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I see you doing your typical "Copyright removal" work today! Anyway, may I request you to rev-delete some edits on the Beaver Creek Camp page please? The content that was added by User:NAKANA were copyright infringements. I reverted most of their edits and gave NAKANA a warning. [1] Minima c ( talk) 18:28, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
He's back! On one of his old IP's. He used an edit summary this time, but I disagree. I've put it up for discussion as you know, so unless he makes the effort to get involved. Can he be blocked again or page be protected? I don't want to revert until action has been taken. Thanks for your help as always :). Jayy008 ( talk) 18:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Oh, dear. Jayy, this isn't exactly what I had in mind. :) It reads a bit confrontational. Maybe you could change it a bit so it sounds more like, "Hi, thanks for explaining what you're going for! I'm afraid, though, that it may not really work for us because....(explanation) Please come by the article's talk page to talk about it more." We want to be friendly, even if he's been a bit difficult to deal with in the past. :D Who knows? He could wind up being a great contributor. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
...as an aside that I appreciate the tone of your conversation and your willingness to consider the matter more fully. Essential qualities in a Wikipedian. Thanks. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi I saw you did some work on the copyright project-page regarding text. Is this a copyvio?
I am checking into P. Niyogi's contributions and have a doubt. Niyogi has created content sourced to many offline books published locally and not available in gbooks. What to do in such cases where there is no way of checking the text?-- Sodabottle ( talk) 13:55, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering why the Wikipedia article on myself, Michael Korolenko, was deleted. There was nothing false in the article and nothing copyrighted in the article. I myself did not write the original article (it was pretty much taken word for word from my biography in one of my online classes). It has been on Wikipedia for a while and I edited it a year or so ago if I remember correctly to simply update it. I see no reason why it should have been deleted. If you could reinstate the article I would appreciate it.
Michael Korolenko korrys.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.81.187 ( talk) 06:10, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG! Could I get you to help me at T:TDYK with this nomination? As I stated in my review of it:
Reading Town Hall appears to be copied in wording, style and tone from the first reference, and not re-written from scratch as required by WP:COPYVIO. Am concerned about putting a potential copyright violation (not saying it necessarily is one, but it's subjective) on the main page.
I saw you were online, and since you work in an area dealing with copyright issues, could you offer a second opinion? Thanks! Strange Passerby ( talk) 16:56, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to gather evidence for an SPI and was wondering if you would be so kind as to look up the previously deleted copies of Mrigendra Kumar Singh and Madhurendra Kumar Singh and tell me if either User:Ramnareshyadav1982 or User:Mrigendra Ranjan edited them? VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:21, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Once I hear from the powers that be at Wikipedia, I will give them permission to use the article. And thank you again for the quick response. Michael Korolenko —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.81.187 ( talk) 22:45, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, thanks to clean the Bina Nusantara University article. I'm really appreciate it, but it appears that someone with IP 202.58.180.58 is doing major addition to the article. Could you help again to recheck the article for possible copyright violation? If the additional text is not an infringement, I will proofread and clean-up the Wiki markup in that article. Thanks before. Oh yeah after resolving that IP address, it actually an IP from Bina Nusantara University (but, university's IP can be used by anyone inside the university, so further checking to the article is very needed) Ivan Akira ( talk) 10:25, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Rajasekhar1961 ( talk · contribs) is apparently still having some issues with closely paraphrasing copyrighted sources even after their previous block and I'm not sure whether another block is in order or what. VernoWhitney ( talk) 17:34, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking the user. I was really hoping he/she was going to change when I saw the edit summary. But the user just put the same edit summary for the edit again. I don't think there's any hope. May I revert the edits? Or was there a reason you left them? Jayy008 ( talk) 18:11, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to track down the possible copyright violation for the Saul Hertz page from August 2010. I'd like to re-post the article, but with the appropriate changes. Jabrody24 ( talk) 21:08, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
On November 12, 1936 Dr. Karl Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke at a luncheon lecture at Harvard Medical School. His topic was "What Physics can do for Biology and Medicine". After the presentation, Dr. Hertz asked Dr. Compton "could iodine be made artificially radioactive?"
On November 12, 1936 Dr. Karl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke at a luncheon lecture. His topic was What Physics can do for Biology and Medicine. After the presentation Dr. Hertz asked Dr. Compton, "Could iodine be made artificially radioactive?"
I reverted the edits you referred to in your last comment on my talk page ( User:Maharshi Balmiki). It's definitely an old sock who edits articles on the Hungry generation and has created pages on many marginally notable poets related to that movement. Most of his recent edits seem to be copy pasted from somewhere, perhaps a wiki mirror or some old version of the page.
BTW, you might be interested in this, where yet another new incarnation of a banned editor commented on you (and a few other admins) who deleted his own or his favorite NN poet autobiographies. (his last incarnation I assume was Bineeto Pathok ( talk · contribs), banned after a large scale vandalism spree). -- Ragib ( talk) 23:43, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Oops, sorry for readding that template. That'll teach me to edit while still wiping the sleep from my eyes! Thank you for the quick response and handling of the copyright issue! keɪɑtɪk flʌfi ( talk) 13:53, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
On the commons I nominated this stamp for deletion because Australian stamps are copyright for 50 years per Public domain stamp templates because I disputed the validity of the attached OTRS ticket. Túrelio declined the nomination and left this comment on my talk page saying that the OTRS permission obviously came from Australia Post but when I questioned him he cannot confirm the ticket as he is not an OTRS volunteer. Would you kindly have a look at it for me as I have never heard of a postal administration giving a free licence for any of its stamps other than press and media use, which is essentially fair-use? TIA ww2censor ( talk) 15:53, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Moonriddengirl, as a member of the OTRS team, I was wondering, could you verify that File:LAgha Star.jpg was released under a free license? Thank you. — ξ xplicit 06:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please have a look at the edits made on the temp page for the article on Leprous and let me know if it's ok to remove the warnings? Thanks Lakeoftearz ( talk) 12:48, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
... at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#Another kind of reward. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
When removing <ref>s using blacklisted links, as you did in this edit, please be sure not to leave orphaned refs behind (e.g. these). An easy way to check is to see if the page ends up in the hidden category Category:Pages with broken reference names after your edit. Thanks! Anomie ⚔ 23:54, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, I am sorry to trouble you. If you do not want me to edit or create new articles in Wikipedia, I will stop doing any edits immediately. Is that what you want. Please give your view, whether I am unfit to write articles in Wikipedia, the so called free encyclopedia.Dr. Rajasekhar A. 07:56, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
You're better placed to answer, I think. Uncle G ( talk) 16:04, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello... Don't judge by the title, I'm not here to tell you about the user being back lol. Can you tell me which template to use for expansion of character descriptions on the page please? I don't want to just put "expand" as the articles long enough and may give people the wrong idea. Jayy008 ( talk) 14:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Oh, is it that simple? How can I get it to say "this section needs expansion with a more detailed bio" or something. I've seen it done, but I don't know how to do specifics.
