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I am writing articles with my hand and every time you menction it copiright violating,I hope next time you will show you proof where it has copied from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.130.11.91 ( talk) 05:16, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Weldone! Your new article is a nice start. Keep up the good work!-- Chanaka L ( talk) 13:53, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Keep an eye on IP 93.97.43.168. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:26, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your new Horia Creangă article! I was not happy to discover the copyvio of the original article, but I'm very happy with the outcome: not a mere deletion, but a far better article instead. Fransvannes ( talk) 21:09, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Regarding Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame members' articles, I have written you an email. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 22:01, 10 April 2009 (UTC).
Thanks for the timely warning. I left a copy of your message on the coordinators talk page, and informed each MILHISt coordinator individually so they will see the alert whenever it is that they get back on. With luck, we may be spared the worst of the infringement, but infringement is infringement, and it needs to be dealt with. TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:38, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
When I was scanning some of the images I found some of them listed unverifiable sources (for example, in this image Google), should I tag it as {{ di-no source}} since the source could be ANY website? NanohaA'sYuri Talk, My master 23:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
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The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar | |
Like how I'm giving you the barnstar you helped originate? I wanted to thank you for your wonderful efforts to develop and clarify the plagiarism dispatch, but, more importantly, for your unceasing efforts at the copyright cleanup project. Such a job is distasteful and rarely appreciated. You should be showered with accolades for all of your hard work. Consider this one of the many accolades owed you. Awadewit ( talk) 00:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC) |
I need help or to clarify what i think. I am not surew how Reliable the Sources are for this article and the isbn number listed in the article cannot be found on google books. I searched the website and the books listed are also not found on google books or any other search engine.Copyright issue
The author,
User talk:HauntedKid, says he owns the pictures to the uploaded ones , but was deleted by
User:Spacebirdy because of copyright issues. This user seems to have a problem with that stating that he owns the company.
Purplebananasandelephants (
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00:43, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help, was not sure how to handle problem. Purplebananasandelephants ( talk) 01:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I was about to ask Soundvisions1 if he would also make a contribution to the Heart1973_BC.png deletion discussion when I noticed your edit. And then "the penny dropped" that no, I hadn't seen him around for a while. [It's disturbing when someone on the other side of the planet that you expect to be there just suddenly disappears - you feel you want to help, (well, I do), but you don't even know how to communicate with them, much less help.]
Anyway, I don't think Soundvisions1 would want that picture deleted, so I'm trying to save it. (The fact that I don't want it deleted either may also be motivating me.) May I bother you to have a look there and tie up any loose ends that I have missed? Thanks in advance, Pdfpdf ( talk) 11:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Some of the articles in the current round are already okay, just a species list or essentially already a stub. Is it okay to just move on when encountering these articles, or should they be marked in some way to indicate they have been checked? -- Geronimo20 ( talk) 22:16, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, a series of articles based on Oyster Bay History Walk have been created in the last few days with substantial content being a transcript of the audio provided on a "wand" for those who wish to do the walk. My question is where these should be listed for attention?
My instincts say that there is a potential copyvio, but I'm not sure on the US legalities on transcripts - under New Zealand it is a copyvio (as I understand it). However, there are other problems with some of the articles as they seem to be content-forks that I would like to either merge or list at AFD as appropriate.
The article that started me looking at them is currently called Captain Kidd in Oyster Bay - it got renamed after I PRODed it. Obviously we already have an article on William Kidd and I'd prefer to merge any referenced content. However, I don't want to take the first step in what could become an edit war without seeking consensus in the appropriate forum. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 22:58, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
more DYK ... well done Victuallers ( talk) 09:48, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi; here is my just-now reversion of an even LONGER re-addition of the copyvio AND a whole LOT of "delusional history" (blaming the Americans for introducing the slave trade to the Northwest Coast would almost by LMAO material if it weren't such a sick denial of the aboriginal slave trade in the region, which had a brutality completely beyond the US version). Anyway the latest info-warrior is an IP user, not sure if I've seen that IP address before.... Skookum1 ( talk) 11:27, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Well done. Uncle G ( talk) 13:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Would you mind weighing in at the DYK discussion regarding the John F. Henning article? The article falls into a gray area regarding plagiarism. If you don't want to get involved, I totally understand. Awadewit ( talk) 18:16, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
I am a staff member of the Oyster Bay Main Street Association who produced the Oyster Bay History Walk. For several months we have had the contents of the audio track on YouTube and available through our website as well. Our objective is to get this information as broad exposure as possible. At the same time I recognize the need of respecting copyright rules. The page on "Requesting Copyright permission" premises the need to ask the creators of the content. Given we are the creators, please advise how I may go about rectifying this so our content from the OBHW continues to be available within Wikipedia. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inoysterbay ( talk • contribs) 12:50, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Please confirm this email text is sufficient, or accordingly revise. Thanks again.
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the sound recording and text of the Oyster Bay History Walk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Inoysterbay and all sections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2009_April_13 I agree to publish that work under the free license LICENSE {{PD-US-record}}.
I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
I went with the second of two options you provided. The message has been sent. Thank you again for your assistance with this.
Isaac Inoysterbay ( talk) 13:35, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
File:VF LGSF Butterfly01.jpg
File:VF LGSF BarredOwl01.jpg
File:VF LGSF Gator01.jpg
File:VF LGSF WildTurkeys01.jpg
File:FL DOF LakeGeorgeForest Map.gif
File:SJRWMD TigerBay Map.gif
While working on replacement stubs for Tiger Bay State Forest and Lake George State Forest I noticed that all the illustrations (above) seem to be taken from State of Florida sources following the same "public domain" logic. They're all in Wikimedia Commons. Do you extend yourself that far? If so, I hope you'll take whatever seem to be the most appropriate actions.:-) Tim Ross (talk) 16:06, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have taken the article Fleet's Hall to AfD. I think some of the articles are worth keeping, some need merging as they are content forks and a few need deleting. I think it best to proceed slowly with this series as we don't want to turn off an enthusiastic contributor, so my thinking is to work through the series, one article at a time.
P.S. I've left this message on RodHull's & Paste's talk pages too. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 09:05, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. User:JDelanoy said you might be able to help with a question; I was new page patrolling, and tagged Theagaraya Nagar (State Assembly Constituency) CSD A7 as I felt that it probably met that criteria; I then noticed that the creator had made several very similar articles; I wanted to check whether CSD was the right approach for all of them. Please tb me or someth as I don't watchlist. Cheers, Chzz ► 03:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, follow-up to your reminder about notifying users when you delete their articles as G12 (presuming they haven't been warned about it before. Is there a template for it? The nearest I found is {{ uw-copyvio}}, which just talks about removing content the user added, so it doesn't really cut it. I whipped a variation up here (I find myself looking back nostalgically of the days when there was always work to be done at SCV... I seem to have time to mess around with templates now), but it'd be good to know if there's an already-existing one. Best, – Toon (talk) 19:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Please conduct full AfD discussions for any Florida deletions. Please add discussion notices for any Florida Template deletions at the WikiProject Florida Talk Page. Other contributors will likely be interested in participating. Thank you. Gamweb ( talk) 17:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
On account of we not having an Barnstar of our own, i decided to take the mmatter on my hands, which was short-lived given my poor skilsin image editing but i asked a member of the Awards Wikiproject for help on the design and elaboration of the star having the initial idea of maybe an LP or the cover of SGT. Pepper. Anyway, he created an initial design and suggested that before taking the matter to the project page i invited a fellow member for his (or in tjis case her) opinion, so if you could, the image is in my talk page, could you teke a look?.
Thanks as always. Zidane tribal ( talk) 16:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Is great you like it, i`ll submit it to the project talk page for sugestions and/or aproval, i hope everyone else like it. Zidane tribal ( talk) 17:10, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
I hear you on the quiet group thing, so shall we just make the award template and begin delivering so the ball star rolling? Zidane tribal ( talk) 01:46, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
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The Album Wikiproject Barnstar | |
I Zidane tribal give this project barnstar to Moonriddengirl for being such a nice persona and a magnificent member of this project |
There you go, this is as official as it gets. Zidane tribal ( talk) 21:12, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you Maen. K. A. ( talk) 17:03, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for taking so much time to thoughtfully respond to everyone on the dispatch talk page. I'm afraid that I don't have that much time with teaching, dissertation-writing, regular wiki-duties, and the like. That is one reason I've never tried to change a major policy. :) One has to be at the ready 24-7. Awadewit ( talk) 23:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Why oh why did you delete Scottish Jamaican? Firstly, the copyright problems were only with ONE section - which could be easily removed NOT the WHOLE ARTICLE!!! And secondly, some people have done a lot of work recently rewriting the thing, and ADDING new material. Stuff like this makes wikipedia feel like banging one's head off a brick wall.
Why can't editors look at the whole, instead of looking at tags? I'm also sick to death of people sticking "unreferenced" tags on articles which have one or two references on them.-- MacRusgail ( talk) 15:44, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for this. It was just a bit frustrating. The original article was marked as unreferenced, so I wrote some new material, but was not aware that the original stuff was copyright violation until recently. The copyrighted material didn't deal with contemporary stuff like the Marley family. -- MacRusgail ( talk) 12:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thankyou for reverting edits made by 67.165.71.214. Purplebananasandelephants ( talk) 12:23, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
For your work on the plagiarism piece in the Signpost! I'm disappearing tomorrow morning for 3 weeks. All the best to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 15:05, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi again,
As you know already, I have had problems with user Wikifan, one of which is that he quoted copyrighted material extensively in a article he and I edited. I have not looked through his contributions to other articles so I didn't know whether this is just his style. Today I found that an article that he wrote is up for deletion because the subject is not notable. I checked the article, I find that the
article consists mostly of quoted material, the second section is mostly from a single source (Fixing UNRWA report). However, I am not sure if the material is copyrighted. Could you please determine if it is? Here is the source
[1]. --
Falastine fee Qalby (
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17:38, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
DYK is due for an update, and none of the regular DYK admins are around. Could you do an update? Should be from queue 6. Let me know if you need instructions (the ones at the bottom of the queue are pretty thorough). I can do credits and archiving. Shubinator ( talk) 17:42, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
←Good. It's going okay so far. :) Is 7 the next queue? I'm not sure how many queues we've got. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
You have helped me a lot, and it seems that you are very welcoming so that is why I come to you. Here is a token of my appreciation.
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The Working Woman's Barnstar |
I award you this barnstar for working tirelessly including handling difficult undertakings with ease while being thorough and swift. Thank you for all your help! Falastine fee Qalby ( talk) 19:26, 18 April 2009 (UTC) |
Could you change the Buntingford Line hook as it basically seems to say that hikers were encoragesd to go on the line by offering other people tickets where as Subbrit actually says they were offered the tickets themselves.
should become
Please change it quick.
Simply south ( talk) 19:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi M, I stumbled across this image today, which has some... interesting licensing details. It turns out that an editor was in contact with the actress herself, and she agreed to release the publicity photograph under the GFDL, but the condition that certain information be removed from her Wikipedia article. Clearly this is inappropriate, and I assume that the supposed GFDL release is invalid, having extra conditions imposed? I'm not familiar with image deletion policy, so I'd appreciate your opinion. Thanks! – Toon (talk) 18:40, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I've raised the issue of potential CC-BY incompatibility (and referenced you) here, and would appreciate your input. Cheers, – Toon (talk) 18:58, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello MoonriddenGirl,
I work for the LSU AgCenter, in October'08 you deleted LSU AgCenter Wiki page due to Copyright Violations. We just recently discovered it's removal and request it's content be restored.
The log is vague but seems to reference the 'about us' page of our site so I'm assuming plagiarism is under suspicion. Can the content we submitted be restored in order for us to go through the validation process.. or perhaps can it be "Usified" to my account?
Thank you.
--Sam Srazi1 ( talk) 19:48, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
I sent the e-mail from "web at agcenter.lsu.edu" with the subject "LSU AgCenter Wiki - Copyright Permission". Thank you for your prompt response.
