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I apparently didn't do a good job with the International Home and Housewares Show page because you deleted it for copyright infrigement. How do I cite it so it isn't? I do have permission to put the information up....Please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by LizGere ( talk • contribs) 15:37, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, Permission is in the works right now!
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Hi, I just noticed that about five weeks ago you removed most of the content of this article, see here. The guy who originally added that content was the main autor of that book: Donald G. Firesmith, active as User:DonFiresmith. Could you shortly explain how to proceed in a situation like this? -- Mdd ( talk) 21:30, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I appreciate the help. Regards, DSRH | talk 15:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
It looks like I am going to have to just create stub articles now instead of trying to create real articles with multiple sources and expanded content. There is no longer any need for me to waste my time creating longer articles just to have a note accusing me of copyright infringement pop up each time, which then leads to content being removed that makes it a stub again. Its a shame because I enjoyed writing articles on the unique communities of Texas, but since I can't get those right anymore, I'll have to find something else to work on. -- Acntx ( talk) 19:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC).
And no rush whatsoever, would you mind looking over Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins? I've done a major overhaul to that today (used to look like this), and feedback would be welcome. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 03:07, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
For the e-mail, yes please. Note that I'm actually on business travels this week and probably will have only extremely limited Wiki-time :( MLauba ( talk) 12:49, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Evaluating Capital offences in the People's Republic of China, it occurred to me that you might find this useful: Wikisource:Help:Public domain. Certainly, I do. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:24, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Knowing that you are busy this week, I wanted to ask your opinion on Pells Pool. I believe this constitutes an abridgment (and hence a copyvio) of [1]. It contains syntax and language from the original. I wanted to know whether you thought this merited a {{ close paraphrasing}} or a {{ copyvio}} (and will not be offended if you use whichever of those may seem appropriate to you when you read it, if one does.) Thanks. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:46, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
greetings MLauba,
I've been looking over the [Spyros Vassiliou] page, which was flagged for speedy deletion and commented by you. I am related by marriage to this artist and recognize the username of the author of the page: he is the grandson of the artist and likely one of the authors of the original material. I've alerted him to the warnings on the page and expect him to respond. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for your concern.
Carpentis ( talk) 01:14, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Whoot! Look at you, using your powers for good. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:59, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
The part we've been talking about now reads simply: "WP:Copyright violations and WP:Copyrights: I'd prefer to let Moonriddengirl, MLauba and others who have followed the page closely classify these in whatever way works best for them." If you like, you can wait and see how the discussion plays out at VPP before making your call. (Watching) - Dank ( push to talk) 15:49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
⇌ Jake Wartenberg 07:15, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
I'll let you know if I get any useful information along those lines. When dealing with student assignments, I'd expect that a primary motivation for plagiarism/copyvio is the traditional "the easiest way to complete an assignment" motivation. After all, so many teachers don't check for it consistently or carefully enough... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:48, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I for one appreciate your butting in, because I was about to ask for your help. :) I'm heading out of town tomorrow, and this is likely to need assistance from a copyvio admin while I'm gone. Can you help out a bit? Especially with the one I've just tagged, I think one of the contributors has truly not understood copyright concerns, given that she started with quotation marks and removed them later after minimally altering the material. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:14, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I have listed articles that need review on Moonriddengirl's talk page, I'll try to review them myself today but any help is always appreciated - more eyes, less bugs. I am thinking about telling all the students who committed copyvios to write an essay on why did they do it and what they have learned as part of their amends. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:02, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
If you get a chance, can you manually transclude SCV to the CP daily pages? Otherwise, Dumbbot will duplicate the SCV listings. :) I hope that somebody will help us with that soon. I left a note at Schutz's French userpage on the 22nd ( fr:Discussion_utilisateur:Schutz#Zorglbot_request) asking for the code, which so far he seems to be ignoring: [5]. Who knows? Maybe even though it seemed like a simple request, it's actually nightmarishly hard. If after I come back from Thanksgiving there's been no communication, I suppose I will ask if Zorglbot can be replaced at CP. I don't know what else to do. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:06, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I believe :) If you could answer this, I'd appreciate it. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:47, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 01:47, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I think I sort of know what happened; I just never saw this before. I think I owe you a thanks, so thank you! Drmies ( talk) 05:50, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Basket of Puppies 23:21, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 20:51, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
I have reached new heights of "failure to be brief." Sorry. :( -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:13, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
By the way, ML -- in re-reading the discussion, I realize now that this move (my asking Stifle for confirmation on the OTRS ticket) may have seemed like I didn't trust you. It certainly might have come across as an insult. However, I simply didn't know that you had volunteered over at OTRS. Just one of those several gazillion WP happenings, I miss during my absences. If I had known that, I would have discussed the OTRS possibilities directly with you. I want you to know that I have complete faith in your opinions, and any perceived slight was inadvertent. Just chalk it up to my own bumbling methods. Sorry about that. — CactusWriter | needles 13:37, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your correction of my erroneous methods in disambiguating Water Cure (torture) from Water cure (therapy), and your message on the same. In full accordance with Murphy's Law, after completing the merge, I did actually come across info about the Move process while reading around to see if there was anything else I needed to do to in relation to the move. "Eh? What?", I thought to myself, "so that's what the 'Move' tab can be used for". It certainly did look to be an easier process, and I rather wish I'd kept exploring beforehand. In my attempts to balance the trade-off between reading around and getting things done, I got that one wrong, and I thank you for your correction of it, and your message.