Jayy008 (
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15:01, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Oh, I did it! I thought that's where the date went, but now I need to know where the date goes. LOL, sorrry! Can you view my edit on the page and let me know please. Thank you!
Jayy008 (
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15:03, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Done it all. All I had to do was click the thing you posted here above, my bad lol. Thank you as always! Jayy008 ( talk) 15:04, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
What is your problem? Why did you delete Civil war in Chad (1998-2002)? That was a real war. Are you crazy? B-Machine ( talk) 14:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
If I've done things correctly, everything on User:Moonriddengirl/checked should now have been tagged. I'm going to pause for a little while to let the dust settle, again. I've just looked at the all-in-one list's related changes; several editors are already unblanking. Uncle G ( talk) 20:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I seem to have an issue with another user, specifically User:Pectore. I do not know if i'm going to make any headway in discussion with him, but I don't feel like the situation is (yet) something that should be taken to ANI. So, i'm coming to ask your advice on what I should do to help the situation. Here's what's going on:
A CfD was recently conducted about the Saffron terror category, which only had the Saffron terror article in it. Considering that the category was far too specific, it was decided in the discussion here that the category should instead be renamed to Hindu terrorism. The consensus of the users in the discussion was for rename, all except for User Pectore. Thus, the category was renamed here, which I was the one to go about remaking it. Then, I went and started adding articles to the category that had once been on there. These included 2006 Malegaon blasts, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, Mecca Masjid bombing and also Terrorism in India because of the sections relating to the previous articles. I was systematically reverted by User Pectore ( [3], [4], [5], and [6]).
I then had a discussion with User Pectore about these reversions on his talk page here. I eventually conceded the point and decided to go look for more specific, obvious, and non-ambiguous examples of Hindu terrorism. What I found was the Bajrang Dal. They appeared to be a militant organization that used fear and other tactics against non-Hindus, the definition of terrorism. So, I added them. I was then reverted and a comment was left on the talk page here.
As can be seen from the comment in parentheses, "(if it serves any purpose at all)", User Pectore appears to be on a drive to remove any articles from the category and to get the category removed altogether once it is empty.
This can be highlighted by the fact that User Pectore has been involving himself heavily in the talk page on Saffron Terror for the past few months, trying to put in information that more and more tries to show Saffron terror and Hindu terrorism to be made up and not real. He and User:Wasifwasif have butted heads about the article for quite some time. I personally believe they are both biased in their own way, as is everyone, with one against and one for the idea of Hindu terrorism. And because it is terrorism, it's clearly going to be a contentious subject.
So...i'm coming to you, you being the most capable and cool-headed administrator that I know of, to ask for advice on what my next step should be to deal with this issue, in terms of the Hindu terrorism category and my attempts to put articles into it, and with User Pectore in general. I will take this to ANI if I have to, but I really don't like having to do that. Silver seren C 22:18, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Help! T_T Silver seren C 14:04, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I am Simon Harris, author of the majority of the text on my own wikipedia page which I have been contributing to for several years under my wikipedia username: megalaser
Today I have checked my page and it has been dramatically shortened, much of the text deleted, most information removed and now it is very short and has inaccuracies as well. I gather this is because a wikipedia editor thought that the page contained copyright violations because the text matched that on my own website: www.harrismix.com
Well, there is no copyright violation - I wrote it all, the website is mine and I am the subject of the wikipedia article.
This wikipedia page is very important to me, I put a lot of work into keeping my public information true and accurate. I understand from the history that it was you who looked at the page, considered it a copyright violation and removed most of the content, this would be a couple of weeks ago?
Please can you undo this edit and return the page to how it was before? I would very much appreciate this. If you would like proof that I am Simon Harris I am happy to provide whatever you need, I am the copyright holder of the text and I hereby state that everything in the article was true and accurate.
I am not an expert on wikipedia and how it works, if you need me to provide any proof please just let me know what I need to do but i would sincerely appreciate it if you could please re-instate my page to how it was before this happened.
My email address is: simon@harrismix.com
Many Thanks
Simon Harris Megalaser ( talk) 23:52, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
DJ/Producer/founder of record label 'Music of Life —Preceding unsigned comment added by Megalaser ( talk • contribs) 23:49, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I just read about the massive deletion of 10,000 articles due to copyright violations. You have helped me with copyright violations with a number of articles while I edit as an IP. I think that your editing wikipedia is one of the best things about this encyclopedia: volunteers who see the potential for excellence. Thanks for your contributions to making wikipedia useful.