- Srazi1 ( talk) 20:59, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
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User:Moonriddengirl/Archive 13 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, Peace, A record of your Day will always be kept here. |
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
JFYI - Sylvain Charlebois has been recreated. GHITS appears (somewhat) notable, but definitely looks like autobio to me. JCutter { talk to me } 03:30, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
I (think) you got the answer you were looking for with Dr pda's word counter? In any case, I left a hopelessly general response at my talk page, since I'm not sure exactly what input would be helpful. Cheers! Franamax ( talk) 13:29, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello, there. I must admit this one is disturbing me. I'm just an average editor and a non-native English speaker, and I often found that there seldom are a dozen ways to say things. I have read the dispatch and the discussions in the Signpost and it seems to me that the line between plagiarism and original text is really thin and I often fail to see it. (So I hope you'll put plenty of examples in the new guideline.) Thing is, I probably unintentionally committed plagiarism before, which bothers me. What now ? Should I check all my GA and FLs for plagiarism ? What if I fail to recognize plagiarism in doing so, or in the contrary I deem something perfectly OK plagiarism ? What if I make things worse by trying to correct them ? What if there is no other way to say things ? I guess I don't know how to recognize plagiarism properly, and this paralyzes me. I honestly try to do a good job, and I would appreciate some help in this regard. Best, Rosenknospe ( talk) 17:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi again, please forgive this belated answer due to real life commitments. Thank you very much for your kind words and understanding. I had enough time to calm down and think. I re-read the threads and realized that as I always cite my sources, half of the problem has gone. So my main problem would be the wording, and I'd like to take your offer to review some of my work, if it still stands. I have selected various items with their references for your scrutiny:
I don't have access to the news database I'm using as I'm not at work, so I couldn't submit some of the things I wanted. I hope this is enough to get a feel. Usually getting a feel means some mistakes along the way. I might have read more panicky than I really was, but I won't quit, I promise :D Thanks for youe help, and have a nice day! Rosenknospe ( talk) 17:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Here ! Have a ray of sunshine to brighten your day ! Rosenknospe ( talk) 13:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Greetings! Looking through your edits and interests, I thought you might like to know about a new Wikiproject being discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files. It's all about images and other media used on Wikipedia, including migration to Commons, copyright tags, etc. The bare outline is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media; hopefully it will soon blossom into something worth joining. Your experience and energy would be a welcome addition! All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 20:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the message on my board. Guess I did miss out on the fine lines in the copyvio policy. Apologies on the same. Will be more careful in the future, Thank you for bringing it to my notice. Cheers! Belmond ( talk) 07:18, 22 April 2009 (UTC)Belmond
I've got another article for your perusal. It's at User:Mgreason/Sandbox 2 and it's not long, controversial or BLP. Thank you. Mgreason ( talk) 15:08, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
In re-reading my early responses on the plagiarism issue, I want to apologize for my tone. I wish I had presented my dissent in a calmer manner, and better emphasized how much I agreed with the majority of the dispatch that I did not specifically comment on. I also wanted to thank you for being so patient with me. A few weeks ago an AN/I I knew I disagreed with this position. I knew in my gut something within that position didn't add up. But it is mainly due your willingness to discuss the topic with me, even when my approach must have made the discussion unappealing, that I have been able to refine my thinking enough to understand exactly why and on what basis I disagree. I hope you understand that I respect your point of view, even where I disagree with it. And I hope you can forgive the unpleasantness. -- BirgitteSB 01:05, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl! Please pardon my delay in checking back in with you; I've been extremely busy offline. I'm sorry you and Awadewit ended up shouldering most of the talk page burden on the Dispatch; for one reason or another, many of the other involved editors were busy offline. I hope you aren't too disappointed in the way the discussions evolved; overall, the work done there, and the discussion that resulted, seemed to be productive, civil and concluded well with better understanding all around. The conduct of most of those involved, and the issues raised, will hopefully help move things forward, and seems to have gotten the discussion off on solid footing! Your participation and cheerful attitude was most helpful ! Best regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:06, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Living in Jacksonville is never dull. I have a new article about the Public Defender in User:Mgreason/Sandbox. I think it has a NPOV, but I'm curious to see what you think. Cheers! Mgreason ( talk) 16:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Hope you had a nice weekend. I've got another article ready: AT&T Tower, which is at User:Mgreason/Sandbox 1. Mgreason ( talk) 01:02, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your thorough review of the article. I really appreciate your opinions and the time you devote to Wiki. Mgreason ( talk) 12:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Mgreason ( talk) 20:26, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 15:25, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
I see you all over the place, awesome work. I don't know how you can stand doing all those copyvios, but I'm glad you do. ("Don't know how you can stand...", said the kettle to the pot...)
Also, thanks again for helping me with CSD all that time ago :-)
Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 17:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
For every category you create, you should specify parent categories to which it belongs. You can do this by listing the parents near the bottom of the page, each enclosed in double brackets like so:
[[Category:Wikipedia WikiProjects]] [[Category:Hypothetical second category]]
I've added at least one parent to the category. I invite you to check my work for accuracy and completeness.
I am a human being, not a bot, so you can contact me if you have questions about this. Best regards, -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 22:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to pester you again, Moonriddengirl, but you're still the only editor I know who's really knowledgeable about copyvios.
I was just patrolling the new pages, and ran across one, Revision history of NWA Charlotte Cruiserweight Championship, that read like a wrestling fanzine of some sort. A quick search turned up the source, and I placed a db-copyvio tag on it. It occurred to me, though, that there might be problems with some of the editor's previous work. The editor is User:Ldeffinbaugh, and he seems to restrict himself to the topic of professional wrestling. I checked one of his articles, more or less at random, NWA Charlotte, and found the same sort of lengthy copyvios in it, also from here. I think someone with more expertise/horsepower should really take a look at his work. Can you handle it or pass it on to a more experienced editor? I promise to pay careful attention to what is done, and perhaps I can handle this sort of thing on my own in the future. :) Thanks! Tim Ross (talk) 00:31, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
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With many thanks from a grateful WikiProject for identifying copy violation issues in twenty or so articles within our scope, I am delighted to award you the Military History WikiChevrons. Roger Davies talk 08:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC) |
A request for comment has opened about promoting the proposal to guideline. As an author of the Signpost article cited in the discussion, you may wish to comment. Wikipedia_talk:Plagiarism#RfC Durova Charge! 18:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
A new BLP is at User:Mgreason/Sandbox, but I know of nothing controversial about it. Thanks! Mgreason ( talk) 19:25, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to drop this on you, but I've come across 27 new pages (created by Kelsievans) which are paraphrases from a web site – there is a good chance they were created in order to promote the web site. I found this issue from a spam discussion.
Apart from any copyvio and spam issues, I'm concerned about the notability of the artists on the 27 BLP pages. I don't see any assertion of notability, and speedy deletes may be in order? I hope you don't mind, but I'm listing the new pages below in the hope of receiving guidance (I'll look here for any reply). The pages are undoubtedly in a good cause (culture and promotion of a .edu site), but it still looks like spam and copyvio (see reference on each page) to me. Johnuniq ( talk) 05:29, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Andrea Callard • April Palmieri • Bob Witz • Dorothy Dean • Fashion Moda • Godzilla Asian American Arts Network • Guerrilla TV • High Risk Books • Ira Silverberg • Jaime Davidovich • Jay Blotcher • John Watts (composer) • Lester Afflick • Marita Sturken • Mark Hall Amitin • Peter Allen (author) • Peter Lewis Allen (author) • REPOhistory • Redtape Magazine • Robert Alexander (photographer) • Sensitive Skin Magazine • Sparrow (American poet) • Stuart Sherman (artist) • Tony Martin (artist) • Ubu Repertory Theater • Wendy Perron • World of Culture
Hi, Oyster Bay History Walk is in the process of being expanded to take in the content of the series of articles which you kindly sorted out the OTRS tickets for. Our question is: if we are moving the text into the main article can we copy the OTRS ticket across as well? Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 05:17, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Could I ask you to review these related articles as you redirected one in the past (ok, it was June 2008, but it still counts !). Pamela Vitale redirects to Daniel Horowitz, but there is also an article Murder of Pamela Vitale about the murder and trial. I'm a little confused as to which article should redirect where if anywhere - I'd have expected Pamela Vitale to redirect to the murder article - unless that article isn't even notable...aarrggh ! :-) CultureDrone ( talk) 11:45, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi can you kindly explain to the speedy tagger Library of Congress Country Studies material is public domain. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:05, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello, again, Moonriddengirl. I need a bit of help with the subject article, which seems ready for correction. I've checked the temporary article, Talk:Joel Kroeker/Temp, written by User:Werldwayd as a replacement for the flawed article, fairly thoroughly, and believe that it is copyvio clean. Would you mind giving it an administrative okay, so the replacement can be accomplished? Thanks. Tim Ross (talk) 22:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
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For your exemplary service as Images and Media Project Merge Ambassador, I award you this barnstar with a cup of coffee, tea, or the delicious beverage of your choice. – Quadell ( talk) 12:27, 27 April 2009 (UTC) |
Thank you very much for fixing the reference, I have a copy of the book, if you need more details, let me know.
I've have done what you asked to verify that are no copyright infringements by publishing material from the Leicester Penguins Swimming Club website. We have sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Can we have our article back now please. Thank you. Orangewiseman ( talk) 14:47, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Polygamy_in_Indonesia&action=edit&redlink=1 I got this on my bot that watches new indonesian arts and your moniker was on the talk page as a deleter of the earlier copyvio page as i was about to place the project tag - it doesnt look like a copyvio this time - but thought id mention it anyways - cheers Satu Suro 04:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi MRG. Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Please comment if you wish. FLC needs support and encouragement to maintain its high standards. Tony (talk) 08:44, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome, Moonriddengirl, I have been doing my best to follow all the protocols (don't think I have so far forgotten to sign my name on the talk pages), and I will check up on tha articles you have suggested. If you see me making any mistakes, I will be grateful to be told what I have done wrong. It is only the talk pages one signs, right? If I do an edit, it is automatically listed as my editing as far as I can gather. Seascapeza ( talk) 09:19, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
I am hoping to be logging in a lot more regularly, but occasionally the outer world gets in the way. And yes, I can see your references will be very useful indeed -- I still have to get used to the coding for the wiki and they look liek they will provide me with numerous shortcuts. So tally ho and away we go. Excellent! regards Seascapeza ( talk) 14:36, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you're an admin so I want to ask for some advice. Shadow congressperson has had coyprighted material added to it. I removed it but it is repeatedly readded. I wrote on the talk page to detail the copyright problem and its source, but I'm not answered. I don't think the copyright violation is worthy a discussion on WP:CP, it's pretty clear. The same user changes Paul Strauss with content not supported by the sources and removes reliably and independently sourced stuff about him. I didn't want to revert a third time on both articles, what can I do? Hekerui ( talk) 11:45, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
The debate on the potential plagiarism guidelines seems to be moving in treacle. A little while back, I had this exchange (starts part way down). In this particular case, all was well that ends well. However, it raises the question of how plagiarism should be dealt with in practice. I utterly oppose the lazy expedience, that some editors seem keen on, of starting with the position of laying all the responsibility at the feet of the editor who perpetrated the "crime". This is an area where Wikipedia needs lucid, clear cut guidelines, backed with sensible resources and supports for those editors who want to get this right. And to vent a little spleen, this is not helped by some academic editors working in this area, cosseted with their moneyed recompenses, and buoyed with institutional supports and guidelines. It is astonishing the way excessive privilege seems to exclude the ability to empathise with how the process might be for those without the privilege. Anyway, I want to float the possibility that when an editor has committed a copy violation (or plagiarism – does the difference really matter – and for those who think it does matter, why are they unable to spell out the difference in plain English?), it would be good if the text in question could be temporarily moved to a page in that editors work space, where another editor could work with them on the text, and help them learn how to clean it up. The idea that it is not Wikipedia's job to educate users in this way seem to me ridiculous. Why could each Wikipedia editor not be entitled to a user page, accessible to other registered users in Wikipedia, but not published on the web? When copy violations occur, they could then be removed to this page where they could be worked on, in peace, with another editor assisting if necessary. -- Geronimo20 ( talk) 12:28, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
If you have a moment, could you help me try and explain how a source's structure can be plagiarized? Thanks. Awadewit ( talk) 01:50, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl
I am the author of the New Zealand Design page which is currently the subject of a copyright infringement. I agree that the text in the Maori Design section of the article was used without the copyright holder's permission or knowledge and I have apologised to the author. I am happy for the text to be replaced. I have written a new section which is currently on a sub-page while the issue is being resolved. Please let me know if there is anything further that I need to do. Squadraport ( talk) 09:14, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
You should consider adding yourself here. Stifle ( talk) 11:22, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for working on the copyvio - I've long been an admirer of your work.
I'm generally unhappy with the slapdash cut and pasting of other sites' property, even if a footnote gives some attribution. Perhaps I'm too fussy. See History_of_the_Jews_in_Brenham,_Texas#B.27nai_Abraham_Synagogue and how it's been done in that section - some of it doesn't even make sense, because it's not accompanied by the picture, which is what drew my attention in the first place. Cheers -- Dweller ( talk) 12:09, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi I want to ask you if we can use such as these images on wikipedia?? and I created these .svgs
File:LUmbo.svg File:Lumbo2.svg File:Lumbo4.svg
Maen. K. A. ( talk) 18:31, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi - any chance you can give me some advice on this? Mine are a bit of a mess and not automated, and I like the way you both hide yours and have a search box. I gather I have to start by moving my pages to change their names, but how do I set mine up so they work like yours? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 08:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm the IP who objected on the RfC and who probrably derailed what looked loke a snowball. I hope you understand that I did that with the best of intentions as I simply coulnd't bring myself to support the proposed version, knowing that it would be much harder to modify it afterwards if it had been aproved. I notice you made some changes to the page and it's certanly improved as a result. I still think it needs work though (needs better focus for instance), and I intend to help out starting tomorrow. Finally, I'd like to say that I do appreciate your efforts on issues related to both plagiarism and copyright and that I recognise the importance of having a plagiasrism guideline to provide official backing and validation to these same efforts. Thus making your job atlest a tad easier :) 189.105.99.210 ( talk) 15:07, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
How do you want to deal with these? Do you want a bulk nomination at Wikipedia:Copyright problems? Or would you rather just pick them off the Administrators' Noticeboard? Uncle G ( talk) 10:05, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. You left two messages on my talk page about things which make no sense to me. First of all, you say the article I made about Eric Rasmussen (professor) is a copyright violation or something; I got the information off a book called Wiliam Shakespeare: Complete Works which I bought last week. And secondly, you say I added copyrighted material to some article called Vidlin. I most certainly did not edit on that article so I don't know why you've givin me that message. Check my contributions page for proof. This is obviously some mistake that I would like sorted. I just thought I'd better point these things out; feel free to sign my guestbook! Ross Rhodes ( T C) Sign! 14:02, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
I started rating the articles for upcoming albums and the "Future" rating came up in the template for the EMO wikiproject, as far as i know we don`t use it but should`t we? or we DO use it and i`m just rambling here?