I did consider creating a disambiguation page, and I think it was in reading around on that process that I came across the relevant material on the 'Move' process. I didn't know if I could justify creating a disambiguation page, even though I know that readers would benefit, since most searches on 'Water Cure' are indeed prompted by interest in the therapeutic aspect. It seems almost impossible not to stumble on the 'water cure' term in readings on health from almost any direction - medical, 'alternative medicine', anthropology, sociology, history, etc, whereas in years of reading around, my first ever encounter with the torture definition was via the Wikipedia article.
So thanks again for your efforts at both correction and education. Nice work. Wotnow ( talk) 17:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
I remember now one reason I held off on creating the disambiguation page for Water cure. The Water cure (therapy) article is very impoverished, and I realised at the outset that after taking care of the confusion over 'Water Cure', sorting out the Water cure (therapy) article would logically follow.
The likely outcome of such attention would be a merge of the 'Water cure (therapy)' article into the Hydrotherapy article, since they are essentially one and the same. Water cure as a term has long been interchangeable with 'hydropathy', the earlier term for hydrotherpay, with both water cure and hydropathy becoming more historical terms as time went on. So any attempt to develop the 'Water cure (therapy)' article will inevitably result in two articles [hydrotherapy and 'Water cure (therapy)'] on the same topic.
I knew this from the outset, when I first proposed the solution to the confusion over 'Water Cure' - i.e. start with the definition and go from there. But the torture versus therapy issue was primary (you can't have readers genuinely seeking information, and getting railroaded into one particular viewpoint just because that article got the drop on another article - that's not education, that's marketing, and sometimes worse), and indeed was clouding the 'Water cure (therapy)' = 'Hydrotherapy' issue.
I also knew that the Hydrotherapy article needed improvement. And it struck me that it would probably be better to improve the Hydrotherapy article before picking up on any proposal to merge the Water cure (therapy) article into the Hydrotherapy article.
One question that arises in relation to any future merge of the 'Water cure (therapy)' article into the Hydrotherapy article, is what would happen to the disambiguation page. In my view, there would still be a need for disambiguation, since searchers are still going to look up the term 'water cure', mostly - but doubtless not exclusively - expecting to find something on therapy. Wotnow ( talk) 18:41, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
A brief update, for I have no desire to give the impression of wanting to occupy your entire attenton, nor generate a talkfest.