-- JaRoad ( talk) 15:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
The article Sean Duffy has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{
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notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{
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will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. The
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
Lincolnite (
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18:27, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
i have provided 68 references for the article rajesh khanna in the wikipedia. i need ur help to make it semi protected so that unregistered users do noit edit it at first place. also to my knowledge all sources are mostly from newspapers,magazines,big box office dotcoms, movie websites,interviews by stars. but some registered users are indulging in vandalism...simply editing the artcile. if at all by mistake some blog reference is there i request that these registered users be made to understand that they are facts and if at all references need to be added freshly in place of that(blog reference ) then that reference be given and not that the para /sentence e be deleted Shrik88music ( talk) 18:59, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Active_Banana
at present u will be able to see that this user is sabotaging ....indulging in vandalism and unecssary edits Shrik88music ( talk) 19:05, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
but the refernces provided by me are genuine and not bolgs. thats why iam asking for your help as if senior people go through the references , all of u would be satisfied and approve my references. moreoverhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Active_Banana also very clearly says he doesnt want to contribute v=by adding references but wants to remove whats written and what he isnt ready to accept ..
how can he send me a message If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice when he is the person who is doing this childishly. please give him a warning he deserves it.
can u give me the link where i can speak to other seniors .. my references are all genuine and not blogs but magazines,newspapers, etc... Shrik88music ( talk) 19:15, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thats waht iam saying that all the 68 references i provided in the article are all RELIABLE AND if there are any you can remove it or instead put a relaible source as the facts have only been written Shrik88music ( talk) 19:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I saw this just now. [7] We don't do that, do we? Malke 2010 ( talk) 19:26, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Yeah I realised you were doing that so skipped ahead of the competition articles to focus on checking a bunch of biographies instead! I didn't realise just how deep into obscurity Darius was delving. One problem with the bot approach is that I very much doubt anyone is watching something like this, such articles will have to be reviewed in a more piecemeal manner rather than in the hope that someone watching or reading the article will address the problem! SFB 12:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that you have restored articles that was under suspicion of copyright infringements. More articles, mass blanked by Uncle G's bot, have shown up on my watchlist. If I find no copyrighted material on those articles, am I right to revert the bot's actions? I tried to read some of the information, but it was so much and intricate, that I gave up! Therefore I hoped you could help me? =) Like in
this case, should I simply revert the bot's edit, and insert a or a
along with my signature
here? If so, does
mean "OK, no copyright", or does
mean "NO copyright"? At last, could I check articles that haven't been tagged yet? Or will they get tagged sooner or later anyway? Thanks, in advance...
lil2mas (
talk)
13:01, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar | |
Despite heading up one of the biggest cleanup operations Wikipedia has ever seen, you still find time to be a decent person. More editors like you could only be a positive. J Milburn ( talk) 15:10, 22 September 2010 (UTC) |
Xeno did a rewrite of Aaron Feltham. I double-checked with Bing and the Wayback Machine and couldn't find anything. But the 2007 RIO Canadian Olypmpic Team Handbook is no longer available on the WWW as far as I can see, and past experience leads me to believe that that's where the running prose came from. Please review the rewrite, just to be sure that it's enough. Uncle G ( talk) 15:31, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
see iam not here for disputes. but iam very surprised that some user who happens to be plain anti khanna is just editing out valid 68 references. i know all are valid but how come no administartor is blocking him or warning that he must not engage in edit war.
i thought of directly talking to seniors ... but i have also mesaaged in the link u have given me.
i am not here for disputes but only to contribute facts and remove misconceptions prevailing. Shrik88music ( talk) 19:45, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
are the following websites unrelaible??? 1 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Do-you-want-a-partner-/2592 , 2 ^ http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999, 3 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/%E2%80%98I-had-an-affair-with-Gary-Sobers-on-rebound-/2905 , 4 http://www.rediff.com/%0Amovies/2002/sep/13dinesh.htm, 5 http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/20041021-0.html,
7 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999, 8 http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/memories.html, 9 http://www.bollywood501.com/classic_m/rajesh_khanna/index.html, 10 http://www.indian-times.com.au/entertainment_housewives.html 11 http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020623/herworld.htm 12 http://www.liveindia.com/sai/Rajesh_Khanna.html 13 http://www.leenacom.com/MOVIE.htm
let me know then i will find replacements ...if ny amomg them is unrelaible Shrik88music ( talk) 21:15, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for making the proposed copyvio amendment! I'm in full agreement, but am trying to stay out of making any of the accelerated sanctions (for obvious reasons, mentor and all). So... thanks again to you xeno and Strange Passerby (who I've thanked separately). Best, Robert ROBERTMFROMLI TALK/ CNTRB 17:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
If you don't mind acting in such capacity, could you revise the list of admins willing to impose the accelerated sanctions (if the need arises)? Thanks, Robert ROBERTMFROMLI TALK/ CNTRB 18:02, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
User:Active Banana - this user is continuing his same old story of sites not being relaible and that blogs have been used etc..... yesterday Hebrides (talk) even helped me in converting them to citation format, including the title, publisher, date, etc. even she agrees that the 68 were genuine. now i added up more sources which are yes relaible upto 75 to convince all detractors.. now what needs to be done to ensure that the article contributed by me at present which contains solely and solely facts supported by valid references is being made open to public for reading and not deleted? please help seriously i need ur help Shrik88music ( talk) 18:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
following are the references i provided from reputed magazines,newspapers,websites of tv channels,news channels,articles on filmstars etc,..... i know all my 75 references are valid but do not understand y no action can be taken to make such biased editors away from such articles.
