks in advance. -- Tuvixer ( talk) 12:45, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw you posted a notice to user Asilis regarding copyrights. The same user
made this edit, which seems to be a possible copyright violation. But I don't know how to verify it, nor how to issue notice to users. Would you please look into it? —usernamekiran
(talk) 14:02, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa, I just noticed that you've queried the copyright of the latest image I uploaded. The company I work for own them and I was allowed to scan the images to upload and make them free for anyone to use. The covers are from 1924, this is over 50 years ago so the copyright for the stamps/postmarks has expired. What do I need to say that I am free to use them and therefore anyone else is free to use them? Obriens86 ( talk) 14:40, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
U R about to get it. Dlohcierekim ( talk) 16:22, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, wonder if you wouldn't mind revision-deleting a bit on Petar Rajič (if you think it meets the RD1 criteria, naturally). It's from here to here. Normally I'd just restore the copyvio-revdel tag but I have a feeling it might be removed again. Thanks, /wiae /tlk 12:15, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I listed Pablo Grimberg Umansky ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) at CP as I wasn't sure how to handle it. The website probably copied from es:Pablo Grimberg (deleted), but it is a copyvio since it did not follow the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence (no attribution, etc.). Organiqa created the article here and then at eswiki with the same text. Should they all be deleted on copyright grounds since proper attribution to the original author(s) has not been provided? — JJMC89 ( T· C) 03:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Dianna. Thanks for warning me. I changend some parts. But I`m administrator of azersu.az website, and I have translated all the material of this website. You deleted heading "Water sources". I think I have right to use it.
But you deleted all my additons that I wrote in my words, not copied. I think it is unfair. You don`t estimate my attempts.
Hello Diannaa! Thanks for the message of your concerns about my recent edits on Game & Watch ports and remakes. After looking into it, the link you posted shows a matched edit being added on September 17, 2007 ( http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Encyclopedia_Gamia:Merge/Game_%26_Watch?diff=93116&oldid=93115). However, this information was on Game & Watch on Wikipedia first on June 22, 2006 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Game_%26_Watch&diff=60008297&oldid=59622481), meaning that Encyclopedia Gamia moved this information from Wikipedia on to their article. I moved the "Clones and Unofficial Ports" section from Game & Watch to Game & Watch Ports and Remakes.. - Patrick Boots CEC ( talk) 22:30, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
If you can, would you take a look at the situation at The Holocaust? There have been two users with similar usernames making similar, problematic edits for several days. I've been trying to assume AGF and have hesitated to make any formal report, either at SPI or ANI, thus far. Most recently, copyvios problems have been alleged, and a revert was made (and I believe a request for rev-del in progress). In the meantime, there has been a bit of back and forth, with a longtime editor restoring the disputed content. The only admin who appears to be watching the article is involved and so cannot act. At this point, I'm wondering if full protection might be warranted. I'd appreciate an uninvolved opinion, if you're willing. Rivertorch FIRE WATER 22:47, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
I am brand new to Wikipedia and I am being asked by a Professor here at Towson University for help with his page. It is way over my head because I am not an editor or librarian but I saw that you made some editing changes to his page recently so I thought I would reach out to you.
How can I have someone look through a page and help me cite content and make it verifiable so it meets the Wikipedia requirements. His name is Richard Vatz.
Thank you in advance.
Urandrod ( talk) 14:37, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Anastasiia09 has been repeatedly adding copyright violations of the same material in her userspace. I think she needs to be blocked; however, if your think a final warning is appropriate, then let's try that first. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 15:33, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi the page was corected to fix the violations. Thank you for noticing. Tripp155 ( talk) 00:22, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Dianna how are you?, I have a small question; The cited source says: "One of the main aims of the regime was to transform Romania into a communist atheist society in which religion was considered the ideology of the bourgeoise. Thus in 1949, the Society for the Popularisation of Science and Culture was established. The main objective of this anti-religious society was 'to propagate among the labouring masses political and scientific knowledge to fight obscurantism, superstition, mysticism, and all other influences of bourgeois ideologies'. ...the regime's anti-religious campaign aimed to discredit the church and to reduce the influence of religion in society.", so I reword the text to conform to the source; and here my reword Authorities in the People's Republic of Romania aimed to move towards an atheistic society, in which religion would be considered as the ideology of the bourgeoisie; the régime also set to propagate the laboring masses in science, politics and culture to help them fight superstition and mysticism, and initiated an anti-religious campaign aimed to reducing the influence of religion in society
. Is this edit a be a copyright violation?. Thanks, and have a nice day.--— Preceding
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Source: "One of the main aims of the regime was to transform Romania into a communist atheist society in which religion was considered the ideology of the bourgeoise. Thus in 1949, the Society for the Popularisation of Science and Culture was established. The main objective of this anti-religious society was to propagate among the labouring masses political and scientific knowledge to fight obscurantism, superstition, mysticism, and all other influences of bourgeois ideologies'. ...the regime's anti-religious campaign aimed to discredit the church and to reduce the influence of religion in society."
Your version: "Authorities in the People's Republic of Romania aimed to move towards an atheistic society, in which religion would be considered as the ideology of the bourgeoisie; the régime also set to propagate the laboring masses in science, politics and culture to help them fight superstition and mysticism, and initiated an anti-religious campaign aimed to reducing the influence of religion in society"
— Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 21:30, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa - a page I created was recently approved local search optimisation page. Now I am contacting you to seek your kind advise. On top of the page one can read a little notice saying "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles". The first thing I tried, was to go to the search engine optimisation page and add a link within the list of links part of the "internet marketing series". This is visible on the right side of the page. Unfortunately I have not managed to make the edit. Could you please advise of how one should make this specific edit? thank-you in advance for your kind help Josezetabal ( talk) 06:23, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
{{
Internet marketing}}
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Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 12:04, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I'd love to be able to revive the Premier Model Management page that was deleted on 1 Feb 2015. How would I go about doing that?
Alex ( Alexbabahmadi ( talk) 10:32, 18 May 2017 (UTC))
I think you may have deleted the wrong revisions, perhaps I filled the form out wrong. The copied content is still present in the history. Could you double check please? Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 17:18, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
190.104.115.98 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). I've opened open an SPI for it as well. I was thinking, instead of coming to your talk page all the time, I can open an SPI and ping you and someone can do the block in the event that you are not on Wikipedia at the moment. Is that fine with you? Erick ( talk) 21:12, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa! I'm still not sure if this really needs a CCI or not, but I've closed Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2016 April 18 and listed another article today. The editor doesn't seem to want to hear anything I have to say, so I wondered if you'd like to have a try? Best regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:37, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
I contribute on wiki on and off whenever i get time from my job, even sometimes do this from office too. Will ask you for any help whenever i am in need.
Thanks
Sulaimandaud ( talk) 11:45, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diana! Lately I've been having a problem with an unidentified IP user, who destroyed sourced data in a couple of articles, including an article on Untermensch. After I've reverted his multiple edit-war attepmts, he created an account named Alfhard21257 from which he is now editing it again: [4] - I'm currently trying to discuss the problem with him: [5]. Everything would be OK, if i didn't see this: [6]. I remember "English Patriot Man" quite well, as he tried to destroy some Nazi-related articled back in the day. I remember you being very helpful in making the sourced and true data stay on Wikipedia, and blocking his attempts to delete it. Could you take a closer look on his account and tell me, could it be User:English Patriot Man performing his ravage again? Thanks. Yatzhek ( talk) 13:12, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Diannaa. You're one of the most helpful Wikipedians. Yatzhek ( talk) 22:03, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
It would be appreciated if you could take a kind look at List of Sharpe series characters. Winged Blades Godric 05:17, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa,
I have been having problems with the user page creation and want to create my user page. I have tried before but somehow the page got removed or is blank. I had thought of changing the username but the current user name is also good.
Can you please help me out in creating a user page for me so that I can share with the world what I have contributed and things that I have to contribute in future. Please look into my user page ( Anishchaube) and let me know if it's good.
Thanks, Anish Anishchaube ( talk) 08:57, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the things that caused you concern - you doing so makes my life very much easier than me having to guess what particular things might be causing you particular concern. (i.e. Your fixes are appreciated :-) BTW/FYI, note that you changed the meaning and intent of a few things I added that were not mentioned in the source-of-your-concern. No big deal - more important is that you have fixed the copyvio issues that were of concern to you. Cheers (and thanks), Pdfpdf ( talk) 09:33, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
I have noticed a number of errors in articles to which you have removed access to the edit history. I will address these errors.
In an earlier post I stated or implied you had introduced errors. I have no basis for making such statements, and apologise for doing so.
Pdfpdf (
talk) 09:49, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello D. When you have a moment would you please take a look at these edits. I'm sure this newb is unaware of the copy/vio and attribution problems with their edits and I figured you would be able to straighten things out. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 21:54, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa - I did not mean to breach copyright from memory I amended the text to a sufficiently significant degree, but when I went back to check you'd deleted the log of all my contributions for some reason. You did this last time. Was there a reason for this? Not having a go, just trying to understand. Regards Dutchy85 ( talk) 02:08, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa - sorry to be pedantic, the report says it was 74% and that included a quote from the newspaper's critic which was given quotes, ie. completely attributed - you say it was not changed and all but it was changed. I accept that it needed to be changed more than it was and I will keep an eye on things like this in future, I just didn't want you to think I had nothing. Dutchy85 ( talk) 20:07, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa - I watched the film. I couldn't understand the plot! See it and see what I mean :) But point taken... Dutchy85 ( talk) 22:01, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I see that you oversighted some edits at History of Lebanon under Arab rule, and one of the involved editors has added a whole lot of new content. Maybe you'd like to check? -- Slashme ( talk) 14:52, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch. I completely failed to consider that might be copyvio. Pinkbeast ( talk) 05:34, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your note on my Talk page, and for your further work on paraphrasing the Dartford Archive content. In trying to marshall content from several sources, I clearly relied too much on that reference. Thank you also for the note about copying within Wikipedia - that is not something I was aware of, but will be from now on. Paul W ( talk) 11:28, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
The Kevin Yoder Sea of Galilee incident is certainly notable.
Here's what remains of my original edit:
“On August 4, 2011, during a GOP trip to Israel in which lawmakers partook in a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee, Yoder went skinny dipping.[70]”
That guts the real import of the incident.
It wasn't mentioned in Yoder's article at all, though there was some regional press about it, after disclosures about it were made. It did not become a major issue in his reelection campaign because his successive opponents were relatively unknown and underfinanced, so the race attracted little local attention, even though a long term "Blue Dog" Democrat, Dennis Moore, held the seat before Yoder won it. Yoder ran against the incumbent's wife. The Democrat did not run for reelection, because he suffered from early onset senile dementia, which I seem to recall went entirely unpublicized at the time, quite possibly the media were anxious to spare him unnecessary embarrassment.
However, it became a matter of considerable “inside the beltway” concern to the House Majority Leader and Whip, because they were both present with him in the water at the time, and all those social conservatives may have "had a few," so repercussions might have affected their reelection campaigns, one presumes. (Cantor has been ousted by an even more conservative VA successor, and McCarthy had "zipper problems," which impeded his subsequent career and heir apparency to Boehner's role.)
I had originally included just the names of the two party leaders. Then on second thought, I realized that removing their roles would leave little context for the casual (especially metro KC) Wikipedia reader to understand why it actually was important, so went back and revised it to include their positions at the time. I shuffled the info so as to avoid any copyright violation, though apparently not enough to do so.
I made the edits, not being aware that a much more truncated version may have been previously deleted. I tried to change the reporting of the incident to avoid any BLP violation, but had few facts with which to work.
Only a few hours subsequent to my edits, MelanieN asked for more info, in particular the precise date of the incident, though I had already provided the year it occurred. I accommodated her request, though I didn't understand her need for that info. She's a very experienced Wikipedia editor, so I complied. That added to the original text, I presume, which may have triggered a BLP violation bot, but there was no other way to state the date without some awkward, low-quality edit, such as “August the eleventh, twenty eleven.”
You cautioned me last year about my edit of coverage of a Mississippi corruption investigation and prosecution, with my edit being identified as having a BLP problem because, I presume, I used a couple of long quotes. Of course, I wasn't able to change the quotes, and the quotes were not editorial or reportorial work product, but straight up stenography. The same quotes had been carried extensively in local and regional broadcast and print media.
The “skinny dipping” mention was not from the text of the news article, but rather taken from its title, though if memory serves, a tiny local independent weekly may have used it at the time.
I'll go back and rework it, and once again leave out the precise date, if Melanie's happy with that, or you can persuade her it isn't necessary.
I'll copy you on the revised, hopefully suitable edit.
Mind, part of the problem is that there was virtually no original reporting on the incident, so the actual RSS info is relatively sparse.
The source I used was a Colorado TV station, though Yoder's district is a good 500 miles east, entirely in metro Kansas City, KS, to include the populous Johnson and Leavenworth counties, and it really didn't go beyond the original CNN mention. The congressman successfully avoided commenting on it because the local KCK media snoozed through it. In their mind, I expect, it was just a regular useless, non-notable expenditure of considerable taxpayer funds for a holiday junket, which the press rarely notices, save for the element of Yoder's disrobing in front of young female staffers on what was a religious-based tour, which didn't attract much local attention. But the real story is that he had potentially compromised the party leadership. Much, much later, he apologized for his indiscretion.
(The Watergate burglary didn't attract much attention until someone started "following the money," and wondered why Cuban regime opponents and "intelligence assets" might be involved in a D.C. "black bag" burglary.)
The congressional party attendees were spontaneously pressed into joining the frivolity by the restaurant staff, which jumped into the Sea and dared the Americans to join them.
Hopefully my fiddling with a revision will avoid any semblance of a BLP violation. I await your conclusion as far as that's concerned.
Thanks so much for your continuing vigilance regarding the interest of the integrity of Wikipedia. Feel free to remove this lengthy explanation, of course. It's just "inside baseball," I expect. Activist ( talk) 06:50, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa!! Diana, a great name attributed to the Roman goddess of hunt. Thank you for the inputs. I'm really sorry for not paying attention to your constructive criticisms. I really wanted to learn more so please guide me in my future editing. Markx121993 ( talk) 11:58, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Can you take a look at, for example, this website? I can't tell if Wikipedia copied the site or the other way around. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:08, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
From Wikipedia: "Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of ....Crow Caw 15:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna! I found your edits on my draft today and I genuinely appreciate the heads up and went and reread the information on copywrites. I had moved a bunch of stuff into the draft because I rented an article for two days and was going to lose it, so I intended to paraphrase and adjust it after that at my leisure. I never intended to keep it all but didn't have the time to work out what I wanted and didn't want within that rental period. I'm too cheap to pay the forty dollars to buy the rights to it--should I go back and do that? Even if I do that won't alter the copyright though--it doesn't give me rights to it does it? I will go back and check everyone of your edits. Thank you! There is another article here on Christianity and violence that has been marked for bias and I attempted to edit it first, but the guy didn't like my edits and reverted them all. He had a good point on one of them--it didn't have adequate source citing--but he didn't only remove that one and the others were cited and properly paraphrased. So I figured he had a point of view and wasn't going to accept anything else and that's when I decided to attempt--attempt--to write something more neutral. I'm trying! It's a big project! Huge topic! Thanx again for your help! Is it okay if I restore what you edited with the intent of dealing with it in the manner required? I am not anywhere close to done with this!
Jenhawk777 (
talk) 15:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)Jenhawk777
Jenhawk777 (
talk) 15:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Sorry! — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Jenhawk777 (
talk •
contribs) 15:53, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa. Per this mention at VPT in 2013 I gather you may be another user of User:Js/urldecoder.js. Is it working for you currently? Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:06, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
I deleted the past versions, before your redaction. Can I remove the CSDG12 sticker, or is there more to delete? Copyvios isn't reading for me. Dlohcierekim ( talk) 01:18, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
You have just told me my edits to my Chad Jackson DJ page were copyrighted - I am actually the artist and the info I added is owned by me. Some of the info which was on there before my edits was incorrect, so I decided to put some relevant info up. Thanks you for your attention. Katowidget (Chad Jackson). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katowidget ( talk • contribs) 07:09, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Happy to go and remove any copyright violations however by deleting all my edits you have removed a significant amount of other material from the article, such as his birth name, birth date etc. Could you please revert your changes to allow the non copyrighted material to be reinstated. Dan arndt ( talk) 00:00, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi. This turns up zero using Earwig's tool, but it really looks like it's a copyvio of a gameplay book. Not sure how to evaluate, or if a revdel is warranted. Thoughts? Onel5969 TT me 03:10, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Can you please skim through the articles created by Spem Reduxit (esp. the law-related articles).Allmost all such creations are flagged at copy-patrol.But am not sure about whether they constitute a violation or not.Cheers! Winged Blades Godric 05:19, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, You erased a substantial part of the article above under the generic argumentation that it was copyrighted. All the material mentioned was dully sourced and much of it was transcribed under my own words. I strongly disagree with this indiscriminate deletion under the generic argument of "copyright violation" and this subjective view of "small amount" of text. Have you really READ what you were deleting? I don't think so. Schoenstater ( talk) 14:45, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna I have read your comments and note that you have put a line through my edits on 26 May 2107 but not my edits on 25 May 2017. I'm not sure what you are wanting me to do. Could you please explain further. SeptimusDaisy ( talk) 05:31, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
I wonder if you could help me with something. There is a message in this article: "The article is translated from Hebrew: Brit, magazine of Moroccan Jews, volume 28, pages 62-67, Ashdod, 2009." in the first line of the References section.