Thanks as alwasy. Zidane tribal ( talk) 20:06, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
See [3] [4]. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 05:41, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Maybe one of us can explain to Cyris that given the magnitude of the problem GrahamBould has caused, no admin will unblock him unless he or she wants to lose his or her bit. I'm willing to make the first approach ... Blueboy 96 19:17, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
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Dominique d'Orange is copyvio from her website [6] but is up for AfD, so I shouldn't blank the page, but it's copyvio so I should add the template which blanks the page. So, what is the correct process? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 14:03, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Doing it now. :) — neuro (talk) 12:35, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, would you mind taking a look at Twilight Anesthesia? There are still some issues, and although originally taken from this copyrighted source, the changes made are huge, so I'm unsure if blanking is appropriate. Cheers, – Toon (talk) 22:16, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi - I don't understand the templates. The editor (loads of problems there, but pov rather than copyvio mainly I think) has taken the picture from a blog, which I suspect took it from somewhere else. Can it be used? And I've bodged the subject line, here's the urul [7] - not sure how I should have or could have formatted it so you could click on it. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 16:08, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
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For all you do this ones for you! Mrpotatohead 2 ( talk) 21:52, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
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You need another too! Mrpotatohead 2 ( talk) 21:52, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
You know, I really like the changes you did for the "Nayer Nagui" page. Thank you very much. I'll try adding some more information to it...Thanks a million Rafik Halim ( talk) 23:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
I have found that the majority of this article is copied from the agency's website. History is from [8] and Special functions is from [9]. There are no inline citations. Should I do a rewrite? Mgreason ( talk) 15:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, you deleted an entry from a list of works on the Anaïs Nin page because the article (apparently) was deleted. I've restored the entry and just removed the link as it looks like the work does exist. If I am missing something, please feel free to correct! Thanks. (John User:Jwy talk) 16:40, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Regarding the copyright issues concerning: Polygonia satyrus, Polygonia progne, Polygonia faunus, Speyeria atlantis, Celastrina neglecta, Glaucopsyche lygdamus, Celastrina ladon, Greenish Blue, Glaucopsyche piasus and Oreas Comma. I have reproduced below the statement concerning copyright from their website at:
http://www.cbif.gc.ca/copyright_e.php#copyright
"Non-commercial reproduction Information on this site has been posted with the intent that it be readily available for personal and public non-commercial use and may be reproduced, in part or in whole and by any means, without charge or further permission from CBIF. We ask only that:
I assume that Wikipedia falls under the category of "non-commercial reproduction". Am I correct? If so, you should remove the Copyright Infringement notices. I did reference the CBIF website in each instance. I will try to remove other instances of copyright infringement.
All of the pictures that I have posted on websites are my own.
Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dger ( talk • contribs) 23:12, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've brought this here so as not to go off at a tangent to this discussion, But if you have MS Word you could always copy and paste to it first, then highlight the text to change then select Format|Change Case and voila. Alternately you could use the text editor of your choice and find and replace - a bit more long winded though depending how many instruments there are. -- JD554 ( talk) 11:43, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi M. A user has requested that I look into the copyright issue at Isles Internationale Université (European Union), for which he has sent a permission email. Would you be able to take a look at OTRS ticket 2009050610018874 and see if things are in order, if you have a few minutes spare? – Toon (talk) 12:47, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Apropos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Moonriddengirl/Archive_13#Florida, what are your current views? What do you think of my interpretation of your reporting of what Mike said on my talk page? Just read your comment on Florida Highway Patrol, above. I've opened a
DRV. As your stance has changed somewhat, and you spoke with God[win], I think your input would be particularly valuable there. :-) --
Elvey (
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Regarding the alleged copyright violation [10] -- my father, who played for the Alpine Cowboys, created the website at www.alpinecowboysbaseballassociation.org and he wrote the text based on his personal recollections. The Wikipedia page, on the other hand, was created by me as a gift to my 75 year old father. Since I have a limited knowledge of Alpine baseball in the the 1940s and 50s, I asked my dad to contribute to the text portion of the Wikipedia article. He certainly does not consider the use of this material to be a violation of copyright since he wrote this material and sent it to me to insert into the article. I do think he will be upset when he discovers that the Alpine Cowboys Wikipedia page has been deleted! The other alleged copyright violation of [11] was corrected by eliminating the text. The first sentence of the original article was taken from Kerry Laird's article and was fully cited. Nevertheless, I removed this sentence from the article in my first attempt to resurrect this page. There are no other sentences in this article taken from Laird's article. Leaflet (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC).
Hey there. So two things: first, I asked around about the issue between that article and the other site I found, and I got an answer on the talk page. As far as I know right now, they ripped off Wikipedia, not the other way around. I was wondering, though, if you could stop by the article and lend a quick hand. The anon IP who keeps editing that article insists on reinserting text into the Arctic Sun section. I initially removed/reworded it because it's duplicate text on the Arctic Sun article. Basically it's all the text added in this edit. If you could help me out a bit, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 23:26, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm sure you'll notice before too long, that I've posted in the albums talk page about personnel lists on compilations. I wasn't sure if I should have mentioned you and Zidane by name, because of your great effort on these articles, or if it would have sounded like I was complaining about your work. I appreciate that you've done a huge amount of work for album articles, and I enjoy crossing paths with you and most of the other people involved with the project. - Freekee ( talk) 19:54, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl It's Patrick Duff here hello I hope your well I want to change my photo on wikipedia to my profile picture on myspace but they won't let me do it will you do it it would be cool for me if you would I look a bit too much like Jesus when he was in big trouble in the one that's up there whereas in the other one I look like him POST RESURECTION LOVE PATRICK X Vessel123 ( talk) 12:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I have been working on updating the Dan Branch page, but my photos have been taken down due to copyright issues. I am new to the process, and am trying to make good faith efforts to cite all my sources. Would you mind looking through my page and letting me know what you think?
Thanks!
Trimble15 Trimble15 ( talk) 19:25, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I had this article on my watchlist, but I don't remember what it was and it's now deleted. Can you clue me in? Just wondering if it's something worth recreating with content that isn't copyrighted. Gracias. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 20:06, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
you deleted the article about T.C. Beriker, that I placed at wikipedia.org some weeks ago. Please let me know why ou deleted it. It's the same information that's published at http://www.crediteurope.de/fb/sites/de/en/about/corporate/Managing_Board_new/Managing_Board_CVs/index.html.
Kind regards, cebank —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.152.10.25 ( talk) 14:06, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Fales gave its permission for multi-licensing, but you have tagged the pages as not permitted. Please update the pages. Also, I am trying to create new pages with material that was granted permission in the email under the phrase, all future pages created by user Kelsievans are also permitted use. The note also said, I permit use and re-use under the GFDL of the material from the Fales Library findign aids. I put the OTRS pending tag on all the pages, but people are still deleting them and tagging them as copyright infringment. what can I do? Kelsievans ( talk) 14:29, 12 May 2009 (UTC)Kelsievans
I have seen th list of details. I found the details of Ports & Harbours of India are missing. I would like to request to help us place our details in the list. Regarding editing of our original work, the work on Ports of Navlakhi done is the real thing that I intended, for other Ports of Gujarat. You are requested to send few clues to enable us to compose as it required. Thanks [moti 14:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC) shiptradenews/ V N Jhaveri, Shipping & trade NewsLetter, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiptradenews ( talk • contribs)
To be honest, I can understand why Giano would complain about my uniform. I was trying to go for "bold and avant-garde editor," but maybe it's more relating "fool that can sit and talk all day." I much prefer fools that run around silently, myself. Also, thank you for the support. :D Flying Toaster 02:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading
File:BestofEarthWind&Fire.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, it is currently
orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed.
You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see
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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot ( talk) 05:10, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your previous help here. We now have an anon vandal - and it is becoming rather hard to control his edits (which include slander). Any chance that we can get a lock on anon edits on this article? DiverScout ( talk) 11:31, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
No problem; I'll try to address the issues pointed out on talk soon - I hope there will be no objection to removing the template once this is done. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:47, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, This is one of my recent edits as an example from a couple of days ago on Jedwabne Pogrom.
Here is the original text from the source of Holocaust scholar Israel Gutman: Knowledge of the mass murder committed in Jedwabne is an enormous, astonishing shock to Poles, and a shock that clashes with the national myth about the war years.
Here is what I inserted referring to this source: The new details about Jedwabne mass murder was a shock to many Poles because it clashes with the popular knowledge of the war years, anti-Semitism and Polish-Jewish relations during the WW2.
Is this acceptable like this or it is still to close to the original? Thank you and sorry to bother you now, I know you are busy. I just would like to know how far or how close I'm on this one so I could later compare it to my other edits-- Jacurek ( talk) 19:26, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I must admit to your reasons for invalidating my suggestion on including Brooke Babineau in Wikipedia. What I stated was an honest opinion of a new author's work. I was deeply moved by his excellence of imagery, use of English, and insight into the human condition.
I am a reader, and since there are so few new works that exemplify the highest ideals of that art, when one comes along I feel compelled to comment.
Given your comments on what it takes for someone to be "notable" it sounds as if an author must also set a land-speed record, garner a Nobel prize, or scale Mt. Everest in a bathing suit to qualify.
Simply, the man is an author whose work moves its readers; what else must he do to gain your approval?
LF Finnerblatz ( talk) 13:31, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. This article is taken from this source, where it is licensed under the MIT license, which states that:
Now although both this and the GFDL are "free licenses", does the MIT provide the same rights to the contributors (i.e. attribution) as our license, and would people adding to that article be forced to relinquish those rights? Basically, is it compatible with the GFDL and can we accept it? Your insight is appreciated. – Toon (talk) 15:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Am I blocked yet.
Posted by PK2.
Thank you for being willing to get involved in the discussion accusing me of issuing legal threats. Please have another look at what I added after your last comment. thank you. Debresser ( talk) 14:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Could you send me the earlier version of the page on Dermatitis Herpetiformis before its copyright problems. It was key to my diagnosis a few years ago, and I would like to have a go at rewriting it. Occultations ( talk) 20:03, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Ah, so either you trust random link pages of the internet as to real people? Got it. Jelousy, got it.
None the less, I leave it to you to decide. Have a good funfilled life on Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpdr ( talk • contribs) 12:00, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I have GCSEs coming up, and this completely slipped my mind. I'll do a quick job now, and if you want more work done to it I'll do it later. Sorry! :) — neuro (talk) 13:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
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Hi MRG, There's a query on my talk page I can't answer, and would be insterested in your opinion on it. Tony (talk) 04:05, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, there's a discussion going on at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fishes#Fish_familiy_format about adopting new tables for the species listings. I've voiced my concerns about taking information in the "environment" column directly from the "environment"/"climate" entry at the corresponding FishBase species page (e.g. "marine, tropical, reef-associated" [16]), but I'm not actually sure whether this does constitute a license violation because they're not phrases, just single words. Since you seem to know about such things could you take a look and comment? Thanks. -- Yzx ( talk) 19:02, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I've been developing List of New York State Historic Markers for the past few weeks. Some questions were raised about copyright status. I've managed to successfully reach out and talk with the State of New York. They are willing to do an OTRS release so these materials may be used in Wikipedia. I've copied a draft of what I propose for that release below. Please confirm this is acceptable as is or with revisions and I'll ask the person I am working with at New York State to send an email to the wikimedia permissions email address I used before.