I have just realised that any merge of Water cure (therapy) into Hydrotherapy need not negate the disambiguation page (I have already outlined above why it wouldn't negate the need for disambiguation, but that still left the question of the page). It would just be a matter of bolding the term Water cure (therapy), and de-linking it. Since the link to Hydrotherapy is already in the sentence, the sentence itself doesn't even need to change, as an interested reader will most certainly click on the link. So on thinking it through, I've raised a non-issue, for which I apologise. But at least the process of thinking it through is documented for the sake of other readers. Wotnow ( talk) 21:50, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
You'll probably see it anyway, but here it is. Based on my recent experiences and discussions with my students. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:33, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Since you passed over Sociology of health and illness, I'm not entirely sure: does it still need review? The templates have been removed. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:14, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. This is the only one still pending on December 2nd. I'm not quite sure what to do with it. I presume that the paraphrase does not constitute a copyvio, or you would have blanked it, but if I just remove the daily listing it will keep returning to us, like a bad penny. :) I haven't found the close paraphrasing myself, but like you I'm kind of scrambling with my schedule right now and haven't read the whole pdf. I scanned it (mechanically) for striking words. If you can point out to me the section where close paraphrasing begins, I'll take a stab at revising the material so we can get rid of the listing for good. I'm loathe to just rewrite the section without finding it, because I'm afraid that I will accidentally make it worse. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I'd be very grateful for a second pair of eyes on Talk:School for Creative and Performing Arts/Temp. The contributor has put a lot of work into the article and is working to repair copyright issues. However, I have picked up some duplication and close paraphrasing to various sources, which I have set out at Talk:School for Creative and Performing Arts/Temp (some of the examples there are more concerning than others). I would appreciate your input on the degree to which this represents a problem and what should be done to address it. I have been communicating with him primarily at his talk page.
Can you take a look when convenient? Please? :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:39, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
MLauba ( talk) 11:36, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
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Had a piece of major RL trainwreck to deal with, I'm sorta-kinda around, haven't had a chance to look at my e-mails yet, will begin work down my backlogs this weekend a bit. Sorry about this. MLauba ( talk) 01:53, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi MLauba!
I am currently looking for an article that appeared in the dead tree version of the Tages-Anzeiger, to verify a citation in a Wikipedia article. The article doesn't seem to be publicly available online. Are you aware of any way to access copies of TA articles that have appeared in print? Thanks, decltype ( talk) 00:15, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC re: a 'Motion to close', which would dissolve Cda as a proposal. The motion includes an !vote. You have previously commented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Administrator/Admin Recall. Best Wishes for the Holidays, Jusdafax 06:37, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi MLauba,
ich habe eine neue Version des englischen Barbara Buchholz Artikels geschrieben, wie vorgeschlagen, auf einer temporären Talk-Page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Barbara_Buchholz/Temp
Wie geht es jetzt weiter?
Danke für die Hilfe & schöne restliche Festtage bzw. einen guten Rutsch!
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Thanks for the information. I was very reluctant to restore the article content and only did so on the understanding that the contributor would make appopriate changes, which he seems to have made little or no attempt to do. Sorry. Deb ( talk) 15:35, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for undertaking the clean-up at Frank Ifield. We are trying to keep a centralised tally of who is working on which of the articles that have been flagged at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20091230 - it is at that editor's talk page, User talk:Derek R Bullamore#Help needed to rescue articles. If you intend to rescue more of Derek's articles, it would be helpful to keep that page informed, so we don't end up with several editors working on the same article. Thanks. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 15:19, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
In your cleanup, I think you deleted a discography (non-contentious, I think - chart placings and so forth) which had been prepared after the version you reverted back to. Although obviously it will need checking against sources, it would be a lot of work to recreate it from scratch. Is it possible for you to reinstate it (and, ideally, the rest of the text as at December 2009) so that other editors can work from that version - say at User:Ghmyrtle/sandbox Ifield? Apologies for not mentioning it at the time, I should have checked in greater detail. Thanks. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 09:59, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Is there any reason why this article has not fully returned to the 'main file' ? I am probably being a little over zealous, but delays cause me to worry. Thanks,
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....for the barnstar. -- AussieLegend ( talk) 13:26, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your work on this article, and enabling it to return to the mainspace. I do not wish to quibble, but a Google search seems to indicate his backing band are known / billed as the Rocket 88's (not Rocket 88s) as is now shown. I am not an expert on Mr. Woods (nor, probably, you either), but I did not want to change the various notations without a second opinion. I do believe, however, Wiki should strive to get this correct. What do you think ? Regards,
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I apparently didn't do a good job with the International Home and Housewares Show page because you deleted it for copyright infrigement. How do I cite it so it isn't? I do have permission to put the information up....Please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by LizGere ( talk • contribs) 15:37, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, Permission is in the works right now!
