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I think we may have a sock of this user, specifically User:TakakaCounty. Their move log shows a very similar pattern as does there adding of categories to pages ( edit log). It's also somewhat suspicious that they started editing just a day after Schwyz left. Thought I'd ask you if you agree with my concerns before taking this any further (so as not to bite a newbie if they are unrelated). If you do, is a SPI appropiate? Personally I'd consider starting another account to avoid a RfC/U and then carrying on with the same behaviour to be abusing multiple accounts but I'm not sure if there is a precedent on this that I'm not aware of. Dpmuk ( talk) 23:57, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
The article Pakenham Watermill is pretty much a direct copy, sentence fragments and all, of this description used with a number of photos—all uploaded by the same person who wrote the description—at the Geograph.org site. (There are a few typos and other very minor differences.) Rather disingenuously, the author of the article has mostly cited as references various of the photo pages bearing this identical snippet; the other two references seem to have been added just to make it look as though the article has more than one source. My basic question is this: Although the photos at Geograph can be freely used in WP because they have been uploaded there with a compatible license, is any text that appears there also freely usable? My reading of item 6 on Geograph's terms-of-use page is that the "photographs and accompanying metadata" there are CC licensed, but, for all other submissions, the copyright holders grant rights only to Geograph itself. I'm terrible at interpreting such legalese, though; what do you think? Deor ( talk) 16:50, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
According to their T of U:
Further down, they say:
As I read it, while the photos are CC, along with metadata, nothing else currently is--including the annotations of photographs--but they could be, if Geograph chose to license them. I'd be happy to get other opinions on that, but I'd go ahead and blank the content and list it at CP in the meantime, Deor. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:58, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
←( edit conflict)I was bout to post a link to this: Reuse for the Windmill and I saw you posted at the same time I did - I think you are not looking at the "bigger picture" as it were. The link is to an "article" with a picture - or "picture with an image description" if you want. At the end of the text it says © Copyright Ashley Dace and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. The rest of it - looks like a "form" much like the ones used here on Wikipedia. (At least in the pre License discussion/merger - GFDL is not really for images but it was used a lot for them) But I am FWD'ing the email to you and you can send that along to OTRS if you want. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 19:36, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Currently it's more than just plagiarism; unless credit is supplied, even if the content is licensed under CC-By-SA (unless it's the same person who wrote the text), it's a copyright violation. That license requires attribution. Once they've clarified their Terms of Use or written to OTRS, I'll be happy to provide attribution not only to meet the requirements of the license but also Wikipedia:Plagiarism. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:29, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
FYI: File:Pakenham Watermill - geograph.org.uk - 1996889.jpg is used ion the article. It is on Commons, taken from geograph.org.uk and carried the common license requirement for "attribution" - You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). This means the image must contain a caption that states something such as The contributor of this photos is Ashley Dace. I have added a photo credit to the image in the article. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 20:33, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
[[Image:Pakenham Watermill - geograph.org.uk - 1996889.jpg|center|thumb|210px|[[:Image:Pakenham Watermill - geograph.org.uk - 1996889.jpg|Pakenham Watermill]]<BR>Copyright [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/29497 Ashely Dace] and licensed for reuse under this [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Licence]<BR>]]
← Too many of the same conversation now. ;) First I don't think my work was to no avail - that is why I am still working with them to send OTRS a clarification letter. As for the attribution section you "skimmed over" that was an answer to a question you had asked, so I thought it did have to do with this conversation. My bad - I misunderstood your comment that started with I'm not sure what you mean... as a question that needed a response. As for the rest - again I want to say that I do *get it*. But that is not what my response was based on. I have tried to explain that a few times now. You know that I do a lot with images and I am not an idiot when it comes to copyright, and you also know how I feel about user created content as a source. So I don't for a second feel you are talking down to me and blowing my work off as not mattering...and I hope that is not what you felt. Matter of fact your last comment in one I say over and over again when I am questioned by editors (As well as admins and OTRS "agents" as well) why, when an image says it was uploaded and/or authored by by "me" or "somebody told him it was okay for us to use this", is not always acceptable. I get accused of not assuming good faith a lot because of mt stance on copyright and images here. At a recent discussion the fact I had asked you for an OTRS check on an image was brought up and I was accused of not only canvassing but acting in bad faith. So, again, I *get it*. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 16:09, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
The OTRS has been submitted. I was cc'd a copy as well. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 16:25, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. This user ( TheodoreNg ( talk · contribs)) has created another two articles regarding mixing, Mineral Processing mixing and Consumer products mixing. After these two Afds resulting in the deletion of 5 articles and the ensuing copyright questions, which I believe you handled here, I thought I would ask for your input on the text and its CV potential. I left him a message about the images and articles, and have not yet received a response yet. All of the images have been tagged as lacking permission. Thanks in advance! -- Fiftytwo thirty ( talk) 15:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I accidentally tagged this as cleaned at WP:SCV on August 16. Can you take care of it (I'm terribly busy at the moment)? Theleftorium (talk) 16:47, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for setting up the project to improve Wikipedia's Geocities links. They are an unusual resource, although of course very uneven in quality, I am glad we will try to retrieve for our readers material of value. Questionic ( talk) 18:39, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I am in the process of sending an email to the owner of the image on this page, in order to use it for the Yukon Wolf article. If the owner does say yes...how do I get that to translate to me being able to use it on Wikipedia? Silver seren C 22:25, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
If you have time could you OTRS check all these:
File:2-kristin20rt.jpg was tagged March 21, 2010 with a CSD for copyright status, April 4, 2010 with an otrs pending tag, April 13, 2010 summary says give a few more days prior to deletion and April 20, 2010 summary says OTRS is pending; only an OTRS volunteer should tag this as no permission. Form the image it seems to be taken by a photographer named Jim Darling, the summary says the "author" is Kristin Davis. The uploader, User:Tisane, seems not only to have been blocked "indefinitely" (August 10, 2010) but also "banned from editing Wikipedia" as of August 12, 2010.
File:Achilles (band).jpg was marked otrs pending on November 16, 2009. Source website returns "The requested URL /Web-Site/HOME.html was not found on this server."
File:AliBrochure small.jpg was marked otrs pending on May 30, 2010.
File:Jack Rubinacci.jpg was uploaded on April 4, 2010 *with* the otrs pending tag. Subject is "Jack Rubinacci in concert", author is "Jack Rubinacci". date image was taken is marked as "2009-??-??" and the source is a photobucket link. The uploaders talk page is full of image notifications. I looked over his uploads and found lots (emphasis on the "lots") of Non-free images, but also File:Pallas2.jpg - uploaded May 13, 2010 *with* the otrs pending tag. Found older OTRS upped images that have already been deleted. ( File:Jimmy Haun.jpg, File:Circa 2007.jpg, File:Wang Chung today.jpg - you get the idea)
There is more - but all for now. Thanks. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 22:33, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict):::You may have uncovered this yourself - sorry I missed it first time around: User:TigerShark/temp is supposedly what was sent to OTRS for the File:AliBrochure small.jpg image. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks so much for all the OTRS checking for me. Someday when I grow up I hope to be just like you. Sorry, couldn't resist. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:24, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for apprising me of the fact that I had been violating Wikipedia copyright policy by copying materials from Banglapedia. I know that copying materials from copyrighted source is absolutely prohibited in Wikipedia. But I thought that Banglapedia is a free source and so it may not be harmful to copy text from it. However, as a Wikipedia editor, I am obliged to comply with all the policies of Wikipedia. Therefore, I apologize for my mistake. So I would like to request you to unblock me as soon as possible. Thanks. -- Tanweer Morshed, August 28, 2010.
Please review Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/LouisPhilippeCharles. It appears that while this case is awaiting review the contributor, having been repeatedly notified and yet declining to assist in identifying or cleaning up his problematic contributions as requested, has actually accelerated generation of additional material without regard to its potential violative nature: He has, in the last several days, made hundreds of edits similar to those of which the complaint speaks. They appear to be potentially violative either because they 1. are article moves made in violation of WP procedures, thereby recklessly damaging or destroying article and discussion page histories, 2. populate articles with substantial portions of text that appear to be copyvios, and/or 3. uploaded photos that appear non-compliant with standards for use in WP. Please consider taking immediate steps to assess, prevent and reverse these ongoing abuses. FactStraight ( talk) 08:28, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: On behalf on my father Thomas Kierans and myself I would like to thank you for replacing the links from the Great Recycling and Northern Development (GRAND) Canal Wikipedia page to the newly revived GRAND Canal Website. Below is an email I wrote to wayback@archive.org in April of this year when we found out that the website had been deleted when Yahoo discontinued Geocities. I was aware that wayback@archive.org was reviving some of the old geocities websites but was not aware that they had got to the GRAND Canal. I am curious to know how you found out.
In any event. Thank you.
Michael Kierans mkierans@yahoo.com PS: Good luck with your migraines. Mkierans ( talk) 14:31, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Dear Sirs: My 96 year old father Thomas Kierans is an engineer and the originator and promoter of the GRAND Canal which is a proposal to remedy some of North America’s freshwater shortage problems. In 2004 with the expenditure of a great deal of money and effort he established a website located at http://ca.geocities.com/grandcanal2005 which he put together to explain and promote this proposal. Since 2004 he has owned and operated this site along with the other web sites to promote other projects that he has originated: http://ca.geocities.com/deltaport2005, and http://ca.geocities.com/fixedlink2005 .. Today when we tried to access these sites we received a message that these web sites have been closed down. We tried all the alternatives offered and were unable to either access the sites or recover the documents. We would like to know if there is any way to recover the documents and graphics which were located on these sites so they can be transferred to another Web address. Yours very truly Michael Kierans Národní 37 110 00 Praha 1 Tel: 224 228 862 E-mail: kava@mbox.vol.cz Mkierans ( talk) 14:31, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. :) I've got another question about the unblock list (and your templates are working fabulously for me! Not to mention all the terrific information you gave me about setting up canned responses and whatnot. You do rock :D). How hard-core are we about the ISP, school, university, or workplace issued email address? I've got a correspondent from Indonesia who claims he doesn't have one. He's contacting us via Gmail. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:05, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
There are - p.10-18 (a range, yes). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:16, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Could you help me keep an eye on this article and/or adjust the blanking? It was created by User:AdibMasumian and I confirmed at least some of the content as close paraphrase copyvio before I blanked it. The other major contributor who has added about half of the article feels I shouldn't be blanking the whole thing, but while some of their additions are neatly separated [4], others are largely interspersed [5] with the original, so I'm not sure how easy it would be to restrict the blanking to just the problematic sections. VernoWhitney ( talk) 14:34, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, you are undoubtedly super-smart and knowledgeable in the fields of copyright, editorial standards, and interpersonal relationships, so I have no doubt at all that you are both able and willing to resolve a query. Will you please have a look at (no kidding) Mudflap girl and the recent spat over the trademark? Further information can be found on User talk:Thomas Hugh. Perhaps you care to weigh in one way or another. (And if Mudflap girl seems a bit low-brow to you, consider that LadyofShalott and I used to meet and discuss the ingestion of jizz!) Drmies ( talk) 20:04, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I think it would be fine to improve article editor. I think, that it can effectively spread knowledge about this theme. I wish to know what is the relationship among editor and copyright. I think, that those two volumes of the Fauna of British India by Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude are public domain although there are listed also other editors on the title page of the book. Am I right? Have a nice day. -- Snek01 ( talk) 10:30, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I will give you an example: PERSON-A will write something and PERSON-A will release it under PD. PERSON-B will edit it, arrange it somehow (without creative process) in some way. In the final work is the PERSON-A mentioned as an author, and PERSON-B is mentioned as an editor. Is the final work still public domain? I think, that yes. Am I right?
I was asking for editor. I was not asking for publishers or for co-publishers. -- Snek01 ( talk) 13:10, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I have started article Ovachlamys fulgens based on text from Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS). I have found evidence that it is public domain at their related websites http://www.fl-seafood.com/about.htm and http://www.florida-agriculture.com/about.htm: "Since the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is a public governmental agency, original data generated or compiled by the Department that is contained in this web site generally is in the public domain and is available for you to use as you wish, unless otherwise specified."
But it is de facto impossible to find such information on wikipedia for this FDACS. Those agencies are very complicated. Does it mean that works by all of them in the Category:State agencies of the United States are public domain? Could it be possible for example to place Category:Government agencies of the United States into Category:Public domain? Is there any easy clue for this?
Nothing from those articles links to this FDACS:
Those only two Agriculture ministry and List of law enforcement agencies in Florida does not provide sure evidence for me (as a non-expert in this).
Maybe it would be useful to for example add some identification (template?) to the certain institution talk page, that the certain institution produces public domain works or not. For me it would be very useful. Maybe it would be useful for everybody.