This sounds like it might be a copyright violation, is that so?– CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:43, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. As a bit of an expert in dealing with copyright violations, I'm hoping you might be able to help me with Seaspan ULC. The report for the article suggests that significant parts of it are copied from quite a large number of sources, to the extent that it's difficult to identify all of the individual passages that are violations. What would you suggest that I do in this situation? Cordless Larry ( talk) 21:48, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I have disagreed with the editor who tagged Willie J. Hagan and expressed those concerns at Talk:Willie J. Hagan. I know you work regularly with this editor. But I would appreciate a pair of objective eyes, if you're comfortable possibly overriding him/her. Or if you'd rather just recuse yourself, let me know. Either way, I'd really appreciate outside looks. Many thanks! X4n6 ( talk) 22:46, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
The truth is, I knew that it was supposed to have that reference (that it was copied from the public domain), but I had no idea how to make it, and I figured someone would come along and fix it. Thank you for being that person :). Also, thanks for showing me how to make the template.
Ephraimhelfgot ( talk) 03:21, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thanks for your message, which is the first message I have received. I am new to Wikipedia and the learning curve is steep, especially regarding Wikipedia protocols for citing and referencing articles, so I value your input. I believe that I have referenced every source of information (something that I feel strongly about) but not necessarily in the correct Wikipedia format. Furthermore, I now know that I have not used quotation marks, or re-written referenced material to extent required by Wikipedia. Your message provided me with useful guidelines which I will use in future. Regards, Roget's Minion ( talk) 04:19, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Dainnaa good morning,
Thank you for correcting me. I am new and trying learn how to use wikipedia - it's hard.
Can you help me? I will truly appreciate.
Regards. Henia Perlman ( talk) 14:27, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa
I have read your mail regarding changes that I made to a Wikipedia reference. You have deleted my changes citing copyright infringement. I'm sorry but I just can't see this. The material I provided was all appropriately cited, and where other's material was used both fair use was applied and only public domain material was included.
I'm sorry, there seems to be a bit too much bullying happening here. First there was a complaint that the material violated neutral point of view material and now a copyright infringement argument is being used without actually showing which material you believe was infringed.
I think there are more sinsiter motives going on here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HolyOil ( talk • contribs) 14:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I have noticed that the
category:Articles with missing files contains many files today. Some of them, like
Abraham Moss tram stop, have a unique problem: they use "{{s-line|system=MML..." which needs
File:Manchester metrolink logo.PNG.
You deleted this file in 2013 because it was available on Commons. But it was deleted from Commons today, see
commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Manchester metrolink logo.PNG.
Is it possible, for you, to restore the initial file on the English Wikipedia?
Regards --
NicoScribe (
talk) 20:48, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
{{
PD-shape}}
{{
Do not move to Commons|reason=USonly}}
but getting the image to display within the s-line template is beyond my template-fu. —
Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 21:05, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey! First and foremost, thank you for your efforts in finding/revdel'ing articles with copyvio - you've done an incredible amount of work in that field and I feel that people dont appreciate admins enough for their work thinking that its their job to do what they do. Coming to the topic: Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham has had a history of copyvio edits in the last few days and I have a feeling its the same editor doing it over and over. A page protection might be in order along with a revdel to many past revisions. It'd be appreciated if you could take a look into this. Thanks in advance! Jiten Dhandha • talk • contributions • 11:01, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I have noticed that you seem to be the foremost expert on copyright violations. I have a question regarding recent changes at the article Swallow song of Rhodes. The article has, for a long time now, incorporated the original ancient Greek text of the song, which is in the public domain. User:DesdinovaUK recently added an English translation, copied directly from this webpage [7], without giving credit to the translator. I removed it, believing it to be a copyright violation, and left a comment on DesdinovaUK's talk page. DesdinovaUK restored the translation, this time giving credit to the translator in a citation at the end of the quotation. I modified this to give the translator credit by name in the text of the article itself. The translation is not in the public domain and is still under copyright protection. Does giving credit to the translator allow the translation to be used, or is it still a copyright violation? -- Katolophyromai ( talk) 16:53, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
Vin09 (talk) 03:30, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your inputs, Diannaa. Since you appear to be based in Alberta you might be forgiven for not being familiar with Australian copyright laws.
The text you have deleted was:
• pertaining to a legal sanction - where re-phrasing may not have been an appropriate way to retain the exact legal meaning of the text.
• sourced from a Commonwealth of Australia (i.e. federal government) web site (i.e. copyright but with Creative Commons, as standard). Source attribution was clear enough from footnotes. More on CC Australian Government copyright here: http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/government/
• also published using the same text in a media release. As you will know, media releases are explicitly designed to be used verbatim if necessary https://www.abcc.gov.au/sites/g/files/net2406/f/170331_notification_of_sanction_under_building_code_0.pdf et al.
Your deletion of the text in its entirety seems to be something of an over-reaction.
Also at User:Katelyn Sun (BYU)/sandbox3 which I can't figure out yet. That editor is a BYU employee. It probably comes from this or this. It was pretty much straight copyvio when added in 2008 but has been tinkered with, but is still obviously from the same source. What do you think? Just delete it all or rewrite? I don't have the time myself. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 14:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
I had significantly cleaned yo and cropped the wording-what must I do to see that included? ps surprised to see a pic of my hometown on your talkpage!-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 01:05, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Thank you Diannaa for telling me, i'll be aware on what i'll do. I had a hard time looking on how type it through here. Thanks for adding the attribution on to the page. - NightwingGuy ( talk) 18:47, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa
Thanks - yes, I didn't understand the Wikipedia policy about not adding information about yourself on a page about you. (I read the part "You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." on the US-engineer-stub too literally I think!).
Here was the original page about me (below). Perhaps we should just delete the current page and restore it back to the original? Given that I now understand the policy, I'd rather not have my name listed as the one adding the information - let someone else do that.
Hi, Diannaa,
I see “03:56, 27 May 2012 Diannaa protected Onomatopoeia.”
The “click it or ticket” entry was marked “Please clarify”, which I think I have done, but I don’t know exactly what was unclear to the person who so marked it. Perhaps you can take a look and let me know what you think. Woodlandtrail ( talk) 13:03, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for calling this to my attention. I have added what I believe to be the necessary acknowledgement. Please let me know if further improvements are required. I plan on eventually expanding the article and rewriting the sections taken verbatim from the 2012 US Census of Governments. Mpen320 ( talk) 15:03, 4 June 2017 (CST)
{{
PD-notice}}
as part of your citation,
like I did here. —
Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 20:08, 4 June 2017 (UTC)hello their
you will excuse me for skipping the pleasantry's here but i intend to be very forthright with you today and whilst i wish no offence to you personally (i do not know you after all) i wont be holding back my feelings on this matter either and i WILL be upfront about my intentions, im hoping you can respect that
now to brass tacks ...you recently reverted an article i wrote on Novar PLC
now just so you know this is the first article i have written and whilst i can understand and can respect the reasons why you removed it, i felt that i had changed quite a sizeable chunk of the information to make it fall under fair use, felt that the info itself was not copywrited material, felt i made proper citations and had already spent a sizeable amount of time (8 hours to be exact) trying to add to the community and be more productive
wasted hours that i WILL NOT be getting back any time soon, and to be frank ....i feel annoyed by with the way you have approached this issue
not because you reverted the article, having read your page i can see that this is your main field of expertise and you have done this before, but because you used what could be perceived as a threat, using bold text to scare me with bans and restrictions arbitrarily, without cause ...and without justification, and without taking my situation as a editing newbie into account in a satisfactory way, something that is CLEARLY stated on MY talk page ....i also feel you have ignored the talk protocol on the article in question and have tried to be judge jury and executioner, and that you have generally not followed a proper procedure or have made improper use of your moderating powers in the way you have executed this revert
now i feel that this is not a productive thing to do, this is not how you nurture newbies to wiki editing, and it is certainly not a good environment for people to learn in, and actively puts me off wanting to contribute in the first place, about a wide variety of subjects that i am knowledgeable in
put short i do feel you are NOT doing your job properly by simply reverting these pages and threatening with bans, and i am writing to let you know that i will not lie down and take it should you follow up on this, i am FULLY READY to report you to the proper authority's but i will personally see to it that your admin privileges are removed should i feel that anybody else is being bothered in an inappropriate way or anyone's right to edit this wiki is being restricted arbitrarily
now make no mistake this is not a threat to you personally nor do i wish it to be one, i do not know you personally and i wish no suffering over a minor slight i am simply stating my position and how i feel i should proceed given how i feel i have been treated
put short i am simply responding to your choice words on MY talk page, .....if i do not feel my banning was reasonable than i will pursue this route, i am currently doing so with someone called Nan over on the Tamil wiki for this VERY reason (again ...stated on my talk page) and whilst i have no desire to edit the wiki over their, i am perusing this simply because i feel that it isn't the point, ...i will not have someone slandering my name with a racism ban all because i kept reverting his edits to my home page and i am fully willing to defend my rights here if needs be .....this is just the kind of person i am
now i do not want to end this on an sour note, im just stating my position, and i feel i have been disrespected, but i am not unreasonable nor am i an asshole, in fact i am hoping you are not an unreasonable person and we can come to a compromise on this matter,
you see i feel this should have been brought up on the articles talk page .....where i posted an description of what i had done and asked for input, and the article should have been simply moved to a safe place to give me a chance to edit the article in accordance with community wishes, and possible attention should have been drawn to it as a violator of copywrite, but as it stands i feel i have lost hours of work because an admin decided to the law into their own hands
i feel better steps should be taken and that leaving one person to be judge should not be the way this wiki is run and i wish to take steps to assure this happens to no one else in my position, as it is demoralising, and down right insulting to people who are just trying to help
i suggest that in future you follow this path, and i in turn will endeavour to make better contributions, but i DO want the article back so i can make the necessary changes to comply with the wikis rules
i cannot currently access the page history and simply put i do not want to lose all that work i put into it and start from scratch since it took a lot of time and effort to learn how to do things properly and format it so that it looked like a wiki article, and i feel their must be a way i can access it
if you are going to inform me that their is no way this is feasible, rest assured i will continue to explore this possibility in other ways for future references but i am yet to decide how i will next proceed
i will leave the ball in your court as they say
kind regards
Tony Spike ( talk) 01:40, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Tony Spike ( talk) 17:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
i got it down to 30% and that is because the article has the same references .....witch i havent changed this entire time .....see if it gets removed again and if it does i give up and go back to minor edits ~ T. Spike ~|✉ 18:26, 9 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony Spike ( talk • contribs)
You had removed content from the above mentioned page on 04:14, 19 January 2017. I'd like to state that the article was written based on the source cited in your edit summary. I'd also like to point out that according to [8] , the content is copy-right free. An acknowledgement of reference, as required, will be added, if you can revert the content to the previous version. If I'm missing anything, please let me know. Also, if you feel that that the article is biased, please feel free to refer me to any person who is in a better place to write it. Cheers and thanks in advance.
Magnilonam ( talk) 07:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Magnilonam ( talk) 09:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
This may require some rev/del for copyright violations. Thanks and cheers, 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 13:38, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
The draft was restored by Anachronist including revisions with copyright violations. The February 2017 revisions should be redeleted or revdel'd. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 19:58, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
A new collection of copyright violations to be rev/deleted, dropped at your doorstep. Thank you, Diannaa. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 20:29, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
( Paroucheva ( talk) 04:03, 6 June 2017 (UTC))Your messgge 17 March 2017 No problem copyright Dear Diannaa, no copyright problem, I am the author of this artwork. Please not remover the picture. The website http://www.art-elena.com is my website. ( User talk:paroucheva)
Dear Diannaa , I will very much appreciate that you help address the issues raised by the warning tag in the article "Maryann Keller" here: /info/en/?search=Maryann_Keller . I appreciate very much your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Testingblog ( talk • contribs) 04:43, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, after I wrote my first articles, you put a warning of copyright on my talk page, and I appreciated it. I have a lot more experience now and I feel I am well schooled in this issue now. Would you be able to remove the notice from my page? I'm starting to be embarrassed by it, it is the old me and i am not that person anymore. I know I can edit it myself, but it would mean much more if you did it. Thank you. Soniamaddox ( talk) 07:03, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. I hope everything is well. Just a note to keep an eye on that article. Some recent additions were of very low quality. Take care. Dr. K. 12:07, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Where I got reverted by a sock within minutes. As I expected, this is going to get worse before it gets better. Dr. K. 12:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, another report offender for copyright violation, another rev/del necessary. Thanks and cheers, as always. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 20:07, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, could you please inform me of the recent spat of edits (and what I presume is some sort of admin lock) to the article Abu Mansur al-Maturidi's View History between (4 June 2017) and (18 April 2017). I'm unable to compare revisions (including my own after i reverted a user over WP:FIES). - DA1 ( talk) 21:49, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
I've reworded most content and was busy changing the table below, it wasn't just copying as you claimed. 58.187.168.230 ( talk) 22:58, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Didn't I specifically note this in the 19:06 edit from yesterday? Or is there another hurdle/step for attribution? It was content I added to one article and then to the other. I was the editor in both cases. Forgive my confusion -- even though I've been editing here for 11 years, I haven't much during the past 2-3 years. Thegreatdr ( talk) 23:12, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa hope your well? I need some feedback I created this article Comptroller of the Navy (Navy Board) and have attributed copied content under the OGL V3 compatible licencee and provided the source however another editor has tagged the article and stated his reasons on my talk page here User_talk:Navops47#Ways_to_improve_Comptroller_of_the_Navy_.28Navy_Board.29 I have replied to them outlining my reasons for creating it and have improved the lead at the top to indicate its an article about a British naval role but does the tag need to stay in place any feedback would appreciated. -- Navops47 ( talk) 05:54, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Please re-review page to see if it passes muster now. I trimmed and rewrote as best I can at the moment. Thanks. Yours, Quis separabit? 14:19, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
As to the copyright infringement in the Maurice Bishop article, if I change the wording and still include the notions would this violate the copyright; and if I am allowed to rephrase it would should I include the reference? Thanks for your help with this. Jzsj ( talk) 01:55, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello D. When I saw material being split off from the Akira Kurosawa article I made this edit and its summary and added this template to the talk page of the new article. I based those on the edits that you made after my post User talk:Diannaa/Archive 52#Move of material. Would you please double check that I have done things correctly and fix anything that needs it. I have also pinged you at the talk page of the editor that started the new page but I want to leave the details here as well. As ever thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 04:49, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Can you review this for copyright status. The text content was copied from here. It has a copyright symbol on the site but also claims public domain status. I've removed the rev del template but thought a review would be useful. TonyBallioni ( talk) 03:06, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thank you for bringing to my notice the copyright violation on my edit to the page Motilal Nehru College. I did not know expanding an article by copying information directly from the official website of the article in question is a violation of Wikipedia's content policy. I will be more careful anyway, and I hope I am not barred from anything, yet :) KakhoSimpson ( talk) 05:41, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
The other editor doesn't really seem to get the hint. ★Trekker ( talk) 04:49, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Hai Diannaa, thanks for bringing the issue of copy right on my edits in Tali Shiva Temple, will make necessary changes to answer the copy right issue. But please do not delete the article. Anilcalicut. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anilcalicut ( talk • contribs) 07:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa - Yes, I had inadvertently pasted some notes from my scratch file on my external editor rather than my copy that was on another page. It was corrected within two minutes, but I understand why that shouldn't happen. I think that may be the first time it's happened in ten years. Theclevertwit ( talk) 09:34, 11 June 2017 (UTC)theclevertwit
Dear diannaa,
Hello Diannaa,
Thank you for your message. Which part of the the article did you identify as being a copyright violation? I quoted a section of it, which I included in "quote" marks but not using blockquote Wiki markup. I can change that of course. I am more concerned if what I thought was rephrasing of the New York Times article was detected as being copy-paste. Please let me know what passage you were specifically referring to, and I will remediate the issue.-- FeralOink ( talk) 15:27, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Ah, I see now, from the difference logs on the article revision history! Okay, I will work on that now. Thank you!-- FeralOink ( talk) 15:30, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
I am back. I don't know what was deleted because the deletion history was removed from public view. I don't remember what I wrote on those sections, since I spent most of the day learning and writing about Khuzami. That's okay, as the article flow still seems fine. I will just leave everything as is.-- FeralOink ( talk) 15:43, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know about the copyright problem on the Hilton Schilder article. It goes to show how good google translate is. I used google translate to translate the German de:Hilton Schilder article. Clearly the German author of that article used Google translate to go from the english [ http://www.marcocarnovale.com/2013/12/cape-town-tour-and-music.html] to German. I didn't even know that article existed. Wayne Jayes ( talk) 17:13, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your info on my talk page User talk:VicGuy#Copyright problem on Site C dam. I appreciate your efforts and changes, but I don't think my own edits copied any copyrighted material - I take great pains to avoid that. The article looks good now, although I can't compare my edits to previous versions because the last year or so of changes are struck through. Thanks and cheers, VicGuy ( talk) 22:42, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diana. The page you deleted was not from the page of this ERFA website you mentioned. Only a partial description as they are also a member of the association was taken by them from a 3rd source. It was a skeleton for a more thorough article and I wanted to add the different sources. At least it would have been nice to talk to me before asking for the deletion of the article. Thanks. molui ( talk) 09:57, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Good evening. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I thought that it can be used with information of the page as reference. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks ! Captain Nikitakis ( talk) 13:44, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, could you take a look at the Site C Dam dam Revision history, the diffs are not available prior to your edit ??? Dougmcdonell ( talk) 17:47, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
I work for an organization and you deleted significant parts of our Wikipedia page Chuckchaney ( talk) 01:49, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
For FC Wichita. I put out a very thorough history section and about our crest. It was deleted, not even flagged.