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22:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC)LizGere
Hi, I just noticed that about five weeks ago you removed most of the content of this article, see here. The guy who originally added that content was the main autor of that book: Donald G. Firesmith, active as User:DonFiresmith. Could you shortly explain how to proceed in a situation like this? -- Mdd ( talk) 21:30, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I appreciate the help. Regards, DSRH | talk 15:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
It looks like I am going to have to just create stub articles now instead of trying to create real articles with multiple sources and expanded content. There is no longer any need for me to waste my time creating longer articles just to have a note accusing me of copyright infringement pop up each time, which then leads to content being removed that makes it a stub again. Its a shame because I enjoyed writing articles on the unique communities of Texas, but since I can't get those right anymore, I'll have to find something else to work on. -- Acntx ( talk) 19:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC).
And no rush whatsoever, would you mind looking over Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins? I've done a major overhaul to that today (used to look like this), and feedback would be welcome. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 03:07, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
For the e-mail, yes please. Note that I'm actually on business travels this week and probably will have only extremely limited Wiki-time :( MLauba ( talk) 12:49, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Evaluating Capital offences in the People's Republic of China, it occurred to me that you might find this useful: Wikisource:Help:Public domain. Certainly, I do. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:24, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Knowing that you are busy this week, I wanted to ask your opinion on Pells Pool. I believe this constitutes an abridgment (and hence a copyvio) of [1]. It contains syntax and language from the original. I wanted to know whether you thought this merited a {{ close paraphrasing}} or a {{ copyvio}} (and will not be offended if you use whichever of those may seem appropriate to you when you read it, if one does.) Thanks. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:46, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
greetings MLauba,
I've been looking over the [Spyros Vassiliou] page, which was flagged for speedy deletion and commented by you. I am related by marriage to this artist and recognize the username of the author of the page: he is the grandson of the artist and likely one of the authors of the original material. I've alerted him to the warnings on the page and expect him to respond. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for your concern.
Carpentis ( talk) 01:14, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Whoot! Look at you, using your powers for good. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:59, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
The part we've been talking about now reads simply: "WP:Copyright violations and WP:Copyrights: I'd prefer to let Moonriddengirl, MLauba and others who have followed the page closely classify these in whatever way works best for them." If you like, you can wait and see how the discussion plays out at VPP before making your call. (Watching) - Dank ( push to talk) 15:49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
⇌ Jake Wartenberg 07:15, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
I'll let you know if I get any useful information along those lines. When dealing with student assignments, I'd expect that a primary motivation for plagiarism/copyvio is the traditional "the easiest way to complete an assignment" motivation. After all, so many teachers don't check for it consistently or carefully enough... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:48, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I for one appreciate your butting in, because I was about to ask for your help. :) I'm heading out of town tomorrow, and this is likely to need assistance from a copyvio admin while I'm gone. Can you help out a bit? Especially with the one I've just tagged, I think one of the contributors has truly not understood copyright concerns, given that she started with quotation marks and removed them later after minimally altering the material. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:14, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I have listed articles that need review on Moonriddengirl's talk page, I'll try to review them myself today but any help is always appreciated - more eyes, less bugs. I am thinking about telling all the students who committed copyvios to write an essay on why did they do it and what they have learned as part of their amends. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:02, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
If you get a chance, can you manually transclude SCV to the CP daily pages? Otherwise, Dumbbot will duplicate the SCV listings. :) I hope that somebody will help us with that soon. I left a note at Schutz's French userpage on the 22nd ( fr:Discussion_utilisateur:Schutz#Zorglbot_request) asking for the code, which so far he seems to be ignoring: [5]. Who knows? Maybe even though it seemed like a simple request, it's actually nightmarishly hard. If after I come back from Thanksgiving there's been no communication, I suppose I will ask if Zorglbot can be replaced at CP. I don't know what else to do. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:06, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I believe :) If you could answer this, I'd appreciate it. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:47, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 01:47, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I think I sort of know what happened; I just never saw this before. I think I owe you a thanks, so thank you! Drmies ( talk) 05:50, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Basket of Puppies 23:21, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 20:51, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
I have reached new heights of "failure to be brief." Sorry. :( -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:13, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
By the way, ML -- in re-reading the discussion, I realize now that this move (my asking Stifle for confirmation on the OTRS ticket) may have seemed like I didn't trust you. It certainly might have come across as an insult. However, I simply didn't know that you had volunteered over at OTRS. Just one of those several gazillion WP happenings, I miss during my absences. If I had known that, I would have discussed the OTRS possibilities directly with you. I want you to know that I have complete faith in your opinions, and any perceived slight was inadvertent. Just chalk it up to my own bumbling methods. Sorry about that. — CactusWriter | needles 13:37, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your correction of my erroneous methods in disambiguating Water Cure (torture) from Water cure (therapy), and your message on the same. In full accordance with Murphy's Law, after completing the merge, I did actually come across info about the Move process while reading around to see if there was anything else I needed to do to in relation to the move. "Eh? What?", I thought to myself, "so that's what the 'Move' tab can be used for". It certainly did look to be an easier process, and I rather wish I'd kept exploring beforehand. In my attempts to balance the trade-off between reading around and getting things done, I got that one wrong, and I thank you for your correction of it, and your message.