And I am the most confused with this, because I think, that informations on those webpages are contradicting each other:
-- Snek01 ( talk) 11:17, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I have unblocked this user as his latest unblock request unequivocally gives the assurance you had asked him for. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 11:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Quacking for Hetam ( talk · contribs), same disruptive moves and edits. I don't want to block unilaterally (yet), but since you performed the earlier block evasion block, can you comment and/or block? And I have a lot of clean up to do! cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 18:05, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Almost certainly a Hetam sock. See my comments at my talk page.
.-- Ragib ( talk) 18:31, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Professor Cole has granted permission for this material to be posted from his website. I can have him send you an email to that effect. You can contact him at rcole@depaul.edu —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alanchicagoloop ( talk • contribs) 22:44, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I just started working on this before I left for vacation. I'm on a dial-up connection at my mother's home, and it is sooooo sloooow I'm not trying to do anything of consequence until I return home on Tuesday the 31st. Thanks for the heads-up, and I will resolve the issues on Tuesday, if that is acceptable. Mgrē@sŏn 02:33, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Karava Heraldry and I'm not sure which way to go with that one. I'm leaning reverse vio but not 100% positive. MLauba ( Talk) 14:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your note. The email that I received back from LoveHeals is posted here. I understand that it is probably not enough and that we need to go back to them with the full template, and get it sent to OTRS. I just wondered if there is any chance that you would mind doing this for me. I understand that I posted the picture in the first place and that I should really be responsible for chasing it up, but I am concerned that I might not get it right, and I feel a bit bad to keep going back to these people, and taking up their time, when they are working for a charity (which is why I haven't gone back to them again yet). So, I thought that, if somebody who knows what they are doing sent the the email, there would be a much better chance of doing this in one go, and so minimising the disruption. Is there any chance that you would be prepared to do it, please? TigerShark ( talk) 09:33, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Good work in checking vandalism. Keep it up. Thanks. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 04:45, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much! :D I have never had an astronaut, no, and sometimes these expressions of appreciation help when the workload seems discouraging. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I need some of your expert quidance.
I'm currently reviewing the above article at WP:GAN. On an initial read thru, it looked to be a good article (a strong GA); the only obvious problems appearing to be some direct quotations without citations.
The problem is, that most if not all of the referenced paragraphs are direct copies and pastes from here: [10] - a US Gov publication, so it may not be a Copyright problem; but it appears to me to be Wikipedia:Plagiarism. There's not attempt to paraphrase. Any thoughts? Pyrotec ( talk) 16:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I have raised a discussion on an issue involving you at Current cases. Thanks, Fæ ( talk) 22:18, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Please could you move Hotel Lanassa to my user space? Thanks. -- jmenkus [ T 10:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:
Non-notable school; fails WP:ORG and GNG.
Please refer to the link I'm giving as this is the first Muslim Boys' School established in nov 15 1884 in Sri Lanka before her independence from the British Rule in Feb 04 1948.
Forwarding you also the web page link of the Old Boys' Association of the College.
Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lankaman7777 ( talk • contribs) 11:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I understand clearly the copyright issues but I want to acknowledge that I'm the author of the article appearing in the old boy's website of Hameed Al Husseinie College. My Name is Sirajul Anam J. A. and I'm the Assistant Secretary of the Executive Committee of the OBA and I have the authority to give permission to use article from the website.
So I request you to keep the article contents of Hameed Al Husseinie College, Colombo 12, Sri Lanka, web page in Wikipedia.
Regards
Sirajul Anam —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lankaman7777 ( talk • contribs) 11:32, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for following up on this. As a couple of points to make:
Anyway, thanks again, and I hope that my point 2 isn't too depressing for you! Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 05:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, sorry about the above editors tone of note. I believe to have taken care of the Antonio Paoli situation. Take care. Tony the Marine ( talk) 23:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, hope you had a lovely summer. I've sent you an email. Malke 2010 01:13, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Thank you for your mail. I have sent an e-mail regarding the permission for the usage of File:Hahlogo.jpg. I also would like to know how we can incorporate related historical photos for Hameed Al Husseinie College, Colombo 12, Sri Lanka.
Your assistance in this regard is highly appreciated.
Thank you
Sirajul Anam J. A. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lankaman7777 ( talk • contribs) 07:18, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Since you dealt with the copyvio on Hemachandra (singer) once already, I thought I'd let you know I found the little remaining content there also seemed to be a copyright violation; I was looking for sources and found an interview that appeared to be copied almost word-for-word into the article. I've reflagged the article and opened a new ticket.
I don't know if you're interested in this, but seeing as you've dealt with the article once already, I thought I'd let you know.
Cheers!
-- me_and ( talk) 13:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Could you look at Talk:Jennifer L. Lawless/Temp and double-check if it's clean compared to this source? I think it is, but I'm kinda out of sorts tonight. VernoWhitney ( talk) 01:53, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl! I'm currently posting from my mobile phone so am hampered. Could you take a look at Larry Rosen (producer) please? It's been deleted for copyvio twice before, most recently in July; much of the text on the current article, while wikilinked and some paraphrased, is still taken almost word-for-word from the site listed i the deletion logs. Could you check? Thanks! Strange Passerby ( talk) 03:57, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
How to implement public domain in Wikipedia and other projects? Please Give me instructions. Are there any village pump for meta or foundation wikis? I have mistakenly thought all wikipedians prefer copy left. Thank you again. Please inform other admins about this village pump threads. Are village pump threads properly implemented? Please help me to make Wikipedia public domain.
Hallo Moonriddengirl, thanks a lot for Your fast response. Many greetings to You across the ocean :-) Redlinux··· → 10:59, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I am a sysop on Malayalam Wikipedia. A couple of editors with good standing there have complained that they have been blocked from editing English Wikipedia due to an IP block. It seems that your 1 month range block of 117.254.0.0/16 is the culprit. That range is of BSNL, the broadband service provider that most people in India use (Just do an IPLocate on any of these IPs). So I believe that there would be a lot more people affected. User:LIC Habeeb and User:Netha Hussain are editors of good standing on Malayalam wikipedia and have been IP blocked here.
So please consider reversing the rangeblock as it would just shut out a lot of innocent users, perhaps newcomers from editing Wikipedia. Or at least try to give the two users I have mentioned an IP block exempt (I have already asked them to request for it on their respective talk pages)
If you have any queries regarding this, please contact me on my home wiki talk page. Thank you for your time. Best wishes
-- Raziman T V ( talk) 09:33, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed User talk:MLauba#Milhist thing and made a small fix to your draft, since it would have been more difficult to point it out. I hope you don't mind.
Regarding free flowchart software, I found OpenOffice.org Draw and a wikiHow primer. I haven't used it, but I've heard good things about OpenOffice in general. Flatscan ( talk) 04:35, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey MRG - if you get a chance (not urgent) could you have a look at Latham appliance? I listed it at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 September 1 and have since been told that it was a split from Cleft lip and palate. Looking at that article, I can see that the text was added in 2006, which I'm pretty sure was earlier than the external website. In this situation, is it ok for me just to remove the listing at WP:CP and leave a note on the article talkpage? I wasn't sure... Also, is Latham appliance ok as it is, or would it need to be recreated with proper attribution? Or given how small it is, maybe it should just be redirected back to Cleft lip and palate? So many questions! Your advice/help, as always, would be appreciated! -- Beloved Freak 09:43, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
MRG, I know that Kamboj sikh is a copy paste from somewhere, but try as much as I can, I can't seem to figure out from where. Would you be able to wave your magic wand? cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 04:02, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Consensus here seems to be that we'd like to run the editorial over two editions, if that's okay with you. We'd then like to purloin it for our Academy - with your permission! I'm aware this is a further imposition on your time and goodwill, so if you'd like us to do the editing to split the editorial into two parts please say so. Once again, thank you for everything :) EyeSerene talk 09:55, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
So late last night I found us a new editor worthy of a CCI whose modus operandi after material is removed/marked as a copyvio is apparently to replace it with different copyvio material. See the histories of David Beckham Soccer after I cleaned it once and Barbie Super Sports after CSBot tagged it. VernoWhitney ( talk) 11:56, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've noticed that you've been keeping an eye on the edits of User:Zooaction who is clearly Jordan Schaul. I've gone through his edits and now find that not a single page edited or created by this user is not in some way connected to Mr. Schaul. (I also suspect that he has the sock-puppet 66.230.109.117 and, perhaps, 209.112.219.57--both IPs in Alaska.) The level of self-promotion and end-running around policy (by deletion of COI tags, etc.) exhibited by this user is truly unacceptable. I am not an active or even experienced user and wonder if you, as an admin, might be willing to take some further action regarding Zooaction? Yours, P.Oxy.2354 ( talk) 15:38, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Found another apparently unwatched talk page with a copyvio concern: Talk:International Peace Bureau. The article has not been changed significantly since then. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:06, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I dropped a note on the talk page of the editor who added the problematic content; he is inactive - and there is another copyvio note above mine ( User_talk:Odengatan#Copyright_problem:_OnSpot). I wonder if this may not indicate a larger problem? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:01, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, and congrats to your latest award by MILHIST :) I've just come across a rather promotional and professional bio that looks like it was copied straight away from some source text, especially with all the tabs, indents and line breaks in the early versions. I can't find anything online though, but it might have come from a page written in Flash or from an e-book PDF. Anyhow, if you can spare some time, you might want to have a look for evaluation. I was first inclined to tag it with db-spam anyway but then went for the softer option. Cheers, De728631 ( talk) 21:19, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello MRG, I've left a question on our page. Malke 2010 20:39, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
In doing what I do I am thinking having a "Researcher" level might be good. However I can't find anything on this and who to ask/who grants it. Do you have any information than what is found here? Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:56, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Since I am not an admin, I thought I would bring to your attention the above articles with image issues. I am trying to improve their quality and since that includes the legality of their content, I was wondering if you can remove the unfair-use images found in them. Thanks!--Gniniv ( talk) 04:10, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
File:Maggie Roswell.jpg was promoted. Can you let the photographer know? :) Thanks, Theleftorium (talk) 09:03, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
First I found User talk:Kamol Kamoltrakul - the talk page being the only edit, and then [15] which seems to be in part at least the same thing, a paper by Kamol K. - a real person, see [16]. I'm thinking that without evidence to the contrary, both of these are copyvio. Not much compared to what you're currently working on, but do you agree? I'll blitz them if you do. Dougweller ( talk) 20:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
File:1935 205 jpg.ashx.jpg is sourced to www.fotofinders.com, tagged di-no permission on April 9, 2009 and Says an OTRS was sent/received on April 10, 2009. Tagged using {{ OTRS received}}. No other activity since that tag was placed. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 20:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, MRG. I hope you don't think this is out of line, but this is the space I thought might be most appropriate for bringing up concerns regarding Malke_2010's post-block behavior, as a condition of his/her return was apparently your mentorship. It seems he/she spurred a little bit of a kerfuffle on the Tea Party Movement page pretty much immediately after his/her return. Though I don't think anything happened worth reporting to ANI, Malke_2010 does seem very aggressive with enforcing his/her own opinions over those of others, and is very quick to make huge changes and delete entire sections he/she doesn't agree with. Malke_2010 made multiple attempts to delete the same large chunk of established material in an apparent disregard of BRD. When multiple editors confronted him/her on the talk page, he/she seemed to slow down, but by then the page ended up getting completely locked due to the edit warring.
I realize there are a lot of different stances amongst editors, but as his/her actions have caused problems at TPm (and apparently have in the past as well), I just think Malke_2010 might benefit from a little help explaining that especially in controversial political articles like this, it can often be best to tread lightly and that it is especially important to respect other people's opinions and the work of other editors as much as possible. Thank you for any help or guidance in this regard. 67.58.153.46 ( talk) 01:51, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
I've sent you an email. Thanks. Malke 2010 ( talk) 03:58, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
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By order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of your unstinting dedication to finding and eliminating potential copyright concerns in military history articles. Your diligence and commitment have been crucial in helping maintain Wikipedia's reputation as an outstanding scholarly resource on military matters. On behalf of the coordinators and with grateful thanks, Kirill [talk] [prof] 01:12, 3 September 2010 (UTC) |
Well deserved, congratulations :) EyeSerene talk 09:35, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I've been through so many that I'm losing the ability to spell {{ copyvio}}. Here are ones that I found too complex to deal with quickly, that you might want to give more in depth consideration to:
Uncle G ( talk) 03:52, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Unrelated to the above issue but with regards to the CCI, I'm trying to get the created articles sorted in order of size per a request at the talk page, but it's giving me some troubles, so it may be a little bit this morning before I get it straightened out again. :( VernoWhitney ( talk) 13:49, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
A class of articles that I'm finding non-trivial to determine is those that match entries in the Beach Volleyball Database. Which came first, the BVB entries or the Wikipedia article? Try Vassiliki Arvaniti versus this for one of many examples. Uncle G ( talk) 16:03, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for butting in; I didn't want to make a new thread over a related topic. I just went through these and I wanted you to do a quick check to see if I got the clerking/CCI-check procedure done right. I realized afterward that I was supposed to remove the diff links; is that a big deal, or can I just leave them there (it's faster that way)? I might have some extra time this week, so instead of trying to achieve my impossibly long list of writing goals, I can try to sift through a couple hundred diffs or so and clear off the non-cv ones to save time for others later (I'm still trying to figure out what to do if there actually is a cv in a diff, but I haven't seen one yet). Thanks, — fetch · comms 04:06, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
hi, I have a problem with the article Mehdi Hosseini,as I was writing for so long time for this page and all information i shared to other sites later after Wikipedia, just now we need a helper to decide this problem as I am not also professional WIKI UESR! Thank you for help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexey-spb ( talk • contribs) 18:49, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Could you have a look at the Simon Harris article? It seems to me to be a direct lift from the bio on the subject's website which has a (c) 2010 tag on it. But since the Wikipedia article appears to have been edited several times over the years, I'm wondering whether the copying is actually the other way round. On the face of it, it looks as though I should blank the entire page as a copyvio but that seems rather drastic unless I'm certain and so I'm seeking your advice. The article is also unreferenced and I'm coming up blank on sourcing it with anything reliable (it's in the the current focus month for the UBLP Rescue Project, which is how I came across it). I can carry on trying to find sources for the content but there doesn't seem to be a lot of point if what it really needs is to be stubbed.-- Plad2 ( talk) 20:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
20:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC) Alexey-spb ( talk) Hi, I am trying to explain but as I am not a good user as you who knows so good wikipedia, I can not do so well that is why i am writing directly to you as you could help me to support this page. thank you so much for all.