First of all, I fully understand that apparent copyright issues may come up on occasion, and more power to those that fix them. However, changes to the content should remain traceable. As you have simply deleted some edits in the article Fyling Hall railway station instead of editing normally, you have made it impossible for me to see what exactly was wrong with my contribution, and to retrace your changes. Instead, it would have been much better if you had edited the article normally. It is well possible that some of the formulations were very close to those on the website which I cited, but I believe the text was properly attributed by the citation. As it is, I shall never know what the real problem was because of your deletions. If you had fixed this issue in a traceable way, I would even have thanked you for doing so, but so, I cannot, because now I have to go back and see what information might have been lost in the process. It is not much work in this case, but it could have been done more efficiently. Next time, just flag the issue and give the original contributors time to fix it themselves. -- Schlosser67 ( talk) 05:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Hey, Diannaa! Thank you very much for the information on copyright violation. I was unaware at the time of how strict Wiki was on potential copyright violations and I hope I haven't been banned from editing. I completely understand that I likely made an error in overusing the phrasing of the Fayette County website. Is there a way I can get the article back so as to rewrite it for you? So sorry to have caused any potential legal issues for Wikipedia or any trouble for you in having to fix my mistake. I'm sure you have a lot of mistakes to fix. I certainly won't let it happen again.
I hope I haven't been too much extra work for you.
Thank you again, Ellagracecastro ( talk) 00:00, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
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For your tireless, never-ending work against vandalism. Keira 1996 02:15, 14 June 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you! — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 12:00, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Good afternoon. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I thought that it can be used with information of the page as reference. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks! Robbie2448 ( talk) 19:47, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Good evening. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks! Robbie2448 ( talk) 19:49, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
The IPs are at it again. Maybe it's time for semi-protection. Strawberry4Ever ( talk) 02:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I came across Timothy Steele while doing some non-free image checking for possile WP:NFCC#1 problems. I'm almost positive that the image needs to go, but I am also concerned about Timothy Steele#Selected work. Would this be considered a copyright violation even though it is supported by a citation? It seems to be something which is not allowed per WP:COPYQUOTE and WP:POETRY#Quoting from poems and copyright issues, but I'm not sure. - Marchjuly ( talk) 04:38, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
A request for comment has been filed concerning the username of Cantdecideifimgonnacollidewithhopeormakemybridetheropeorjusthideinthedope ( talk · contribs). You are invited to comment on the discussion here. Linguist talk| contribs 13:43, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! I'm here because I think you've made a mistake of deleting my information on "Alien Costume Saga" because I didn't copy it from any website. You see I recently got a book called "The Amazing Spider-Man: The Saga of the Alien Costume" and I was just using the information of what I know. I just didn't have enough information about "Alien Costume Saga" because the book only contains stories from The Amazing Spider-Man #252-259. It didn't even have the story from "Web of Spider-Man #1" where Spider-Man have his final confrontation with the symbiote in the church. I'm telling you the truth. I didn't get that information from any website. But I do need help writing "Alien Costume Saga" on Wikipedia. How can you help me? talk 10:09, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
You deleted a link to a BBC news page for "copyright" reasons? I don't understand this. Wikipedia is full of references to websites which might be said to be the subject of copyright. Is there something special about this one? I genuinely don't understand. Regards Ironman1104 ( talk) 15:04, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
I think I now realise what you might be on about. What about fair dealing? Source fully acknowledged. Ironman1104 ( talk) 15:07, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Sorry Diannaa, I will add CC-by-SA Vorpzn ( talk) 22:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa. I'm a fan of women's soccer and I've been creating and improving articles related to the theme. I also follows some pages about women's soccer. Recently, I saw some pictures of some players which articles lacks a picture. I did contact the copyright owners and they are very willing to upload the pictures on Wikipedia, since they are also enthusiasts of the sport. However, they are asking me several question and I'm not an expert on the theme. I would like to know if there's some way they can contact you or some other admin, who can answer their questions. So, they can find out, if they want or not upload the pictures under Wikipedia License. Because, I don't want to give them any wrong information.-- SirEdimon ( talk) 05:15, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna thanks for your message, but I am the admin of the snuproject.wordpress.com, would it solve the issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OrsanS ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, I am in the process of making the Wikipedia page for Galapagos Conservancy more robust, and received your message that my recent edits were in violation of copyright. As the President and founder of the organization, it was not on my radar that I would be in violation of any of Wikipedia's policies, since much of the text I am including is content that I have written at one point in time. But if I am understanding the policy correctly, I still need to provide citations (from our website, for example?) on text that I am citing -- is that correct? Can you please provide more guidance as to how we can best align with Wikipedia's policies and restore our page, or let me know specifically what you found to be in violation of Wikipedia’s copyright policy? Thank you in advance for your help.
Johannah Barry ( talk) 16:46, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa,
Thank you very much for your responses here:
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Bfujiy#Wikipedia_and_copyright
I've modified Rojas-Suarez's bio according to the Wiki policies you pointed out. I hope everything conforms now. Regards,
Bfujiy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bfujiy ( talk • contribs) 18:14, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Can you please advise on this GA review, Talk:G_(New_York_City_Subway_service)/GA1 there is a possible copyright issue and I don't want to act without guidance, thank you. Seraphim System ( talk) 19:20, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
this is the photo on flickr linked to in the article. It now says public domain, but the archived version says All Rights Reserved and the source for our file is an ebay listing — none of our editors have claimed credit for it, and it hasn't been verified through the usual Flickr upload process.
[9] this is our file
Kew Gardens 613 Has posted links for the ebay source to the GA review page. I don't want to pass the review until one of our admins has approved the file, thanks Seraphim System ( talk) 19:36, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I've noticed you've cleaned up some copyvios by MSENDER007. This article was created by that user. I've attributed in edit summary the parts of the page that were copied from other Wikipedia articles and rewritten pretty much everything else, and I think it may be prudent to revdelete old versions, as the article was rife with 1-2 sentence copyvios and close paraphrases ( see here). Daß Wölf 01:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for sending me a message about your concerns. The text is an official statement of faith from http://an-open-letter.org/en/our-faith not the campus website (they copied it as all statements of faiths by religious organizations are copied because of the precise wording). How to you propose representing the Local Church statement of faith without copying it? I believe it is a key piece of information to the article, as there have been questions on these very issues about the group. Thanks!
Hello Diannaa, This was very helpful. How can I retrieve the work I did up to this date? Is it cached somewhere or did we lose it entirely. Johannah Barry ( talk) 16:01, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Dianna
It's me Martimc123.
I need to unbur, to talk with you, because this whole thing started when I made my first article and it felt good, but at the time I didn't know about the policies and at the time because I want to let the readers know about puroresu, but the time I didn't saw and care, because I tought that it was all editing.
Then, I when they started to put the speedy deletion notices, I started to delete it as you know, then you blocked me.
Then I started to create many accounts because I wanted to get my articles recognized but instead I did it the wrong way.
I started to repost them without contacting any admin, and they started to get speedy delete and I tought you admins were trying to get my articles deleted and enimes when you were trying to help.
One day, I was so furious that I tried to get into Ribbon Salminen's account only at the time, but then he told me to wait only six months and do the WP:SO and I started to wait, then in December I returned and I did some of the old basics, but then I got blocked, I tried to ask for an unblcok and it was told me again and I waited, but the thing is in mid Mrach, April of this year, I return editing, and I wanted to make WhatCultutre Pro Wrestling but it was deleted all because they tought that I was a sockpuppet of some guy called "Dwdpuma". Then I wanted to make that goal possible and I pretended to be this "Dwdpuma@ and I asked an unblock on his account without knowing anything about him but I failed.
And it can be hard to belive in me, but I'm telling the truth and I'm being sincere and honest with you.
Although I did sockpuppetry, although I did copyright, although I removed notices, altough I pretended to be someone that I don't know but only with propose of wanting of contribute, to get my articles recognized and be the gratest contributor ever, that's my goal.
That's why I need to ask you one last chance, I waited 6 months, I know that the things that I did were not the way to show my good faith but please I don't want to wait anymore, I just want to contribute, it is hard to belive in me but you have to belive in me, I learned my lesson, and the block is no longer needed, I really want want to contribute.
So please give me one last chance.
I promise if you give you give, you will not regret it and I will make my goal happening and make useful and big contributions, but if don't give it, I understand, probably I wasn't made to this, and you are in your right if you don't want to unblock me, I failed with you and that's what I deserve.
Sorry for what I did, I hope you understand. :(
Thanks for your time
109.49.183.212 (
talk) 21:18, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa,
The company asked me to draft a Wikipedia page for them, but it was speedily deleted from Wikipedia, saying that the page was a direct copy from their company website. The photos uploaded are also come from their website, but Wikipedia does not allow me to upload. What can I do to let Wikipedia knows that I am authorized and appointed by the company? I have sent an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Thank you!
Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 20:41, 20 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katiecpy ( talk • contribs)
Hello Diannaa, Thank you for the update on the profile of Godwin Obaseki i edited earlier. I would like to know if you have taken time to review the content. This is the correct and complete profile of the man. Also i probably will stop editing as it seems like editing on Wikipedia would be a waste of time writing and rewriting. It cost me time to do the voluntary writing and it may be better that i submit to my personal blog than the reverts i am getting writing for Wikipedia.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Debravura ( talk • contribs) 07:25, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa
It's me Martimc123 again
I need to talk with you, I still have some questions, how can I get unblocked?
How can I gain your thrust back and proove you wrong?
Also, how can I contact you further without using the IP thing?
P.s: Please don't block this IP, because it is from a café, also the IP that I'm using is not avoid, simply I changed my home network, that's why I am using that IP since June.
Thanks for your time
82.154.211.153 ( talk) 13:18, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
As to how to return to Wikipedia editing, please read Wikipedia:Standard offer — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 13:49, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
You say:
Hello Bíró Dávid, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Ilka Gedő have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder.
This is not true. I have not used any copyrighted material without permission.
Please highlight the cases where I use passages written by someone (including me somewhere else).
I even rewrote the timeline making it much shorter and using different language from the timeline that is available at the end of my memoir. I added a considerable number of references indicating, for example, that the two Glasgow exhibitions did take place. Bíró Dávid ( talk) 14:14, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna,
I am new to Wikipedia and so may well have got some things wrong but are you able to add the material you delete from the Grindlays Bank page to my sandbox. This way I can make the necessary edits rather than having to start from scratch?
Andrew Fletcher 21/06/17 — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewFletcher ( talk • contribs) 14:55, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
You say:
The content had still had a very significant overlap with the material already available at http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/.
This is not true, as I highlighted all the parts that I have taken from my own work. Then I deleted all these parts a rewrote the article.
You say:
Regardless of the copyright issue, adding unsourced material from your own blog is inadequate sourcing for our purposes.
I have not added any unsourced material. I rewrote the article in Hungarian, then with the help of a native speaker, we rewrote the article.
I don't have a blog. So I could not have taken any materials therefrom. As regards sourcing I substantially increased sourcing. I quote five British newspaper articles on Ilka Gedő's exhibition. Plus I backed up the fact that there was the second exhibition at Glasgow's Third Eye Centre with direct reference to Third E+ye Centre's website plus I quite the poster of this exhibition from Wikipedia Commons.
When I used, even more, sourcing referring to published studies by art historian, then you deleted these quotes saying that the length of quotes must not exceed a certain percentage of the total length of the article.
You say: We require independent sourcing in reputable newspapers, websites, or books.
This is just what I do, or did in the past. Bíró Dávid ( talk) 17:44, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
If I choose option 2, how long do I have to wait. Does choosing option 2 have the same implications as choosing option 1
If permission is granted, can I re-add materials copied from http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/?
Can I add sources backing up information about the first Glasgow exhibition, i.e. about the fact that there was an exhibition in 1985 in Glasgow.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Can I add information backing up the fact that there was a second Glasgow exhibition thus showing
that I am not lying.
Exhibition poster
thumb|Gedő Ilka-kiállìtás plakátja, Glasgow, Third Eye Centre, 1989-1990.
Thanks for your time. Bíró Dávid ( talk) 18:47, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
References
If I choose option 2 (Option 2: If the copyright holder adds a compatible license to the source web page, the material from that website can be re-added to the article right away. Note that you do not control the article, and any editor is free to remove material or re-write the article to conform to Wikipedia standards and style.) can I then return to the status that prevailed around the beginning of March (3 March), prior to your blocking me from access to Wikipedia editing? Also I would like to ask you whether I can add sourcing backing up the fact that there was an exhibition in 1985 of IG in Glasgow and that there was also a second, much bigger exhibition of IG in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow at the turn of 1989 and 1990.
Once again thanks for your patience and time. Bíró Dávid ( talk) 19:38, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, again (from a long time ago). I've learned a lot since the last discussions about using Wikipedia, etc. But I now noticed the revisions I had made (that were since deleted) are now also deleted from the revision history. Do you know if there's any way I could get at least one of those (the most complete one) back for my own records of that text? Thank you for any and all help. This is regarding this page and the revisions from May 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lia_Halloran&action=history Best, Adam
Dear Diannaa,
I thank you for your warning, as you can see it's the first time I try to contribute to Wikipedia so I was not aware of all the rules to follow. This notwithstanding, the article I linked and quoted on the page regarding Behcet's Disease is an Open Access pubblication of which I am author. Does this make any difference or do I still have to reword/rephrase the paragraph? Thanks for the advices
Lorenzo — Preceding unsigned comment added by LorenzoM88 ( talk • contribs) 05:51, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there Diannaa, Yes - the content was lifted from a third party. However, the current article contains nothing of the risks that can be associated with rauvolfia serpentina, and whilst appearing neutral, appears to offer positive support to using it in medication. This is not my field, but I suggest that you or another editor do something quickly to remedy the lack of substantive medical information that we have about the rauvolfia serpentina. ( 20040302 ( talk))
Hello again Diannaa. When you have time, could you take a quick look at this edit and give me your view on whether a quote that long violates copyright rules? Thanks in advance! Cordless Larry ( talk) 09:57, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
You just deleted the talk page redirect from my bot's page to my talk page with your recent G8 deletion blitz. I might suggest going back through those deletions you just made to make sure they all fit G8 policy. You made nearly 30 deletions in 60 seconds. 2 seconds per deletion is a bit fast. IronGargoyle ( talk) 01:35, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Battle of Emmendingen has been static for a while, until I tweaked some of the text about the battle and put it into GA consideration. I've tweaked it more (bringing it down to 59%), but I suspect it is more likely the copyright vio goes the other way. auntieruth (talk) 14:11, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for nuking the prior installment of copy-pasting from this school's website. An IP came along today and reintroduced content from here: [10]. I reverted solely based on the meaninglessness of the promotional content, perhaps thinking someone would have learned a lesson about copyright. It appears to me that all edits postdating your revdel are now tainted by copyvio yet again. Thanks as ever for your assistance! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 19:24, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna,
I work at SoundSpectrum Inc. and have permission to update a very old and inaccurate Wiki! Perhaps I am just not aware of the correct way for us here at SoundSpectrum to take more responsibility for the content on Wikipedia. Can you point me in a good direction for legitimizing our edits?