Old revision of Rajesh Khanna Shrik88music ( talk) 19:04, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I've just trawled through Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Commonwealth Games looking to see who made this edit so that I could warn them. When I found it, I also found that you'd already blocked the editor responsible. By bizarre coincidence, I've only just commented on your awesomeness on my talkpage... OK, sycophancy over, please continue to be awesome! TFOWR 11:43, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
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The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar | |
For all your hard work in dealing with copyright issues, including dealing with difficult copyright violators, handling copyrights on OTRS and reviewing suspected violations when asked for a third opinion like you did for me with Reading Town Hall, I hereby award you the barnstar you yourself created, the Copyright Cleanup Barnstar. Thanks for doing what you do! Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 12:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC) |
I am trying to get members of WP:POLAND to help with the recent mess, does that sound right? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:32, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Could you move the temp page rewrite of Chord Overstreet over the blanked article? It looks to be clean. VernoWhitney ( talk) 11:19, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Got another one if you've got a minute: The rewrite for Richie Fitzgerald is all stubby and clean. VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:49, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Will probably come across your radar at some time, thought you might like a heads up on it..... Codf1977 ( talk) 14:53, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Thought I was going to let a week slip by without bothering you? Nope. Ok - could you possible protect File:Aleksandarstanojevic.jpg as the uploader keeps removing the {{ di-no permission}} tag. After they removed the tag the first time and I reverted and replaced the notice on their page (Which they have removed both times) I had a look at all of their uploads and most all of them appear to be possible copyvios and mis-licensed. I have addressed the tag removal issue and the full image issues with a message on their talk page stating I will give them one week to address the rest of their images as well. Anything you can do to re-enforce why permission, either via OTRS or on the source website, is needed would be helpful. Thanks. (EDIT - I am seeing they are going through their uploads and changing license's however they are still not provided proof of permission, example difs: "cc-by-sa-3.0" to "GFDL-self-en" and "FAL" / "PD-self" to "GFDL-self-en") Soundvisions1 ( talk) 15:16, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
LOL! Are you me? We are doing the same things at the same times. I added a warning the same time you blocked. I reverted three images the same time you did - so I am just gonna let me...er you...do it. :) Soundvisions1 ( talk) 19:34, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I'd do that bit too, but those pages seem to take an age to load, and they're not listed A-Z either. Lugnuts ( talk) 18:38, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for efforts at above article. Following house move, most of my books are still in storage but will re-visit this page as a priority when 'normal service resumes'. Best. RashersTierney ( talk) 23:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
I would like to say that I am so thankful that you have come to the AN/I and decided to keep me around. I won't let any of you guys down, I want to keep reaching my goals which is to transform stub articles into GA and FA's which I have almost successfully have done. Thank you, your such a kind person who I am so happy to have meet in my life. Thank you. AJona1992 ( talk) 01:39, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Have a look at some rather dubious images uploaded by User talk:Keyan20.think he doesn't get our copyright policy.many images uploaded by him have been deleted before.some which he has uploaded are under fair use.but they are for BLP's.give a look. Linguistic Geek 12:35, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
sorry my net connection is kind of funny today.i login and then the page doesn't load.great work by you.cheers. Linguistic Geek 15:11, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Please provide some guidance. I believe I recognize File:Arecibo naic big.gif because of its similarity to a photo that has been hanging in my office (without a copyright notice). The photo was taken in order to document the 1974 upgrade of the telescope to an aluminum dish. I can tell by the antenna that the photo certainly predates 1998 (the date claimed by the uploader). The person uploading the photo claimed it was the work of NASA because he found it on a NASA website. I then put a {{ puf}} tag on the photo page and on the Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2010 September 17 page. However, a robot correctly noted the image in on Commons and not on Wikipedia.
The uploader claims that this is a NASA image. However it comes from APOD which in turn states, "Specific rights apply." The subpage states, "All the images on the APOD page are credited to the owner or institution where they originated. Some of the images are copyrighted and to use these pictures publicly or commercially one must write to the owners for permission. For the copyrighted images, the copyright owner is identified in the APOD credit line (please see the caption under the image), along with a hyperlink to the owner's location." In this case, Cornell University. The NAIC website gallary says, "Note to the media.... You are welcome to download these images for non-profit / non-commercial use. For permissions and credit policies see our "media services and support" page. Please credit all photos with: "courtesy of the NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF"
I could not find a puf page on Commons, so I changed the attribution to {{ PD-US-no notice}} even though I cannot prove that this is the 1974 photo. Could you please resolve this or forward it to someone who can resolve it. The photo is currently available under a "no commercial use" license. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 19:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
At the AfD for the above page and on the articles talk page Unflavoured has raised concerns of CopyVio with http://www.answering-ansar.org. I am not so sure, however since a possiable outcome of the AfD is merge, would you mind having a look and see what you think.
Thanks
Codf1977 ( talk) 08:16, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Okay, this one is tricky. (I actually did glance at it first thing, but onnot seeing an obvious answer pushed it off for later...and forgetting. :) There is some cause for concern in the article. For instance, it says
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The source says, @ #60:
This has been present since the article was created. Also problematic, from the article's creation:
The source says, @ #52:
These both remain too closely paraphrased for us to use them as they are in the present version of the article. They need to be rewritten. The opening section uses a quote from [8], but it's not excessive by itself. I'm inclined to think that the article as it was founded was excessive in its use of quotations, unless the quotes were from non-free sources, and the section "Enmity towards Muhammad and his Family and support for their enemies" is still very heavy in quotations. These should be reduced, unless the sources from which they are quoting are public domain. Finally, the last paragraph under "Revere heretics" says: . This site says:
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Unless it can be shown that these sources are PD, I agree that there are copyright problems with this article in these closely paraphrased sections. Has anybody claimed that they are PD? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:01, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I have obtained the copyright from www.answering-ansar.org and have forwarded the permission copy via mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. - Humaliwalay ( talk) 05:26, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Codf1977 you are welcome to fix any mistakes done by me, past clashes should not be deterrent for this. Yeah, I unintentionally created 2 articles earlier which were copyright violations, hence this time I obtained permission in writing. But still I admit my mistakes and if there is any punishment I will take since the mistake was committed and I admit that. After having a brief discussion with TFOWR I realized that, however I still do not justify the Block by TFOWR to me - Humaliwalay ( talk) 05:26, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I forwarded the Copyright permission few days ago at the given Id, what is the next course of action, why are you not removing the Copyright tag now???- Humaliwalay ( talk) 07:12, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
If you like User:Moonriddengirl/CCI stalk report 1000, I can arrange to do the whole ten thousand. Uncle G ( talk) 12:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I recently uploaded. File:MANI RATNAM.jpg, File:Jayakandhan-padma bhushan.jpg, File:Ar-rahman-accepts-the-oscars.jpg, File:Ilaiyaraaja-PadmaBhushan.jpg, File:Illayaraaja-synthesizing-music model.jpg, File:Ilayaraja-in-early-days.jpg, File:MGR-at-Pulic-Meeting.jpg, File:Kamal-in-salangai oli.jpg, File:Sivaji-with-Marlon Brando.jpg, and File:Rajni-with-Kalignar.JPG -----these files..