Just i wanted to mention you somthing concerning Mehdi Hosseini's article by following:
you are bringing this site as a source: http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/hosseini ok, that is my work and if you see under this page you can see one source is wikipedia there, before I created that page. please check it. thank you.
second address is: http://www.compozitor.spb.ru/eng/our_authors_engl/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=19695 if you read the text all provided recently in 2010 and Mehdi Hosseini's article is created before this one. even there is some others sources which from Times about Mehdi Hosseini, all of the them are from this year.
again thank you if you help and direct me always as I need your help!20:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC) Alexey-spb ( talk)
Saw this a while ago. [26]. Malke 2010 ( talk) 21:06, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I just wondered if the copyright holder ever responded to the email request that you put through the OTRS system. Cheers TigerShark ( talk) 21:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
I would like to upload and use the cover of Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass for the said article's infobox, but I don't know what the copyright is for images of non-fiction works. Is there some sort of static policy for such images that would allow me to use it? Silver seren C 22:26, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Alexey-spb ( talk)hi, please check this new article [ [27]] if it dosent have a problem I will workit over. thanks Alexey-spb ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:34, 7 September 2010 (UTC).
08:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)Hi. as it; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alexey-spb/Mehdi_Hosseini# already has a new version and I hope that it dose not have a problem with copyright and etc. any way you can add or recommend me how to change it if you think that it has a problem with copyright.thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexey-spb ( talk • contribs) 08:20, 7 September 2010 (UTC) Alexey-spb ( talk) 08:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I invited Sandstein to take a look at this, but am thinking a third set of admin eyes might be helpful...
See: Talk:History of South Africa#new sub-section: extra-parliamentary activities
Somewhat problematic user Communicat ( talk · contribs) has been credibly accused of having misrepresented a source rather badly. I am waiting on a detailed response, but I wanted to see if you could review the situation and comment there if you have some time.
If you want to wait a while to let him reply and explain his reasoning, that's fine. This is early and he really hasn't had time yet to respond appropriately (just some grumpy throwaways, but not substantiatively as of yet). Nothing needs rushing here.
Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 01:44, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Concerning this entry I'd like to inform you that after having sent an email to the website owners, the content was removed from their website after about 4 weeks. As the situation is no longer current, is there any need to keep the entry in the Mirrors & Forks page? If the entry is removed, will a copy of the issue be stored for reference? Amsaim ( talk) 22:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I want to preface this by saying this is my first article submission and I am new to this so if I am or have done anything outside of the correct protocol I apologize up front. I am trying or was trying to submit the article for George Sernack. I am not sure if what I wrote has been completely deleted and I need to start over or if it is still available in an archive somewhere. I could have sworn I read that I had until the 9th of September to make changes. My first question is in regards to references. George Sernackis again a Martial artist who currently competes in Brazilian Jui Jistu Tournaments as well as an Instructor and Martial Arts School owner. I handle marketing for Mr. Sernack. Aside from the organizations and Associations that put on the tournaments, there are not really any other sites I or he can reference. You or anyone else from Wikipeida are welcome to contact George directly at the school to verify the information. What would an appropriate reference be for someone like Mr. Sernack? My second question is, am I overlooking something? Is there something obvious that I could have included that would have satisfied the criteria? Lastly, would it just be easier for George to submit this bio himself? Again, I apologize if these questions are somewhat insipid but trying to figure out an appropriate reference for Mr. Sernack has me a bit confused. By the way, I am not sure if your name showed up somewhere in your directions. I could not find it so that is why I addressed this to Moonriddengirl.
Thank you,
Rich Serpa
PS. I hope I can find your response. My email by the way is rserpa621@gmail.com. I hope I am doing this right and you are seeing this. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Rserpa621 (
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02:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I must thank you for this editorial. Despite being a fairly experienced editor, I have not really been aware of or really cared for avoiding copyvios. I guess I thought close paraphrasing did the trick. Now my eyes have opened and I shall be more careful and also revisit my edits.
I found this advice in the essay you recommended especially useful :
The right way to use this source would be to read it, read other sources about cats, internalize the information, and then write original content without looking at the structure of the sources... The sources should also, of course, be attributed.
Thank you for this valuable public service.
Regards, AshLin ( talk) 09:38, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I have joined the effort, but don't know where to begin. The associated page shows some investigations by I don't understand the process and steps to get involved. Thx. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 18:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
{{y}}
You should add whether you cleaned it or blanked it if you can, but the important thing is to note that you investigated it and confirmed copying. If you clean it up presumptively, we usually put a {{?}} Presumptive removal
tag next to it. If there's no creative content or you're very sure it isn't a problem, the thing to put is {{n}}
, and your signature.Regarding your comment here. It would be perfectly possible to write something which would revert every article someone edited but didn't create to the version immediately before they touched it. This could also be fed to the same kind of parameters as Contribution Surveyor uses to ignore small changes and probable reverts. Since this would involve checking every edit it would also have the side effect of being able to generate a list of created pages (just like toolserver, but it could immediately post it on-wiki) which it of course couldn't roll back, but they'd be handy to ensure that "nuking" hit them all, since I assume that mass-rollback would only be used if the collateral damage was deemed acceptable. I could start working on this if you think it'll actually be worth using in some cases.
What other copyright cleanup tools have you been dying to have? VernoWhitney ( talk) 15:14, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. I clearly am going to have to spend a lot more time crafting this. I don't want to do it wrong and then have it be harder for mr. Sernack to have his article be approved. There seeems to be a lot of ways i could screw this up. Some of the options may be difficult. For example, waiting till someone has written an article about him. He is a very humble person. Too humble I think sometimes. His school has been featured in Gracie Magazine many times but whenever he is asked for a quote or is quotes, he is only too quick to heap praise on his students and I can't say I ever recall him talking about himself or his many achievemnets in the sport. The information I had used from his website is all factual and again I have permission to use it. Would it help if perhaps I paraphrased it to some extent?
Thank you again for taking the time to provide me all those links and references. As I said, I am going to have to spend some time and try and develop an article that will hopefully pass the criteria.
PS: I love the user name Moonriddengirl and I tottaly understand why you would want to keep yourself anonymous. I imagine you get all types and you probably run into some very big egos.
Rich ( Ps, that is my real name and I am sure you can make out my last name as well : ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rserpa621 ( talk • contribs) 02:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Can you check OTRS Ticket:2010090210007829 and see if the wording is ok. My concern follows a similar concern you had/have with the geo website. The photographers copyright information on the website says written permission is needed for any use of the images. My concern is the OTRS may have been "written permission" giving Wikipedia only permission - or that the photographer thinks they are only giving Wikipedia permission and OTRS thinks it is the "world". I just want to clarify because of the copyright informaiton on the website. Thanks. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 12:27, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
I've been bold and divided your article into two sections (one per each edition) and pasted the first across into the newsletter. I hope this isn't too presumptuous of me - please feel free to alter anything you don't like up to and including a complete rv! If you're fairly happy though, would you be able to give this month's edition a final look over before it goes out? Thank you! EyeSerene talk 08:14, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
MRG, I tagged
File:NammaMetro.jpg under {{
db-nopermission}}
because the source link still says "All rights reserved" and the copyright logo and "All rights reserved" are also included in the image caption on flickr. However, in the comments section of the flickr image the editor who uploaded the file on to WP has asked the photographer if they can upload it to Wikipedia under the sharealike license and the photographer has responded "ok". I take that to mean, ok, I'm open to that, but something that the photographer hasn't followed through with. What's the verdict on this one? There are some more images like this that may have to be tagged suitably if my interpretation is correct. The conversation is at
User_talk:SpacemanSpiff#File:NammaMetro.jpg. cheers. —
Spaceman
Spiff
07:53, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi -
yes, I used the material also in Amalia Paoli and maybe nowhere else since it only seemed applicable to those articles. Anyway, I went to Amalia Paoli already and fixed it in a way that I believe makes it compliant. If I am not doing it correctly, tell me and maybe Marine can work on that one too, although I'd like to learn how to fix this problem by myself.
Is it is possible that I could myself try to fix this Casa Paoli article that you blanked the way Tony The Marine fixed the other article ( Antonio Paoli)? Maybe you could tell me which was the last version that seemed good like you did before and give me a TEMP folder like you did Marine. Thank you, Mercy11 ( talk) 21:16, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you, but can you check to see if the first sentence in this article created by User:Darius Dhlomo is a copyright infringement. I traced the sentence to this site, but I can't tell if the site copied WP or if it wrote the sentence. By the way, it isn't currently on the list of mirrors and forks, so...
Thanks. Guoguo12 --Talk-- 20:59, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Unrelated to the above, but still regarding the CCI: Your opinion on the copyrightable on the information presented in a table is requested at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/CCI#Cyclist tables. (I feel like we just reviewed this general idea yesterday :P ) VernoWhitney ( talk) 11:22, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
I'd be willing to take on 10 articles to shepherd to "clean" - or is that not the way the winds are blowing? I checked WikiStalk and determined that DD hasn't contaminated any of the articles I've worked on. -- Lexein ( talk) 00:17, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
This guy seems to have changed tactics somewhat. He is now editing as an IP here, but uploading images to Commons and re-adding them to the articles edited by him here on WP previously. He currently seems to edit as User:80.191.41.237. This IP consistently goes through the articles where immediately preceding edits were by User:Amir.Hossein.7055's socks, e.g. Jafar Sharif-Emami, Gholam-Reza Azhari, Shapour Bakhtiar, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, List of Prime Ministers of Iran, etc. He often adds images that he has uploaded to Commons under the same usernames as his socks user here on WP, eg. this edit [33] and this image [34]. I don't know if some sort of a rangeblock is feasible for the IP range that he is using, maybe you could look into that? Thanks, Nsk92 ( talk) 09:51, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
A 48 hour block is rather lenient. I would disagree with an indefinite since indefinite usually means permanent. Consider 7 days. Anything up to 30 days would be ok with me. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 16:56, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. You know. I have a special place in my heart for editors who, rather than rewrite material that adds important content to an article, paste tags, HUGE tags, at that. That's a lot easier, isn't it, than spending time trying to paraphrase something and not mangle it? In fact this is one of the reasons I am now writing my own book! Don't know if I have the will to deal with it, so delete agway. And, really, thanks for the message. And the world at large, and the founders/admins of wikipedia wonder why interest has peaked. Steve Pastor ( talk) 19:28, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
ditto Steve Pastor ( talk) 19:31, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for responding, but I'm not sure if I'm complicating this matter more than I need to. Favoritething ( talk) 15:21, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Well, I think it's glaringly obvious. How exactly do I proceed? Favoritething ( talk) 15:30, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks in advance! Robyn Hitchcock at 13:34 and 13:36. Favoritething ( talk) 15:38, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for assisting me in this learning process! Favoritething ( talk) 15:48, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I am not sure where to ask for an assessment on the genre article Neo soul, so can u refer me to where or assess yourself? Dan56 ( talk) 21:14, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Done
Zidane tribal (
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18:48, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
So User:GrapedApe had done a fantastic job with one of our image CCIs and has sorted the remaining images by EXIF data and given some analysis at Wikipedia talk:Contributor copyright investigations/Conk 9. I've looked them over and agree with his conclusions, but I figured that maybe I could just ask you to look at them directly instead of doing a mass listing at WP:PUF and waiting the two weeks there. VernoWhitney ( talk) 14:08, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I nominated an article for deletion. I think I did not do the link in the edit summary correctly. Is it possible to fix that? [39] Malke 2010 ( talk) 17:38, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm sure you've got plenty on your plate regardless, but do you think this article could be a violation? I'm finding nothing via google except for the end list of inducted Oklahomans which was stripped from here. The style seems very much like a biography written for his induction into the hall of fame, or perhaps a similar career retrospective. It's also very unusual that this rookie editor randomly appeared a year after his last edit to create a complete article and nothing more. SFB/ talk 21:12, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'd like to ask about copyright in the context of Darius Dhlomo's contributions. I'm not arguing with the decisions made, I'm just trying to understand. Can you tell me, for example, why this is a copyvio? It seems to me that these are just facts. In order for something to be copyrightable, I feel that there has to be some original creativity in the work. - Richard Cavell ( talk) 23:14, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
On my talk page, 67.119.12.29 ( talk · contribs) has pointed out the edit history of Pat McCormick (diver) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and from that the edit history of Trackinfo ( talk · contribs). From there I find some rather disappointing statements at Wikipedia talk:Contributor copyright investigations/Darius Dhlomo/How to help, including statements that Darius Dhlomo's "legwork" in creating "these highly accurate wikifications of public record documents" is "so valuable" that "I would be willing to overlook the occasional tendency toward copyright violations in prose". Note that this editor has been crossing many articles off the list. If this is the level of review by this editor, what you now have ticked off on the list is tainted. I suggest a very strong word. Uncle G ( talk) 23:23, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I posted a message here 2 days ago, but never got an approved/not approved response. I spent more than a mouse click of time working on something that complied with your suggestions, recommendations etc, but while awaiting your response another user who had worked on the article just went in removed your copyvio and with a mouse click installed an older version. I never received a response to my message. Was my version which incorporated your suggestions verbatim (except for some erroneous info that apparently you missed) not approved? Thanks, Mercy11 ( talk) 00:56, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Just logged in to do it ! Sorry you had to do it; busy couple of weeks. -- Cmagha ( talk) 02:15, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Looks like you cleaned up copyvio here before, but there seems some attempts to re-add copyrighted info e.g. [40] from [41].