Brandon SoundSpectrum— Preceding unsigned comment added by Artisinformation ( talk • contribs) 19:12, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
I have the feeling you made some kind of mistake on Asher Crispe. Speaking only for myself, why was the edit in which I added a category removed? Debresser ( talk) 20:35, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there,
In regards to the Marc-Louis Solon page, I think I might have added or changed a couple of words here and there, but I didn't copy and paste any text from an outside website into this wikipedia page. I had never even seen the website you linked. I was only trying to make the page flow better since previously all of the career information was contained in the introduction. Now I am remembering that I think I added in some extra information from an existing wikipedia page, pate-sur-pate, is that the text you are referring to? Is adding information from another wiki page not allowed? That page also discuses Solon's life, and hasn't been edited for a while, so I thought it was fair information to use. I believe I even changed the language so that it wasn't a direct copy from the pate-sur-pate page. Can you please clarify? The website you linked, http://jansantiques.com/Lot/jac1896.php, looks like a literal copy and paste from the pate-sur-pate Wikipedia page. It is not the website owner's own words, it is only copy and pasted text from an existing wikipedia page.
Also, why is this my final warning? I'm new at this editing thing so there will likely be some trial and error, but I've never repeated the same mistake, and I am personally trying to improve these pages and not doing anything with malicious intent.
Thank you. -- Olivia4nier ( talk) 13:34, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I was recently led into believing that a COPYVIO programme you and TonyBallioni are working on automatically checks new articles for blatant copyvio in the way that the Coren bot used to. Maziar Heidari, a new page I just came across, seems to be evidence that this is not so. If there is something I'm missing, please let me know. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:15, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for your work on Aging (journal). Please see [14] for a sockpuppet investigation I have opened regarding recent edits on that page. - Dan Eisenberg ( talk) 16:18, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
You are ruining my day here. Kindly respond and do the needful asap. Anand.abhishek73 ( talk) 21:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, the information you removed from LGBT rights in communism page was from Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Volume 2 - Marxism, per the citation. http://dyneslines.blogspot.ca/2013/02/c10.html had copied and pasted it onto his blog. Could you reinstate my edit? -- Plasticaxes ( talk) 00:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
== Your A10 Speedy ==
Hi, Diannaa - Just curious... are admins unable to delete articles such as in the case of Marian Veevers? I'm thinking maybe DGG, as with me, didn't realize Anna Dean was a duplicate except for the mention of her pen name. There's no valid reason it shouldn't be a redirect, so why are we wasting time at AfD? Atsme 📞 📧 17:42, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like you to assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not do on Union Public Service Commission. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. The use or WP:RD1 is not suitable as seen in the redaction done on https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Union_Public_Service_Commission&direction=prev&oldid=787408078 version of the page. Multiple good-revisions are redacted with this commit of yours. Use appropriate methods for such cases. Anand.abhishek73 ( talk) 19:59, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
The Civility Barnstar | |
For bearing with me while I may have had gone grumpy. Anand.abhishek73 ( talk) 23:03, 27 June 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you for your comments. Wikicotilla ( talk) 00:30, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa
Yes Some statements have been copied, but not completely quote and some statement have been corrected and write properly.
http://www.mfzly.com/en/index-php-en (web page) link, you can add it as the quote — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enaro ( talk • contribs) 11:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Alerting of of this situation since you're online and every article Jaxhks has created seems to be a G12 copyvio of the presidents of Davidson College. I tagged seven myself as G12, and am going to spot check non-creation edits now. TonyBallioni ( talk) 14:23, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
what ????? i have cited the publication the artacal appeared in year and month as advised to do when i asked on the editor irc channel and used an extract of that,lengthy piece that is over 50 years old ,Yes people can go to the navy archives and read the whole thing and that is to give a flavour of the information in that archive .
As to punctuation "" , ect, Not a collage kid i am an ex member of the service the RNMSW became the RNXS However i am dislexic and have to read thought it dozens of time to correct such errors as i have been doing and you just destroyed all that work ....thanks
All in all this has been a pretty disappointing experience, i see no point in continuing trying to help update wiki as requested in there mission statement.when it come to an historical entry's, as this is.Where very little information survives, you even deleted the Winston Churchill entry that was correctly attributed in HANSARD this over the top approach to this "Alleged" CR infringement" over something printed over 50 years ago is detrimental to wiki`s mission statement, .i used an "extract from what are lengthy piece in the navy news, cited dated and that not good enough, the recruiting posters 0ver 50 years old and PD as per the copywrite rule i used
strangely i was discussing getting the page updated from a stub given the amount of new information added when the message appeared from you i guess --Dixon hill (talk) 19:56, 28 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dixon hill ( talk • contribs)
The artical was printed in the NAvy news in 1952 {{
PD-UKGov}}
) the site you had the link to copied the same artical they dont have copywrite as it was in the navy news {{
PD-UKGov}}
) so not sure what your objection is --
Dixon hill (
talk) 20:49, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you
i appreciate the quick resolution --
Dixon hill (
talk) 21:05, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
As i mentioned i was on the IRC channel asking if this could be upgraded from a stub given the amount of new information , i was directed to the wiki entry to do that, but i cant make heads nor tales of it (thats my dislexia) would you agree that enough information has been added to remove the stub and if so i think from my understanding an editor has to do it but it does not make clear (to me anyway) what kind of editor one like me or a approved editor ?--
Dixon hill (
talk) 21:21, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Circular Yellow Cable surmounted by Naval Crown and Panel inscribed R N X S Enclosing Mine Exploding in Heraldic Sea against Blue background1954-1962.
This is actually a important bit ,it relates to the way the flag was official diesined by the navy using heraldic imagery this flag was altered in 1962 for the amalgamation and renaming to rnxs when the service was renamed this design specification proves navy providence ie that they are the same flag with a name changed approved under Royal warrant -- Dixon hill ( talk) 21:38, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for resizing the image i wanted to but could not figure it out ,i will add it back and see how it looks on the page ,i might just put a section related to the flag in the text for this entry and the RNXS entry that has the unpdated flag and description of its Navy design specs seems like a good compromise ? -- Dixon hill ( talk) 22:23, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
You've truly done a lot of work on Nazi Germany.
But do you also enjoy the old-fashioned Germany? [15]
- New account 2 ( talk) 22:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
If they haven't already been implemented at your library, take a look at Vufind or Encore. - New account 2 ( talk) 22:42, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for adding what you did. But I thought I covered the issue in the edit summary of the Ducks, geese, and waterfowl section, the first edit which inserted text from other pages. Craigthebirder ( talk) 22:51, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Last December you deleted several tracking category pages I was setting up. (Such as "M_0".) As near as I understand, this was for reason "C1: Empty category (TW)". Or perhaps it was because I may not have added the proper headers. At any rate, I hope there is no objection to restoring them. These are for tracking various uses of a template ({{ M}}), some of which are rather obscure and likely not to be seen for some time. (All the more reason to track them, so we can see when they are used.) If being empty is a potential problem, is there any way to flag the category page to prevent it from being deleted? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 04:59, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
permission via OTRS ticket. Dlohcierekim ( talk) 19:53, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
I apologise for not doing this correctly but I did do the original post and I am his official representative and publicist so all that was written was in my own words and I have the authority to edit it where I see fit. It was just very outdated and I am attempting to update it. Please can you re-instate what I did because it took a while! Regards, Lesley Wells 165.145.204.209 ( talk) 15:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia. There are a couple of problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.
The second problem is conflict of interest. Working on an article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. I have already placed some information about conflict of interest and paid editing on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 16:42, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
I noticed you left a notice on User:Johnny Brockman's talk page, regarding 2024 and 2028 Olympic article issues. He also persists in removing or moving the copyvio template on Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics despite being warned to leave it alone. He doesn't seem to think the massive plagiarism is from a number of sources, notably the Los Angeles Times, is any big deal, and has repeatedly removed the template to make edits to the article. He's been referred to the Copyright problems page, but if he's doing anything to remove or otherwise address the plagiarism, it's not being communicated to other editors via the article talk page or edit summaries. I'm put a couple warnings on his talk page, but so far, it's done no good. He'll respond, but he's determined to have his own way. I've just reverted another mass of edits with a template move, and warned him to work with other editors not just do what he wants, but thus far, it hasn't penetrated. I'm dropping this here as a heads up; if he persists, a time-out for disruptive editing might be in order. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 18:27, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Diannaa.
See my note in the Talk section of this article: Old Order Mennonite. I don't yet know how much of that article is copied from sources such as http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/eng/Old_Order_Mennonites#cite_note-1 but some of it certainly is, like the Beliefs and practices section.
Over the next day or so, I will work on that section to paraphrase, get info from additional sources, add citations, etc. (I have just started doing so.) Not sure I can single-handedly do so for the entire article if much of it is copied from sources, however. Your thoughts? Peter K Burian ( talk) 14:37, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Interesting; thanks for letting me know. Still, very little of the content had citations. I have re-written most of those sections, with info paraphrased from many sources, and added relevant citations. Peter K Burian ( talk) 21:32, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Another editor and I are doing a lot of work to improve this article. It does not have a Climate chart, and should.
I'm sure articles with such a chart got them from somewhere, but we have no idea where. Could you give us instructions for doing so? Thanks, Peter K Burian ( talk) 14:57, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Howdy. I was reviewing an edit to this page and it looks like you protected it back in 2013 with a note that it might be time to unprotect it soon. Looks like edits have been fairly normal lately. I thought I would put possible unprotecting on your radar. Cheers Gtstricky Talk or C 19:09, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello. All edits by Special:Contributions/103.245.196.90 today added copyvios, so they're easy to find in the page history. Links to websites the material was copied from are in my copyvio-warning on their talk page. Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W talk 18:17, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa. I received a note from you about copying information from Bian-na-Bato to Judeo-Christian ethics. That was yesterday. Earlier today, I was doing a lot of moving around of material *within* Judeo-Christian ethics. I have never been anywhere near Bian-na-Bato. I suppose your note must have been information from some Wikipedia software running in the background somewhere; but I'm afraid it is giving you false positive. I documented my moves from "Judeo-Christian" to "Judeo-Christian ethics" on the Talk pages of both articles. I hope this meets the requirements for inter-Wikipedia attribution. Please let me know if I need to do more. Best, Person54 ( talk) 21:24, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
You did delete my entire contribution for the article " Taboo" for alleged copyright violation. However, the "Storyline" section which you delete for copyvio was taken from IMDB and was properly referenced, with author's name and source. I never pretended I was the author. If all the referenced material taken from another source of information is considered "Copyvio" so the entire Wikipedia should be deleted, since all the article must to have references and all the information must to be taken from a reliable source outside Wikipedia. In the same article for the film "Taboo" I used several quotes from several reviews websites. I referenced all the quotes, with author and source and you didn't delete them. I really don't understand your criteria. It's very discouraging spend a lot of time to research for an article and another amount of time to write it, just to have you work deleted. Even when you try to make a good job, finding reliable sources and using a lot of references.-- SirEdimon ( talk) 21:48, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. You removed my edit for the plot for the Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets. That was not a copy of copyright information. I rewrote that plot based on the information from the press release which has been used in its entirety on a number of websites around the world. My version was different. J Bar ( talk) 22:45, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. You nominated Miyota 9015 page for Speedy deletion, and you sure that the page was translated from http://easternwatch.blogspot.co.id/2015_09_01_archive.html. But I open the link and that page not even mentioned about Miyota 9015, that page talk about Miyota 8000 series, which is a different product. thank you ( Bkusmono ( talk) 01:09, 3 May 2017 (UTC)).
Dear Diannaa Hello , I am Mohamed Elkady one of Fathi Hassan's mangers (the other one is " Dalas Barii ") , we have made major edits the last few days concerning the Fathi Hassan's Biography , latest work and solo works and pics of his latest work mostly everything we made , we were just about to add the references so you can make sure , you can go to his official website www.fathihassan.com and contact him on his email : (Redacted) to ask him about these changes we made and about us being his mangers so please do tell me what are the steps I can do to retrieve the last edit , my email is (Redacted) please contact me as soon as possible Thanks & best regards Mohamed Elkady — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohamed Mahmoud Elkady ( talk • contribs) 03:15, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
? See my page Nishidani ( talk) 12:59, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
At Harbor City International School. And if you're so moved, long term semi protection is certainly in order. It has been protected before. I'll guarantee your ultimate source is a University of Idaho student. This has been going on a while. U of I's network is a source of much garbage editing to the school, other Idaho universities, Idaho high schools and this school. Thanks for all you do. John from Idegon ( talk) 16:54, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Please enlighten me - I don't see that you've deleted anything. Plus I thought that I included proper attribution for the material. The data are from the same source as the original page and raised no copyright issues since its creation. Craigthebirder ( talk) 00:38, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Just lately you removed something from kettlebell lifting article under excuse that it was copyright material. Yes it was copied (but what was copied? a list), but because they had almost all possible grips and holds in one place (saved some time, and editing instances). Grips and holds are not copyright material neither is their description. For example hook grip is hook grip and there is only one way to describe it. Description was really basic and there is nothing there that could be considered copyright. If it was copyright material you'd have to close down 99.9% of all gyms in the world. List of something is not copyright material. 213.149.51.107 ( talk) 14:39, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure what's going on here... Does anything other than WP:A7 apply here? I'm just asking for future reference. Thanks! Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 19:00, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice, I will try to do better next time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bijun yang ( talk • contribs) 15:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa. I appreciate your comments regarding my edits. I would like to know, though, what you removed, so that I can revise it appropriately, but I don't see any way to do that. (Comparing your revised version to the version I edited doesn't do it.) Please advise. Also, I'd be happy to do what I can to fix/clean up the comments you made to a prior editor but I don't know to which sentences/sections your comments refer.) Thanks! (I hope I did this right!) LDella ( talk) 22:27, 5 May 2017 (UTC)LMDella
Hi,
Kindly see the last two edits at
Draft:Collaborations between Central Intelligence Agency and American Mafia. I hope they follow the wiki procedure. If they do not, kindly let me know. (Please ping me in the reply) Thanks. :-) —usernamekiran
(talk) 23:02, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
I disagree with your action regarding the said article.
The content was mostly referring to the website of Senator Marco Rubio, which you have aware and I have cited. Having the same prose appeared from HongKongfp.com does not necessarily mean a violation of copyright in Wikipedia. Rather, there is a possibility of copyright violation made by Hongkongfp.com - which they have copied from the Senator's website. In fact, I never referred to Hongkongfp.com when I was writing the respective article.
After all, since the content of the said act is largely factual, the prose from different sources cannot differ in a large extent. In the light of the citation that I have made before your removal of content, I urge for a restoration of content. Universehk ( talk) 10:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
{{
PD-notice}}
so our readers are award that you copied this prose rather than wrote it yourself. Sorry about the mistake. —
Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 11:11, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, it is good to clarify. It is reasonable for you to check more carefully about the date, like what you have mentioned.
Universehk (
talk) 03:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed your [1] edit on User:Zingvin's talk page regarding using quotations from sources in Edsger W. Dijkstra. Could you check if this [2] revert is correct? Marcocapelle ( talk) 11:49, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello: I intend to request permission from the Creative Music Foundation (I already had their permission, but I will do so formally according to Wikipedia guidelines) to use content from their website to use content on the "Creative Music Studio" Wikipedia page.
I'm puzzled by something that appears in the sample request-for=permission letter, which appears on /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission#For_text
It says:
"This user claims on the talk page *[TALK PAGE ADDRESS] to *[have the authority to release this material under CC-BY-SA/ be the original author of the material], but for the page to remain on our site, we need further evidence that this is the case. Please be assured that if you do not grant permission, your content will not be used at Wikipedia; we have a strict policy against copyright violations."
What does this mean? Does "This user" refer to me (Resweet)? Why would I make such a claim, and which talk page could this be referring to? I don't understand this bit.
Thanks,
Bob (Resweet) Resweet ( talk) 16:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Thank you Diana I work in the Central Bank and the text in Spanish I did. For me it was important that Mario Marcel was on Wikipedia in English. But as you see, this language is not mine. So that's my first article. I will try to have others who master the language translate their profile into Spanish. (translated by Google) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuidro ( talk • contribs) 00:47, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Copyright problem on Chloroplast sensor kinase Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1538167/. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:25, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, Diannaa. However there was no copyright violation at any stage in edits. No text was copied from the page http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1538167/ or any other. That page itself is derivative and seems to have been copied from the original source: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/29/10061 Note "Author and Info" there states: "Freely available online through the PNAS open access option."
The original is publicly available, open source, and was referenced accurately in Chloroplast sensor kinase prior to your edit.
Please restore the deleted text and previous edits.