As a true wiki user I am bold and confident that you will accept me here. You said me on my talk page. "I believe that they are unusable for other reasons". Look there is a bottle filled with half water. I am seeing the remaining to be filled on upper part. You are seeing that it already is half filled in the lower part. So the matter - one but views - two.
since you accepted saying "There is no doubt that these are fine images that would add substantially to the presentation of the articles in which they are included". You should be knowing in what regard it is added there. Merely to improve the article and illustrate it.
If keep on looking that everything is added based on decorativeness, sorry that we will not be making a good article. I am making my more hardest time in explaining to you now. Please dont mistake me. As we all here to improve the articles.
If I really made a mistake I am ready to accept it. But certainly on most cases I used all fair use images to support the articles with all possible proof I can provide and I did that. I respect all wiki rules.
Lastly please consider each image on its own terms and conditions and do not delete it all as a pack of cards. And give me appropriate images that has still copyrighted violations, so that In future I will be careful and be alert before adding it in wiki.
I beleive this is a very serious issue. Please consider every article and its image seperately and analyse whether it is really supporting the article or not and then delete it, if at all needed so.
Many thanks,
Ungal Vettu Pillai 15:57, 24 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keyan20 ( talk • contribs)
Here's another blatant copyright violation I've just found! This selection of copyrighted text was added by 122.172.226.73 . I removed the copyrighted text and gave the IP a warning. Please could you rev-delete it to my latest revision? Minima c ( talk) 17:31, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999
is the zoom tv a prestigious channel in india run by times news network not a relaible source? just confirm. iam tired as active banana is the only user to claim n call it as unrelaible!!! angelfire is also a famous website which is relaible but are these both unrelaible? Shrik88music ( talk) 20:04, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
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For your absolutely amazing job on two separate OTRS tickets, which was invaluable to me personally and to the Wikimedia Foundation. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 02:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC) |
dang.... I guess this means you're hot shit. Congrats! -- *Kat* ( talk) 03:13, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, when you have a minute, could you please give your opinion here on what constitutes a copyvio? Thanks :), Airplaneman ✈ 02:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
I got a question on my talk page about the permission used to create Ansley J. Coale. The source states: "Permission is given to adapt, reprint or excerpt material from the Bulletin for use in other media" which I thought may be broad enough to be usable, but I figured I'd run it by you since you've been doing this longer. VernoWhitney ( talk) 12:55, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl
How are you doing? Thanks for the advice concerning our article "Bujutsu Kodosokukai" [9]. We have worked with all your highly valuable inputs during the summer. So far our conclusion is to split up the article into three separate articles in order to maintain focus and then link to the other articles where appropriate. The three articles are ready as drafts but our approach would be to get them "approved" one by one at the COIN. We would appreciate your help once more and ask you for a review of the articles before they are send to COIN and also your thoughts about our new approach.
BR Shindenkan Wiki-team Freezydk ( talk) 19:37, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Freezydk ( talk) 21:49, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
The aforelinked requires review from the Close Paraphrasing Squad. If only that editor had spotted the pattern back then! Uncle G ( talk) 02:40, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that this editor was reviewing the CCI blanked articles at the rate of one article every 20 seconds or so. So I started going through xyr edit history. Unfortunately, xe has made at least two, possibly (see #Close paraphrase) three, errors that I've found so far, and I haven't even looked at all of xyr edits yet. Uncle G ( talk) 02:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, could I get you to review Leonard Case Jr.? It's the latest article by User:HenryXVII, who I've warned in the past about close paraphrasing and has had three prior articles tagged copyvios for close-paraphrasing. I suspect his latest effort is also copyvio but I really don't want to come across as biting or stalking (he's only just added the article link to his userpage, which I'm watching because of my previous warning to him). I think it's time an admin spoke to him. Thanks, Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 04:56, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi - could you take a look at this discussion and comment if you think it worthwhile? It's been pretty messy including an apparently unjustified block. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 05:22, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
An editor I blocked a few months ago, Sweetpoet ( talk · contribs) wrote me a thoughtful email stating that s/he feels she is being hounded by Novaseminary ( talk · contribs). It appears that Novaseminary has tagged a slew of images that the poet has uploaded as problematic fair use issues. If you have a few moments, could you take a look as to the validity of the tags. Fair use boundaries are well beyond my depth of knowledge. I think the poet's talk page has most if not all of them listed. Cheers. Toddst1 ( talk) 05:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
hey i finally fixed my internet problem.btwn i see the images by keyan are still in a limbo.nevertheless i had a query.i came across this rather excellent website called http://www.kamat.com/ and it has a collection of images which can used on wikipedia.the chap who holds the copyright is a rather nice fellow and permits it's usage on wikipedia see here .question is what licence applies while uploading them. Linguistic Geek 06:48, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