I came across this from the comment on User talk:Jimbo Wales#Adish Aggarwala, thought it worth letting you know. Cheers, Chzz ► 13:59, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
What's the best way to propose an article merger? And also, is it acceptable to post this proposal on the relevant Wikiprojects page, or is that seen as canvassing? Malke 2010 ( talk) 14:39, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I extended the article after your "cleaning", could you please check for the spelling? English is not my mother tongue so it's very likely you'll find either some mistakes or typos. Greetings from Italy :-) -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 13:02, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
We need to retrieve information from a insertion you deleted, according to the site. The article was regardign author Gary Alan Wassner. How do we retrieve the information? Thank you. 96.232.208.153 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:41, 13 September 2010 (UTC).
I just wanted to convey my gratitude to you for putting so much effort into a project like Wikipedia. Lord Bless you and I hope you always remain happy and that you receive the recognition that you well deserve. 41.239.83.166 ( talk) 21:34, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, are you around right now? Malke 2010 ( talk) 23:37, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, MRG! I have finally come to a stopping point on the rewrite of this article, which had close paraphrasing. It is located at User:Mgreason/Sandbox 2, and I'd appreciate another set of eyes reviewing it. I'm not in a big hurry, but if you expect to be unavailable for a week or more, I will make other arrangements. Thanks! Mgrē@sŏn 03:35, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, sometime ago we talked and you suggested that I should no longer look at the mentorship page you had for Malke, given that I noticed that you had asked her to stop following me. I respected that request for keeping that page semi-private and have not looked there, but Malke wants a reference to that discussion. Instead of looking on there for a diff, could you please comment on User_talk:Malke_2010#WP:WIKIHOUND_warning. Thanks. History2007 ( talk) 08:02, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, If possible please look in to ORTS tickets for following files File:NH 45 Ulundurpet Padalur.JPG and File:Udaipur_highway.jpg. I already sent mail to ORTS today. Thanks KuwarOnline Talk 09:15, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. I wonder if you could take a look at what this user is saying on their talkpage? They posted a bunch of ozone related articles, two of which are copyright violations (one from an UNEP site, the other of a news article which the user asserts is itself a copyvio of original UNEP text). He/she is saying that they are trying to create the pages and are the original owner, and that they will edit out the copyright violations. I was thinking of offering to move them to userspace for them to work on them, but really my understanding is G12 applies over all namespaces.
I'm really not sure how to proceed. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Syrthiss ( talk) 12:17, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Have you had any more communication with Thirdaccount through OTRS about permissions? Looks like another person in his/her office has started OAs Initiatives which is copyright violation from http://www.unep.fr/ozonaction/about/mf.htm (and nocontext to boot, in that if I didn't know what it was about at this point it would be hard to tie the article to the name). I didn't want to act on it in case you had been getting emails from Thirdaccount. Syrthiss ( talk) 15:26, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Missed that it was under discussion, sorry - I see that you beat me to the undelete, too. Looks like I need a cup of coffee. Thanks, UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 12:50, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Here is a "good" question for you. What to do in the case of many possible image copyvios from one user? If it were only a few of them I would just tag them as I did File:64 Eric Pinkett.jpg and not bother you. However as I started to look over the users image uploads I began to notice they were mostly marked the same - "Own photograph"/"own photo". Some are marked as "own artwork" and only one is/was marked as "This is my own personal photograph taken in 1964". So I dug deeper and the user runs a website about "players from the Eric Pinkett era" of the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra. Now here comes the bigger copyright issue - while the website states No permission is required to download or print any of the items. it also gives gratitude and thanks to all former players who made contributions to the Photo Gallery, and particularly to Nigel Pinkett for the 'Special Collections' section. Wikipedia has no proof that any of the actual photographers signed over their copyright to the uploader so they could license them here via {{ PD-self}}. Aside from that there may also be a COI concern (Ok, well there *is* a COI concern) because since October 2009 the uploader (Most likely also I.P 86.144.118.211) has been the main contributor to the Peter G. Fletcher article, which they are mentioned in, and, since May 2007, the main contributor to the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra. (Possible to also be I.P 86.130.109.46, I.P 86.144.118.45 and I.P 6.130.118.93) There is also some WP:OWN going on as well it seems - "My article has been somewhat decimated."
So where to start? Is there a protocol in place for dealing with this many images or do I just start tagging them all {{ di-no permission}} and ask for OTRS's to be sent in for each image on the users talk page? Or should send all the unused ones to PUI and tagged the used ones with {{ di-no permission}}? Advice welcome. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 14:04, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind investigating whether Central place theory is plagiarized or not? I came across a report on the talk page that it might be, but I don't have time to properly investigate. I saw this while demo-ing Wikipedia for a class for the Public Policy Initiative, so it would be nice to report back to the class that we did something about it! :) Awadewit ( talk) 19:55, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I blocked Malke for 24 hours over that Raccolta comment -- it seems to me to be a clear case of WP:HOUND.-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 15:40, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to say thank you for the incredible amount of effort you have put in on keeping Wikipedia's copyright problem under control. It's not always well appreciated work, but it's important, and it means a lot to me that you've been so diligent and involved.
Thank you! Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 20:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Can you delete the edit summary/comment for File:Hank3.jpg to remove the personal information? VernoWhitney ( talk) 21:22, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
And another one unrelated to the above - Dalbster ( talk · contribs) from one of our more recent CCIs is back after their 72-hour block as 92.4.238.19 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) and is now adding more copyvio (see this addition copied from this source. VernoWhitney ( talk) 21:56, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your incredible work on copyrights... I will never have your determination, but you will always have my admiration. (Did that rhyme by any chance?) Renata ( talk) 00:18, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
As the header says - I'll let you answer this one. :) Soundvisions1 ( talk) 10:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
It appears that this new editor has created a number of questionable articles. You have initiated a review of some of the work, but the article Action on Methyl Bromide is very strange also. We would normally include such content in Methyl bromide. I recomend that Iop23's entire inventory of new articles be considered for deletion. Thanks,-- Smokefoot ( talk) 13:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
By the way thanks for your handling of the issues. You were so effective and fair that I think you should copyright your style somehow, if not trademark it. Cheers. History2007 ( talk) 14:28, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Template talk:Di-no source#Slight wording change. I use that tag all the time and I never noticed this until today, so I made the request. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 14:47, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Soundvisions1 ( talk)
Hi! I removed a possible copyvio sentence added by user:Дунгане, thinking that was a close paraphrasing case. See the source the user added. Was I correct? I'd like to know your opinion. If it's not CV, I will revert my edit and strike the warning on the user's talk page. Thank you. Oda Mari ( talk) 15:21, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
you had once suggested that its better to make a seperate page Rajesh Khanna Filmography.
iam not aware as to how it should be made or edited.if the page is created i can definitely help you update the filmography. it would be better if Rajesh Khanna Filmography is created seperately with 6 columns Year,Film,Role,Actress,Director,Other Notes.
the reason being that many things about khanna is missing from the wikipedia article right now, but if information is added then page will look longer so seperate page of filmography is the need of hour.
preferably the new page of Rajesh Khanna Filmography should appear under letter R and not K. I MEAN IN THIS LINK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Filmographies
Shrik88music ( talk) 01:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
atleast tell me how should i create tht page in such a way that it does appear in that link under R to the world.i cn fill up all those six columns viz. Year,Film,Role,Actress,Director,Other Notes. by myself but only if iam able to create that page.
Shrik88music (
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18:54, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I HAVE CREATED
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajesh_Khanna_Filmography.
but please show me six colomuns with the headings i asked for. later on gradually i will fill it up Shrik88music ( talk) 19:07, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I have crrated a seperate page Rajesh Khanna Filmography. iam not aware as to how it should be edited that there would be 6 columns Year,Film,Role,Actress,Director,Other Notes. i wil by myself manage to fill up all details if u dont have time but just create that page with those 6 columns atleast. if you would be able to fill up the columns actresses,year,role with help of the already created filmography by me at present it would be great. gradually i will fill the columns roles,other notes,director. Shrik88music ( talk) 19:23, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
i by myself keep taking help from few selected people as they seem to be intelligent and not biased fans....rajesh khanna article must be made semi protected i feel as those who have not got themselves registered are editing rajesh khana article Shrik88music ( talk) 09:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I've posted a question on our page. Thanks. Malke 2010 ( talk) 22:27, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I have not been a party to anything that has gone before in the current editing block of Malke 2010, but I would like to chime in here as a "character witness", and plead for assistance in lifting/shortening of this block. How can I help in this situation? Malke was a very calming influence in a couple of contentious situations I encountered in the past with other editors. When I was ready to throw in the towell in the face of irrational argument, she drew me back to the table. When I became a little overbeariung, she restrained me. I have only ever known her to deal in good faith, and I believe that whatever this situation is, she IS dealing in good faith. Eastcote ( talk) 03:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, To my horror, I discovered
this edit when I checked my contributions this morning. I must have hit the stupid rollback button by mistake. Head now suitably hanging in shame.
Best,
Voceditenore (
talk)
07:53, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey, M, can you leave your thoughts at User talk:Malke 2010 regarding the pending unblock request, and the block in general. Thanks. Courcelles 09:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
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I've started rewriting the bot task explanation for a more general readership. Please tell me (preferably here) if you think
Wikipedia talk:Contributor copyright investigations/Darius Dhlomo/Task explanation/sandbox
is heading in the right direction.