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the text of the New York State Historical Markers and all transcripted sections at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_State_Historic_Markers I agree to publish that work under the free license GFDL v 1.2 or later and CC-BY-SA 3.0 or later. I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
Inoysterbay ( talk) 19:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Note: this is completely trivial, so don't even bother reading it if you're busy
...but I stumbled across
this otherwise irrelevant news article, in which a paragraph struck me as quite relevant to what we've been seeing recently. Second and third paragraphs under Greater assertiveness. It's not just us, then. :) –
Toon
(talk)
17:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Greetings, Moonriddengirl. You've struck me as an editor who has a broad base of knowledge, a calm demeanor, and lots of love for the Wiki. That's just the kind of person I'm looking for! Over at Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/3, Drilnoth and I are attempting the nigh-unto-impossible task of deciding on the 1000 most-important articles on Wikipedia. We already have the vital 100 solidified, but it's an interesting task to choose among all Wikipedia articles to decide which are most vital. Is Rembrandt or Andy Warhol more vital? Tuba or Folk music? Would you be willing to offer your input on these and other burning questions? If so, the discussion is mostly ongoing at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/3. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 20:33, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. I just now was reading the article Nocturnal myoclonus and it appears to be pretty much an exact verbatim copy of this webpage [17]. What do we do? Do we nominate it for speedy deletion? Thanks and best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 00:16, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh great, thanks, that's a relief. I will learn to look more carefully. Thanks again, Invertzoo ( talk) 12:27, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi again Moonriddengirl. Wanted to run this by you to see what you thought. As I go along I sometimes find fairly new contributors creating whole series of gastropod articles or other natural history articles. When the articles are extremely complete and technical-seeming right from the start, and there are quite some number of them, (all of which can give me an uneasy feeling) I have started saying something like this in my message to the person, after a hello and some praise:
"I also wanted to say one more thing, and please do forgive me if this is not relevant, but I don't have access to the (print) references you are using, so I can't check for myself. I just wanted to say that all prose, including the technical descriptions of the animals, has to be re-written in your own words from scratch, not used directly or almost directly from the sources. Sometimes this is quite hard to do, and a lot of us do make the mistake of copying stuff verbatim or almost verbatim when we are first starting out on Wikipedia, not understanding that that is unacceptable. So, as I said, please forgive me if you already know this, but I guess it doesn't hurt to make that policy really clear up front. All my very best wishes to you,"
Best to you too of course, Invertzoo ( talk) 13:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks M., I deliberately didn't include the WP:C link right off the bat, because I thought it might make the note seem sort of unpleasantly officious, but if I get a reply that seems a bit dubious, or if I don't get a reply but things continue as before, I will definitely give it that link out. I think the help desk link is a good idea too, thanks. Invertzoo ( talk) 15:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! Can you help me or send me on to someone that can help? I was working to create a table of drugs candidates being developed by various pharmaceutical companies. I was at it for several hours, doing a "save page" essentially for every line. But on the last line I was entering I was thwarted by this message:
Database error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Revision::insertOn". MySQL returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; Try restarting transaction (10.0.6.22)". Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Johnfravolda"
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnfravolda ( talk • contribs) 21:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
It's no big deal. I only lost the last bit I was typing in, since I had been saving incessantly along the way. I was afraid I had surpassed a limit on the number of saves I can make. -- Johnfravolda ( talk) 21:50, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
My name is Todd Budish and I use the name of Budeone as a logon. I am trying to add a page for my cousin Armond Budish. I must be doing something wrong. I tried a few weeks ago and it was deleted.
I went back and looked and I saw the problem, it was copied and pasted from other sites. So this time I printed all the information and had the receptionist take all the information and write it down mixing and matching different things from different articles.
I printed what I think is either a note from you or a standard response. I am not quite sure if I am actually typing to someone or not. I will give this information to girl I had type this last one out to and have her try it again.
Thanks Todd
Budeone ( talk) 11:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much.
I think I have a much better understanding of what you are asking for. I am not sure the young lady I had do this last night is going to be able to do this, I think I need to find someone computer literate to add these links. I have printed many pages of instructions and I think that will help quite a bit.
Honestly I did not think this was going to turn into a project..lol I do understand why it is necessary and will try to make the next one conform to the rules of this site.
Thanks Todd
Budeone ( talk) 11:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Since you helped me write parts of the Stacey Castor article, would you mind commenting here on how valid you feel this image is within the article? I am also asking you because I know how experienced you are with copyrighted material subjects, and you did not object to my use of the image within the article. Flyer22 ( talk) 21:21, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
For all your hard work! radek ( talk) 00:50, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
There was a permissionOTRS tag on the talk page of this page, which you deleted as a copyvio. I'm not going to change things around in case there was a better reason for this, but if not, you might revert it. Stifle ( talk) 09:00, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey MRG, lord knows where this will have gotten to by the time you read this, but could you at your earliest convenience review this and my responses at the user talk page and at the article in question? To shorten the story, I basically eviscerated an article that looked pretty copy-pasty.
I think the editor in question was just misinterpreting the external site conditions for copying. My own interpretation was that it constituted a copyvio and these should be immediately removed, so I did that. I may have been a little bitey in my comments at NBeale's talk page, but I would hope to better explain when they respond. OTOH I could be completely wrong and need to apologize!
To a further dimension, this case is instructive to the plagio guideline we've sweated blood on: even if the origin site had provided a free release of their content, would it be acceptable to make a direct copy (releasing it "into the wild" as it were) with just a citation? To my thinking, that would need a PD-attribution template or at least a permanent note on the talk page - but that's just my thinking. I'd put all this on the plagio talk page where it started, but I don't want to make an example of anyone.
Thanks for your help, which I know (well, I hope anyway) is always just a click away! :) Franamax ( talk) 10:52, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: thank you for your advice. I have passed the info and the changes have been made. (check out: http://www.ycr.diehl.ws/news.html#4) I hope everything is ok like that. Love, Party diktator ( talk) 15:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much!!! Love, Party diktator ( talk) 19:36, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: this RadioFan guy ( RadioFan, talk) is trying to fuck me up! Could you please help me out here? I am not able to handle this/him, as I am not to used to deal with all the Wiki rules and regulations, I just tried to set up something beautiful... It was a lot of work to me to edit all the info regarding Your Choice Records. A few pages have been uploaded back in 2005 ( Your Choice Live Series Vol.10, Your Choice Live Series Vol.12, It's Your Choice - compilation). This inspired me to continue as I am a fan. Now this guy is trying to ruin it all... He seems to have a lot of energy doing this... I am in a desperate state... Would be so happy if you could help me out... Love, Party diktator ( talk) 22:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
And talking about this so called "sockpuppetry" thing: User:Grapes-taste is actually a funny and very kind girl friend of mine. Is it illegal if she voices her opinion / reacts on my comments? If so, I will tell her to stop... Should be no problem... Love, Party diktator ( talk) 22:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl! Thank you very much for your advices, but I am sorry to say that I dont have the time and nerve to do all this fixing. I guess I have to leave this to others and hope that the pages somehow will survive. I can´t speak for Grapes-taste, but I will tell her about this. But: That riffic guy - for example - found some sources and left them at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Your Choice Records, not knowing what exactly to do with them. Neither do I. Maybe someone else can / will take care of it. I´ll just have to leave it like that. And to be honest. I completely lost interest in continuing, as this seems to becoming a pest. I don´t want to continually fight for an article that I edited, just because some smart asses have nothing better to do to flag and violate them. I already hate the police in the real world (and avoid the contact), don´t need to deal with some self made police men in the virtual world that seem to be bored with their real lives. All in all, it´s just not important enough to me... Or maybe I am simply not strong enough... Love, Party diktator ( talk) 19:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
hi...i need some help to add colour to the header of inforbox university which i used to create an article on bhim rao ambedkar college..i am new to wikipedia editing so have no clue.can u please tell me how to create my own infobox,or to add colour or the concerned person i can talk to.. ill really appreciate your act..thanxxx Amitverma86 ( talk) 16:37, 22 May 2009 (UTC)amitverma86
Thanxx a lot for replying.i have messaged the template people and hope i get the reply soon. thanx again Amitverma86 ( talk) 14:21, 23 May 2009 (UTC)amitverma86
Hiya, MoonG. You might want to comment at Talk:Optics#Request to port article from Wikisource about how to copy/port ScienceApologist's Optics article from Wikisource while respecting GFDL. Thanks. ☺ Coppertwig ( talk) 20:56, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in my
"RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (
Ceoil,
Noroton and
Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read
Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. ~~~~~ |
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Hi, could you take a look at some of the created articles of User:Contributor777 for me? See [18] Since I already stalk his edits because he keeps adding flags against the MoS :), he also doesn't respond to me. Therefore I might not be the right person to handle this. But I just checked Romani people in Brazil against [19] which looks like a clear cut copyvio to me. I already deleted some articles as copyvio's but this might mean there are many more. Garion96 (talk) 19:31, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
So as not to sidetrack anything at WP:Plagiarism, I will bring this here instead. In this thread you say "Plus, copyright infringement at this point is meant to be resolved by an administrator." and this is backed up by the wording in the big black box that comes with the {{ copyviocore}} template. Why is that?
Can you help me to understand what special skills are awarded with the block button? Why should I sit on my butt if I already know what the problem is? Considering only the narrow case where I can find the text on a website, I can find the website's copyright/reserved-rights page, I can examine the article history and use my nifty software tool to be sure it's not a mirror site, so that I'm convinced it's a copyvio - why shouldn't I just do what I always do: nuke the lot; leave a note on the article talk page showing my removal diff, the copyvio source and the rights statement link; remove the big black box and get the (often drastically shortened) article back into sight of the viewing public; make a note to the violating editor; and have a scan through the rest of their contributions?
I already know how to fix this stuff, using a systematic approach to cover all the bases. Why is that limited to admins? Granted that I may not be as methodical as you are, but then a lot of admins just aren't in the same class as you. I've never really understood that big black box... Franamax ( talk) 04:00, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
In my opinion, though, the issue is that the copyrighted material simply remains and remains on en.wiki like it's not the least issue. This is what happened with the great sea life plagiarism, keeping it on en.wiki was deemed far more important than anything else. Now, I was willing to rewrite some of these articles that deal with an area and languages that I could do some quick research. However, maintaining the copyvios seems to be, yet again, more important. Would you at least delete the Straits of Corfu article and replace it with my usable stub for now? -- KP Botany ( talk) 17:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl! I came across this article and thought you did an excellent job so far. I added a handful of citations and thought it would be great for DYK. As of right now, its sitting in this section. Hope you don't mind. :) Sy n 23:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Hope you're doing well. Since you're the "go-to" gal when it comes to copyright, I thought I stop by and ask a question or few. If an image is licensed on commons as GFDL, or Share-Alike - are we allowed to use that image to do other things? Can we manipulate the image, and then upload as a new image? OK, I know that isn't much to go on, and in hopes of avoiding a little of the "it depends" reply, I'll offer an example. If I took the image here, and cut it out, placed it over a hand drawn star - then saved it; could I then upload that image to use for a barnstar? Thanks ;) — Ched : ? 12:52, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I'd appreciate your opinion on this. Shubinator ( talk) 16:36, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
[20] ...and the righteous shall inherit the earth :P Cheers! ╟─ Treasury Tag► hemicycle─╢ 18:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Moon Ridden Girl,
I see you reverted my archival of a resolved message, you marked it WP:NPA. Interesting, since I reverted a title which was itself NPA. I marked the archival as I saw it to be, Treasury Tag's hounding. If it's reverted, you'll note that TreasuryTag's NPA title comes back, which is also NPA. Change the tile on the archive if you think I'm violating NPA, but please don't revert.
It's been resolved (by Xeno) and the title that's on it from Treasury Tag violates NPA.
Thanks
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
18:29, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
<< Yeah, absolutely. Section title fine now, let's move on ;-) ╟─ Treasury Tag► hemicycle─╢ 11:47, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Its Todd Budish.
I was chatting with you a few days ago and I think we have what you are looking for. She put links to where it all came from and eliminated the opinion and kept the facts.
Thanks for your help!!
Budeone ( talk) 20:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Jamie ☆ S93 20:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Nothing new, but maybe useful? Some of the things that I read recently makes me feel something like this is needed. I'm certainly not sure yet another policy page is needed for this, but maybe it would be. What do you think? CopoCop ( talk) 23:34, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I'm sure you can find it, but to be polite I will link to it. I put it here Wikipedia:Copyrights/Text, don't ask me why ... CopoCop ( talk) 23:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I believe your discussion posts on Talk:Copyright status of work by the Florida government are misguided. Please read my posts on the topic, I would like to get your opinion on them. If you would like to help, you could maybe help me expand Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, a key decision on the subject of Florida copyright on public records. Int21h ( talk) 06:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Please don't do that. First, that's for an article that's in progress. While I understand your reason, bear in mind that I use two different computers, (one at work, one at home) therefore, for ease of writing, I have the raw text that I'm using as a primary source on the scratchpad. I will not revert it for now, as I'm not interested in drama. Please leave it as it is during the writing of this article.
Thanks !
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
11:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Like I said. I'm not going to revert the text (it's currently blanked), nor do I want to start drama. At the same time, I ask that you refrain from further bothering the text on the scratchpad. BTW - I am not able to access googledocs at work.