got it.thanks. Linguistic Geek 13:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Phantastic95 ( talk · contribs) is a persistent copyright violator who continues to upload obvious copyvios, even after a block back in September. Perhaps you could make the point to this user a little bit clearer?-- GrapedApe ( talk) 14:36, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering why the blanking had been undone. To be honest, I was a little concerned in the beginning about some kind of mass reversion happening; hopefully this will be the only time and articles like this can be checked properly. Oh, and thanks for your praise. :-) Giants2008 ( 27 and counting) 15:45, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
Thank you Hrcolyer ( talk) 11:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
PS: The page in question is Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Commonwealth Games, material seems to have been originally from the BBC
Hi Moonriddengirl, Nuclearwarfare had suggested to yeasimhuman (the author of the original article on Ken Zaretzky) that we contact you for advice. The original article was deleted in early august (notability was the issue) after discussing it with Nuclearwarfare it was suggested (on nuclearwarfares talk page) that it actually looked like Ken Zaretzky actually did meet the notability guidlines and suggested that yesimhiman appeal the decision. The administrators upheld the decision because the procedure had been followed correctly but suggested that another article on Ken Zaretzky showcasing the proof of his notability could (should?) be written. Yesimhuman asked me to write the article because he didn't feel confident with his ability as a writer. I have done so in my userspace (yesimhuman did help me with some facts and details). Could you please look the article over and give me your opinion and any suggestions you have on it before I try to post it as a regular article? I would appreceate the assistance very much. Oh, Please not that the catagories at the bottom are not formatted correctly. i did that on purpose so that it wouldn't show up in any catagories until it was ready for prime time :). Thank you for your help. Youngshakespeara ( talk) 00:34, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
citation? or should i just delete Wheeling? The speaking citations, most are links to websites of some organizations that announce that he is speaking there. Is there something else I could (or should use) use? I suppose I could change the words "couples guy" to "he is a pioneer in coaching couples with ADHD based on the magasine articles, his paper and that he has spoken on it a number of times. Would that work? His MCC credential? That is refered to everywhere. do I need to try to get a scan of his MCC certificate? Last, The public domain issue, the bottom of both of those programs say they can be used or copied freely as long as the notice remains on them and the name isn't changed. Is that not enough or is there another way to demonstrate that? You have been a lot of help. Sorry about all the Questions. Thanks again! Youngshakespeara ( talk) 13:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Okay, he has been referred to as a pioneer on some other people's and organizations websites. Can I site them? re: the public domain. Should I say he allows them to be used freely by the public with minimal restrictions"?
Once again, thank you for all your help. i just want to make this a great article! Youngshakespeara ( talk) 14:20, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Youngshakespeara ( talk) 14:29, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you! Youngshakespeara ( talk) 16:21, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Youngshakespeara ( talk) 18:25, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I can't guarantee that I can help you get it into a state that it won't be deleted. I can't guarantee that about my own articles. :) But I hope I can help. :)
(1) To get a reference to list twice, give it a name. For example, <ref name=NYT>. The first time you use it, fill it out completely, and close it when you're done with </ref>. The second time you use it, all you have to do is type <ref name=NYT/>. The software will do the rest. I usually try to come up with a refname that will make sense to me later, either referring to the place of publication or the last name of the author.
(2) You should source as much as you can. The first thing that jumps out to me: "He was also a guest on CoachTV (Manhattan) in 2007." The earlier speaking engagements--do you have references to verify the topic of those conversations on those dates? If not, you might want to change the sentence so that you can use some of the prior references, which did not mention the subject. (You want to be sure that your references support what you're actually saying.) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:11, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I know he's spoken a lot on how it's done 101 and I know a lot of the cities. But when I researched them on the web i found that those organizations didn't keep a record of old events in thier archives (Like San Francisco Coaches, East Bay Coaches, ICF Madison Area Chapter and Chicago coach federation. How can I use them if there is no record on thier websites?
Youngshakespeara ( talk) 21:25, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I'll try to find more on the web then (there must be more somewhere).
Oh, I understand the policy about articles on subjects they know. It makes total sense. I actually have never met him. I do know a couple of people who know him but I'm sure I can be objective. Thanks for the heads up though.
It's a shame there isn't a repository somewhere for deleted and expired web pages. Because it appears that there are a lot of speaking engagements that he has done in the past that have been deleted or removed or whatever because they are old.
If I can get the Ann Babiarz stuff (If she ever replies to my e-mail) and can find proof of a couple more older speaking engagements do you think this article might me ready?