75.62.2.105 ( talk) 02:27, 15 September 2010 (UTC) For what it's worth, I think that the task explanation should stick to just that: the explanation of what the task being performed is. We don't need a "How can you help?" section. I suggest refactoring what's already there and placing it into the "Why this is happening" and "What happens next" sections. Uncle G ( talk) 11:40, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Maybe the CorenBot could be programmed to identify copyrighted text added to existing articles so that this fiasco doesn't happen again? Dr. Blofeld 15:18, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Yes I think you're right. And mirror sites are always a problem... The question is how to stop this sort of thing happening. Dr. Blofeld 16:32, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Mind you, if you did the search on the added text as opposed to resulting article, you might have better success — but diffs aren't very good to determine what is addition or not since it's newline (i.e. paragraph) based. — Coren (talk) 16:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Coren, if you're still here, can you program CorenSearchBot to pick up any edits that remove an article from Category:Articles tagged for CCI copyright problems? That gives at least a slight re-check of articles that editors un-blank from Uncle G's bot sweep. At least one person has already re-introduced copyvios by restoring insufficiently checked stuff from Uncle G's initial test run, and CorenSearchBot has at least some hope of picking up on that. 67.119.14.196 ( talk) 23:12, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear MRG, if you're not too busy, can you perhaps give your opinion about a question I asked at Commons, here? You know all this stuff, and I don't, and it seems there isn't a very clear consensus. Thank you so much! Drmies ( talk) 01:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
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I think we may have a sock of this user, specifically User:TakakaCounty. Their move log shows a very similar pattern as does there adding of categories to pages ( edit log). It's also somewhat suspicious that they started editing just a day after Schwyz left. Thought I'd ask you if you agree with my concerns before taking this any further (so as not to bite a newbie if they are unrelated). If you do, is a SPI appropiate? Personally I'd consider starting another account to avoid a RfC/U and then carrying on with the same behaviour to be abusing multiple accounts but I'm not sure if there is a precedent on this that I'm not aware of. Dpmuk ( talk) 23:57, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
The article Pakenham Watermill is pretty much a direct copy, sentence fragments and all, of this description used with a number of photos—all uploaded by the same person who wrote the description—at the Geograph.org site. (There are a few typos and other very minor differences.) Rather disingenuously, the author of the article has mostly cited as references various of the photo pages bearing this identical snippet; the other two references seem to have been added just to make it look as though the article has more than one source. My basic question is this: Although the photos at Geograph can be freely used in WP because they have been uploaded there with a compatible license, is any text that appears there also freely usable? My reading of item 6 on Geograph's terms-of-use page is that the "photographs and accompanying metadata" there are CC licensed, but, for all other submissions, the copyright holders grant rights only to Geograph itself. I'm terrible at interpreting such legalese, though; what do you think? Deor ( talk) 16:50, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
According to their T of U:
Further down, they say:
As I read it, while the photos are CC, along with metadata, nothing else currently is--including the annotations of photographs--but they could be, if Geograph chose to license them. I'd be happy to get other opinions on that, but I'd go ahead and blank the content and list it at CP in the meantime, Deor. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:58, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
←( edit conflict)I was bout to post a link to this: Reuse for the Windmill and I saw you posted at the same time I did - I think you are not looking at the "bigger picture" as it were. The link is to an "article" with a picture - or "picture with an image description" if you want. At the end of the text it says © Copyright Ashley Dace and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. The rest of it - looks like a "form" much like the ones used here on Wikipedia. (At least in the pre License discussion/merger - GFDL is not really for images but it was used a lot for them) But I am FWD'ing the email to you and you can send that along to OTRS if you want. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 19:36, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Currently it's more than just plagiarism; unless credit is supplied, even if the content is licensed under CC-By-SA (unless it's the same person who wrote the text), it's a copyright violation. That license requires attribution. Once they've clarified their Terms of Use or written to OTRS, I'll be happy to provide attribution not only to meet the requirements of the license but also Wikipedia:Plagiarism. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:29, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
FYI: File:Pakenham Watermill - geograph.org.uk - 1996889.jpg is used ion the article. It is on Commons, taken from geograph.org.uk and carried the common license requirement for "attribution" - You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). This means the image must contain a caption that states something such as The contributor of this photos is Ashley Dace. I have added a photo credit to the image in the article. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 20:33, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
[[Image:Pakenham Watermill - geograph.org.uk - 1996889.jpg|center|thumb|210px|[[:Image:Pakenham Watermill - geograph.org.uk - 1996889.jpg|Pakenham Watermill]]<BR>Copyright [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/29497 Ashely Dace] and licensed for reuse under this [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Licence]<BR>]]
← Too many of the same conversation now. ;) First I don't think my work was to no avail - that is why I am still working with them to send OTRS a clarification letter. As for the attribution section you "skimmed over" that was an answer to a question you had asked, so I thought it did have to do with this conversation. My bad - I misunderstood your comment that started with I'm not sure what you mean... as a question that needed a response. As for the rest - again I want to say that I do *get it*. But that is not what my response was based on. I have tried to explain that a few times now. You know that I do a lot with images and I am not an idiot when it comes to copyright, and you also know how I feel about user created content as a source. So I don't for a second feel you are talking down to me and blowing my work off as not mattering...and I hope that is not what you felt. Matter of fact your last comment in one I say over and over again when I am questioned by editors (As well as admins and OTRS "agents" as well) why, when an image says it was uploaded and/or authored by by "me" or "somebody told him it was okay for us to use this", is not always acceptable. I get accused of not assuming good faith a lot because of mt stance on copyright and images here. At a recent discussion the fact I had asked you for an OTRS check on an image was brought up and I was accused of not only canvassing but acting in bad faith. So, again, I *get it*. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 16:09, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
The OTRS has been submitted. I was cc'd a copy as well. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 16:25, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. This user ( TheodoreNg ( talk · contribs)) has created another two articles regarding mixing, Mineral Processing mixing and Consumer products mixing. After these two Afds resulting in the deletion of 5 articles and the ensuing copyright questions, which I believe you handled here, I thought I would ask for your input on the text and its CV potential. I left him a message about the images and articles, and have not yet received a response yet. All of the images have been tagged as lacking permission. Thanks in advance! -- Fiftytwo thirty ( talk) 15:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I accidentally tagged this as cleaned at WP:SCV on August 16. Can you take care of it (I'm terribly busy at the moment)? Theleftorium (talk) 16:47, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for setting up the project to improve Wikipedia's Geocities links. They are an unusual resource, although of course very uneven in quality, I am glad we will try to retrieve for our readers material of value. Questionic ( talk) 18:39, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I am in the process of sending an email to the owner of the image on this page, in order to use it for the Yukon Wolf article. If the owner does say yes...how do I get that to translate to me being able to use it on Wikipedia? Silver seren C 22:25, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
If you have time could you OTRS check all these:
File:2-kristin20rt.jpg was tagged March 21, 2010 with a CSD for copyright status, April 4, 2010 with an otrs pending tag, April 13, 2010 summary says give a few more days prior to deletion and April 20, 2010 summary says OTRS is pending; only an OTRS volunteer should tag this as no permission. Form the image it seems to be taken by a photographer named Jim Darling, the summary says the "author" is Kristin Davis. The uploader, User:Tisane, seems not only to have been blocked "indefinitely" (August 10, 2010) but also "banned from editing Wikipedia" as of August 12, 2010.
File:Achilles (band).jpg was marked otrs pending on November 16, 2009. Source website returns "The requested URL /Web-Site/HOME.html was not found on this server."
File:AliBrochure small.jpg was marked otrs pending on May 30, 2010.
File:Jack Rubinacci.jpg was uploaded on April 4, 2010 *with* the otrs pending tag. Subject is "Jack Rubinacci in concert", author is "Jack Rubinacci". date image was taken is marked as "2009-??-??" and the source is a photobucket link. The uploaders talk page is full of image notifications. I looked over his uploads and found lots (emphasis on the "lots") of Non-free images, but also File:Pallas2.jpg - uploaded May 13, 2010 *with* the otrs pending tag. Found older OTRS upped images that have already been deleted. ( File:Jimmy Haun.jpg, File:Circa 2007.jpg, File:Wang Chung today.jpg - you get the idea)
There is more - but all for now. Thanks. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 22:33, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict):::You may have uncovered this yourself - sorry I missed it first time around: User:TigerShark/temp is supposedly what was sent to OTRS for the File:AliBrochure small.jpg image. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks so much for all the OTRS checking for me. Someday when I grow up I hope to be just like you. Sorry, couldn't resist. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:24, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for apprising me of the fact that I had been violating Wikipedia copyright policy by copying materials from Banglapedia. I know that copying materials from copyrighted source is absolutely prohibited in Wikipedia. But I thought that Banglapedia is a free source and so it may not be harmful to copy text from it. However, as a Wikipedia editor, I am obliged to comply with all the policies of Wikipedia. Therefore, I apologize for my mistake. So I would like to request you to unblock me as soon as possible. Thanks. -- Tanweer Morshed, August 28, 2010.
Please review Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/LouisPhilippeCharles. It appears that while this case is awaiting review the contributor, having been repeatedly notified and yet declining to assist in identifying or cleaning up his problematic contributions as requested, has actually accelerated generation of additional material without regard to its potential violative nature: He has, in the last several days, made hundreds of edits similar to those of which the complaint speaks. They appear to be potentially violative either because they 1. are article moves made in violation of WP procedures, thereby recklessly damaging or destroying article and discussion page histories, 2. populate articles with substantial portions of text that appear to be copyvios, and/or 3. uploaded photos that appear non-compliant with standards for use in WP. Please consider taking immediate steps to assess, prevent and reverse these ongoing abuses. FactStraight ( talk) 08:28, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: On behalf on my father Thomas Kierans and myself I would like to thank you for replacing the links from the Great Recycling and Northern Development (GRAND) Canal Wikipedia page to the newly revived GRAND Canal Website. Below is an email I wrote to wayback@archive.org in April of this year when we found out that the website had been deleted when Yahoo discontinued Geocities. I was aware that wayback@archive.org was reviving some of the old geocities websites but was not aware that they had got to the GRAND Canal. I am curious to know how you found out.
In any event. Thank you.
Michael Kierans mkierans@yahoo.com PS: Good luck with your migraines. Mkierans ( talk) 14:31, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Dear Sirs: My 96 year old father Thomas Kierans is an engineer and the originator and promoter of the GRAND Canal which is a proposal to remedy some of North America’s freshwater shortage problems. In 2004 with the expenditure of a great deal of money and effort he established a website located at http://ca.geocities.com/grandcanal2005 which he put together to explain and promote this proposal. Since 2004 he has owned and operated this site along with the other web sites to promote other projects that he has originated: http://ca.geocities.com/deltaport2005, and http://ca.geocities.com/fixedlink2005 .. Today when we tried to access these sites we received a message that these web sites have been closed down. We tried all the alternatives offered and were unable to either access the sites or recover the documents. We would like to know if there is any way to recover the documents and graphics which were located on these sites so they can be transferred to another Web address. Yours very truly Michael Kierans Národní 37 110 00 Praha 1 Tel: 224 228 862 E-mail: kava@mbox.vol.cz Mkierans ( talk) 14:31, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. :) I've got another question about the unblock list (and your templates are working fabulously for me! Not to mention all the terrific information you gave me about setting up canned responses and whatnot. You do rock :D). How hard-core are we about the ISP, school, university, or workplace issued email address? I've got a correspondent from Indonesia who claims he doesn't have one. He's contacting us via Gmail. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:05, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
There are - p.10-18 (a range, yes). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:16, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Could you help me keep an eye on this article and/or adjust the blanking? It was created by User:AdibMasumian and I confirmed at least some of the content as close paraphrase copyvio before I blanked it. The other major contributor who has added about half of the article feels I shouldn't be blanking the whole thing, but while some of their additions are neatly separated [4], others are largely interspersed [5] with the original, so I'm not sure how easy it would be to restrict the blanking to just the problematic sections. VernoWhitney ( talk) 14:34, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, you are undoubtedly super-smart and knowledgeable in the fields of copyright, editorial standards, and interpersonal relationships, so I have no doubt at all that you are both able and willing to resolve a query. Will you please have a look at (no kidding) Mudflap girl and the recent spat over the trademark? Further information can be found on User talk:Thomas Hugh. Perhaps you care to weigh in one way or another. (And if Mudflap girl seems a bit low-brow to you, consider that LadyofShalott and I used to meet and discuss the ingestion of jizz!) Drmies ( talk) 20:04, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I think it would be fine to improve article editor. I think, that it can effectively spread knowledge about this theme. I wish to know what is the relationship among editor and copyright. I think, that those two volumes of the Fauna of British India by Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude are public domain although there are listed also other editors on the title page of the book. Am I right? Have a nice day. -- Snek01 ( talk) 10:30, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I will give you an example: PERSON-A will write something and PERSON-A will release it under PD. PERSON-B will edit it, arrange it somehow (without creative process) in some way. In the final work is the PERSON-A mentioned as an author, and PERSON-B is mentioned as an editor. Is the final work still public domain? I think, that yes. Am I right?
I was asking for editor. I was not asking for publishers or for co-publishers. -- Snek01 ( talk) 13:10, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I have started article Ovachlamys fulgens based on text from Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS). I have found evidence that it is public domain at their related websites http://www.fl-seafood.com/about.htm and http://www.florida-agriculture.com/about.htm: "Since the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is a public governmental agency, original data generated or compiled by the Department that is contained in this web site generally is in the public domain and is available for you to use as you wish, unless otherwise specified."
But it is de facto impossible to find such information on wikipedia for this FDACS. Those agencies are very complicated. Does it mean that works by all of them in the Category:State agencies of the United States are public domain? Could it be possible for example to place Category:Government agencies of the United States into Category:Public domain? Is there any easy clue for this?
Nothing from those articles links to this FDACS:
Those only two Agriculture ministry and List of law enforcement agencies in Florida does not provide sure evidence for me (as a non-expert in this).
Maybe it would be useful to for example add some identification (template?) to the certain institution talk page, that the certain institution produces public domain works or not. For me it would be very useful. Maybe it would be useful for everybody.