I did consider creating a disambiguation page, and I think it was in reading around on that process that I came across the relevant material on the 'Move' process. I didn't know if I could justify creating a disambiguation page, even though I know that readers would benefit, since most searches on 'Water Cure' are indeed prompted by interest in the therapeutic aspect. It seems almost impossible not to stumble on the 'water cure' term in readings on health from almost any direction - medical, 'alternative medicine', anthropology, sociology, history, etc, whereas in years of reading around, my first ever encounter with the torture definition was via the Wikipedia article.
So thanks again for your efforts at both correction and education. Nice work. Wotnow ( talk) 17:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
I remember now one reason I held off on creating the disambiguation page for Water cure. The Water cure (therapy) article is very impoverished, and I realised at the outset that after taking care of the confusion over 'Water Cure', sorting out the Water cure (therapy) article would logically follow.
The likely outcome of such attention would be a merge of the 'Water cure (therapy)' article into the Hydrotherapy article, since they are essentially one and the same. Water cure as a term has long been interchangeable with 'hydropathy', the earlier term for hydrotherpay, with both water cure and hydropathy becoming more historical terms as time went on. So any attempt to develop the 'Water cure (therapy)' article will inevitably result in two articles [hydrotherapy and 'Water cure (therapy)'] on the same topic.
I knew this from the outset, when I first proposed the solution to the confusion over 'Water Cure' - i.e. start with the definition and go from there. But the torture versus therapy issue was primary (you can't have readers genuinely seeking information, and getting railroaded into one particular viewpoint just because that article got the drop on another article - that's not education, that's marketing, and sometimes worse), and indeed was clouding the 'Water cure (therapy)' = 'Hydrotherapy' issue.
I also knew that the Hydrotherapy article needed improvement. And it struck me that it would probably be better to improve the Hydrotherapy article before picking up on any proposal to merge the Water cure (therapy) article into the Hydrotherapy article.
One question that arises in relation to any future merge of the 'Water cure (therapy)' article into the Hydrotherapy article, is what would happen to the disambiguation page. In my view, there would still be a need for disambiguation, since searchers are still going to look up the term 'water cure', mostly - but doubtless not exclusively - expecting to find something on therapy. Wotnow ( talk) 18:41, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
A brief update, for I have no desire to give the impression of wanting to occupy your entire attenton, nor generate a talkfest.
I have just realised that any merge of Water cure (therapy) into Hydrotherapy need not negate the disambiguation page (I have already outlined above why it wouldn't negate the need for disambiguation, but that still left the question of the page). It would just be a matter of bolding the term Water cure (therapy), and de-linking it. Since the link to Hydrotherapy is already in the sentence, the sentence itself doesn't even need to change, as an interested reader will most certainly click on the link. So on thinking it through, I've raised a non-issue, for which I apologise. But at least the process of thinking it through is documented for the sake of other readers. Wotnow ( talk) 21:50, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
You'll probably see it anyway, but here it is. Based on my recent experiences and discussions with my students. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:33, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Since you passed over Sociology of health and illness, I'm not entirely sure: does it still need review? The templates have been removed. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:14, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. This is the only one still pending on December 2nd. I'm not quite sure what to do with it. I presume that the paraphrase does not constitute a copyvio, or you would have blanked it, but if I just remove the daily listing it will keep returning to us, like a bad penny. :) I haven't found the close paraphrasing myself, but like you I'm kind of scrambling with my schedule right now and haven't read the whole pdf. I scanned it (mechanically) for striking words. If you can point out to me the section where close paraphrasing begins, I'll take a stab at revising the material so we can get rid of the listing for good. I'm loathe to just rewrite the section without finding it, because I'm afraid that I will accidentally make it worse. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I'd be very grateful for a second pair of eyes on Talk:School for Creative and Performing Arts/Temp. The contributor has put a lot of work into the article and is working to repair copyright issues. However, I have picked up some duplication and close paraphrasing to various sources, which I have set out at Talk:School for Creative and Performing Arts/Temp (some of the examples there are more concerning than others). I would appreciate your input on the degree to which this represents a problem and what should be done to address it. I have been communicating with him primarily at his talk page.