Corrigen ( talk) 16:44, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the note on my Talk page regarding the need for attribution for material copied from other articles/contributors. However, as I also wrote the other article, I wonder how I should attribute material to myself? PiCo ( talk) 22:47, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello. The material added by Special:Contributions/197.133.9.80 on Sustainable Development Goals was copied verbatim from http://undp.org (see http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html and its subpages). Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W talk 06:50, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, it seems pretty clear (atleast for me), that the content [3] was copypasted or closely paraphrased from the given source, a Management Action Plan - the text's formatting, tone and structure aswell as the addition in one single edit indicate as much. However, the source is not available online, so I struggle to check and verify this conclusively. I will post some additional advice and details of my concerns on the contributing user's talkpage, but would appreciate if you could have a look and offer some experienced advice for Nokrek National Park. Ideally some of the source's factual details could be added in the editor's own words, without the park's own self-promotion and tourist guide details. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your pointers Diannaa. I've rewritten the sections you deleted, drawing on a wider range of sources and avoiding direct transcription. Mccapra ( talk) 16:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this. Oldest version seems to be copied from the organization, but can't be sure since wayback machine only goes to 2014. Definitely needs rev del from June 2012 until my edits, but might also need G12. TonyBallioni ( talk) 18:16, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Would have been nice If you revised it but, hay its always easier to delete. -- Janissarywiki ( talk) 02:52, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, thanks for your reminder/warning re: the use of {{
copied}}
template. I have been working on Maldives' History articles for few days now, and it would have been nice to also see an acknowledgement of the work done, rather than a block warning. Like this, I wonder whether I should just stop contributing if my effort is not welcome. Kind regards, --
Dans (
talk) 09:28, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, You removed my modifications on Euler Hermes because of content copyright from http://www.eulerhermes.com/mediacenter/Lists/mediacenter-documents/Euler_Hermes_2013_Registration_Document.pdf. However I didn't use Euler_Hermes_2013_Registration_Document.pdf. Can you explain me why you removed it ? Thanks Kind Regards
Your message was: Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page http://explore.moadoph.gov.au/timelines/milestones-in-australian-democracy. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 23:02, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Copied content from Jammalamadugu at this edit from this link.-- Vin09 (talk) 09:30, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
That was my unit for a very long time and the story about why we call ourselves First Attack was completely 100% wrong so I replaced it with the real history and reason for the nickname, there is only one true history about our unit and that was the one I copy and pasted it, was I supposed to invent a totally new history and chain of events that got us our nickname? And as for attributing...I'm not really sure what you mean because I got the information about 1/227 directly from 1/227 and the sources that were used before I fixed it were wrong or dead links or from 3rd parties not associated with us and I anything I else I added was because I was personally there and seen it with my own two eyes, I'm not really sure how to attribute myself and trying not to get offended because it sounds like you're calling me a liar :-( but I'm pretty sure (hoping) that wasn't your intention.
Now the 1/227 page looks retarded because there are two HISTORY sections, at least change it back to how it was before my edit. It was better when it was wrong because unless you already know the history you won't know it's wrong, now they won't read it at all because it's all stupid looking.
I was so tempted to add the things we were really doing in Iraq because it tears at my soul seeing lies go down as fact in th history books.
Here is from the journal I kept while I was there...could maybe make a special section for it somewhere yea?
Part 1 How I got my TOP SECRET CLEARANCE
When our unit 1/227 AVN BN 1 CD “First Attack!” got orders to deploy to Iraq they sent the Executive Officer and this skeleton crew of officers 30 days ahead of everyone else to spy on Saddam and pick out targets for our Apaches to strike the instant they arrived by boat from the States.
I was the CSM’s driver the lowest part (the b*tch) of the Command Group so I was in the room when they were deciding what to do and how when the X.O. says “Well…we need someone to do the…solider work.” The CSM looks at me and says “Take Backowski, anything else? Now get out, sir.”
I knew exactly what the X.O. meant they needed someone to clean up crap but I did not care I wanted to go so bad and I loved the X.O. all the officers were great, you just learn what they like and make them like you and they can’t help but not mind that you’re there and be nice to you.
When we get to Kuwait we were given a tent and plopped in the middle of Camp Udari, in deep shifting sand near this huge pile of rubble all the other counties in the coalition were using as a dump that someone had covered with a huge plastic tarp.
Nobody knew what to do, no one there knew English to ask for help, we had no help coming for 26 days ,when the rest of our unit arrived, then one of the female officers says to build wooden floors or something because it was hard to walk around in the sand and gets everyone talking about it.
I had already been told many times we couldn’t take the huge tarp covering the trash it was new the people who had just dropped it off were about to tie it down and there was no more time for arguments so I took it from them and dragged it our stuff and started setting our tent up on it as quickly as I could. The one officer that had the stupid idea about the wooden floors was the only hold up so I said if General or something pissed tell them you told me not to do it but I did it anyways, with that they all agreed because the equipment we had to unpack was extremely sensitive and needed constant dusting. They all helped set up the tent and they all didn’t stop talking about it the whole time, not complaining but like if a piece of the tent resembled an umbrella they would have to point it out, I wasn’t really listening because …there was just a lot of sh*t going on at the moment.
Right away they made the tent this TOP SECRET off limit zone I wasn’t allowed to go in whenever they were doing anything important, they had always been really strict about it even in the states I wasn’t even allowed near the door which was guarded whenever they were having TOP SECRET meetings.
On the second day they kicked me out of the tent because they needed to have a TOP SECRET while I was right in the middle of highlighting power lines on maps so our Apaches wouldn’t fly into them (now that I think about it they were probably messing with me.), it pissed me off because I couldn’t even hang out near the tent to get out of the constant blowing sand.
When they got finished with their meeting the X.O. pops his head out and yells for me to dust everything, I run up to him and in a dejected voice “Sir I really want to but I can’t because there might be TOP SECRET stuff laying out that I’m not allowed to see and I don’t want to get anyone in trouble Sir.” He laughs and pats my shoulder “Ahhhh come on Backowski stop playing around get in there let's go, that’s an order.” Then I said “So if a General or something asks what I am doing in there I can say that Major (forgot his name) said it was ok?” then he said “Yes sure tell them that, now come on.” I finally flatly said “Sorry sir I cannot.” he just looked at me and went back into the tent.
The next day he hands me a TOP SECRET clearance orders along with a dust pan and broom, grinning “Now dust everything, all the floors too.” I said they need background checks it’s a fake and tried to give all that crap back but he said “No I walked it up the chain of command to General (so-and-so), it's TOP SECRET “intern” clearance it expires when you leave the unit.” I asked him “Sir you don’t want to dust that bad, is it that big a deal for you?” he said it was.
You have been so patient with me and I really want to do the right thing. I have a lot of respect for intellectual property. If you are not too busy, could you tell me if this document is in the public domain or not: Justice Department and then how should it be cited?
hi i need your help with something to improve the quality of this article. please i beg you, help me with this
PLamo kyoshiro comic cover original first volume
this image is under copyright. i tried to upload this image to commons. But i wich license apply. PLEASE can you make the upload for me please? using the correct license? i beg you i would give you the credit for the upload
-- Cheposo ( talk) 01:37, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
DIANA I LOVE YOU THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME WITH THISSS LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
may i have a link to your facebook? i would like to meet you
-- Cheposo ( talk) 12:50, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Please restore the revision so I can rewrite the whole thing in my words, and let me know on my talk page. I've been out more than five years and so I didn't pay attention to the need to reword the text. Thanks! Liberal Humanist ( talk) 05:02, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diana! I understant that, it seems I copied all the material. But it`s the translation of the article in Azerbaijani wikipedia. I can rewrite, but the content will be same.I`ll try to rewrite. Thanks! User:LadymooN —Preceding undated comment added 13:52, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diana,
I am writing to you with regard to what you saly on the talk page:
The owner of the website http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/ has sent an email to the OTRS team. I will restore the content once the ticket is processed. Ticket number is 2017030410000259 — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:31, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
What does this mean?
Regards, Hungarian David Biro ( talk) 18:30, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna, you left a message on my talk page regarding a copyright violation. I apologize for making the mistake, but since the material was completely deleted, it's impossible for me to see exactly where I erred. I believe I quoted a source directly, and correctly attributed the quote to the source using footnotes (or whatever they are called on wikipedia). In any event, I can't remember and would like to avoid making the same mistake in the future. Is there any way I can see at least a partial (redacted) version of what I originally wrote? Thank you in advance.
UPDATE: Never mind - I found an older version from a previous edit. I posted it on my talk page. Can you please take a look and let me know? Do I need to better source the Venture Beat article? Thank you in advance.
More importantly,, and on a related note (as it relates to the same page) I made an RFC on the Controversial Reddit Communities page, and have not yet heard from any editors. Since you seem to have quite a bit of experience regarding process and policy, would you mind taking a look? Koncorde seems to think I am barking up the wrong tree. I am genuinely curious as to what your thoughts are. Best Regards! 2602:301:772D:62D0:F122:F9AD:7CD1:4259 ( talk) 06:27, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I don't understand why you have deleted the article. There was no copyright infringement. The cited page is public domain and the city of Rijeka is the most transparent city in Croatia. It most certainly is not a primary source. So I don't see the problem. Thanks in advance. -- Tuvixer ( talk) 12:45, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw you posted a notice to user Asilis regarding copyrights. The same user
made this edit, which seems to be a possible copyright violation. But I don't know how to verify it, nor how to issue notice to users. Would you please look into it? —usernamekiran
(talk) 14:02, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa, I just noticed that you've queried the copyright of the latest image I uploaded. The company I work for own them and I was allowed to scan the images to upload and make them free for anyone to use. The covers are from 1924, this is over 50 years ago so the copyright for the stamps/postmarks has expired. What do I need to say that I am free to use them and therefore anyone else is free to use them? Obriens86 ( talk) 14:40, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
U R about to get it. Dlohcierekim ( talk) 16:22, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, wonder if you wouldn't mind revision-deleting a bit on Petar Rajič (if you think it meets the RD1 criteria, naturally). It's from here to here. Normally I'd just restore the copyvio-revdel tag but I have a feeling it might be removed again. Thanks, /wiae /tlk 12:15, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I listed Pablo Grimberg Umansky ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) at CP as I wasn't sure how to handle it. The website probably copied from es:Pablo Grimberg (deleted), but it is a copyvio since it did not follow the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence (no attribution, etc.). Organiqa created the article here and then at eswiki with the same text. Should they all be deleted on copyright grounds since proper attribution to the original author(s) has not been provided? — JJMC89 ( T· C) 03:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Dianna. Thanks for warning me. I changend some parts. But I`m administrator of azersu.az website, and I have translated all the material of this website. You deleted heading "Water sources". I think I have right to use it.
But you deleted all my additons that I wrote in my words, not copied. I think it is unfair. You don`t estimate my attempts.
Hello Diannaa! Thanks for the message of your concerns about my recent edits on Game & Watch ports and remakes. After looking into it, the link you posted shows a matched edit being added on September 17, 2007 ( http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Encyclopedia_Gamia:Merge/Game_%26_Watch?diff=93116&oldid=93115). However, this information was on Game & Watch on Wikipedia first on June 22, 2006 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Game_%26_Watch&diff=60008297&oldid=59622481), meaning that Encyclopedia Gamia moved this information from Wikipedia on to their article. I moved the "Clones and Unofficial Ports" section from Game & Watch to Game & Watch Ports and Remakes.. - Patrick Boots CEC ( talk) 22:30, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
If you can, would you take a look at the situation at The Holocaust? There have been two users with similar usernames making similar, problematic edits for several days. I've been trying to assume AGF and have hesitated to make any formal report, either at SPI or ANI, thus far. Most recently, copyvios problems have been alleged, and a revert was made (and I believe a request for rev-del in progress). In the meantime, there has been a bit of back and forth, with a longtime editor restoring the disputed content. The only admin who appears to be watching the article is involved and so cannot act. At this point, I'm wondering if full protection might be warranted. I'd appreciate an uninvolved opinion, if you're willing. Rivertorch FIRE WATER 22:47, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
I am brand new to Wikipedia and I am being asked by a Professor here at Towson University for help with his page. It is way over my head because I am not an editor or librarian but I saw that you made some editing changes to his page recently so I thought I would reach out to you.
How can I have someone look through a page and help me cite content and make it verifiable so it meets the Wikipedia requirements. His name is Richard Vatz.
Thank you in advance.
Urandrod ( talk) 14:37, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Anastasiia09 has been repeatedly adding copyright violations of the same material in her userspace. I think she needs to be blocked; however, if your think a final warning is appropriate, then let's try that first. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 15:33, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi the page was corected to fix the violations. Thank you for noticing. Tripp155 ( talk) 00:22, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Dianna how are you?, I have a small question; The cited source says: "One of the main aims of the regime was to transform Romania into a communist atheist society in which religion was considered the ideology of the bourgeoise. Thus in 1949, the Society for the Popularisation of Science and Culture was established. The main objective of this anti-religious society was 'to propagate among the labouring masses political and scientific knowledge to fight obscurantism, superstition, mysticism, and all other influences of bourgeois ideologies'. ...the regime's anti-religious campaign aimed to discredit the church and to reduce the influence of religion in society.", so I reword the text to conform to the source; and here my reword Authorities in the People's Republic of Romania aimed to move towards an atheistic society, in which religion would be considered as the ideology of the bourgeoisie; the régime also set to propagate the laboring masses in science, politics and culture to help them fight superstition and mysticism, and initiated an anti-religious campaign aimed to reducing the influence of religion in society
. Is this edit a be a copyright violation?. Thanks, and have a nice day.--— Preceding
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Source: "One of the main aims of the regime was to transform Romania into a communist atheist society in which religion was considered the ideology of the bourgeoise. Thus in 1949, the Society for the Popularisation of Science and Culture was established. The main objective of this anti-religious society was to propagate among the labouring masses political and scientific knowledge to fight obscurantism, superstition, mysticism, and all other influences of bourgeois ideologies'. ...the regime's anti-religious campaign aimed to discredit the church and to reduce the influence of religion in society."
Your version: "Authorities in the People's Republic of Romania aimed to move towards an atheistic society, in which religion would be considered as the ideology of the bourgeoisie; the régime also set to propagate the laboring masses in science, politics and culture to help them fight superstition and mysticism, and initiated an anti-religious campaign aimed to reducing the influence of religion in society"
— Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 21:30, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa - a page I created was recently approved local search optimisation page. Now I am contacting you to seek your kind advise. On top of the page one can read a little notice saying "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles". The first thing I tried, was to go to the search engine optimisation page and add a link within the list of links part of the "internet marketing series". This is visible on the right side of the page. Unfortunately I have not managed to make the edit. Could you please advise of how one should make this specific edit? thank-you in advance for your kind help Josezetabal ( talk) 06:23, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 12:04, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I'd love to be able to revive the Premier Model Management page that was deleted on 1 Feb 2015. How would I go about doing that?
Alex ( Alexbabahmadi ( talk) 10:32, 18 May 2017 (UTC))
I think you may have deleted the wrong revisions, perhaps I filled the form out wrong. The copied content is still present in the history. Could you double check please? Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 17:18, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
190.104.115.98 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). I've opened open an SPI for it as well. I was thinking, instead of coming to your talk page all the time, I can open an SPI and ping you and someone can do the block in the event that you are not on Wikipedia at the moment. Is that fine with you? Erick ( talk) 21:12, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa! I'm still not sure if this really needs a CCI or not, but I've closed Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2016 April 18 and listed another article today. The editor doesn't seem to want to hear anything I have to say, so I wondered if you'd like to have a try? Best regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:37, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
I contribute on wiki on and off whenever i get time from my job, even sometimes do this from office too. Will ask you for any help whenever i am in need.
Thanks
Sulaimandaud ( talk) 11:45, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diana! Lately I've been having a problem with an unidentified IP user, who destroyed sourced data in a couple of articles, including an article on Untermensch. After I've reverted his multiple edit-war attepmts, he created an account named Alfhard21257 from which he is now editing it again: [4] - I'm currently trying to discuss the problem with him: [5]. Everything would be OK, if i didn't see this: [6]. I remember "English Patriot Man" quite well, as he tried to destroy some Nazi-related articled back in the day. I remember you being very helpful in making the sourced and true data stay on Wikipedia, and blocking his attempts to delete it. Could you take a closer look on his account and tell me, could it be User:English Patriot Man performing his ravage again? Thanks. Yatzhek ( talk) 13:12, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Diannaa. You're one of the most helpful Wikipedians. Yatzhek ( talk) 22:03, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
It would be appreciated if you could take a kind look at List of Sharpe series characters. Winged Blades Godric 05:17, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa,
I have been having problems with the user page creation and want to create my user page. I have tried before but somehow the page got removed or is blank. I had thought of changing the username but the current user name is also good.
Can you please help me out in creating a user page for me so that I can share with the world what I have contributed and things that I have to contribute in future. Please look into my user page ( Anishchaube) and let me know if it's good.