And I am the most confused with this, because I think, that informations on those webpages are contradicting each other:
-- Snek01 ( talk) 11:17, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I have unblocked this user as his latest unblock request unequivocally gives the assurance you had asked him for. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 11:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Quacking for Hetam ( talk · contribs), same disruptive moves and edits. I don't want to block unilaterally (yet), but since you performed the earlier block evasion block, can you comment and/or block? And I have a lot of clean up to do! cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 18:05, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Almost certainly a Hetam sock. See my comments at my talk page.
.-- Ragib ( talk) 18:31, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Professor Cole has granted permission for this material to be posted from his website. I can have him send you an email to that effect. You can contact him at rcole@depaul.edu —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alanchicagoloop ( talk • contribs) 22:44, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I just started working on this before I left for vacation. I'm on a dial-up connection at my mother's home, and it is sooooo sloooow I'm not trying to do anything of consequence until I return home on Tuesday the 31st. Thanks for the heads-up, and I will resolve the issues on Tuesday, if that is acceptable. Mgrē@sŏn 02:33, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Karava Heraldry and I'm not sure which way to go with that one. I'm leaning reverse vio but not 100% positive. MLauba ( Talk) 14:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your note. The email that I received back from LoveHeals is posted here. I understand that it is probably not enough and that we need to go back to them with the full template, and get it sent to OTRS. I just wondered if there is any chance that you would mind doing this for me. I understand that I posted the picture in the first place and that I should really be responsible for chasing it up, but I am concerned that I might not get it right, and I feel a bit bad to keep going back to these people, and taking up their time, when they are working for a charity (which is why I haven't gone back to them again yet). So, I thought that, if somebody who knows what they are doing sent the the email, there would be a much better chance of doing this in one go, and so minimising the disruption. Is there any chance that you would be prepared to do it, please? TigerShark ( talk) 09:33, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Good work in checking vandalism. Keep it up. Thanks. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 04:45, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much! :D I have never had an astronaut, no, and sometimes these expressions of appreciation help when the workload seems discouraging. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I need some of your expert quidance.
I'm currently reviewing the above article at WP:GAN. On an initial read thru, it looked to be a good article (a strong GA); the only obvious problems appearing to be some direct quotations without citations.
The problem is, that most if not all of the referenced paragraphs are direct copies and pastes from here: [10] - a US Gov publication, so it may not be a Copyright problem; but it appears to me to be Wikipedia:Plagiarism. There's not attempt to paraphrase. Any thoughts? Pyrotec ( talk) 16:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I have raised a discussion on an issue involving you at Current cases. Thanks, Fæ ( talk) 22:18, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Please could you move Hotel Lanassa to my user space? Thanks. -- jmenkus [ T 10:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:
Non-notable school; fails WP:ORG and GNG.
Please refer to the link I'm giving as this is the first Muslim Boys' School established in nov 15 1884 in Sri Lanka before her independence from the British Rule in Feb 04 1948.
Forwarding you also the web page link of the Old Boys' Association of the College.
Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lankaman7777 ( talk • contribs) 11:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I understand clearly the copyright issues but I want to acknowledge that I'm the author of the article appearing in the old boy's website of Hameed Al Husseinie College. My Name is Sirajul Anam J. A. and I'm the Assistant Secretary of the Executive Committee of the OBA and I have the authority to give permission to use article from the website.
So I request you to keep the article contents of Hameed Al Husseinie College, Colombo 12, Sri Lanka, web page in Wikipedia.
Regards
Sirajul Anam —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lankaman7777 ( talk • contribs) 11:32, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for following up on this. As a couple of points to make:
Anyway, thanks again, and I hope that my point 2 isn't too depressing for you! Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 05:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, sorry about the above editors tone of note. I believe to have taken care of the Antonio Paoli situation. Take care. Tony the Marine ( talk) 23:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, hope you had a lovely summer. I've sent you an email. Malke 2010 01:13, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Thank you for your mail. I have sent an e-mail regarding the permission for the usage of File:Hahlogo.jpg. I also would like to know how we can incorporate related historical photos for Hameed Al Husseinie College, Colombo 12, Sri Lanka.
Your assistance in this regard is highly appreciated.
Thank you
Sirajul Anam J. A. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lankaman7777 ( talk • contribs) 07:18, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Since you dealt with the copyvio on Hemachandra (singer) once already, I thought I'd let you know I found the little remaining content there also seemed to be a copyright violation; I was looking for sources and found an interview that appeared to be copied almost word-for-word into the article. I've reflagged the article and opened a new ticket.
I don't know if you're interested in this, but seeing as you've dealt with the article once already, I thought I'd let you know.
Cheers!
-- me_and ( talk) 13:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Could you look at Talk:Jennifer L. Lawless/Temp and double-check if it's clean compared to this source? I think it is, but I'm kinda out of sorts tonight. VernoWhitney ( talk) 01:53, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl! I'm currently posting from my mobile phone so am hampered. Could you take a look at Larry Rosen (producer) please? It's been deleted for copyvio twice before, most recently in July; much of the text on the current article, while wikilinked and some paraphrased, is still taken almost word-for-word from the site listed i the deletion logs. Could you check? Thanks! Strange Passerby ( talk) 03:57, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
How to implement public domain in Wikipedia and other projects? Please Give me instructions. Are there any village pump for meta or foundation wikis? I have mistakenly thought all wikipedians prefer copy left. Thank you again. Please inform other admins about this village pump threads. Are village pump threads properly implemented? Please help me to make Wikipedia public domain.
Hallo Moonriddengirl, thanks a lot for Your fast response. Many greetings to You across the ocean :-) Redlinux··· → 10:59, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I am a sysop on Malayalam Wikipedia. A couple of editors with good standing there have complained that they have been blocked from editing English Wikipedia due to an IP block. It seems that your 1 month range block of 117.254.0.0/16 is the culprit. That range is of BSNL, the broadband service provider that most people in India use (Just do an IPLocate on any of these IPs). So I believe that there would be a lot more people affected. User:LIC Habeeb and User:Netha Hussain are editors of good standing on Malayalam wikipedia and have been IP blocked here.
So please consider reversing the rangeblock as it would just shut out a lot of innocent users, perhaps newcomers from editing Wikipedia. Or at least try to give the two users I have mentioned an IP block exempt (I have already asked them to request for it on their respective talk pages)
If you have any queries regarding this, please contact me on my home wiki talk page. Thank you for your time. Best wishes
-- Raziman T V ( talk) 09:33, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed User talk:MLauba#Milhist thing and made a small fix to your draft, since it would have been more difficult to point it out. I hope you don't mind.
Regarding free flowchart software, I found OpenOffice.org Draw and a wikiHow primer. I haven't used it, but I've heard good things about OpenOffice in general. Flatscan ( talk) 04:35, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey MRG - if you get a chance (not urgent) could you have a look at Latham appliance? I listed it at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 September 1 and have since been told that it was a split from Cleft lip and palate. Looking at that article, I can see that the text was added in 2006, which I'm pretty sure was earlier than the external website. In this situation, is it ok for me just to remove the listing at WP:CP and leave a note on the article talkpage? I wasn't sure... Also, is Latham appliance ok as it is, or would it need to be recreated with proper attribution? Or given how small it is, maybe it should just be redirected back to Cleft lip and palate? So many questions! Your advice/help, as always, would be appreciated! -- Beloved Freak 09:43, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
MRG, I know that Kamboj sikh is a copy paste from somewhere, but try as much as I can, I can't seem to figure out from where. Would you be able to wave your magic wand? cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 04:02, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Consensus here seems to be that we'd like to run the editorial over two editions, if that's okay with you. We'd then like to purloin it for our Academy - with your permission! I'm aware this is a further imposition on your time and goodwill, so if you'd like us to do the editing to split the editorial into two parts please say so. Once again, thank you for everything :) EyeSerene talk 09:55, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
So late last night I found us a new editor worthy of a CCI whose modus operandi after material is removed/marked as a copyvio is apparently to replace it with different copyvio material. See the histories of David Beckham Soccer after I cleaned it once and Barbie Super Sports after CSBot tagged it. VernoWhitney ( talk) 11:56, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've noticed that you've been keeping an eye on the edits of User:Zooaction who is clearly Jordan Schaul. I've gone through his edits and now find that not a single page edited or created by this user is not in some way connected to Mr. Schaul. (I also suspect that he has the sock-puppet 66.230.109.117 and, perhaps, 209.112.219.57--both IPs in Alaska.) The level of self-promotion and end-running around policy (by deletion of COI tags, etc.) exhibited by this user is truly unacceptable. I am not an active or even experienced user and wonder if you, as an admin, might be willing to take some further action regarding Zooaction? Yours, P.Oxy.2354 ( talk) 15:38, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Found another apparently unwatched talk page with a copyvio concern: Talk:International Peace Bureau. The article has not been changed significantly since then. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:06, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I dropped a note on the talk page of the editor who added the problematic content; he is inactive - and there is another copyvio note above mine ( User_talk:Odengatan#Copyright_problem:_OnSpot). I wonder if this may not indicate a larger problem? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:01, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, and congrats to your latest award by MILHIST :) I've just come across a rather promotional and professional bio that looks like it was copied straight away from some source text, especially with all the tabs, indents and line breaks in the early versions. I can't find anything online though, but it might have come from a page written in Flash or from an e-book PDF. Anyhow, if you can spare some time, you might want to have a look for evaluation. I was first inclined to tag it with db-spam anyway but then went for the softer option. Cheers, De728631 ( talk) 21:19, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello MRG, I've left a question on our page. Malke 2010 20:39, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
In doing what I do I am thinking having a "Researcher" level might be good. However I can't find anything on this and who to ask/who grants it. Do you have any information than what is found here? Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:56, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Since I am not an admin, I thought I would bring to your attention the above articles with image issues. I am trying to improve their quality and since that includes the legality of their content, I was wondering if you can remove the unfair-use images found in them. Thanks!--Gniniv ( talk) 04:10, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
File:Maggie Roswell.jpg was promoted. Can you let the photographer know? :) Thanks, Theleftorium (talk) 09:03, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
First I found User talk:Kamol Kamoltrakul - the talk page being the only edit, and then [15] which seems to be in part at least the same thing, a paper by Kamol K. - a real person, see [16]. I'm thinking that without evidence to the contrary, both of these are copyvio. Not much compared to what you're currently working on, but do you agree? I'll blitz them if you do. Dougweller ( talk) 20:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
File:1935 205 jpg.ashx.jpg is sourced to www.fotofinders.com, tagged di-no permission on April 9, 2009 and Says an OTRS was sent/received on April 10, 2009. Tagged using {{ OTRS received}}. No other activity since that tag was placed. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 20:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, MRG. I hope you don't think this is out of line, but this is the space I thought might be most appropriate for bringing up concerns regarding Malke_2010's post-block behavior, as a condition of his/her return was apparently your mentorship. It seems he/she spurred a little bit of a kerfuffle on the Tea Party Movement page pretty much immediately after his/her return. Though I don't think anything happened worth reporting to ANI, Malke_2010 does seem very aggressive with enforcing his/her own opinions over those of others, and is very quick to make huge changes and delete entire sections he/she doesn't agree with. Malke_2010 made multiple attempts to delete the same large chunk of established material in an apparent disregard of BRD. When multiple editors confronted him/her on the talk page, he/she seemed to slow down, but by then the page ended up getting completely locked due to the edit warring.
I realize there are a lot of different stances amongst editors, but as his/her actions have caused problems at TPm (and apparently have in the past as well), I just think Malke_2010 might benefit from a little help explaining that especially in controversial political articles like this, it can often be best to tread lightly and that it is especially important to respect other people's opinions and the work of other editors as much as possible. Thank you for any help or guidance in this regard. 67.58.153.46 ( talk) 01:51, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
I've sent you an email. Thanks. Malke 2010 ( talk) 03:58, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
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The WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves | |
By order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of your unstinting dedication to finding and eliminating potential copyright concerns in military history articles. Your diligence and commitment have been crucial in helping maintain Wikipedia's reputation as an outstanding scholarly resource on military matters. On behalf of the coordinators and with grateful thanks, Kirill [talk] [prof] 01:12, 3 September 2010 (UTC) |
Well deserved, congratulations :) EyeSerene talk 09:35, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I've been through so many that I'm losing the ability to spell {{ copyvio}}. Here are ones that I found too complex to deal with quickly, that you might want to give more in depth consideration to:
Uncle G ( talk) 03:52, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Unrelated to the above issue but with regards to the CCI, I'm trying to get the created articles sorted in order of size per a request at the talk page, but it's giving me some troubles, so it may be a little bit this morning before I get it straightened out again. :( VernoWhitney ( talk) 13:49, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
A class of articles that I'm finding non-trivial to determine is those that match entries in the Beach Volleyball Database. Which came first, the BVB entries or the Wikipedia article? Try Vassiliki Arvaniti versus this for one of many examples. Uncle G ( talk) 16:03, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for butting in; I didn't want to make a new thread over a related topic. I just went through these and I wanted you to do a quick check to see if I got the clerking/CCI-check procedure done right. I realized afterward that I was supposed to remove the diff links; is that a big deal, or can I just leave them there (it's faster that way)? I might have some extra time this week, so instead of trying to achieve my impossibly long list of writing goals, I can try to sift through a couple hundred diffs or so and clear off the non-cv ones to save time for others later (I'm still trying to figure out what to do if there actually is a cv in a diff, but I haven't seen one yet). Thanks, — fetch · comms 04:06, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
hi, I have a problem with the article Mehdi Hosseini,as I was writing for so long time for this page and all information i shared to other sites later after Wikipedia, just now we need a helper to decide this problem as I am not also professional WIKI UESR! Thank you for help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexey-spb ( talk • contribs) 18:49, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Could you have a look at the Simon Harris article? It seems to me to be a direct lift from the bio on the subject's website which has a (c) 2010 tag on it. But since the Wikipedia article appears to have been edited several times over the years, I'm wondering whether the copying is actually the other way round. On the face of it, it looks as though I should blank the entire page as a copyvio but that seems rather drastic unless I'm certain and so I'm seeking your advice. The article is also unreferenced and I'm coming up blank on sourcing it with anything reliable (it's in the the current focus month for the UBLP Rescue Project, which is how I came across it). I can carry on trying to find sources for the content but there doesn't seem to be a lot of point if what it really needs is to be stubbed.-- Plad2 ( talk) 20:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
20:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC) Alexey-spb ( talk) Hi, I am trying to explain but as I am not a good user as you who knows so good wikipedia, I can not do so well that is why i am writing directly to you as you could help me to support this page. thank you so much for all.