Oh, also, do you think I should get a picture of him (maybe one from his website) to put in the info box? I feel like I may be starting to get the hang of doing this, :)! Thank you again! Youngshakespeara ( talk) 15:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I came upon this article after CSD-tagging a recently created article from the same user as a copyvio. However, this one dates back to 2006. Consequently, even though the exact content is on other websites, I am not sure which have copied from Wikipedia. For example, it is on servinghistory.com, but examination of that site shows that it copies from Wikipedia [10]. I'm not sure what to do in such cases, so I'm appreciate advice. (I'll check back here for replies). Best, Chzz ► 19:10, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Whilst probably not as bad as the one above I think that someone may need to have a word with User:Mohsen1248 regarding mass reverts of the DD CCI blankings. They have several periods of reverting the bot changes within the space of a few minutes. Unfortunately I cannot find any definite copyvios that they have restored though Kazakhstan women's national volleyball team is rather suspicious (that text is rather old so the number of mirrors is large). Boissière ( talk) 21:30, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
We've already clashed on this issue. I do not understand on what grounds you are deleting content like this edit. It is all sports statistics, in this case, released to the world in 1984 by the International Olympic Committee, through their local organizing body the LAOOC. This is now public record information that was spread throughout the world over 25 years ago. Wikipedia, one of the dominant websites for information in the world, has had this public information copied to it, probably from some other site that obtained the information from its original source. If the original source does not enforce protecting this information, how can a subsequent source claim copyright. Obviously they don't, nobody has brought suit. This is your own individual policy. I have no fanatical interest in this this particular article. My concern is for thousands of articles just like it that you and Uncle G's robot are blanking and re-enforcing with edits like this, that are now not visible to the world through your actions. Don't just send me away to generic policy statements as you have done in the past. Don't get sidetracked from two edits out of thousands I have made here. This is about YOUR actions. Trackinfo ( talk) 23:25, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
While I was writing Leonard Case, Jr., another user provided a new source about him, so I cited some information from it. Now.... May I revert it to a former version that contains less contents but may not be regarded as copyright infringement? Heinrich ⅩⅦ von Bayern ( talk) 05:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
What should I do about this article? I can't find where the source material might be, but I'm almost certain its a copyvio. It doesn't "sound" like anything that DD would have written on his own.-- *Kat* ( talk) 07:52, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
{{subst:copyvio|url=see talk}}
on the article's face and {{
subst:CCId|name=Darius Dhlomo}}
on the article's talk page. Then list the article as instructed at the copyright problems board (but don't bother notifying Darius; he knows what is going on, so the notice is both unnecessary and probably a bit unkind.) I'll save this and go look at the other one. :) --
Moonriddengirl
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11:26, 27 September 2010 (UTC)Hi, I've just seen that my article about Cameleon Software has been deleted. I think it is because of copyright issues, but as I've explained, I an currently working for the company Cameleon Software and I am in charge to create the article about them on Wikipedia. For this I used their official description they used in different website (Linkedin, Appexchange,...), so the company gave me the right to use this official text on the Wikipedia article I created for them. What can I do to have the article back? How can I proove that I have the right to write this article without copyright issues? Can you explain to me because I could not find what I had to do to prevent deletion. Thank you for your help Best regards, Mdainelli —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdainelli ( talk • contribs) 09:57, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, Thanks for clearing the copyright infringement tag. I assure to be more careful next before I initiate or edit an article. Jyrejoice ( talk) 15:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I found an image on Google and I was wondering, how do I find out if it's copyright free or okay to use it on wikipedia? This is it: [12]. I've seen it on holy cards, prayer cards, etc., but that's all I know about it. Malke 2010 ( talk) 15:11, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
1 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Do-you-want-a-partner-/2592 , 2 ^ http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999, 3 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/%E2%80%98I-had-an-affair-with-Gary-Sobers-on-rebound-/2905 7 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999, 8 http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/memories.html, 10 http://www.indian-times.com.au/entertainment_housewives.html 12 http://www.liveindia.com/sai/Rajesh_Khanna.html 13 http://www.leenacom.com/MOVIE.htm
please confirm .. zoom tv is a channel run by times of india group. angelfire is also a valid site where Cine Blitz magazines artciles are posted. just confirm so that the reference can be given of them Shrik88music ( talk) 20:07, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
you may give me a mentor. but my point is when zoom tv is a reputed bollywood channel run by times news network and cineblitz a popular magazine of films .---both are relaible then how come iam hearing that sources are unrelaible??? Shrik88music ( talk) 18:35, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rajesh_Khanna&oldid=387538673 I hope the above version is free of any of the violations of wikipedia!
Shrik88music (
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15:02, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I have heavily edited the Saul Hertz entry and re-posted it with copyright permissions from the owner of the Saul Hertz archive collection and website. A note on the wiki page said that I should consult you since it was a previously deleted article. Can you please comment and help me improve the article and give it sticking power? Thanks. Jabrody24 ( talk) 18:26, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
There is a redirect for Padre Pio, but the redirect says "Padre pio." Pio is his name and therefore a proper noun and should be capitalized. How do I fix that? Malke 2010 ( talk) 00:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello. My name is Trevor Wayne. I am an actor/model/artist in LA. I had a page for a while, created for me. It has been deleted and I'm not sure why. I have read the above and I'm still unclear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.124.58.225 ( talk) 01:10, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I recently gave some informal advice via OTRS for a query with regard to re-use of a image tagged as PD as it was a photograph of a painting where the artist died in 1869. My advice was slightly cagey in that:
Consequently my advice was the the image would be considered PD in any country as de facto there is little chance of anyone having success coming forward to claim copyright more than 120 years after the death of the artist. I then advised them to consult their publisher to confirm the appropriateness of the use of such an image for their publications. I now feel my advice was a bit weak, is there a boiler-plate somewhere that unequivocally explains international re-use in these situations? Fæ ( talk) 07:06, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, My article about "Imran Channa Visual Artist " was deleted , Imran Channa is the well known contemporary Pakistani artist. i have given all the links and sources. I m also an artist and a new user of wikipedia , my task is to creates articles on art & artists of pakistan , because there is no material available on wikipedia on pakistani art & artist so that art historians and students from all over the world can get some sort of information, so plz could u help me out to add my 1st article of Imran Channa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Art wart1234 ( talk • contribs) 21:07, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear,
Thank u , for ur quick response, i m waiting for ur help to add my article. —Preceding
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Thank u so much for editing the article. I will be needing ur help in future . —Preceding
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Hello Dear, could u plz edit my article a bit more, i have also edit it. i think it is now fine ,plz check it. but i m afraid that how can i remove the above tag " article for delection " ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Art wart1234 ( talk • contribs) 21:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Looks like the VPP discussion to amend our policy to match practice got archived, and we got the typical low participants consensus that marks any copyright issue. I expect it's enough to put the language in, but you're the expert in doing these changes. How do we proceed from here? MLauba ( Talk) 15:25, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
here it is. Like it? MLauba ( Talk) 13:34, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
With the task here. Please note that the results might not have been moved from the project page to the COI pages (as I cannot do so). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, thank you for your message, and thanks for all the obvious hard work you do around here (going out of your way to hook up adopters and adoptees is beyond the call of duty IMO). I'd be happy to help Shrik88music, and backstop the other user who has agreed to give him a hand. I'm not familiar with Indian topics or Indian sources really, but I can certainly help guide Shrik88music in the right direction as far as it regards being a good Wikipedian who contributes good content. — e. ripley\ talk 17:34, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you so much! I understand now. Yes the person who wrote that release also copied it onto here. I can't believe he didn't respond to you guys. I will work on putting up a new page soon. Thanks!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.124.57.57 ( talk) 17:46, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Do you mind scanning over all the photographs in this article to make sure that they comply with image policy? I have a tip from a user that some of them might be questionable. If some do not comply, please remove them so we can replace them with better rated photos...-- Novus Orator 07:57, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Hiyas Moonriddengirl. Is there any way you could check out the OTRS ticket validity on Talk:Giorgos_Xylouris? It was added by the editor who created the article, which I've never seen before...and you're the only OTRS personage I know. If you're too busy to check, maybe you could point out another OTRS person I can bug. Thanks :) Syrthiss ( talk) 15:19, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I apologize for the misundrestanding. The OTRS permission is only for the greek text. Now I saved a new version of my article and I hope that there is no problem. If there is any problem please let me know. Thank you. Kriti28 ( talk) 14:21, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, After having reviewed all the sources, I've retagged Wealth Masters International for CSD A7 & G11. Feel free to rv if you feel strongly against my action.-- Kudpung ( talk) 18:19, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
I've been maintaining the Tanarus (Video Game) wiki for the past year now, mostly as an unregistered user. Lately I decided to register though, because I wanted to send/receive messages on a certain issue.