(I did see your suggestion !) :)
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
12:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
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Moonriddengirl, the rules you directed me to apply to articles only, I belive. However, I did just file a db-self to delete the scratchpad itself. Like I said, I'm not looking for drama here. :)
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
14:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. As an author I am of course keen on copyright, and I applaud your concern for this, but please apply some common sense in your copyright crusades. You have objected to my copying text from www.starcourse.org/emd/ into the article on E.M. Delafield. I am the author of the website starcourse.org/emd - I can jolly well copy my own text wherever I want. This is getting ridicuous!! Best wishes. NBeale ( talk) 16:14, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
From: Nicholas Beale Sent: 24 May 2009 17:26 To: 'permissions-commons@wikimedia.org' Subject: permisison to use www.starcourse.org/EMD,
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK www.starcourse.org/EMD,
I agree to publish that work under the free license GDFL and CC-BY-SA
I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product, and to modify it according to their needs, as long as they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me. I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and I reserve the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
Nicholas Beale 24 May 2009
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I am writing articles with my hand and every time you menction it copiright violating,I hope next time you will show you proof where it has copied from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.130.11.91 ( talk) 05:16, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Weldone! Your new article is a nice start. Keep up the good work!-- Chanaka L ( talk) 13:53, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Keep an eye on IP 93.97.43.168. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:26, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your new Horia Creangă article! I was not happy to discover the copyvio of the original article, but I'm very happy with the outcome: not a mere deletion, but a far better article instead. Fransvannes ( talk) 21:09, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Regarding Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame members' articles, I have written you an email. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 22:01, 10 April 2009 (UTC).
Thanks for the timely warning. I left a copy of your message on the coordinators talk page, and informed each MILHISt coordinator individually so they will see the alert whenever it is that they get back on. With luck, we may be spared the worst of the infringement, but infringement is infringement, and it needs to be dealt with. TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:38, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
When I was scanning some of the images I found some of them listed unverifiable sources (for example, in this image Google), should I tag it as {{ di-no source}} since the source could be ANY website? NanohaA'sYuri Talk, My master 23:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
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Like how I'm giving you the barnstar you helped originate? I wanted to thank you for your wonderful efforts to develop and clarify the plagiarism dispatch, but, more importantly, for your unceasing efforts at the copyright cleanup project. Such a job is distasteful and rarely appreciated. You should be showered with accolades for all of your hard work. Consider this one of the many accolades owed you. Awadewit ( talk) 00:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC) |
I need help or to clarify what i think. I am not surew how Reliable the Sources are for this article and the isbn number listed in the article cannot be found on google books. I searched the website and the books listed are also not found on google books or any other search engine.Copyright issue
The author,
User talk:HauntedKid, says he owns the pictures to the uploaded ones , but was deleted by
User:Spacebirdy because of copyright issues. This user seems to have a problem with that stating that he owns the company.
Purplebananasandelephants (
talk)
00:43, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help, was not sure how to handle problem. Purplebananasandelephants ( talk) 01:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I was about to ask Soundvisions1 if he would also make a contribution to the Heart1973_BC.png deletion discussion when I noticed your edit. And then "the penny dropped" that no, I hadn't seen him around for a while. [It's disturbing when someone on the other side of the planet that you expect to be there just suddenly disappears - you feel you want to help, (well, I do), but you don't even know how to communicate with them, much less help.]
Anyway, I don't think Soundvisions1 would want that picture deleted, so I'm trying to save it. (The fact that I don't want it deleted either may also be motivating me.) May I bother you to have a look there and tie up any loose ends that I have missed? Thanks in advance, Pdfpdf ( talk) 11:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Some of the articles in the current round are already okay, just a species list or essentially already a stub. Is it okay to just move on when encountering these articles, or should they be marked in some way to indicate they have been checked? -- Geronimo20 ( talk) 22:16, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, a series of articles based on Oyster Bay History Walk have been created in the last few days with substantial content being a transcript of the audio provided on a "wand" for those who wish to do the walk. My question is where these should be listed for attention?
My instincts say that there is a potential copyvio, but I'm not sure on the US legalities on transcripts - under New Zealand it is a copyvio (as I understand it). However, there are other problems with some of the articles as they seem to be content-forks that I would like to either merge or list at AFD as appropriate.
The article that started me looking at them is currently called Captain Kidd in Oyster Bay - it got renamed after I PRODed it. Obviously we already have an article on William Kidd and I'd prefer to merge any referenced content. However, I don't want to take the first step in what could become an edit war without seeking consensus in the appropriate forum. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 22:58, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
more DYK ... well done Victuallers ( talk) 09:48, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi; here is my just-now reversion of an even LONGER re-addition of the copyvio AND a whole LOT of "delusional history" (blaming the Americans for introducing the slave trade to the Northwest Coast would almost by LMAO material if it weren't such a sick denial of the aboriginal slave trade in the region, which had a brutality completely beyond the US version). Anyway the latest info-warrior is an IP user, not sure if I've seen that IP address before.... Skookum1 ( talk) 11:27, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Well done. Uncle G ( talk) 13:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Would you mind weighing in at the DYK discussion regarding the John F. Henning article? The article falls into a gray area regarding plagiarism. If you don't want to get involved, I totally understand. Awadewit ( talk) 18:16, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
I am a staff member of the Oyster Bay Main Street Association who produced the Oyster Bay History Walk. For several months we have had the contents of the audio track on YouTube and available through our website as well. Our objective is to get this information as broad exposure as possible. At the same time I recognize the need of respecting copyright rules. The page on "Requesting Copyright permission" premises the need to ask the creators of the content. Given we are the creators, please advise how I may go about rectifying this so our content from the OBHW continues to be available within Wikipedia. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inoysterbay ( talk • contribs) 12:50, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Please confirm this email text is sufficient, or accordingly revise. Thanks again.
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the sound recording and text of the Oyster Bay History Walk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Inoysterbay and all sections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2009_April_13 I agree to publish that work under the free license LICENSE {{PD-US-record}}.
I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
I went with the second of two options you provided. The message has been sent. Thank you again for your assistance with this.
Isaac Inoysterbay ( talk) 13:35, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
File:VF LGSF Butterfly01.jpg
File:VF LGSF BarredOwl01.jpg
File:VF LGSF Gator01.jpg
File:VF LGSF WildTurkeys01.jpg
File:FL DOF LakeGeorgeForest Map.gif
File:SJRWMD TigerBay Map.gif
While working on replacement stubs for Tiger Bay State Forest and Lake George State Forest I noticed that all the illustrations (above) seem to be taken from State of Florida sources following the same "public domain" logic. They're all in Wikimedia Commons. Do you extend yourself that far? If so, I hope you'll take whatever seem to be the most appropriate actions.:-) Tim Ross (talk) 16:06, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have taken the article Fleet's Hall to AfD. I think some of the articles are worth keeping, some need merging as they are content forks and a few need deleting. I think it best to proceed slowly with this series as we don't want to turn off an enthusiastic contributor, so my thinking is to work through the series, one article at a time.
P.S. I've left this message on RodHull's & Paste's talk pages too. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 09:05, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. User:JDelanoy said you might be able to help with a question; I was new page patrolling, and tagged Theagaraya Nagar (State Assembly Constituency) CSD A7 as I felt that it probably met that criteria; I then noticed that the creator had made several very similar articles; I wanted to check whether CSD was the right approach for all of them. Please tb me or someth as I don't watchlist. Cheers, Chzz ► 03:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, follow-up to your reminder about notifying users when you delete their articles as G12 (presuming they haven't been warned about it before. Is there a template for it? The nearest I found is {{ uw-copyvio}}, which just talks about removing content the user added, so it doesn't really cut it. I whipped a variation up here (I find myself looking back nostalgically of the days when there was always work to be done at SCV... I seem to have time to mess around with templates now), but it'd be good to know if there's an already-existing one. Best, – Toon (talk) 19:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Please conduct full AfD discussions for any Florida deletions. Please add discussion notices for any Florida Template deletions at the WikiProject Florida Talk Page. Other contributors will likely be interested in participating. Thank you. Gamweb ( talk) 17:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
On account of we not having an Barnstar of our own, i decided to take the mmatter on my hands, which was short-lived given my poor skilsin image editing but i asked a member of the Awards Wikiproject for help on the design and elaboration of the star having the initial idea of maybe an LP or the cover of SGT. Pepper. Anyway, he created an initial design and suggested that before taking the matter to the project page i invited a fellow member for his (or in tjis case her) opinion, so if you could, the image is in my talk page, could you teke a look?.
Thanks as always. Zidane tribal ( talk) 16:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Is great you like it, i`ll submit it to the project talk page for sugestions and/or aproval, i hope everyone else like it. Zidane tribal ( talk) 17:10, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
I hear you on the quiet group thing, so shall we just make the award template and begin delivering so the ball star rolling? Zidane tribal ( talk) 01:46, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
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The Album Wikiproject Barnstar | |
I Zidane tribal give this project barnstar to Moonriddengirl for being such a nice persona and a magnificent member of this project |
There you go, this is as official as it gets. Zidane tribal ( talk) 21:12, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you Maen. K. A. ( talk) 17:03, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for taking so much time to thoughtfully respond to everyone on the dispatch talk page. I'm afraid that I don't have that much time with teaching, dissertation-writing, regular wiki-duties, and the like. That is one reason I've never tried to change a major policy. :) One has to be at the ready 24-7. Awadewit ( talk) 23:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Why oh why did you delete Scottish Jamaican? Firstly, the copyright problems were only with ONE section - which could be easily removed NOT the WHOLE ARTICLE!!! And secondly, some people have done a lot of work recently rewriting the thing, and ADDING new material. Stuff like this makes wikipedia feel like banging one's head off a brick wall.
Why can't editors look at the whole, instead of looking at tags? I'm also sick to death of people sticking "unreferenced" tags on articles which have one or two references on them.-- MacRusgail ( talk) 15:44, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for this. It was just a bit frustrating. The original article was marked as unreferenced, so I wrote some new material, but was not aware that the original stuff was copyright violation until recently. The copyrighted material didn't deal with contemporary stuff like the Marley family. -- MacRusgail ( talk) 12:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thankyou for reverting edits made by 67.165.71.214. Purplebananasandelephants ( talk) 12:23, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
For your work on the plagiarism piece in the Signpost! I'm disappearing tomorrow morning for 3 weeks. All the best to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 15:05, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi again,
As you know already, I have had problems with user Wikifan, one of which is that he quoted copyrighted material extensively in a article he and I edited. I have not looked through his contributions to other articles so I didn't know whether this is just his style. Today I found that an article that he wrote is up for deletion because the subject is not notable. I checked the article, I find that the
article consists mostly of quoted material, the second section is mostly from a single source (Fixing UNRWA report). However, I am not sure if the material is copyrighted. Could you please determine if it is? Here is the source
[1]. --
Falastine fee Qalby (
talk)
17:38, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
DYK is due for an update, and none of the regular DYK admins are around. Could you do an update? Should be from queue 6. Let me know if you need instructions (the ones at the bottom of the queue are pretty thorough). I can do credits and archiving. Shubinator ( talk) 17:42, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
←Good. It's going okay so far. :) Is 7 the next queue? I'm not sure how many queues we've got. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
You have helped me a lot, and it seems that you are very welcoming so that is why I come to you. Here is a token of my appreciation.
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The Working Woman's Barnstar |
I award you this barnstar for working tirelessly including handling difficult undertakings with ease while being thorough and swift. Thank you for all your help! Falastine fee Qalby ( talk) 19:26, 18 April 2009 (UTC) |
Could you change the Buntingford Line hook as it basically seems to say that hikers were encoragesd to go on the line by offering other people tickets where as Subbrit actually says they were offered the tickets themselves.
should become
Please change it quick.
Simply south ( talk) 19:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi M, I stumbled across this image today, which has some... interesting licensing details. It turns out that an editor was in contact with the actress herself, and she agreed to release the publicity photograph under the GFDL, but the condition that certain information be removed from her Wikipedia article. Clearly this is inappropriate, and I assume that the supposed GFDL release is invalid, having extra conditions imposed? I'm not familiar with image deletion policy, so I'd appreciate your opinion. Thanks! – Toon (talk) 18:40, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I've raised the issue of potential CC-BY incompatibility (and referenced you) here, and would appreciate your input. Cheers, – Toon (talk) 18:58, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello MoonriddenGirl,
I work for the LSU AgCenter, in October'08 you deleted LSU AgCenter Wiki page due to Copyright Violations. We just recently discovered it's removal and request it's content be restored.
The log is vague but seems to reference the 'about us' page of our site so I'm assuming plagiarism is under suspicion. Can the content we submitted be restored in order for us to go through the validation process.. or perhaps can it be "Usified" to my account?
Thank you.
--Sam Srazi1 ( talk) 19:48, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
I sent the e-mail from "web at agcenter.lsu.edu" with the subject "LSU AgCenter Wiki - Copyright Permission". Thank you for your prompt response.