Just i wanted to mention you somthing concerning Mehdi Hosseini's article by following:
you are bringing this site as a source: http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/hosseini ok, that is my work and if you see under this page you can see one source is wikipedia there, before I created that page. please check it. thank you.
second address is: http://www.compozitor.spb.ru/eng/our_authors_engl/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=19695 if you read the text all provided recently in 2010 and Mehdi Hosseini's article is created before this one. even there is some others sources which from Times about Mehdi Hosseini, all of the them are from this year.
again thank you if you help and direct me always as I need your help!20:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC) Alexey-spb ( talk)
Saw this a while ago. [26]. Malke 2010 ( talk) 21:06, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I just wondered if the copyright holder ever responded to the email request that you put through the OTRS system. Cheers TigerShark ( talk) 21:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
I would like to upload and use the cover of Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass for the said article's infobox, but I don't know what the copyright is for images of non-fiction works. Is there some sort of static policy for such images that would allow me to use it? Silver seren C 22:26, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Alexey-spb ( talk)hi, please check this new article [ [27]] if it dosent have a problem I will workit over. thanks Alexey-spb ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:34, 7 September 2010 (UTC).
08:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)Hi. as it; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alexey-spb/Mehdi_Hosseini# already has a new version and I hope that it dose not have a problem with copyright and etc. any way you can add or recommend me how to change it if you think that it has a problem with copyright.thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexey-spb ( talk • contribs) 08:20, 7 September 2010 (UTC) Alexey-spb ( talk) 08:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I invited Sandstein to take a look at this, but am thinking a third set of admin eyes might be helpful...
See: Talk:History of South Africa#new sub-section: extra-parliamentary activities
Somewhat problematic user Communicat ( talk · contribs) has been credibly accused of having misrepresented a source rather badly. I am waiting on a detailed response, but I wanted to see if you could review the situation and comment there if you have some time.
If you want to wait a while to let him reply and explain his reasoning, that's fine. This is early and he really hasn't had time yet to respond appropriately (just some grumpy throwaways, but not substantiatively as of yet). Nothing needs rushing here.
Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 01:44, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Concerning this entry I'd like to inform you that after having sent an email to the website owners, the content was removed from their website after about 4 weeks. As the situation is no longer current, is there any need to keep the entry in the Mirrors & Forks page? If the entry is removed, will a copy of the issue be stored for reference? Amsaim ( talk) 22:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I want to preface this by saying this is my first article submission and I am new to this so if I am or have done anything outside of the correct protocol I apologize up front. I am trying or was trying to submit the article for George Sernack. I am not sure if what I wrote has been completely deleted and I need to start over or if it is still available in an archive somewhere. I could have sworn I read that I had until the 9th of September to make changes. My first question is in regards to references. George Sernackis again a Martial artist who currently competes in Brazilian Jui Jistu Tournaments as well as an Instructor and Martial Arts School owner. I handle marketing for Mr. Sernack. Aside from the organizations and Associations that put on the tournaments, there are not really any other sites I or he can reference. You or anyone else from Wikipeida are welcome to contact George directly at the school to verify the information. What would an appropriate reference be for someone like Mr. Sernack? My second question is, am I overlooking something? Is there something obvious that I could have included that would have satisfied the criteria? Lastly, would it just be easier for George to submit this bio himself? Again, I apologize if these questions are somewhat insipid but trying to figure out an appropriate reference for Mr. Sernack has me a bit confused. By the way, I am not sure if your name showed up somewhere in your directions. I could not find it so that is why I addressed this to Moonriddengirl.
Thank you,
Rich Serpa
PS. I hope I can find your response. My email by the way is rserpa621@gmail.com. I hope I am doing this right and you are seeing this. —Preceding
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Rserpa621 (
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02:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I must thank you for this editorial. Despite being a fairly experienced editor, I have not really been aware of or really cared for avoiding copyvios. I guess I thought close paraphrasing did the trick. Now my eyes have opened and I shall be more careful and also revisit my edits.
I found this advice in the essay you recommended especially useful :
The right way to use this source would be to read it, read other sources about cats, internalize the information, and then write original content without looking at the structure of the sources... The sources should also, of course, be attributed.
Thank you for this valuable public service.
Regards, AshLin ( talk) 09:38, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I have joined the effort, but don't know where to begin. The associated page shows some investigations by I don't understand the process and steps to get involved. Thx. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 18:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
{{y}}
You should add whether you cleaned it or blanked it if you can, but the important thing is to note that you investigated it and confirmed copying. If you clean it up presumptively, we usually put a {{?}} Presumptive removal
tag next to it. If there's no creative content or you're very sure it isn't a problem, the thing to put is {{n}}
, and your signature.Regarding your comment here. It would be perfectly possible to write something which would revert every article someone edited but didn't create to the version immediately before they touched it. This could also be fed to the same kind of parameters as Contribution Surveyor uses to ignore small changes and probable reverts. Since this would involve checking every edit it would also have the side effect of being able to generate a list of created pages (just like toolserver, but it could immediately post it on-wiki) which it of course couldn't roll back, but they'd be handy to ensure that "nuking" hit them all, since I assume that mass-rollback would only be used if the collateral damage was deemed acceptable. I could start working on this if you think it'll actually be worth using in some cases.
What other copyright cleanup tools have you been dying to have? VernoWhitney ( talk) 15:14, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. I clearly am going to have to spend a lot more time crafting this. I don't want to do it wrong and then have it be harder for mr. Sernack to have his article be approved. There seeems to be a lot of ways i could screw this up. Some of the options may be difficult. For example, waiting till someone has written an article about him. He is a very humble person. Too humble I think sometimes. His school has been featured in Gracie Magazine many times but whenever he is asked for a quote or is quotes, he is only too quick to heap praise on his students and I can't say I ever recall him talking about himself or his many achievemnets in the sport. The information I had used from his website is all factual and again I have permission to use it. Would it help if perhaps I paraphrased it to some extent?
Thank you again for taking the time to provide me all those links and references. As I said, I am going to have to spend some time and try and develop an article that will hopefully pass the criteria.
PS: I love the user name Moonriddengirl and I tottaly understand why you would want to keep yourself anonymous. I imagine you get all types and you probably run into some very big egos.
Rich ( Ps, that is my real name and I am sure you can make out my last name as well : ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rserpa621 ( talk • contribs) 02:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Can you check OTRS Ticket:2010090210007829 and see if the wording is ok. My concern follows a similar concern you had/have with the geo website. The photographers copyright information on the website says written permission is needed for any use of the images. My concern is the OTRS may have been "written permission" giving Wikipedia only permission - or that the photographer thinks they are only giving Wikipedia permission and OTRS thinks it is the "world". I just want to clarify because of the copyright informaiton on the website. Thanks. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 12:27, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
I've been bold and divided your article into two sections (one per each edition) and pasted the first across into the newsletter. I hope this isn't too presumptuous of me - please feel free to alter anything you don't like up to and including a complete rv! If you're fairly happy though, would you be able to give this month's edition a final look over before it goes out? Thank you! EyeSerene talk 08:14, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
MRG, I tagged
File:NammaMetro.jpg under {{
db-nopermission}}
because the source link still says "All rights reserved" and the copyright logo and "All rights reserved" are also included in the image caption on flickr. However, in the comments section of the flickr image the editor who uploaded the file on to WP has asked the photographer if they can upload it to Wikipedia under the sharealike license and the photographer has responded "ok". I take that to mean, ok, I'm open to that, but something that the photographer hasn't followed through with. What's the verdict on this one? There are some more images like this that may have to be tagged suitably if my interpretation is correct. The conversation is at
User_talk:SpacemanSpiff#File:NammaMetro.jpg. cheers. —
Spaceman
Spiff
07:53, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi -
yes, I used the material also in Amalia Paoli and maybe nowhere else since it only seemed applicable to those articles. Anyway, I went to Amalia Paoli already and fixed it in a way that I believe makes it compliant. If I am not doing it correctly, tell me and maybe Marine can work on that one too, although I'd like to learn how to fix this problem by myself.
Is it is possible that I could myself try to fix this Casa Paoli article that you blanked the way Tony The Marine fixed the other article ( Antonio Paoli)? Maybe you could tell me which was the last version that seemed good like you did before and give me a TEMP folder like you did Marine. Thank you, Mercy11 ( talk) 21:16, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you, but can you check to see if the first sentence in this article created by User:Darius Dhlomo is a copyright infringement. I traced the sentence to this site, but I can't tell if the site copied WP or if it wrote the sentence. By the way, it isn't currently on the list of mirrors and forks, so...
Thanks. Guoguo12 --Talk-- 20:59, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Unrelated to the above, but still regarding the CCI: Your opinion on the copyrightable on the information presented in a table is requested at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/CCI#Cyclist tables. (I feel like we just reviewed this general idea yesterday :P ) VernoWhitney ( talk) 11:22, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
I'd be willing to take on 10 articles to shepherd to "clean" - or is that not the way the winds are blowing? I checked WikiStalk and determined that DD hasn't contaminated any of the articles I've worked on. -- Lexein ( talk) 00:17, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
This guy seems to have changed tactics somewhat. He is now editing as an IP here, but uploading images to Commons and re-adding them to the articles edited by him here on WP previously. He currently seems to edit as User:80.191.41.237. This IP consistently goes through the articles where immediately preceding edits were by User:Amir.Hossein.7055's socks, e.g. Jafar Sharif-Emami, Gholam-Reza Azhari, Shapour Bakhtiar, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, List of Prime Ministers of Iran, etc. He often adds images that he has uploaded to Commons under the same usernames as his socks user here on WP, eg. this edit [33] and this image [34]. I don't know if some sort of a rangeblock is feasible for the IP range that he is using, maybe you could look into that? Thanks, Nsk92 ( talk) 09:51, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
A 48 hour block is rather lenient. I would disagree with an indefinite since indefinite usually means permanent. Consider 7 days. Anything up to 30 days would be ok with me. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 16:56, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. You know. I have a special place in my heart for editors who, rather than rewrite material that adds important content to an article, paste tags, HUGE tags, at that. That's a lot easier, isn't it, than spending time trying to paraphrase something and not mangle it? In fact this is one of the reasons I am now writing my own book! Don't know if I have the will to deal with it, so delete agway. And, really, thanks for the message. And the world at large, and the founders/admins of wikipedia wonder why interest has peaked. Steve Pastor ( talk) 19:28, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
ditto Steve Pastor ( talk) 19:31, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for responding, but I'm not sure if I'm complicating this matter more than I need to. Favoritething ( talk) 15:21, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Well, I think it's glaringly obvious. How exactly do I proceed? Favoritething ( talk) 15:30, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks in advance! Robyn Hitchcock at 13:34 and 13:36. Favoritething ( talk) 15:38, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for assisting me in this learning process! Favoritething ( talk) 15:48, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I am not sure where to ask for an assessment on the genre article Neo soul, so can u refer me to where or assess yourself? Dan56 ( talk) 21:14, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Done
Zidane tribal (
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18:48, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
So User:GrapedApe had done a fantastic job with one of our image CCIs and has sorted the remaining images by EXIF data and given some analysis at Wikipedia talk:Contributor copyright investigations/Conk 9. I've looked them over and agree with his conclusions, but I figured that maybe I could just ask you to look at them directly instead of doing a mass listing at WP:PUF and waiting the two weeks there. VernoWhitney ( talk) 14:08, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I nominated an article for deletion. I think I did not do the link in the edit summary correctly. Is it possible to fix that? [39] Malke 2010 ( talk) 17:38, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm sure you've got plenty on your plate regardless, but do you think this article could be a violation? I'm finding nothing via google except for the end list of inducted Oklahomans which was stripped from here. The style seems very much like a biography written for his induction into the hall of fame, or perhaps a similar career retrospective. It's also very unusual that this rookie editor randomly appeared a year after his last edit to create a complete article and nothing more. SFB/ talk 21:12, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'd like to ask about copyright in the context of Darius Dhlomo's contributions. I'm not arguing with the decisions made, I'm just trying to understand. Can you tell me, for example, why this is a copyvio? It seems to me that these are just facts. In order for something to be copyrightable, I feel that there has to be some original creativity in the work. - Richard Cavell ( talk) 23:14, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
On my talk page, 67.119.12.29 ( talk · contribs) has pointed out the edit history of Pat McCormick (diver) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and from that the edit history of Trackinfo ( talk · contribs). From there I find some rather disappointing statements at Wikipedia talk:Contributor copyright investigations/Darius Dhlomo/How to help, including statements that Darius Dhlomo's "legwork" in creating "these highly accurate wikifications of public record documents" is "so valuable" that "I would be willing to overlook the occasional tendency toward copyright violations in prose". Note that this editor has been crossing many articles off the list. If this is the level of review by this editor, what you now have ticked off on the list is tainted. I suggest a very strong word. Uncle G ( talk) 23:23, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I posted a message here 2 days ago, but never got an approved/not approved response. I spent more than a mouse click of time working on something that complied with your suggestions, recommendations etc, but while awaiting your response another user who had worked on the article just went in removed your copyvio and with a mouse click installed an older version. I never received a response to my message. Was my version which incorporated your suggestions verbatim (except for some erroneous info that apparently you missed) not approved? Thanks, Mercy11 ( talk) 00:56, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Just logged in to do it ! Sorry you had to do it; busy couple of weeks. -- Cmagha ( talk) 02:15, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Looks like you cleaned up copyvio here before, but there seems some attempts to re-add copyrighted info e.g. [40] from [41].