Can you take a look when convenient? Please? :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:39, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
MLauba ( talk) 11:36, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
User talk:Vivekhere is requesting an unblock, and seems to understand what it takes to be a decent Wikipedia editor. I am inclined to grant the request, but wanted your opinion before acting. Please comment on his talk page. -- Jayron 32 06:50, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Had a piece of major RL trainwreck to deal with, I'm sorta-kinda around, haven't had a chance to look at my e-mails yet, will begin work down my backlogs this weekend a bit. Sorry about this. MLauba ( talk) 01:53, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi MLauba!
I am currently looking for an article that appeared in the dead tree version of the Tages-Anzeiger, to verify a citation in a Wikipedia article. The article doesn't seem to be publicly available online. Are you aware of any way to access copies of TA articles that have appeared in print? Thanks, decltype ( talk) 00:15, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC re: a 'Motion to close', which would dissolve Cda as a proposal. The motion includes an !vote. You have previously commented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Administrator/Admin Recall. Best Wishes for the Holidays, Jusdafax 06:37, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi MLauba,
ich habe eine neue Version des englischen Barbara Buchholz Artikels geschrieben, wie vorgeschlagen, auf einer temporären Talk-Page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Barbara_Buchholz/Temp
Wie geht es jetzt weiter?
Danke für die Hilfe & schöne restliche Festtage bzw. einen guten Rutsch!
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Thanks for the information. I was very reluctant to restore the article content and only did so on the understanding that the contributor would make appopriate changes, which he seems to have made little or no attempt to do. Sorry. Deb ( talk) 15:35, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
...for not jumping on the hyperbole bandwagon and researching NEWT yourself. Comments like this are well appreciated, whether you support, opposed, or don't care about NEWT. — Ed (talk • majestic titan) 19:52, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for undertaking the clean-up at Frank Ifield. We are trying to keep a centralised tally of who is working on which of the articles that have been flagged at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20091230 - it is at that editor's talk page, User talk:Derek R Bullamore#Help needed to rescue articles. If you intend to rescue more of Derek's articles, it would be helpful to keep that page informed, so we don't end up with several editors working on the same article. Thanks. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 15:19, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
In your cleanup, I think you deleted a discography (non-contentious, I think - chart placings and so forth) which had been prepared after the version you reverted back to. Although obviously it will need checking against sources, it would be a lot of work to recreate it from scratch. Is it possible for you to reinstate it (and, ideally, the rest of the text as at December 2009) so that other editors can work from that version - say at User:Ghmyrtle/sandbox Ifield? Apologies for not mentioning it at the time, I should have checked in greater detail. Thanks. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 09:59, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Is there any reason why this article has not fully returned to the 'main file' ? I am probably being a little over zealous, but delays cause me to worry. Thanks,
Derek R Bullamore ( talk) 02:11, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
....for the barnstar. -- AussieLegend ( talk) 13:26, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your work on this article, and enabling it to return to the mainspace. I do not wish to quibble, but a Google search seems to indicate his backing band are known / billed as the Rocket 88's (not Rocket 88s) as is now shown. I am not an expert on Mr. Woods (nor, probably, you either), but I did not want to change the various notations without a second opinion. I do believe, however, Wiki should strive to get this correct. What do you think ? Regards,
Derek R Bullamore ( talk) 11:40, 14 January 2010 (UTC)