- Srazi1 ( talk) 20:59, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
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For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
JFYI - Sylvain Charlebois has been recreated. GHITS appears (somewhat) notable, but definitely looks like autobio to me. JCutter { talk to me } 03:30, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
I (think) you got the answer you were looking for with Dr pda's word counter? In any case, I left a hopelessly general response at my talk page, since I'm not sure exactly what input would be helpful. Cheers! Franamax ( talk) 13:29, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello, there. I must admit this one is disturbing me. I'm just an average editor and a non-native English speaker, and I often found that there seldom are a dozen ways to say things. I have read the dispatch and the discussions in the Signpost and it seems to me that the line between plagiarism and original text is really thin and I often fail to see it. (So I hope you'll put plenty of examples in the new guideline.) Thing is, I probably unintentionally committed plagiarism before, which bothers me. What now ? Should I check all my GA and FLs for plagiarism ? What if I fail to recognize plagiarism in doing so, or in the contrary I deem something perfectly OK plagiarism ? What if I make things worse by trying to correct them ? What if there is no other way to say things ? I guess I don't know how to recognize plagiarism properly, and this paralyzes me. I honestly try to do a good job, and I would appreciate some help in this regard. Best, Rosenknospe ( talk) 17:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi again, please forgive this belated answer due to real life commitments. Thank you very much for your kind words and understanding. I had enough time to calm down and think. I re-read the threads and realized that as I always cite my sources, half of the problem has gone. So my main problem would be the wording, and I'd like to take your offer to review some of my work, if it still stands. I have selected various items with their references for your scrutiny:
I don't have access to the news database I'm using as I'm not at work, so I couldn't submit some of the things I wanted. I hope this is enough to get a feel. Usually getting a feel means some mistakes along the way. I might have read more panicky than I really was, but I won't quit, I promise :D Thanks for youe help, and have a nice day! Rosenknospe ( talk) 17:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Here ! Have a ray of sunshine to brighten your day ! Rosenknospe ( talk) 13:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Greetings! Looking through your edits and interests, I thought you might like to know about a new Wikiproject being discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files. It's all about images and other media used on Wikipedia, including migration to Commons, copyright tags, etc. The bare outline is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media; hopefully it will soon blossom into something worth joining. Your experience and energy would be a welcome addition! All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 20:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the message on my board. Guess I did miss out on the fine lines in the copyvio policy. Apologies on the same. Will be more careful in the future, Thank you for bringing it to my notice. Cheers! Belmond ( talk) 07:18, 22 April 2009 (UTC)Belmond
I've got another article for your perusal. It's at User:Mgreason/Sandbox 2 and it's not long, controversial or BLP. Thank you. Mgreason ( talk) 15:08, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
In re-reading my early responses on the plagiarism issue, I want to apologize for my tone. I wish I had presented my dissent in a calmer manner, and better emphasized how much I agreed with the majority of the dispatch that I did not specifically comment on. I also wanted to thank you for being so patient with me. A few weeks ago an AN/I I knew I disagreed with this position. I knew in my gut something within that position didn't add up. But it is mainly due your willingness to discuss the topic with me, even when my approach must have made the discussion unappealing, that I have been able to refine my thinking enough to understand exactly why and on what basis I disagree. I hope you understand that I respect your point of view, even where I disagree with it. And I hope you can forgive the unpleasantness. -- BirgitteSB 01:05, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl! Please pardon my delay in checking back in with you; I've been extremely busy offline. I'm sorry you and Awadewit ended up shouldering most of the talk page burden on the Dispatch; for one reason or another, many of the other involved editors were busy offline. I hope you aren't too disappointed in the way the discussions evolved; overall, the work done there, and the discussion that resulted, seemed to be productive, civil and concluded well with better understanding all around. The conduct of most of those involved, and the issues raised, will hopefully help move things forward, and seems to have gotten the discussion off on solid footing! Your participation and cheerful attitude was most helpful ! Best regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:06, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Living in Jacksonville is never dull. I have a new article about the Public Defender in User:Mgreason/Sandbox. I think it has a NPOV, but I'm curious to see what you think. Cheers! Mgreason ( talk) 16:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Hope you had a nice weekend. I've got another article ready: AT&T Tower, which is at User:Mgreason/Sandbox 1. Mgreason ( talk) 01:02, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your thorough review of the article. I really appreciate your opinions and the time you devote to Wiki. Mgreason ( talk) 12:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Mgreason ( talk) 20:26, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 15:25, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
I see you all over the place, awesome work. I don't know how you can stand doing all those copyvios, but I'm glad you do. ("Don't know how you can stand...", said the kettle to the pot...)
Also, thanks again for helping me with CSD all that time ago :-)
Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 17:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
For every category you create, you should specify parent categories to which it belongs. You can do this by listing the parents near the bottom of the page, each enclosed in double brackets like so:
[[Category:Wikipedia WikiProjects]] [[Category:Hypothetical second category]]
I've added at least one parent to the category. I invite you to check my work for accuracy and completeness.
I am a human being, not a bot, so you can contact me if you have questions about this. Best regards, -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 22:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to pester you again, Moonriddengirl, but you're still the only editor I know who's really knowledgeable about copyvios.
I was just patrolling the new pages, and ran across one, Revision history of NWA Charlotte Cruiserweight Championship, that read like a wrestling fanzine of some sort. A quick search turned up the source, and I placed a db-copyvio tag on it. It occurred to me, though, that there might be problems with some of the editor's previous work. The editor is User:Ldeffinbaugh, and he seems to restrict himself to the topic of professional wrestling. I checked one of his articles, more or less at random, NWA Charlotte, and found the same sort of lengthy copyvios in it, also from here. I think someone with more expertise/horsepower should really take a look at his work. Can you handle it or pass it on to a more experienced editor? I promise to pay careful attention to what is done, and perhaps I can handle this sort of thing on my own in the future. :) Thanks! Tim Ross (talk) 00:31, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
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A request for comment has opened about promoting the proposal to guideline. As an author of the Signpost article cited in the discussion, you may wish to comment. Wikipedia_talk:Plagiarism#RfC Durova Charge! 18:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
A new BLP is at User:Mgreason/Sandbox, but I know of nothing controversial about it. Thanks! Mgreason ( talk) 19:25, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to drop this on you, but I've come across 27 new pages (created by Kelsievans) which are paraphrases from a web site – there is a good chance they were created in order to promote the web site. I found this issue from a spam discussion.
Apart from any copyvio and spam issues, I'm concerned about the notability of the artists on the 27 BLP pages. I don't see any assertion of notability, and speedy deletes may be in order? I hope you don't mind, but I'm listing the new pages below in the hope of receiving guidance (I'll look here for any reply). The pages are undoubtedly in a good cause (culture and promotion of a .edu site), but it still looks like spam and copyvio (see reference on each page) to me. Johnuniq ( talk) 05:29, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Andrea Callard • April Palmieri • Bob Witz • Dorothy Dean • Fashion Moda • Godzilla Asian American Arts Network • Guerrilla TV • High Risk Books • Ira Silverberg • Jaime Davidovich • Jay Blotcher • John Watts (composer) • Lester Afflick • Marita Sturken • Mark Hall Amitin • Peter Allen (author) • Peter Lewis Allen (author) • REPOhistory • Redtape Magazine • Robert Alexander (photographer) • Sensitive Skin Magazine • Sparrow (American poet) • Stuart Sherman (artist) • Tony Martin (artist) • Ubu Repertory Theater • Wendy Perron • World of Culture
Hi, Oyster Bay History Walk is in the process of being expanded to take in the content of the series of articles which you kindly sorted out the OTRS tickets for. Our question is: if we are moving the text into the main article can we copy the OTRS ticket across as well? Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 05:17, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Could I ask you to review these related articles as you redirected one in the past (ok, it was June 2008, but it still counts !). Pamela Vitale redirects to Daniel Horowitz, but there is also an article Murder of Pamela Vitale about the murder and trial. I'm a little confused as to which article should redirect where if anywhere - I'd have expected Pamela Vitale to redirect to the murder article - unless that article isn't even notable...aarrggh ! :-) CultureDrone ( talk) 11:45, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi can you kindly explain to the speedy tagger Library of Congress Country Studies material is public domain. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:05, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello, again, Moonriddengirl. I need a bit of help with the subject article, which seems ready for correction. I've checked the temporary article, Talk:Joel Kroeker/Temp, written by User:Werldwayd as a replacement for the flawed article, fairly thoroughly, and believe that it is copyvio clean. Would you mind giving it an administrative okay, so the replacement can be accomplished? Thanks. Tim Ross (talk) 22:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for fixing the reference, I have a copy of the book, if you need more details, let me know.
I've have done what you asked to verify that are no copyright infringements by publishing material from the Leicester Penguins Swimming Club website. We have sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Can we have our article back now please. Thank you. Orangewiseman ( talk) 14:47, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Polygamy_in_Indonesia&action=edit&redlink=1 I got this on my bot that watches new indonesian arts and your moniker was on the talk page as a deleter of the earlier copyvio page as i was about to place the project tag - it doesnt look like a copyvio this time - but thought id mention it anyways - cheers Satu Suro 04:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi MRG. Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Please comment if you wish. FLC needs support and encouragement to maintain its high standards. Tony (talk) 08:44, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome, Moonriddengirl, I have been doing my best to follow all the protocols (don't think I have so far forgotten to sign my name on the talk pages), and I will check up on tha articles you have suggested. If you see me making any mistakes, I will be grateful to be told what I have done wrong. It is only the talk pages one signs, right? If I do an edit, it is automatically listed as my editing as far as I can gather. Seascapeza ( talk) 09:19, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
I am hoping to be logging in a lot more regularly, but occasionally the outer world gets in the way. And yes, I can see your references will be very useful indeed -- I still have to get used to the coding for the wiki and they look liek they will provide me with numerous shortcuts. So tally ho and away we go. Excellent! regards Seascapeza ( talk) 14:36, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you're an admin so I want to ask for some advice. Shadow congressperson has had coyprighted material added to it. I removed it but it is repeatedly readded. I wrote on the talk page to detail the copyright problem and its source, but I'm not answered. I don't think the copyright violation is worthy a discussion on WP:CP, it's pretty clear. The same user changes Paul Strauss with content not supported by the sources and removes reliably and independently sourced stuff about him. I didn't want to revert a third time on both articles, what can I do? Hekerui ( talk) 11:45, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
The debate on the potential plagiarism guidelines seems to be moving in treacle. A little while back, I had this exchange (starts part way down). In this particular case, all was well that ends well. However, it raises the question of how plagiarism should be dealt with in practice. I utterly oppose the lazy expedience, that some editors seem keen on, of starting with the position of laying all the responsibility at the feet of the editor who perpetrated the "crime". This is an area where Wikipedia needs lucid, clear cut guidelines, backed with sensible resources and supports for those editors who want to get this right. And to vent a little spleen, this is not helped by some academic editors working in this area, cosseted with their moneyed recompenses, and buoyed with institutional supports and guidelines. It is astonishing the way excessive privilege seems to exclude the ability to empathise with how the process might be for those without the privilege. Anyway, I want to float the possibility that when an editor has committed a copy violation (or plagiarism – does the difference really matter – and for those who think it does matter, why are they unable to spell out the difference in plain English?), it would be good if the text in question could be temporarily moved to a page in that editors work space, where another editor could work with them on the text, and help them learn how to clean it up. The idea that it is not Wikipedia's job to educate users in this way seem to me ridiculous. Why could each Wikipedia editor not be entitled to a user page, accessible to other registered users in Wikipedia, but not published on the web? When copy violations occur, they could then be removed to this page where they could be worked on, in peace, with another editor assisting if necessary. -- Geronimo20 ( talk) 12:28, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
If you have a moment, could you help me try and explain how a source's structure can be plagiarized? Thanks. Awadewit ( talk) 01:50, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl
I am the author of the New Zealand Design page which is currently the subject of a copyright infringement. I agree that the text in the Maori Design section of the article was used without the copyright holder's permission or knowledge and I have apologised to the author. I am happy for the text to be replaced. I have written a new section which is currently on a sub-page while the issue is being resolved. Please let me know if there is anything further that I need to do. Squadraport ( talk) 09:14, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
You should consider adding yourself here. Stifle ( talk) 11:22, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for working on the copyvio - I've long been an admirer of your work.
I'm generally unhappy with the slapdash cut and pasting of other sites' property, even if a footnote gives some attribution. Perhaps I'm too fussy. See History_of_the_Jews_in_Brenham,_Texas#B.27nai_Abraham_Synagogue and how it's been done in that section - some of it doesn't even make sense, because it's not accompanied by the picture, which is what drew my attention in the first place. Cheers -- Dweller ( talk) 12:09, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi I want to ask you if we can use such as these images on wikipedia?? and I created these .svgs
File:LUmbo.svg File:Lumbo2.svg File:Lumbo4.svg
Maen. K. A. ( talk) 18:31, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi - any chance you can give me some advice on this? Mine are a bit of a mess and not automated, and I like the way you both hide yours and have a search box. I gather I have to start by moving my pages to change their names, but how do I set mine up so they work like yours? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 08:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm the IP who objected on the RfC and who probrably derailed what looked loke a snowball. I hope you understand that I did that with the best of intentions as I simply coulnd't bring myself to support the proposed version, knowing that it would be much harder to modify it afterwards if it had been aproved. I notice you made some changes to the page and it's certanly improved as a result. I still think it needs work though (needs better focus for instance), and I intend to help out starting tomorrow. Finally, I'd like to say that I do appreciate your efforts on issues related to both plagiarism and copyright and that I recognise the importance of having a plagiasrism guideline to provide official backing and validation to these same efforts. Thus making your job atlest a tad easier :) 189.105.99.210 ( talk) 15:07, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
How do you want to deal with these? Do you want a bulk nomination at Wikipedia:Copyright problems? Or would you rather just pick them off the Administrators' Noticeboard? Uncle G ( talk) 10:05, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. You left two messages on my talk page about things which make no sense to me. First of all, you say the article I made about Eric Rasmussen (professor) is a copyright violation or something; I got the information off a book called Wiliam Shakespeare: Complete Works which I bought last week. And secondly, you say I added copyrighted material to some article called Vidlin. I most certainly did not edit on that article so I don't know why you've givin me that message. Check my contributions page for proof. This is obviously some mistake that I would like sorted. I just thought I'd better point these things out; feel free to sign my guestbook! Ross Rhodes ( T C) Sign! 14:02, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
I started rating the articles for upcoming albums and the "Future" rating came up in the template for the EMO wikiproject, as far as i know we don`t use it but should`t we? or we DO use it and i`m just rambling here?