Thanks, Anish Anishchaube ( talk) 08:57, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the things that caused you concern - you doing so makes my life very much easier than me having to guess what particular things might be causing you particular concern. (i.e. Your fixes are appreciated :-) BTW/FYI, note that you changed the meaning and intent of a few things I added that were not mentioned in the source-of-your-concern. No big deal - more important is that you have fixed the copyvio issues that were of concern to you. Cheers (and thanks), Pdfpdf ( talk) 09:33, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
I have noticed a number of errors in articles to which you have removed access to the edit history. I will address these errors.
In an earlier post I stated or implied you had introduced errors. I have no basis for making such statements, and apologise for doing so.
Pdfpdf (
talk) 09:49, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello D. When you have a moment would you please take a look at these edits. I'm sure this newb is unaware of the copy/vio and attribution problems with their edits and I figured you would be able to straighten things out. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 21:54, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa - I did not mean to breach copyright from memory I amended the text to a sufficiently significant degree, but when I went back to check you'd deleted the log of all my contributions for some reason. You did this last time. Was there a reason for this? Not having a go, just trying to understand. Regards Dutchy85 ( talk) 02:08, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa - sorry to be pedantic, the report says it was 74% and that included a quote from the newspaper's critic which was given quotes, ie. completely attributed - you say it was not changed and all but it was changed. I accept that it needed to be changed more than it was and I will keep an eye on things like this in future, I just didn't want you to think I had nothing. Dutchy85 ( talk) 20:07, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa - I watched the film. I couldn't understand the plot! See it and see what I mean :) But point taken... Dutchy85 ( talk) 22:01, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I see that you oversighted some edits at History of Lebanon under Arab rule, and one of the involved editors has added a whole lot of new content. Maybe you'd like to check? -- Slashme ( talk) 14:52, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch. I completely failed to consider that might be copyvio. Pinkbeast ( talk) 05:34, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your note on my Talk page, and for your further work on paraphrasing the Dartford Archive content. In trying to marshall content from several sources, I clearly relied too much on that reference. Thank you also for the note about copying within Wikipedia - that is not something I was aware of, but will be from now on. Paul W ( talk) 11:28, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
The Kevin Yoder Sea of Galilee incident is certainly notable.
Here's what remains of my original edit:
“On August 4, 2011, during a GOP trip to Israel in which lawmakers partook in a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee, Yoder went skinny dipping.[70]”
That guts the real import of the incident.
It wasn't mentioned in Yoder's article at all, though there was some regional press about it, after disclosures about it were made. It did not become a major issue in his reelection campaign because his successive opponents were relatively unknown and underfinanced, so the race attracted little local attention, even though a long term "Blue Dog" Democrat, Dennis Moore, held the seat before Yoder won it. Yoder ran against the incumbent's wife. The Democrat did not run for reelection, because he suffered from early onset senile dementia, which I seem to recall went entirely unpublicized at the time, quite possibly the media were anxious to spare him unnecessary embarrassment.
However, it became a matter of considerable “inside the beltway” concern to the House Majority Leader and Whip, because they were both present with him in the water at the time, and all those social conservatives may have "had a few," so repercussions might have affected their reelection campaigns, one presumes. (Cantor has been ousted by an even more conservative VA successor, and McCarthy had "zipper problems," which impeded his subsequent career and heir apparency to Boehner's role.)
I had originally included just the names of the two party leaders. Then on second thought, I realized that removing their roles would leave little context for the casual (especially metro KC) Wikipedia reader to understand why it actually was important, so went back and revised it to include their positions at the time. I shuffled the info so as to avoid any copyright violation, though apparently not enough to do so.
I made the edits, not being aware that a much more truncated version may have been previously deleted. I tried to change the reporting of the incident to avoid any BLP violation, but had few facts with which to work.
Only a few hours subsequent to my edits, MelanieN asked for more info, in particular the precise date of the incident, though I had already provided the year it occurred. I accommodated her request, though I didn't understand her need for that info. She's a very experienced Wikipedia editor, so I complied. That added to the original text, I presume, which may have triggered a BLP violation bot, but there was no other way to state the date without some awkward, low-quality edit, such as “August the eleventh, twenty eleven.”
You cautioned me last year about my edit of coverage of a Mississippi corruption investigation and prosecution, with my edit being identified as having a BLP problem because, I presume, I used a couple of long quotes. Of course, I wasn't able to change the quotes, and the quotes were not editorial or reportorial work product, but straight up stenography. The same quotes had been carried extensively in local and regional broadcast and print media.
The “skinny dipping” mention was not from the text of the news article, but rather taken from its title, though if memory serves, a tiny local independent weekly may have used it at the time.
I'll go back and rework it, and once again leave out the precise date, if Melanie's happy with that, or you can persuade her it isn't necessary.
I'll copy you on the revised, hopefully suitable edit.
Mind, part of the problem is that there was virtually no original reporting on the incident, so the actual RSS info is relatively sparse.
The source I used was a Colorado TV station, though Yoder's district is a good 500 miles east, entirely in metro Kansas City, KS, to include the populous Johnson and Leavenworth counties, and it really didn't go beyond the original CNN mention. The congressman successfully avoided commenting on it because the local KCK media snoozed through it. In their mind, I expect, it was just a regular useless, non-notable expenditure of considerable taxpayer funds for a holiday junket, which the press rarely notices, save for the element of Yoder's disrobing in front of young female staffers on what was a religious-based tour, which didn't attract much local attention. But the real story is that he had potentially compromised the party leadership. Much, much later, he apologized for his indiscretion.
(The Watergate burglary didn't attract much attention until someone started "following the money," and wondered why Cuban regime opponents and "intelligence assets" might be involved in a D.C. "black bag" burglary.)
The congressional party attendees were spontaneously pressed into joining the frivolity by the restaurant staff, which jumped into the Sea and dared the Americans to join them.
Hopefully my fiddling with a revision will avoid any semblance of a BLP violation. I await your conclusion as far as that's concerned.
Thanks so much for your continuing vigilance regarding the interest of the integrity of Wikipedia. Feel free to remove this lengthy explanation, of course. It's just "inside baseball," I expect. Activist ( talk) 06:50, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa!! Diana, a great name attributed to the Roman goddess of hunt. Thank you for the inputs. I'm really sorry for not paying attention to your constructive criticisms. I really wanted to learn more so please guide me in my future editing. Markx121993 ( talk) 11:58, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Can you take a look at, for example, this website? I can't tell if Wikipedia copied the site or the other way around. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:08, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
From Wikipedia: "Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of ....Crow Caw 15:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna! I found your edits on my draft today and I genuinely appreciate the heads up and went and reread the information on copywrites. I had moved a bunch of stuff into the draft because I rented an article for two days and was going to lose it, so I intended to paraphrase and adjust it after that at my leisure. I never intended to keep it all but didn't have the time to work out what I wanted and didn't want within that rental period. I'm too cheap to pay the forty dollars to buy the rights to it--should I go back and do that? Even if I do that won't alter the copyright though--it doesn't give me rights to it does it? I will go back and check everyone of your edits. Thank you! There is another article here on Christianity and violence that has been marked for bias and I attempted to edit it first, but the guy didn't like my edits and reverted them all. He had a good point on one of them--it didn't have adequate source citing--but he didn't only remove that one and the others were cited and properly paraphrased. So I figured he had a point of view and wasn't going to accept anything else and that's when I decided to attempt--attempt--to write something more neutral. I'm trying! It's a big project! Huge topic! Thanx again for your help! Is it okay if I restore what you edited with the intent of dealing with it in the manner required? I am not anywhere close to done with this!
Jenhawk777 (
talk) 15:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)Jenhawk777
Jenhawk777 (
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Sorry! — Preceding
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Hello Diannaa. Per this mention at VPT in 2013 I gather you may be another user of User:Js/urldecoder.js. Is it working for you currently? Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:06, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
I deleted the past versions, before your redaction. Can I remove the CSDG12 sticker, or is there more to delete? Copyvios isn't reading for me. Dlohcierekim ( talk) 01:18, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
You have just told me my edits to my Chad Jackson DJ page were copyrighted - I am actually the artist and the info I added is owned by me. Some of the info which was on there before my edits was incorrect, so I decided to put some relevant info up. Thanks you for your attention. Katowidget (Chad Jackson). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katowidget ( talk • contribs) 07:09, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Happy to go and remove any copyright violations however by deleting all my edits you have removed a significant amount of other material from the article, such as his birth name, birth date etc. Could you please revert your changes to allow the non copyrighted material to be reinstated. Dan arndt ( talk) 00:00, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi. This turns up zero using Earwig's tool, but it really looks like it's a copyvio of a gameplay book. Not sure how to evaluate, or if a revdel is warranted. Thoughts? Onel5969 TT me 03:10, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Can you please skim through the articles created by Spem Reduxit (esp. the law-related articles).Allmost all such creations are flagged at copy-patrol.But am not sure about whether they constitute a violation or not.Cheers! Winged Blades Godric 05:19, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, You erased a substantial part of the article above under the generic argumentation that it was copyrighted. All the material mentioned was dully sourced and much of it was transcribed under my own words. I strongly disagree with this indiscriminate deletion under the generic argument of "copyright violation" and this subjective view of "small amount" of text. Have you really READ what you were deleting? I don't think so. Schoenstater ( talk) 14:45, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna I have read your comments and note that you have put a line through my edits on 26 May 2107 but not my edits on 25 May 2017. I'm not sure what you are wanting me to do. Could you please explain further. SeptimusDaisy ( talk) 05:31, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
I wonder if you could help me with something. There is a message in this article: "The article is translated from Hebrew: Brit, magazine of Moroccan Jews, volume 28, pages 62-67, Ashdod, 2009." in the first line of the References section.
This sounds like it might be a copyright violation, is that so?– CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:43, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. As a bit of an expert in dealing with copyright violations, I'm hoping you might be able to help me with Seaspan ULC. The report for the article suggests that significant parts of it are copied from quite a large number of sources, to the extent that it's difficult to identify all of the individual passages that are violations. What would you suggest that I do in this situation? Cordless Larry ( talk) 21:48, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I have disagreed with the editor who tagged Willie J. Hagan and expressed those concerns at Talk:Willie J. Hagan. I know you work regularly with this editor. But I would appreciate a pair of objective eyes, if you're comfortable possibly overriding him/her. Or if you'd rather just recuse yourself, let me know. Either way, I'd really appreciate outside looks. Many thanks! X4n6 ( talk) 22:46, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
The truth is, I knew that it was supposed to have that reference (that it was copied from the public domain), but I had no idea how to make it, and I figured someone would come along and fix it. Thank you for being that person :). Also, thanks for showing me how to make the template.
Ephraimhelfgot ( talk) 03:21, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thanks for your message, which is the first message I have received. I am new to Wikipedia and the learning curve is steep, especially regarding Wikipedia protocols for citing and referencing articles, so I value your input. I believe that I have referenced every source of information (something that I feel strongly about) but not necessarily in the correct Wikipedia format. Furthermore, I now know that I have not used quotation marks, or re-written referenced material to extent required by Wikipedia. Your message provided me with useful guidelines which I will use in future. Regards, Roget's Minion ( talk) 04:19, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Dainnaa good morning,
Thank you for correcting me. I am new and trying learn how to use wikipedia - it's hard.
Can you help me? I will truly appreciate.
Regards. Henia Perlman ( talk) 14:27, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa
I have read your mail regarding changes that I made to a Wikipedia reference. You have deleted my changes citing copyright infringement. I'm sorry but I just can't see this. The material I provided was all appropriately cited, and where other's material was used both fair use was applied and only public domain material was included.
I'm sorry, there seems to be a bit too much bullying happening here. First there was a complaint that the material violated neutral point of view material and now a copyright infringement argument is being used without actually showing which material you believe was infringed.
I think there are more sinsiter motives going on here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HolyOil ( talk • contribs) 14:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I have noticed that the
category:Articles with missing files contains many files today. Some of them, like
Abraham Moss tram stop, have a unique problem: they use "{{s-line|system=MML..." which needs
File:Manchester metrolink logo.PNG.
You deleted this file in 2013 because it was available on Commons. But it was deleted from Commons today, see
commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Manchester metrolink logo.PNG.
Is it possible, for you, to restore the initial file on the English Wikipedia?
Regards --
NicoScribe (
talk) 20:48, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
{{
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{{
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but getting the image to display within the s-line template is beyond my template-fu. —
Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 21:05, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey! First and foremost, thank you for your efforts in finding/revdel'ing articles with copyvio - you've done an incredible amount of work in that field and I feel that people dont appreciate admins enough for their work thinking that its their job to do what they do. Coming to the topic: Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham has had a history of copyvio edits in the last few days and I have a feeling its the same editor doing it over and over. A page protection might be in order along with a revdel to many past revisions. It'd be appreciated if you could take a look into this. Thanks in advance! Jiten Dhandha • talk • contributions • 11:01, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I have noticed that you seem to be the foremost expert on copyright violations. I have a question regarding recent changes at the article Swallow song of Rhodes. The article has, for a long time now, incorporated the original ancient Greek text of the song, which is in the public domain. User:DesdinovaUK recently added an English translation, copied directly from this webpage [7], without giving credit to the translator. I removed it, believing it to be a copyright violation, and left a comment on DesdinovaUK's talk page. DesdinovaUK restored the translation, this time giving credit to the translator in a citation at the end of the quotation. I modified this to give the translator credit by name in the text of the article itself. The translation is not in the public domain and is still under copyright protection. Does giving credit to the translator allow the translation to be used, or is it still a copyright violation? -- Katolophyromai ( talk) 16:53, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
Vin09 (talk) 03:30, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your inputs, Diannaa. Since you appear to be based in Alberta you might be forgiven for not being familiar with Australian copyright laws.
The text you have deleted was:
• pertaining to a legal sanction - where re-phrasing may not have been an appropriate way to retain the exact legal meaning of the text.
• sourced from a Commonwealth of Australia (i.e. federal government) web site (i.e. copyright but with Creative Commons, as standard). Source attribution was clear enough from footnotes. More on CC Australian Government copyright here: http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/government/
• also published using the same text in a media release. As you will know, media releases are explicitly designed to be used verbatim if necessary https://www.abcc.gov.au/sites/g/files/net2406/f/170331_notification_of_sanction_under_building_code_0.pdf et al.
Your deletion of the text in its entirety seems to be something of an over-reaction.
Also at User:Katelyn Sun (BYU)/sandbox3 which I can't figure out yet. That editor is a BYU employee. It probably comes from this or this. It was pretty much straight copyvio when added in 2008 but has been tinkered with, but is still obviously from the same source. What do you think? Just delete it all or rewrite? I don't have the time myself. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 14:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
I had significantly cleaned yo and cropped the wording-what must I do to see that included? ps surprised to see a pic of my hometown on your talkpage!-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 01:05, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Thank you Diannaa for telling me, i'll be aware on what i'll do. I had a hard time looking on how type it through here. Thanks for adding the attribution on to the page. - NightwingGuy ( talk) 18:47, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa
Thanks - yes, I didn't understand the Wikipedia policy about not adding information about yourself on a page about you. (I read the part "You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." on the US-engineer-stub too literally I think!).
Here was the original page about me (below). Perhaps we should just delete the current page and restore it back to the original? Given that I now understand the policy, I'd rather not have my name listed as the one adding the information - let someone else do that.
Hi, Diannaa,
I see “03:56, 27 May 2012 Diannaa protected Onomatopoeia.”