I came across this from the comment on User talk:Jimbo Wales#Adish Aggarwala, thought it worth letting you know. Cheers, Chzz ► 13:59, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
What's the best way to propose an article merger? And also, is it acceptable to post this proposal on the relevant Wikiprojects page, or is that seen as canvassing? Malke 2010 ( talk) 14:39, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I extended the article after your "cleaning", could you please check for the spelling? English is not my mother tongue so it's very likely you'll find either some mistakes or typos. Greetings from Italy :-) -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 13:02, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
We need to retrieve information from a insertion you deleted, according to the site. The article was regardign author Gary Alan Wassner. How do we retrieve the information? Thank you. 96.232.208.153 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:41, 13 September 2010 (UTC).
I just wanted to convey my gratitude to you for putting so much effort into a project like Wikipedia. Lord Bless you and I hope you always remain happy and that you receive the recognition that you well deserve. 41.239.83.166 ( talk) 21:34, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, are you around right now? Malke 2010 ( talk) 23:37, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, MRG! I have finally come to a stopping point on the rewrite of this article, which had close paraphrasing. It is located at User:Mgreason/Sandbox 2, and I'd appreciate another set of eyes reviewing it. I'm not in a big hurry, but if you expect to be unavailable for a week or more, I will make other arrangements. Thanks! Mgrē@sŏn 03:35, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, sometime ago we talked and you suggested that I should no longer look at the mentorship page you had for Malke, given that I noticed that you had asked her to stop following me. I respected that request for keeping that page semi-private and have not looked there, but Malke wants a reference to that discussion. Instead of looking on there for a diff, could you please comment on User_talk:Malke_2010#WP:WIKIHOUND_warning. Thanks. History2007 ( talk) 08:02, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, If possible please look in to ORTS tickets for following files File:NH 45 Ulundurpet Padalur.JPG and File:Udaipur_highway.jpg. I already sent mail to ORTS today. Thanks KuwarOnline Talk 09:15, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. I wonder if you could take a look at what this user is saying on their talkpage? They posted a bunch of ozone related articles, two of which are copyright violations (one from an UNEP site, the other of a news article which the user asserts is itself a copyvio of original UNEP text). He/she is saying that they are trying to create the pages and are the original owner, and that they will edit out the copyright violations. I was thinking of offering to move them to userspace for them to work on them, but really my understanding is G12 applies over all namespaces.
I'm really not sure how to proceed. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Syrthiss ( talk) 12:17, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Have you had any more communication with Thirdaccount through OTRS about permissions? Looks like another person in his/her office has started OAs Initiatives which is copyright violation from http://www.unep.fr/ozonaction/about/mf.htm (and nocontext to boot, in that if I didn't know what it was about at this point it would be hard to tie the article to the name). I didn't want to act on it in case you had been getting emails from Thirdaccount. Syrthiss ( talk) 15:26, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Missed that it was under discussion, sorry - I see that you beat me to the undelete, too. Looks like I need a cup of coffee. Thanks, UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 12:50, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Here is a "good" question for you. What to do in the case of many possible image copyvios from one user? If it were only a few of them I would just tag them as I did File:64 Eric Pinkett.jpg and not bother you. However as I started to look over the users image uploads I began to notice they were mostly marked the same - "Own photograph"/"own photo". Some are marked as "own artwork" and only one is/was marked as "This is my own personal photograph taken in 1964". So I dug deeper and the user runs a website about "players from the Eric Pinkett era" of the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra. Now here comes the bigger copyright issue - while the website states No permission is required to download or print any of the items. it also gives gratitude and thanks to all former players who made contributions to the Photo Gallery, and particularly to Nigel Pinkett for the 'Special Collections' section. Wikipedia has no proof that any of the actual photographers signed over their copyright to the uploader so they could license them here via {{ PD-self}}. Aside from that there may also be a COI concern (Ok, well there *is* a COI concern) because since October 2009 the uploader (Most likely also I.P 86.144.118.211) has been the main contributor to the Peter G. Fletcher article, which they are mentioned in, and, since May 2007, the main contributor to the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra. (Possible to also be I.P 86.130.109.46, I.P 86.144.118.45 and I.P 6.130.118.93) There is also some WP:OWN going on as well it seems - "My article has been somewhat decimated."
So where to start? Is there a protocol in place for dealing with this many images or do I just start tagging them all {{ di-no permission}} and ask for OTRS's to be sent in for each image on the users talk page? Or should send all the unused ones to PUI and tagged the used ones with {{ di-no permission}}? Advice welcome. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 14:04, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind investigating whether Central place theory is plagiarized or not? I came across a report on the talk page that it might be, but I don't have time to properly investigate. I saw this while demo-ing Wikipedia for a class for the Public Policy Initiative, so it would be nice to report back to the class that we did something about it! :) Awadewit ( talk) 19:55, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I blocked Malke for 24 hours over that Raccolta comment -- it seems to me to be a clear case of WP:HOUND.-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 15:40, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to say thank you for the incredible amount of effort you have put in on keeping Wikipedia's copyright problem under control. It's not always well appreciated work, but it's important, and it means a lot to me that you've been so diligent and involved.
Thank you! Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 20:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Can you delete the edit summary/comment for File:Hank3.jpg to remove the personal information? VernoWhitney ( talk) 21:22, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
And another one unrelated to the above - Dalbster ( talk · contribs) from one of our more recent CCIs is back after their 72-hour block as 92.4.238.19 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) and is now adding more copyvio (see this addition copied from this source. VernoWhitney ( talk) 21:56, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your incredible work on copyrights... I will never have your determination, but you will always have my admiration. (Did that rhyme by any chance?) Renata ( talk) 00:18, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
As the header says - I'll let you answer this one. :) Soundvisions1 ( talk) 10:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
It appears that this new editor has created a number of questionable articles. You have initiated a review of some of the work, but the article Action on Methyl Bromide is very strange also. We would normally include such content in Methyl bromide. I recomend that Iop23's entire inventory of new articles be considered for deletion. Thanks,-- Smokefoot ( talk) 13:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
By the way thanks for your handling of the issues. You were so effective and fair that I think you should copyright your style somehow, if not trademark it. Cheers. History2007 ( talk) 14:28, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Template talk:Di-no source#Slight wording change. I use that tag all the time and I never noticed this until today, so I made the request. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 14:47, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Soundvisions1 ( talk)
Hi! I removed a possible copyvio sentence added by user:Дунгане, thinking that was a close paraphrasing case. See the source the user added. Was I correct? I'd like to know your opinion. If it's not CV, I will revert my edit and strike the warning on the user's talk page. Thank you. Oda Mari ( talk) 15:21, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
you had once suggested that its better to make a seperate page Rajesh Khanna Filmography.
iam not aware as to how it should be made or edited.if the page is created i can definitely help you update the filmography. it would be better if Rajesh Khanna Filmography is created seperately with 6 columns Year,Film,Role,Actress,Director,Other Notes.
the reason being that many things about khanna is missing from the wikipedia article right now, but if information is added then page will look longer so seperate page of filmography is the need of hour.
preferably the new page of Rajesh Khanna Filmography should appear under letter R and not K. I MEAN IN THIS LINK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Filmographies
Shrik88music ( talk) 01:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
atleast tell me how should i create tht page in such a way that it does appear in that link under R to the world.i cn fill up all those six columns viz. Year,Film,Role,Actress,Director,Other Notes. by myself but only if iam able to create that page.
Shrik88music (
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18:54, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I HAVE CREATED
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajesh_Khanna_Filmography.
but please show me six colomuns with the headings i asked for. later on gradually i will fill it up Shrik88music ( talk) 19:07, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I have crrated a seperate page Rajesh Khanna Filmography. iam not aware as to how it should be edited that there would be 6 columns Year,Film,Role,Actress,Director,Other Notes. i wil by myself manage to fill up all details if u dont have time but just create that page with those 6 columns atleast. if you would be able to fill up the columns actresses,year,role with help of the already created filmography by me at present it would be great. gradually i will fill the columns roles,other notes,director. Shrik88music ( talk) 19:23, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
i by myself keep taking help from few selected people as they seem to be intelligent and not biased fans....rajesh khanna article must be made semi protected i feel as those who have not got themselves registered are editing rajesh khana article Shrik88music ( talk) 09:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I've posted a question on our page. Thanks. Malke 2010 ( talk) 22:27, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I have not been a party to anything that has gone before in the current editing block of Malke 2010, but I would like to chime in here as a "character witness", and plead for assistance in lifting/shortening of this block. How can I help in this situation? Malke was a very calming influence in a couple of contentious situations I encountered in the past with other editors. When I was ready to throw in the towell in the face of irrational argument, she drew me back to the table. When I became a little overbeariung, she restrained me. I have only ever known her to deal in good faith, and I believe that whatever this situation is, she IS dealing in good faith. Eastcote ( talk) 03:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, To my horror, I discovered
this edit when I checked my contributions this morning. I must have hit the stupid rollback button by mistake. Head now suitably hanging in shame.
Best,
Voceditenore (
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07:53, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey, M, can you leave your thoughts at User talk:Malke 2010 regarding the pending unblock request, and the block in general. Thanks. Courcelles 09:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
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I've started rewriting the bot task explanation for a more general readership. Please tell me (preferably here) if you think
Wikipedia talk:Contributor copyright investigations/Darius Dhlomo/Task explanation/sandbox
is heading in the right direction.
75.62.2.105 ( talk) 02:27, 15 September 2010 (UTC) For what it's worth, I think that the task explanation should stick to just that: the explanation of what the task being performed is. We don't need a "How can you help?" section. I suggest refactoring what's already there and placing it into the "Why this is happening" and "What happens next" sections. Uncle G ( talk) 11:40, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Maybe the CorenBot could be programmed to identify copyrighted text added to existing articles so that this fiasco doesn't happen again? Dr. Blofeld 15:18, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Yes I think you're right. And mirror sites are always a problem... The question is how to stop this sort of thing happening. Dr. Blofeld 16:32, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Mind you, if you did the search on the added text as opposed to resulting article, you might have better success — but diffs aren't very good to determine what is addition or not since it's newline (i.e. paragraph) based. — Coren (talk) 16:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Coren, if you're still here, can you program CorenSearchBot to pick up any edits that remove an article from Category:Articles tagged for CCI copyright problems? That gives at least a slight re-check of articles that editors un-blank from Uncle G's bot sweep. At least one person has already re-introduced copyvios by restoring insufficiently checked stuff from Uncle G's initial test run, and CorenSearchBot has at least some hope of picking up on that. 67.119.14.196 ( talk) 23:12, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear MRG, if you're not too busy, can you perhaps give your opinion about a question I asked at Commons, here? You know all this stuff, and I don't, and it seems there isn't a very clear consensus. Thank you so much! Drmies ( talk) 01:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)