Thanks as alwasy. Zidane tribal ( talk) 20:06, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
See [3] [4]. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 05:41, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Maybe one of us can explain to Cyris that given the magnitude of the problem GrahamBould has caused, no admin will unblock him unless he or she wants to lose his or her bit. I'm willing to make the first approach ... Blueboy 96 19:17, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
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Dominique d'Orange is copyvio from her website [6] but is up for AfD, so I shouldn't blank the page, but it's copyvio so I should add the template which blanks the page. So, what is the correct process? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 14:03, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Doing it now. :) — neuro (talk) 12:35, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, would you mind taking a look at Twilight Anesthesia? There are still some issues, and although originally taken from this copyrighted source, the changes made are huge, so I'm unsure if blanking is appropriate. Cheers, – Toon (talk) 22:16, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi - I don't understand the templates. The editor (loads of problems there, but pov rather than copyvio mainly I think) has taken the picture from a blog, which I suspect took it from somewhere else. Can it be used? And I've bodged the subject line, here's the urul [7] - not sure how I should have or could have formatted it so you could click on it. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 16:08, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
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For all you do this ones for you! Mrpotatohead 2 ( talk) 21:52, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
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You need another too! Mrpotatohead 2 ( talk) 21:52, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
You know, I really like the changes you did for the "Nayer Nagui" page. Thank you very much. I'll try adding some more information to it...Thanks a million Rafik Halim ( talk) 23:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
I have found that the majority of this article is copied from the agency's website. History is from [8] and Special functions is from [9]. There are no inline citations. Should I do a rewrite? Mgreason ( talk) 15:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, you deleted an entry from a list of works on the Anaïs Nin page because the article (apparently) was deleted. I've restored the entry and just removed the link as it looks like the work does exist. If I am missing something, please feel free to correct! Thanks. (John User:Jwy talk) 16:40, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Regarding the copyright issues concerning: Polygonia satyrus, Polygonia progne, Polygonia faunus, Speyeria atlantis, Celastrina neglecta, Glaucopsyche lygdamus, Celastrina ladon, Greenish Blue, Glaucopsyche piasus and Oreas Comma. I have reproduced below the statement concerning copyright from their website at:
http://www.cbif.gc.ca/copyright_e.php#copyright
"Non-commercial reproduction Information on this site has been posted with the intent that it be readily available for personal and public non-commercial use and may be reproduced, in part or in whole and by any means, without charge or further permission from CBIF. We ask only that:
I assume that Wikipedia falls under the category of "non-commercial reproduction". Am I correct? If so, you should remove the Copyright Infringement notices. I did reference the CBIF website in each instance. I will try to remove other instances of copyright infringement.
All of the pictures that I have posted on websites are my own.
Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dger ( talk • contribs) 23:12, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've brought this here so as not to go off at a tangent to this discussion, But if you have MS Word you could always copy and paste to it first, then highlight the text to change then select Format|Change Case and voila. Alternately you could use the text editor of your choice and find and replace - a bit more long winded though depending how many instruments there are. -- JD554 ( talk) 11:43, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi M. A user has requested that I look into the copyright issue at Isles Internationale Université (European Union), for which he has sent a permission email. Would you be able to take a look at OTRS ticket 2009050610018874 and see if things are in order, if you have a few minutes spare? – Toon (talk) 12:47, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Apropos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Moonriddengirl/Archive_13#Florida, what are your current views? What do you think of my interpretation of your reporting of what Mike said on my talk page? Just read your comment on Florida Highway Patrol, above. I've opened a
DRV. As your stance has changed somewhat, and you spoke with God[win], I think your input would be particularly valuable there. :-) --
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Regarding the alleged copyright violation [10] -- my father, who played for the Alpine Cowboys, created the website at www.alpinecowboysbaseballassociation.org and he wrote the text based on his personal recollections. The Wikipedia page, on the other hand, was created by me as a gift to my 75 year old father. Since I have a limited knowledge of Alpine baseball in the the 1940s and 50s, I asked my dad to contribute to the text portion of the Wikipedia article. He certainly does not consider the use of this material to be a violation of copyright since he wrote this material and sent it to me to insert into the article. I do think he will be upset when he discovers that the Alpine Cowboys Wikipedia page has been deleted! The other alleged copyright violation of [11] was corrected by eliminating the text. The first sentence of the original article was taken from Kerry Laird's article and was fully cited. Nevertheless, I removed this sentence from the article in my first attempt to resurrect this page. There are no other sentences in this article taken from Laird's article. Leaflet (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC).
Hey there. So two things: first, I asked around about the issue between that article and the other site I found, and I got an answer on the talk page. As far as I know right now, they ripped off Wikipedia, not the other way around. I was wondering, though, if you could stop by the article and lend a quick hand. The anon IP who keeps editing that article insists on reinserting text into the Arctic Sun section. I initially removed/reworded it because it's duplicate text on the Arctic Sun article. Basically it's all the text added in this edit. If you could help me out a bit, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 23:26, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm sure you'll notice before too long, that I've posted in the albums talk page about personnel lists on compilations. I wasn't sure if I should have mentioned you and Zidane by name, because of your great effort on these articles, or if it would have sounded like I was complaining about your work. I appreciate that you've done a huge amount of work for album articles, and I enjoy crossing paths with you and most of the other people involved with the project. - Freekee ( talk) 19:54, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl It's Patrick Duff here hello I hope your well I want to change my photo on wikipedia to my profile picture on myspace but they won't let me do it will you do it it would be cool for me if you would I look a bit too much like Jesus when he was in big trouble in the one that's up there whereas in the other one I look like him POST RESURECTION LOVE PATRICK X Vessel123 ( talk) 12:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I have been working on updating the Dan Branch page, but my photos have been taken down due to copyright issues. I am new to the process, and am trying to make good faith efforts to cite all my sources. Would you mind looking through my page and letting me know what you think?
Thanks!
Trimble15 Trimble15 ( talk) 19:25, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I had this article on my watchlist, but I don't remember what it was and it's now deleted. Can you clue me in? Just wondering if it's something worth recreating with content that isn't copyrighted. Gracias. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 20:06, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
you deleted the article about T.C. Beriker, that I placed at wikipedia.org some weeks ago. Please let me know why ou deleted it. It's the same information that's published at http://www.crediteurope.de/fb/sites/de/en/about/corporate/Managing_Board_new/Managing_Board_CVs/index.html.
Kind regards, cebank —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.152.10.25 ( talk) 14:06, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Fales gave its permission for multi-licensing, but you have tagged the pages as not permitted. Please update the pages. Also, I am trying to create new pages with material that was granted permission in the email under the phrase, all future pages created by user Kelsievans are also permitted use. The note also said, I permit use and re-use under the GFDL of the material from the Fales Library findign aids. I put the OTRS pending tag on all the pages, but people are still deleting them and tagging them as copyright infringment. what can I do? Kelsievans ( talk) 14:29, 12 May 2009 (UTC)Kelsievans
I have seen th list of details. I found the details of Ports & Harbours of India are missing. I would like to request to help us place our details in the list. Regarding editing of our original work, the work on Ports of Navlakhi done is the real thing that I intended, for other Ports of Gujarat. You are requested to send few clues to enable us to compose as it required. Thanks [moti 14:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC) shiptradenews/ V N Jhaveri, Shipping & trade NewsLetter, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiptradenews ( talk • contribs)
To be honest, I can understand why Giano would complain about my uniform. I was trying to go for "bold and avant-garde editor," but maybe it's more relating "fool that can sit and talk all day." I much prefer fools that run around silently, myself. Also, thank you for the support. :D Flying Toaster 02:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading
File:BestofEarthWind&Fire.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, it is currently
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You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see
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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot ( talk) 05:10, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your previous help here. We now have an anon vandal - and it is becoming rather hard to control his edits (which include slander). Any chance that we can get a lock on anon edits on this article? DiverScout ( talk) 11:31, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
No problem; I'll try to address the issues pointed out on talk soon - I hope there will be no objection to removing the template once this is done. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:47, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, This is one of my recent edits as an example from a couple of days ago on Jedwabne Pogrom.
Here is the original text from the source of Holocaust scholar Israel Gutman: Knowledge of the mass murder committed in Jedwabne is an enormous, astonishing shock to Poles, and a shock that clashes with the national myth about the war years.
Here is what I inserted referring to this source: The new details about Jedwabne mass murder was a shock to many Poles because it clashes with the popular knowledge of the war years, anti-Semitism and Polish-Jewish relations during the WW2.
Is this acceptable like this or it is still to close to the original? Thank you and sorry to bother you now, I know you are busy. I just would like to know how far or how close I'm on this one so I could later compare it to my other edits-- Jacurek ( talk) 19:26, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I must admit to your reasons for invalidating my suggestion on including Brooke Babineau in Wikipedia. What I stated was an honest opinion of a new author's work. I was deeply moved by his excellence of imagery, use of English, and insight into the human condition.
I am a reader, and since there are so few new works that exemplify the highest ideals of that art, when one comes along I feel compelled to comment.
Given your comments on what it takes for someone to be "notable" it sounds as if an author must also set a land-speed record, garner a Nobel prize, or scale Mt. Everest in a bathing suit to qualify.
Simply, the man is an author whose work moves its readers; what else must he do to gain your approval?
LF Finnerblatz ( talk) 13:31, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. This article is taken from this source, where it is licensed under the MIT license, which states that:
Now although both this and the GFDL are "free licenses", does the MIT provide the same rights to the contributors (i.e. attribution) as our license, and would people adding to that article be forced to relinquish those rights? Basically, is it compatible with the GFDL and can we accept it? Your insight is appreciated. – Toon (talk) 15:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Am I blocked yet.
Posted by PK2.
Thank you for being willing to get involved in the discussion accusing me of issuing legal threats. Please have another look at what I added after your last comment. thank you. Debresser ( talk) 14:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Could you send me the earlier version of the page on Dermatitis Herpetiformis before its copyright problems. It was key to my diagnosis a few years ago, and I would like to have a go at rewriting it. Occultations ( talk) 20:03, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Ah, so either you trust random link pages of the internet as to real people? Got it. Jelousy, got it.
None the less, I leave it to you to decide. Have a good funfilled life on Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpdr ( talk • contribs) 12:00, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I have GCSEs coming up, and this completely slipped my mind. I'll do a quick job now, and if you want more work done to it I'll do it later. Sorry! :) — neuro (talk) 13:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
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14:14, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi MRG, There's a query on my talk page I can't answer, and would be insterested in your opinion on it. Tony (talk) 04:05, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, there's a discussion going on at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fishes#Fish_familiy_format about adopting new tables for the species listings. I've voiced my concerns about taking information in the "environment" column directly from the "environment"/"climate" entry at the corresponding FishBase species page (e.g. "marine, tropical, reef-associated" [16]), but I'm not actually sure whether this does constitute a license violation because they're not phrases, just single words. Since you seem to know about such things could you take a look and comment? Thanks. -- Yzx ( talk) 19:02, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I've been developing List of New York State Historic Markers for the past few weeks. Some questions were raised about copyright status. I've managed to successfully reach out and talk with the State of New York. They are willing to do an OTRS release so these materials may be used in Wikipedia. I've copied a draft of what I propose for that release below. Please confirm this is acceptable as is or with revisions and I'll ask the person I am working with at New York State to send an email to the wikimedia permissions email address I used before.