The “click it or ticket” entry was marked “Please clarify”, which I think I have done, but I don’t know exactly what was unclear to the person who so marked it. Perhaps you can take a look and let me know what you think. Woodlandtrail ( talk) 13:03, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for calling this to my attention. I have added what I believe to be the necessary acknowledgement. Please let me know if further improvements are required. I plan on eventually expanding the article and rewriting the sections taken verbatim from the 2012 US Census of Governments. Mpen320 ( talk) 15:03, 4 June 2017 (CST)
{{
PD-notice}}
as part of your citation,
like I did here. —
Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 20:08, 4 June 2017 (UTC)hello their
you will excuse me for skipping the pleasantry's here but i intend to be very forthright with you today and whilst i wish no offence to you personally (i do not know you after all) i wont be holding back my feelings on this matter either and i WILL be upfront about my intentions, im hoping you can respect that
now to brass tacks ...you recently reverted an article i wrote on Novar PLC
now just so you know this is the first article i have written and whilst i can understand and can respect the reasons why you removed it, i felt that i had changed quite a sizeable chunk of the information to make it fall under fair use, felt that the info itself was not copywrited material, felt i made proper citations and had already spent a sizeable amount of time (8 hours to be exact) trying to add to the community and be more productive
wasted hours that i WILL NOT be getting back any time soon, and to be frank ....i feel annoyed by with the way you have approached this issue
not because you reverted the article, having read your page i can see that this is your main field of expertise and you have done this before, but because you used what could be perceived as a threat, using bold text to scare me with bans and restrictions arbitrarily, without cause ...and without justification, and without taking my situation as a editing newbie into account in a satisfactory way, something that is CLEARLY stated on MY talk page ....i also feel you have ignored the talk protocol on the article in question and have tried to be judge jury and executioner, and that you have generally not followed a proper procedure or have made improper use of your moderating powers in the way you have executed this revert
now i feel that this is not a productive thing to do, this is not how you nurture newbies to wiki editing, and it is certainly not a good environment for people to learn in, and actively puts me off wanting to contribute in the first place, about a wide variety of subjects that i am knowledgeable in
put short i do feel you are NOT doing your job properly by simply reverting these pages and threatening with bans, and i am writing to let you know that i will not lie down and take it should you follow up on this, i am FULLY READY to report you to the proper authority's but i will personally see to it that your admin privileges are removed should i feel that anybody else is being bothered in an inappropriate way or anyone's right to edit this wiki is being restricted arbitrarily
now make no mistake this is not a threat to you personally nor do i wish it to be one, i do not know you personally and i wish no suffering over a minor slight i am simply stating my position and how i feel i should proceed given how i feel i have been treated
put short i am simply responding to your choice words on MY talk page, .....if i do not feel my banning was reasonable than i will pursue this route, i am currently doing so with someone called Nan over on the Tamil wiki for this VERY reason (again ...stated on my talk page) and whilst i have no desire to edit the wiki over their, i am perusing this simply because i feel that it isn't the point, ...i will not have someone slandering my name with a racism ban all because i kept reverting his edits to my home page and i am fully willing to defend my rights here if needs be .....this is just the kind of person i am
now i do not want to end this on an sour note, im just stating my position, and i feel i have been disrespected, but i am not unreasonable nor am i an asshole, in fact i am hoping you are not an unreasonable person and we can come to a compromise on this matter,
you see i feel this should have been brought up on the articles talk page .....where i posted an description of what i had done and asked for input, and the article should have been simply moved to a safe place to give me a chance to edit the article in accordance with community wishes, and possible attention should have been drawn to it as a violator of copywrite, but as it stands i feel i have lost hours of work because an admin decided to the law into their own hands
i feel better steps should be taken and that leaving one person to be judge should not be the way this wiki is run and i wish to take steps to assure this happens to no one else in my position, as it is demoralising, and down right insulting to people who are just trying to help
i suggest that in future you follow this path, and i in turn will endeavour to make better contributions, but i DO want the article back so i can make the necessary changes to comply with the wikis rules
i cannot currently access the page history and simply put i do not want to lose all that work i put into it and start from scratch since it took a lot of time and effort to learn how to do things properly and format it so that it looked like a wiki article, and i feel their must be a way i can access it
if you are going to inform me that their is no way this is feasible, rest assured i will continue to explore this possibility in other ways for future references but i am yet to decide how i will next proceed
i will leave the ball in your court as they say
kind regards
Tony Spike ( talk) 01:40, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Tony Spike ( talk) 17:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
i got it down to 30% and that is because the article has the same references .....witch i havent changed this entire time .....see if it gets removed again and if it does i give up and go back to minor edits ~ T. Spike ~|✉ 18:26, 9 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony Spike ( talk • contribs)
You had removed content from the above mentioned page on 04:14, 19 January 2017. I'd like to state that the article was written based on the source cited in your edit summary. I'd also like to point out that according to [8] , the content is copy-right free. An acknowledgement of reference, as required, will be added, if you can revert the content to the previous version. If I'm missing anything, please let me know. Also, if you feel that that the article is biased, please feel free to refer me to any person who is in a better place to write it. Cheers and thanks in advance.
Magnilonam ( talk) 07:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Magnilonam ( talk) 09:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
This may require some rev/del for copyright violations. Thanks and cheers, 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 13:38, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
The draft was restored by Anachronist including revisions with copyright violations. The February 2017 revisions should be redeleted or revdel'd. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 19:58, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
A new collection of copyright violations to be rev/deleted, dropped at your doorstep. Thank you, Diannaa. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 20:29, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
( Paroucheva ( talk) 04:03, 6 June 2017 (UTC))Your messgge 17 March 2017 No problem copyright Dear Diannaa, no copyright problem, I am the author of this artwork. Please not remover the picture. The website http://www.art-elena.com is my website. ( User talk:paroucheva)
Dear Diannaa , I will very much appreciate that you help address the issues raised by the warning tag in the article "Maryann Keller" here: /info/en/?search=Maryann_Keller . I appreciate very much your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Testingblog ( talk • contribs) 04:43, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, after I wrote my first articles, you put a warning of copyright on my talk page, and I appreciated it. I have a lot more experience now and I feel I am well schooled in this issue now. Would you be able to remove the notice from my page? I'm starting to be embarrassed by it, it is the old me and i am not that person anymore. I know I can edit it myself, but it would mean much more if you did it. Thank you. Soniamaddox ( talk) 07:03, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. I hope everything is well. Just a note to keep an eye on that article. Some recent additions were of very low quality. Take care. Dr. K. 12:07, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Where I got reverted by a sock within minutes. As I expected, this is going to get worse before it gets better. Dr. K. 12:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, another report offender for copyright violation, another rev/del necessary. Thanks and cheers, as always. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 20:07, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, could you please inform me of the recent spat of edits (and what I presume is some sort of admin lock) to the article Abu Mansur al-Maturidi's View History between (4 June 2017) and (18 April 2017). I'm unable to compare revisions (including my own after i reverted a user over WP:FIES). - DA1 ( talk) 21:49, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
I've reworded most content and was busy changing the table below, it wasn't just copying as you claimed. 58.187.168.230 ( talk) 22:58, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Didn't I specifically note this in the 19:06 edit from yesterday? Or is there another hurdle/step for attribution? It was content I added to one article and then to the other. I was the editor in both cases. Forgive my confusion -- even though I've been editing here for 11 years, I haven't much during the past 2-3 years. Thegreatdr ( talk) 23:12, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa hope your well? I need some feedback I created this article Comptroller of the Navy (Navy Board) and have attributed copied content under the OGL V3 compatible licencee and provided the source however another editor has tagged the article and stated his reasons on my talk page here User_talk:Navops47#Ways_to_improve_Comptroller_of_the_Navy_.28Navy_Board.29 I have replied to them outlining my reasons for creating it and have improved the lead at the top to indicate its an article about a British naval role but does the tag need to stay in place any feedback would appreciated. -- Navops47 ( talk) 05:54, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Please re-review page to see if it passes muster now. I trimmed and rewrote as best I can at the moment. Thanks. Yours, Quis separabit? 14:19, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
As to the copyright infringement in the Maurice Bishop article, if I change the wording and still include the notions would this violate the copyright; and if I am allowed to rephrase it would should I include the reference? Thanks for your help with this. Jzsj ( talk) 01:55, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello D. When I saw material being split off from the Akira Kurosawa article I made this edit and its summary and added this template to the talk page of the new article. I based those on the edits that you made after my post User talk:Diannaa/Archive 52#Move of material. Would you please double check that I have done things correctly and fix anything that needs it. I have also pinged you at the talk page of the editor that started the new page but I want to leave the details here as well. As ever thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 04:49, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Can you review this for copyright status. The text content was copied from here. It has a copyright symbol on the site but also claims public domain status. I've removed the rev del template but thought a review would be useful. TonyBallioni ( talk) 03:06, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thank you for bringing to my notice the copyright violation on my edit to the page Motilal Nehru College. I did not know expanding an article by copying information directly from the official website of the article in question is a violation of Wikipedia's content policy. I will be more careful anyway, and I hope I am not barred from anything, yet :) KakhoSimpson ( talk) 05:41, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
The other editor doesn't really seem to get the hint. ★Trekker ( talk) 04:49, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Hai Diannaa, thanks for bringing the issue of copy right on my edits in Tali Shiva Temple, will make necessary changes to answer the copy right issue. But please do not delete the article. Anilcalicut. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anilcalicut ( talk • contribs) 07:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa - Yes, I had inadvertently pasted some notes from my scratch file on my external editor rather than my copy that was on another page. It was corrected within two minutes, but I understand why that shouldn't happen. I think that may be the first time it's happened in ten years. Theclevertwit ( talk) 09:34, 11 June 2017 (UTC)theclevertwit
Dear diannaa,
Hello Diannaa,
Thank you for your message. Which part of the the article did you identify as being a copyright violation? I quoted a section of it, which I included in "quote" marks but not using blockquote Wiki markup. I can change that of course. I am more concerned if what I thought was rephrasing of the New York Times article was detected as being copy-paste. Please let me know what passage you were specifically referring to, and I will remediate the issue.-- FeralOink ( talk) 15:27, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Ah, I see now, from the difference logs on the article revision history! Okay, I will work on that now. Thank you!-- FeralOink ( talk) 15:30, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
I am back. I don't know what was deleted because the deletion history was removed from public view. I don't remember what I wrote on those sections, since I spent most of the day learning and writing about Khuzami. That's okay, as the article flow still seems fine. I will just leave everything as is.-- FeralOink ( talk) 15:43, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know about the copyright problem on the Hilton Schilder article. It goes to show how good google translate is. I used google translate to translate the German de:Hilton Schilder article. Clearly the German author of that article used Google translate to go from the english [ http://www.marcocarnovale.com/2013/12/cape-town-tour-and-music.html] to German. I didn't even know that article existed. Wayne Jayes ( talk) 17:13, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your info on my talk page User talk:VicGuy#Copyright problem on Site C dam. I appreciate your efforts and changes, but I don't think my own edits copied any copyrighted material - I take great pains to avoid that. The article looks good now, although I can't compare my edits to previous versions because the last year or so of changes are struck through. Thanks and cheers, VicGuy ( talk) 22:42, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diana. The page you deleted was not from the page of this ERFA website you mentioned. Only a partial description as they are also a member of the association was taken by them from a 3rd source. It was a skeleton for a more thorough article and I wanted to add the different sources. At least it would have been nice to talk to me before asking for the deletion of the article. Thanks. molui ( talk) 09:57, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Good evening. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I thought that it can be used with information of the page as reference. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks ! Captain Nikitakis ( talk) 13:44, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, could you take a look at the Site C Dam dam Revision history, the diffs are not available prior to your edit ??? Dougmcdonell ( talk) 17:47, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
I work for an organization and you deleted significant parts of our Wikipedia page Chuckchaney ( talk) 01:49, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
For FC Wichita. I put out a very thorough history section and about our crest. It was deleted, not even flagged.
First of all, I fully understand that apparent copyright issues may come up on occasion, and more power to those that fix them. However, changes to the content should remain traceable. As you have simply deleted some edits in the article Fyling Hall railway station instead of editing normally, you have made it impossible for me to see what exactly was wrong with my contribution, and to retrace your changes. Instead, it would have been much better if you had edited the article normally. It is well possible that some of the formulations were very close to those on the website which I cited, but I believe the text was properly attributed by the citation. As it is, I shall never know what the real problem was because of your deletions. If you had fixed this issue in a traceable way, I would even have thanked you for doing so, but so, I cannot, because now I have to go back and see what information might have been lost in the process. It is not much work in this case, but it could have been done more efficiently. Next time, just flag the issue and give the original contributors time to fix it themselves. -- Schlosser67 ( talk) 05:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Hey, Diannaa! Thank you very much for the information on copyright violation. I was unaware at the time of how strict Wiki was on potential copyright violations and I hope I haven't been banned from editing. I completely understand that I likely made an error in overusing the phrasing of the Fayette County website. Is there a way I can get the article back so as to rewrite it for you? So sorry to have caused any potential legal issues for Wikipedia or any trouble for you in having to fix my mistake. I'm sure you have a lot of mistakes to fix. I certainly won't let it happen again.
I hope I haven't been too much extra work for you.
Thank you again, Ellagracecastro ( talk) 00:00, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
For your tireless, never-ending work against vandalism. Keira 1996 02:15, 14 June 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you! — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 12:00, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Good afternoon. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I thought that it can be used with information of the page as reference. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks! Robbie2448 ( talk) 19:47, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Good evening. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks! Robbie2448 ( talk) 19:49, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
The IPs are at it again. Maybe it's time for semi-protection. Strawberry4Ever ( talk) 02:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I came across Timothy Steele while doing some non-free image checking for possile WP:NFCC#1 problems. I'm almost positive that the image needs to go, but I am also concerned about Timothy Steele#Selected work. Would this be considered a copyright violation even though it is supported by a citation? It seems to be something which is not allowed per WP:COPYQUOTE and WP:POETRY#Quoting from poems and copyright issues, but I'm not sure. - Marchjuly ( talk) 04:38, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
A request for comment has been filed concerning the username of Cantdecideifimgonnacollidewithhopeormakemybridetheropeorjusthideinthedope ( talk · contribs). You are invited to comment on the discussion here. Linguist talk| contribs 13:43, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! I'm here because I think you've made a mistake of deleting my information on "Alien Costume Saga" because I didn't copy it from any website. You see I recently got a book called "The Amazing Spider-Man: The Saga of the Alien Costume" and I was just using the information of what I know. I just didn't have enough information about "Alien Costume Saga" because the book only contains stories from The Amazing Spider-Man #252-259. It didn't even have the story from "Web of Spider-Man #1" where Spider-Man have his final confrontation with the symbiote in the church. I'm telling you the truth. I didn't get that information from any website. But I do need help writing "Alien Costume Saga" on Wikipedia. How can you help me? talk 10:09, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
You deleted a link to a BBC news page for "copyright" reasons? I don't understand this. Wikipedia is full of references to websites which might be said to be the subject of copyright. Is there something special about this one? I genuinely don't understand. Regards Ironman1104 ( talk) 15:04, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
I think I now realise what you might be on about. What about fair dealing? Source fully acknowledged. Ironman1104 ( talk) 15:07, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Sorry Diannaa, I will add CC-by-SA Vorpzn ( talk) 22:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa. I'm a fan of women's soccer and I've been creating and improving articles related to the theme. I also follows some pages about women's soccer. Recently, I saw some pictures of some players which articles lacks a picture. I did contact the copyright owners and they are very willing to upload the pictures on Wikipedia, since they are also enthusiasts of the sport. However, they are asking me several question and I'm not an expert on the theme. I would like to know if there's some way they can contact you or some other admin, who can answer their questions. So, they can find out, if they want or not upload the pictures under Wikipedia License. Because, I don't want to give them any wrong information.-- SirEdimon ( talk) 05:15, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna thanks for your message, but I am the admin of the snuproject.wordpress.com, would it solve the issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OrsanS ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, I am in the process of making the Wikipedia page for Galapagos Conservancy more robust, and received your message that my recent edits were in violation of copyright. As the President and founder of the organization, it was not on my radar that I would be in violation of any of Wikipedia's policies, since much of the text I am including is content that I have written at one point in time. But if I am understanding the policy correctly, I still need to provide citations (from our website, for example?) on text that I am citing -- is that correct? Can you please provide more guidance as to how we can best align with Wikipedia's policies and restore our page, or let me know specifically what you found to be in violation of Wikipedia’s copyright policy? Thank you in advance for your help.
Johannah Barry ( talk) 16:46, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa,
Thank you very much for your responses here:
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Bfujiy#Wikipedia_and_copyright
I've modified Rojas-Suarez's bio according to the Wiki policies you pointed out. I hope everything conforms now. Regards,
Bfujiy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bfujiy ( talk • contribs) 18:14, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Can you please advise on this GA review, Talk:G_(New_York_City_Subway_service)/GA1 there is a possible copyright issue and I don't want to act without guidance, thank you. Seraphim System ( talk) 19:20, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
this is the photo on flickr linked to in the article. It now says public domain, but the archived version says All Rights Reserved and the source for our file is an ebay listing — none of our editors have claimed credit for it, and it hasn't been verified through the usual Flickr upload process.
[9] this is our file
Kew Gardens 613 Has posted links for the ebay source to the GA review page. I don't want to pass the review until one of our admins has approved the file, thanks Seraphim System ( talk) 19:36, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I've noticed you've cleaned up some copyvios by MSENDER007. This article was created by that user. I've attributed in edit summary the parts of the page that were copied from other Wikipedia articles and rewritten pretty much everything else, and I think it may be prudent to revdelete old versions, as the article was rife with 1-2 sentence copyvios and close paraphrases ( see here). Daß Wölf 01:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for sending me a message about your concerns. The text is an official statement of faith from http://an-open-letter.org/en/our-faith not the campus website (they copied it as all statements of faiths by religious organizations are copied because of the precise wording). How to you propose representing the Local Church statement of faith without copying it? I believe it is a key piece of information to the article, as there have been questions on these very issues about the group. Thanks!
Hello Diannaa, This was very helpful. How can I retrieve the work I did up to this date? Is it cached somewhere or did we lose it entirely. Johannah Barry ( talk) 16:01, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Dianna
It's me Martimc123.
I need to unbur, to talk with you, because this whole thing started when I made my first article and it felt good, but at the time I didn't know about the policies and at the time because I want to let the readers know about puroresu, but the time I didn't saw and care, because I tought that it was all editing.