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the text of the New York State Historical Markers and all transcripted sections at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_State_Historic_Markers I agree to publish that work under the free license GFDL v 1.2 or later and CC-BY-SA 3.0 or later. I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
Inoysterbay ( talk) 19:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Note: this is completely trivial, so don't even bother reading it if you're busy
...but I stumbled across
this otherwise irrelevant news article, in which a paragraph struck me as quite relevant to what we've been seeing recently. Second and third paragraphs under Greater assertiveness. It's not just us, then. :) –
Toon
(talk)
17:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Greetings, Moonriddengirl. You've struck me as an editor who has a broad base of knowledge, a calm demeanor, and lots of love for the Wiki. That's just the kind of person I'm looking for! Over at Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/3, Drilnoth and I are attempting the nigh-unto-impossible task of deciding on the 1000 most-important articles on Wikipedia. We already have the vital 100 solidified, but it's an interesting task to choose among all Wikipedia articles to decide which are most vital. Is Rembrandt or Andy Warhol more vital? Tuba or Folk music? Would you be willing to offer your input on these and other burning questions? If so, the discussion is mostly ongoing at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/3. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 20:33, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. I just now was reading the article Nocturnal myoclonus and it appears to be pretty much an exact verbatim copy of this webpage [17]. What do we do? Do we nominate it for speedy deletion? Thanks and best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 00:16, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh great, thanks, that's a relief. I will learn to look more carefully. Thanks again, Invertzoo ( talk) 12:27, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi again Moonriddengirl. Wanted to run this by you to see what you thought. As I go along I sometimes find fairly new contributors creating whole series of gastropod articles or other natural history articles. When the articles are extremely complete and technical-seeming right from the start, and there are quite some number of them, (all of which can give me an uneasy feeling) I have started saying something like this in my message to the person, after a hello and some praise:
"I also wanted to say one more thing, and please do forgive me if this is not relevant, but I don't have access to the (print) references you are using, so I can't check for myself. I just wanted to say that all prose, including the technical descriptions of the animals, has to be re-written in your own words from scratch, not used directly or almost directly from the sources. Sometimes this is quite hard to do, and a lot of us do make the mistake of copying stuff verbatim or almost verbatim when we are first starting out on Wikipedia, not understanding that that is unacceptable. So, as I said, please forgive me if you already know this, but I guess it doesn't hurt to make that policy really clear up front. All my very best wishes to you,"
Best to you too of course, Invertzoo ( talk) 13:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks M., I deliberately didn't include the WP:C link right off the bat, because I thought it might make the note seem sort of unpleasantly officious, but if I get a reply that seems a bit dubious, or if I don't get a reply but things continue as before, I will definitely give it that link out. I think the help desk link is a good idea too, thanks. Invertzoo ( talk) 15:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! Can you help me or send me on to someone that can help? I was working to create a table of drugs candidates being developed by various pharmaceutical companies. I was at it for several hours, doing a "save page" essentially for every line. But on the last line I was entering I was thwarted by this message:
Database error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Revision::insertOn". MySQL returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; Try restarting transaction (10.0.6.22)". Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Johnfravolda"
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnfravolda ( talk • contribs) 21:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
It's no big deal. I only lost the last bit I was typing in, since I had been saving incessantly along the way. I was afraid I had surpassed a limit on the number of saves I can make. -- Johnfravolda ( talk) 21:50, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
My name is Todd Budish and I use the name of Budeone as a logon. I am trying to add a page for my cousin Armond Budish. I must be doing something wrong. I tried a few weeks ago and it was deleted.
I went back and looked and I saw the problem, it was copied and pasted from other sites. So this time I printed all the information and had the receptionist take all the information and write it down mixing and matching different things from different articles.
I printed what I think is either a note from you or a standard response. I am not quite sure if I am actually typing to someone or not. I will give this information to girl I had type this last one out to and have her try it again.
Thanks Todd
Budeone ( talk) 11:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much.
I think I have a much better understanding of what you are asking for. I am not sure the young lady I had do this last night is going to be able to do this, I think I need to find someone computer literate to add these links. I have printed many pages of instructions and I think that will help quite a bit.
Honestly I did not think this was going to turn into a project..lol I do understand why it is necessary and will try to make the next one conform to the rules of this site.
Thanks Todd
Budeone ( talk) 11:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Since you helped me write parts of the Stacey Castor article, would you mind commenting here on how valid you feel this image is within the article? I am also asking you because I know how experienced you are with copyrighted material subjects, and you did not object to my use of the image within the article. Flyer22 ( talk) 21:21, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
For all your hard work! radek ( talk) 00:50, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
There was a permissionOTRS tag on the talk page of this page, which you deleted as a copyvio. I'm not going to change things around in case there was a better reason for this, but if not, you might revert it. Stifle ( talk) 09:00, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey MRG, lord knows where this will have gotten to by the time you read this, but could you at your earliest convenience review this and my responses at the user talk page and at the article in question? To shorten the story, I basically eviscerated an article that looked pretty copy-pasty.
I think the editor in question was just misinterpreting the external site conditions for copying. My own interpretation was that it constituted a copyvio and these should be immediately removed, so I did that. I may have been a little bitey in my comments at NBeale's talk page, but I would hope to better explain when they respond. OTOH I could be completely wrong and need to apologize!
To a further dimension, this case is instructive to the plagio guideline we've sweated blood on: even if the origin site had provided a free release of their content, would it be acceptable to make a direct copy (releasing it "into the wild" as it were) with just a citation? To my thinking, that would need a PD-attribution template or at least a permanent note on the talk page - but that's just my thinking. I'd put all this on the plagio talk page where it started, but I don't want to make an example of anyone.
Thanks for your help, which I know (well, I hope anyway) is always just a click away! :) Franamax ( talk) 10:52, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: thank you for your advice. I have passed the info and the changes have been made. (check out: http://www.ycr.diehl.ws/news.html#4) I hope everything is ok like that. Love, Party diktator ( talk) 15:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much!!! Love, Party diktator ( talk) 19:36, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: this RadioFan guy ( RadioFan, talk) is trying to fuck me up! Could you please help me out here? I am not able to handle this/him, as I am not to used to deal with all the Wiki rules and regulations, I just tried to set up something beautiful... It was a lot of work to me to edit all the info regarding Your Choice Records. A few pages have been uploaded back in 2005 ( Your Choice Live Series Vol.10, Your Choice Live Series Vol.12, It's Your Choice - compilation). This inspired me to continue as I am a fan. Now this guy is trying to ruin it all... He seems to have a lot of energy doing this... I am in a desperate state... Would be so happy if you could help me out... Love, Party diktator ( talk) 22:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
And talking about this so called "sockpuppetry" thing: User:Grapes-taste is actually a funny and very kind girl friend of mine. Is it illegal if she voices her opinion / reacts on my comments? If so, I will tell her to stop... Should be no problem... Love, Party diktator ( talk) 22:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl! Thank you very much for your advices, but I am sorry to say that I dont have the time and nerve to do all this fixing. I guess I have to leave this to others and hope that the pages somehow will survive. I can´t speak for Grapes-taste, but I will tell her about this. But: That riffic guy - for example - found some sources and left them at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Your Choice Records, not knowing what exactly to do with them. Neither do I. Maybe someone else can / will take care of it. I´ll just have to leave it like that. And to be honest. I completely lost interest in continuing, as this seems to becoming a pest. I don´t want to continually fight for an article that I edited, just because some smart asses have nothing better to do to flag and violate them. I already hate the police in the real world (and avoid the contact), don´t need to deal with some self made police men in the virtual world that seem to be bored with their real lives. All in all, it´s just not important enough to me... Or maybe I am simply not strong enough... Love, Party diktator ( talk) 19:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
hi...i need some help to add colour to the header of inforbox university which i used to create an article on bhim rao ambedkar college..i am new to wikipedia editing so have no clue.can u please tell me how to create my own infobox,or to add colour or the concerned person i can talk to.. ill really appreciate your act..thanxxx Amitverma86 ( talk) 16:37, 22 May 2009 (UTC)amitverma86
Thanxx a lot for replying.i have messaged the template people and hope i get the reply soon. thanx again Amitverma86 ( talk) 14:21, 23 May 2009 (UTC)amitverma86
Hiya, MoonG. You might want to comment at Talk:Optics#Request to port article from Wikisource about how to copy/port ScienceApologist's Optics article from Wikisource while respecting GFDL. Thanks. ☺ Coppertwig ( talk) 20:56, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in my
"RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (
Ceoil,
Noroton and
Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read
Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. ~~~~~ |
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Hi, could you take a look at some of the created articles of User:Contributor777 for me? See [18] Since I already stalk his edits because he keeps adding flags against the MoS :), he also doesn't respond to me. Therefore I might not be the right person to handle this. But I just checked Romani people in Brazil against [19] which looks like a clear cut copyvio to me. I already deleted some articles as copyvio's but this might mean there are many more. Garion96 (talk) 19:31, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
So as not to sidetrack anything at WP:Plagiarism, I will bring this here instead. In this thread you say "Plus, copyright infringement at this point is meant to be resolved by an administrator." and this is backed up by the wording in the big black box that comes with the {{ copyviocore}} template. Why is that?
Can you help me to understand what special skills are awarded with the block button? Why should I sit on my butt if I already know what the problem is? Considering only the narrow case where I can find the text on a website, I can find the website's copyright/reserved-rights page, I can examine the article history and use my nifty software tool to be sure it's not a mirror site, so that I'm convinced it's a copyvio - why shouldn't I just do what I always do: nuke the lot; leave a note on the article talk page showing my removal diff, the copyvio source and the rights statement link; remove the big black box and get the (often drastically shortened) article back into sight of the viewing public; make a note to the violating editor; and have a scan through the rest of their contributions?
I already know how to fix this stuff, using a systematic approach to cover all the bases. Why is that limited to admins? Granted that I may not be as methodical as you are, but then a lot of admins just aren't in the same class as you. I've never really understood that big black box... Franamax ( talk) 04:00, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
In my opinion, though, the issue is that the copyrighted material simply remains and remains on en.wiki like it's not the least issue. This is what happened with the great sea life plagiarism, keeping it on en.wiki was deemed far more important than anything else. Now, I was willing to rewrite some of these articles that deal with an area and languages that I could do some quick research. However, maintaining the copyvios seems to be, yet again, more important. Would you at least delete the Straits of Corfu article and replace it with my usable stub for now? -- KP Botany ( talk) 17:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl! I came across this article and thought you did an excellent job so far. I added a handful of citations and thought it would be great for DYK. As of right now, its sitting in this section. Hope you don't mind. :) Sy n 23:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Hope you're doing well. Since you're the "go-to" gal when it comes to copyright, I thought I stop by and ask a question or few. If an image is licensed on commons as GFDL, or Share-Alike - are we allowed to use that image to do other things? Can we manipulate the image, and then upload as a new image? OK, I know that isn't much to go on, and in hopes of avoiding a little of the "it depends" reply, I'll offer an example. If I took the image here, and cut it out, placed it over a hand drawn star - then saved it; could I then upload that image to use for a barnstar? Thanks ;) — Ched : ? 12:52, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I'd appreciate your opinion on this. Shubinator ( talk) 16:36, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
[20] ...and the righteous shall inherit the earth :P Cheers! ╟─ Treasury Tag► hemicycle─╢ 18:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Moon Ridden Girl,
I see you reverted my archival of a resolved message, you marked it WP:NPA. Interesting, since I reverted a title which was itself NPA. I marked the archival as I saw it to be, Treasury Tag's hounding. If it's reverted, you'll note that TreasuryTag's NPA title comes back, which is also NPA. Change the tile on the archive if you think I'm violating NPA, but please don't revert.
It's been resolved (by Xeno) and the title that's on it from Treasury Tag violates NPA.
Thanks
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
18:29, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
<< Yeah, absolutely. Section title fine now, let's move on ;-) ╟─ Treasury Tag► hemicycle─╢ 11:47, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Its Todd Budish.
I was chatting with you a few days ago and I think we have what you are looking for. She put links to where it all came from and eliminated the opinion and kept the facts.
Thanks for your help!!
Budeone ( talk) 20:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Jamie ☆ S93 20:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Nothing new, but maybe useful? Some of the things that I read recently makes me feel something like this is needed. I'm certainly not sure yet another policy page is needed for this, but maybe it would be. What do you think? CopoCop ( talk) 23:34, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I'm sure you can find it, but to be polite I will link to it. I put it here Wikipedia:Copyrights/Text, don't ask me why ... CopoCop ( talk) 23:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I believe your discussion posts on Talk:Copyright status of work by the Florida government are misguided. Please read my posts on the topic, I would like to get your opinion on them. If you would like to help, you could maybe help me expand Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, a key decision on the subject of Florida copyright on public records. Int21h ( talk) 06:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Please don't do that. First, that's for an article that's in progress. While I understand your reason, bear in mind that I use two different computers, (one at work, one at home) therefore, for ease of writing, I have the raw text that I'm using as a primary source on the scratchpad. I will not revert it for now, as I'm not interested in drama. Please leave it as it is during the writing of this article.
Thanks !
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
11:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Like I said. I'm not going to revert the text (it's currently blanked), nor do I want to start drama. At the same time, I ask that you refrain from further bothering the text on the scratchpad. BTW - I am not able to access googledocs at work.
(I did see your suggestion !) :)
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
12:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
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Moonriddengirl, the rules you directed me to apply to articles only, I belive. However, I did just file a db-self to delete the scratchpad itself. Like I said, I'm not looking for drama here. :)
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
14:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. As an author I am of course keen on copyright, and I applaud your concern for this, but please apply some common sense in your copyright crusades. You have objected to my copying text from www.starcourse.org/emd/ into the article on E.M. Delafield. I am the author of the website starcourse.org/emd - I can jolly well copy my own text wherever I want. This is getting ridicuous!! Best wishes. NBeale ( talk) 16:14, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
From: Nicholas Beale Sent: 24 May 2009 17:26 To: 'permissions-commons@wikimedia.org' Subject: permisison to use www.starcourse.org/EMD,
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK www.starcourse.org/EMD,
I agree to publish that work under the free license GDFL and CC-BY-SA
I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product, and to modify it according to their needs, as long as they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me. I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and I reserve the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
Nicholas Beale 24 May 2009