Then, I when they started to put the speedy deletion notices, I started to delete it as you know, then you blocked me.
Then I started to create many accounts because I wanted to get my articles recognized but instead I did it the wrong way.
I started to repost them without contacting any admin, and they started to get speedy delete and I tought you admins were trying to get my articles deleted and enimes when you were trying to help.
One day, I was so furious that I tried to get into Ribbon Salminen's account only at the time, but then he told me to wait only six months and do the WP:SO and I started to wait, then in December I returned and I did some of the old basics, but then I got blocked, I tried to ask for an unblcok and it was told me again and I waited, but the thing is in mid Mrach, April of this year, I return editing, and I wanted to make WhatCultutre Pro Wrestling but it was deleted all because they tought that I was a sockpuppet of some guy called "Dwdpuma". Then I wanted to make that goal possible and I pretended to be this "Dwdpuma@ and I asked an unblock on his account without knowing anything about him but I failed.
And it can be hard to belive in me, but I'm telling the truth and I'm being sincere and honest with you.
Although I did sockpuppetry, although I did copyright, although I removed notices, altough I pretended to be someone that I don't know but only with propose of wanting of contribute, to get my articles recognized and be the gratest contributor ever, that's my goal.
That's why I need to ask you one last chance, I waited 6 months, I know that the things that I did were not the way to show my good faith but please I don't want to wait anymore, I just want to contribute, it is hard to belive in me but you have to belive in me, I learned my lesson, and the block is no longer needed, I really want want to contribute.
So please give me one last chance.
I promise if you give you give, you will not regret it and I will make my goal happening and make useful and big contributions, but if don't give it, I understand, probably I wasn't made to this, and you are in your right if you don't want to unblock me, I failed with you and that's what I deserve.
Sorry for what I did, I hope you understand. :(
Thanks for your time
109.49.183.212 (
talk) 21:18, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa,
The company asked me to draft a Wikipedia page for them, but it was speedily deleted from Wikipedia, saying that the page was a direct copy from their company website. The photos uploaded are also come from their website, but Wikipedia does not allow me to upload. What can I do to let Wikipedia knows that I am authorized and appointed by the company? I have sent an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Thank you!
Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 20:41, 20 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katiecpy ( talk • contribs)
Hello Diannaa, Thank you for the update on the profile of Godwin Obaseki i edited earlier. I would like to know if you have taken time to review the content. This is the correct and complete profile of the man. Also i probably will stop editing as it seems like editing on Wikipedia would be a waste of time writing and rewriting. It cost me time to do the voluntary writing and it may be better that i submit to my personal blog than the reverts i am getting writing for Wikipedia.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Debravura ( talk • contribs) 07:25, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa
It's me Martimc123 again
I need to talk with you, I still have some questions, how can I get unblocked?
How can I gain your thrust back and proove you wrong?
Also, how can I contact you further without using the IP thing?
P.s: Please don't block this IP, because it is from a café, also the IP that I'm using is not avoid, simply I changed my home network, that's why I am using that IP since June.
Thanks for your time
82.154.211.153 ( talk) 13:18, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
As to how to return to Wikipedia editing, please read Wikipedia:Standard offer — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 13:49, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
You say:
Hello Bíró Dávid, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Ilka Gedő have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder.
This is not true. I have not used any copyrighted material without permission.
Please highlight the cases where I use passages written by someone (including me somewhere else).
I even rewrote the timeline making it much shorter and using different language from the timeline that is available at the end of my memoir. I added a considerable number of references indicating, for example, that the two Glasgow exhibitions did take place. Bíró Dávid ( talk) 14:14, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna,
I am new to Wikipedia and so may well have got some things wrong but are you able to add the material you delete from the Grindlays Bank page to my sandbox. This way I can make the necessary edits rather than having to start from scratch?
Andrew Fletcher 21/06/17 — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewFletcher ( talk • contribs) 14:55, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
You say:
The content had still had a very significant overlap with the material already available at http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/.
This is not true, as I highlighted all the parts that I have taken from my own work. Then I deleted all these parts a rewrote the article.
You say:
Regardless of the copyright issue, adding unsourced material from your own blog is inadequate sourcing for our purposes.
I have not added any unsourced material. I rewrote the article in Hungarian, then with the help of a native speaker, we rewrote the article.
I don't have a blog. So I could not have taken any materials therefrom. As regards sourcing I substantially increased sourcing. I quote five British newspaper articles on Ilka Gedő's exhibition. Plus I backed up the fact that there was the second exhibition at Glasgow's Third Eye Centre with direct reference to Third E+ye Centre's website plus I quite the poster of this exhibition from Wikipedia Commons.
When I used, even more, sourcing referring to published studies by art historian, then you deleted these quotes saying that the length of quotes must not exceed a certain percentage of the total length of the article.
You say: We require independent sourcing in reputable newspapers, websites, or books.
This is just what I do, or did in the past. Bíró Dávid ( talk) 17:44, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
If I choose option 2, how long do I have to wait. Does choosing option 2 have the same implications as choosing option 1
If permission is granted, can I re-add materials copied from http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/?
Can I add sources backing up information about the first Glasgow exhibition, i.e. about the fact that there was an exhibition in 1985 in Glasgow.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Can I add information backing up the fact that there was a second Glasgow exhibition thus showing
that I am not lying.
Exhibition poster
thumb|Gedő Ilka-kiállìtás plakátja, Glasgow, Third Eye Centre, 1989-1990.
Thanks for your time. Bíró Dávid ( talk) 18:47, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
References
If I choose option 2 (Option 2: If the copyright holder adds a compatible license to the source web page, the material from that website can be re-added to the article right away. Note that you do not control the article, and any editor is free to remove material or re-write the article to conform to Wikipedia standards and style.) can I then return to the status that prevailed around the beginning of March (3 March), prior to your blocking me from access to Wikipedia editing? Also I would like to ask you whether I can add sourcing backing up the fact that there was an exhibition in 1985 of IG in Glasgow and that there was also a second, much bigger exhibition of IG in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow at the turn of 1989 and 1990.
Once again thanks for your patience and time. Bíró Dávid ( talk) 19:38, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, again (from a long time ago). I've learned a lot since the last discussions about using Wikipedia, etc. But I now noticed the revisions I had made (that were since deleted) are now also deleted from the revision history. Do you know if there's any way I could get at least one of those (the most complete one) back for my own records of that text? Thank you for any and all help. This is regarding this page and the revisions from May 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lia_Halloran&action=history Best, Adam
Dear Diannaa,
I thank you for your warning, as you can see it's the first time I try to contribute to Wikipedia so I was not aware of all the rules to follow. This notwithstanding, the article I linked and quoted on the page regarding Behcet's Disease is an Open Access pubblication of which I am author. Does this make any difference or do I still have to reword/rephrase the paragraph? Thanks for the advices
Lorenzo — Preceding unsigned comment added by LorenzoM88 ( talk • contribs) 05:51, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there Diannaa, Yes - the content was lifted from a third party. However, the current article contains nothing of the risks that can be associated with rauvolfia serpentina, and whilst appearing neutral, appears to offer positive support to using it in medication. This is not my field, but I suggest that you or another editor do something quickly to remedy the lack of substantive medical information that we have about the rauvolfia serpentina. ( 20040302 ( talk))
Hello again Diannaa. When you have time, could you take a quick look at this edit and give me your view on whether a quote that long violates copyright rules? Thanks in advance! Cordless Larry ( talk) 09:57, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
You just deleted the talk page redirect from my bot's page to my talk page with your recent G8 deletion blitz. I might suggest going back through those deletions you just made to make sure they all fit G8 policy. You made nearly 30 deletions in 60 seconds. 2 seconds per deletion is a bit fast. IronGargoyle ( talk) 01:35, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Battle of Emmendingen has been static for a while, until I tweaked some of the text about the battle and put it into GA consideration. I've tweaked it more (bringing it down to 59%), but I suspect it is more likely the copyright vio goes the other way. auntieruth (talk) 14:11, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for nuking the prior installment of copy-pasting from this school's website. An IP came along today and reintroduced content from here: [10]. I reverted solely based on the meaninglessness of the promotional content, perhaps thinking someone would have learned a lesson about copyright. It appears to me that all edits postdating your revdel are now tainted by copyvio yet again. Thanks as ever for your assistance! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 19:24, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna,
I work at SoundSpectrum Inc. and have permission to update a very old and inaccurate Wiki! Perhaps I am just not aware of the correct way for us here at SoundSpectrum to take more responsibility for the content on Wikipedia. Can you point me in a good direction for legitimizing our edits?
Brandon SoundSpectrum— Preceding unsigned comment added by Artisinformation ( talk • contribs) 19:12, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
I have the feeling you made some kind of mistake on Asher Crispe. Speaking only for myself, why was the edit in which I added a category removed? Debresser ( talk) 20:35, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there,
In regards to the Marc-Louis Solon page, I think I might have added or changed a couple of words here and there, but I didn't copy and paste any text from an outside website into this wikipedia page. I had never even seen the website you linked. I was only trying to make the page flow better since previously all of the career information was contained in the introduction. Now I am remembering that I think I added in some extra information from an existing wikipedia page, pate-sur-pate, is that the text you are referring to? Is adding information from another wiki page not allowed? That page also discuses Solon's life, and hasn't been edited for a while, so I thought it was fair information to use. I believe I even changed the language so that it wasn't a direct copy from the pate-sur-pate page. Can you please clarify? The website you linked, http://jansantiques.com/Lot/jac1896.php, looks like a literal copy and paste from the pate-sur-pate Wikipedia page. It is not the website owner's own words, it is only copy and pasted text from an existing wikipedia page.
Also, why is this my final warning? I'm new at this editing thing so there will likely be some trial and error, but I've never repeated the same mistake, and I am personally trying to improve these pages and not doing anything with malicious intent.
Thank you. -- Olivia4nier ( talk) 13:34, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I was recently led into believing that a COPYVIO programme you and TonyBallioni are working on automatically checks new articles for blatant copyvio in the way that the Coren bot used to. Maziar Heidari, a new page I just came across, seems to be evidence that this is not so. If there is something I'm missing, please let me know. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:15, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
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15:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your work on Aging (journal). Please see [14] for a sockpuppet investigation I have opened regarding recent edits on that page. - Dan Eisenberg ( talk) 16:18, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
You are ruining my day here. Kindly respond and do the needful asap. Anand.abhishek73 ( talk) 21:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, the information you removed from LGBT rights in communism page was from Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Volume 2 - Marxism, per the citation. http://dyneslines.blogspot.ca/2013/02/c10.html had copied and pasted it onto his blog. Could you reinstate my edit? -- Plasticaxes ( talk) 00:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
== Your A10 Speedy ==
Hi, Diannaa - Just curious... are admins unable to delete articles such as in the case of Marian Veevers? I'm thinking maybe DGG, as with me, didn't realize Anna Dean was a duplicate except for the mention of her pen name. There's no valid reason it shouldn't be a redirect, so why are we wasting time at AfD? Atsme 📞 📧 17:42, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like you to assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not do on Union Public Service Commission. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. The use or WP:RD1 is not suitable as seen in the redaction done on https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Union_Public_Service_Commission&direction=prev&oldid=787408078 version of the page. Multiple good-revisions are redacted with this commit of yours. Use appropriate methods for such cases. Anand.abhishek73 ( talk) 19:59, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
The Civility Barnstar | |
For bearing with me while I may have had gone grumpy. Anand.abhishek73 ( talk) 23:03, 27 June 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you for your comments. Wikicotilla ( talk) 00:30, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa
Yes Some statements have been copied, but not completely quote and some statement have been corrected and write properly.
http://www.mfzly.com/en/index-php-en (web page) link, you can add it as the quote — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enaro ( talk • contribs) 11:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Alerting of of this situation since you're online and every article Jaxhks has created seems to be a G12 copyvio of the presidents of Davidson College. I tagged seven myself as G12, and am going to spot check non-creation edits now. TonyBallioni ( talk) 14:23, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
what ????? i have cited the publication the artacal appeared in year and month as advised to do when i asked on the editor irc channel and used an extract of that,lengthy piece that is over 50 years old ,Yes people can go to the navy archives and read the whole thing and that is to give a flavour of the information in that archive .
As to punctuation "" , ect, Not a collage kid i am an ex member of the service the RNMSW became the RNXS However i am dislexic and have to read thought it dozens of time to correct such errors as i have been doing and you just destroyed all that work ....thanks
All in all this has been a pretty disappointing experience, i see no point in continuing trying to help update wiki as requested in there mission statement.when it come to an historical entry's, as this is.Where very little information survives, you even deleted the Winston Churchill entry that was correctly attributed in HANSARD this over the top approach to this "Alleged" CR infringement" over something printed over 50 years ago is detrimental to wiki`s mission statement, .i used an "extract from what are lengthy piece in the navy news, cited dated and that not good enough, the recruiting posters 0ver 50 years old and PD as per the copywrite rule i used
strangely i was discussing getting the page updated from a stub given the amount of new information added when the message appeared from you i guess --Dixon hill (talk) 19:56, 28 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dixon hill ( talk • contribs)
The artical was printed in the NAvy news in 1952 {{
PD-UKGov}}
) the site you had the link to copied the same artical they dont have copywrite as it was in the navy news {{
PD-UKGov}}
) so not sure what your objection is --
Dixon hill (
talk) 20:49, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you
i appreciate the quick resolution --
Dixon hill (
talk) 21:05, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
As i mentioned i was on the IRC channel asking if this could be upgraded from a stub given the amount of new information , i was directed to the wiki entry to do that, but i cant make heads nor tales of it (thats my dislexia) would you agree that enough information has been added to remove the stub and if so i think from my understanding an editor has to do it but it does not make clear (to me anyway) what kind of editor one like me or a approved editor ?--
Dixon hill (
talk) 21:21, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Circular Yellow Cable surmounted by Naval Crown and Panel inscribed R N X S Enclosing Mine Exploding in Heraldic Sea against Blue background1954-1962.
This is actually a important bit ,it relates to the way the flag was official diesined by the navy using heraldic imagery this flag was altered in 1962 for the amalgamation and renaming to rnxs when the service was renamed this design specification proves navy providence ie that they are the same flag with a name changed approved under Royal warrant -- Dixon hill ( talk) 21:38, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for resizing the image i wanted to but could not figure it out ,i will add it back and see how it looks on the page ,i might just put a section related to the flag in the text for this entry and the RNXS entry that has the unpdated flag and description of its Navy design specs seems like a good compromise ? -- Dixon hill ( talk) 22:23, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
You've truly done a lot of work on Nazi Germany.
But do you also enjoy the old-fashioned Germany? [15]
- New account 2 ( talk) 22:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
If they haven't already been implemented at your library, take a look at Vufind or Encore. - New account 2 ( talk) 22:42, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for adding what you did. But I thought I covered the issue in the edit summary of the Ducks, geese, and waterfowl section, the first edit which inserted text from other pages. Craigthebirder ( talk) 22:51, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Last December you deleted several tracking category pages I was setting up. (Such as "M_0".) As near as I understand, this was for reason "C1: Empty category (TW)". Or perhaps it was because I may not have added the proper headers. At any rate, I hope there is no objection to restoring them. These are for tracking various uses of a template ({{ M}}), some of which are rather obscure and likely not to be seen for some time. (All the more reason to track them, so we can see when they are used.) If being empty is a potential problem, is there any way to flag the category page to prevent it from being deleted? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 04:59, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
permission via OTRS ticket. Dlohcierekim ( talk) 19:53, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
I apologise for not doing this correctly but I did do the original post and I am his official representative and publicist so all that was written was in my own words and I have the authority to edit it where I see fit. It was just very outdated and I am attempting to update it. Please can you re-instate what I did because it took a while! Regards, Lesley Wells 165.145.204.209 ( talk) 15:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia. There are a couple of problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.
The second problem is conflict of interest. Working on an article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. I have already placed some information about conflict of interest and paid editing on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 16:42, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
I noticed you left a notice on User:Johnny Brockman's talk page, regarding 2024 and 2028 Olympic article issues. He also persists in removing or moving the copyvio template on Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics despite being warned to leave it alone. He doesn't seem to think the massive plagiarism is from a number of sources, notably the Los Angeles Times, is any big deal, and has repeatedly removed the template to make edits to the article. He's been referred to the Copyright problems page, but if he's doing anything to remove or otherwise address the plagiarism, it's not being communicated to other editors via the article talk page or edit summaries. I'm put a couple warnings on his talk page, but so far, it's done no good. He'll respond, but he's determined to have his own way. I've just reverted another mass of edits with a template move, and warned him to work with other editors not just do what he wants, but thus far, it hasn't penetrated. I'm dropping this here as a heads up; if he persists, a time-out for disruptive editing might be in order. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 18:27, 30 June 2017 (UTC)