On the Tanarus (video game) wiki page, I noticed that my edits keep getting removed. They are all factual, and meant to do nothing but inform. Recently the game has gone under and alot of players have felt some animosity toward the owning company, SOE. This is a well known fact, and I stated this in the wiki as gently as possible. I even made a custom GIF just for this wiki page, yet both my edits and gif keep getting removed, so I have a few questions:
- Is this a moderator doing this?
- If so, am I doing something wrong? I haven't been notified of breaking any rules. Perhaps I've missed any kind of messages sent to me somehow? I still am not exactly sure how a moderator would notify me of any wrongdoing.
- If this isn't a moderator, is there any way to prevent the individual from removing my edits? After all, they are removing factually correct information...
- If there is a problem with my edits for some reason, please let me know what it is. It seems the other edits I have made stay on the page, but this one (particularly with the gif) keeps getting removed.
Up until now I've just been re-updating the page every now and then when I see my edit has been removed again. If I'm doing something wrong, let me know and I'll stop. The only reason I'm even messaging you is because I saw you on the page's history. I'm not sure why I'm not receiving any messages, so could you please send a reply to my email instead? Thanks. {redacted} —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobMonty1987 ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Have a look at User:Alexcooper1 and their talk page. Should these be deleted or just blanked? Or are there any sort of privacy/copyright issues to be worried about? Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I ran into this article a while back and noticed that a large chunk of it was taken from a copyrighted website. I removed the copyrighted material and left the article for a few months. When I came back, I found that a lot of the text on the article is identical to that of a well known fan site called dethklok.org. I'm not completely sure what to do at this point. Every few days, new material is added that matches that of dethklok.org and it's not completely clear which came first. In my opinion, I'd rather just wipe all the descriptions in question and have editors rewrite them but there's been some resistance to my removal of material that I feel is copyrighted. You're my copyvio guru so I thought you might have a good idea as to what to do. Any advice or help you can supply would be greatly appreciated. OlYeller Talktome 04:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl: I am writing about the editing to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recycling_and_Northern_Development_Canal 2 Problems: 1 The old bad links seem to be back in the article even though the history does not disclose any changes. How is that possible? 2. The new links http://web.archive.org/web/20091027035959/ca.geocities.com/grandcanal2005/index.htm no longer works. 88.101.247.62 ( talk) 08:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: I am writing to you about two problems with this article which you so kindly editted and linked to and achived web site. Firstly it appears that the old dead links are back. It appears that some robot reverted your changes. How can we make edits that won't be reverted?
Second the new links that you inserted [15] no longer work. This could be just a server problem. I am re-directed to a page that says that the server connection has failed.
Mkierans ( talk) 09:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Also, have a good break. Thank you for your patience. I'll respond on the appropriate pp. (if I can). -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 14:09, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thanks for your help and apologies for the hassle and feel free to edit if you wish, thanks again, regards Sean —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sean McPhillips ( talk • contribs) 15:10, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello again. I did all what you told me to do with my permission request on images, My source and owner of the images sent an e-mail to your mail address (permissions-en@wikimedia.org), and I also putt proper tag on all images included in that permission confirm mail, but however, nothing has been changed. I just want to ask you how much time it takes until this will be considered? Greetings. -- Zuull (talk) 15:39, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Why did you edit the 18:18, 15 September 2010 version which was already accepted by Moderator JayJasper? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.225.111.89 ( talk)
Dear Moonriddengirl, Why did u delete my contribution in the article of sindhis notable personalities, you argued that "no source" but most of the personalities which i listed are even in wikipedia, why you people delete the contribution without any research. is this the criteria if u a an admin or old user o wiki that u can delete any thing as u want... thanx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artmartxxx ( talk • contribs) 19:46, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey now, MLaura I appreciate the explanation here for the Tanarus (Video Game) wiki, but did you REALLY have to blank the entire thing? That is entirely unacceptable! Why would you remove all of that information? Granted that I did not realize that Wikipedia would go so out of its way to prevent even an inkling of expressed distaste (which would include my latest edit, I suppose) but the rest of what you deleted is practically 13 years of history for us gamers! That information was not just 'given'. It was found by playing over time. There is no place that information (stats/ranks/values) was written down ANYWHERE but here on Wikipedia. Deleting it is... well you made my jaw drop.
Now... Can you tell me if there is a way I can create my own Wikipage that will go unaffected and express its own views (without breaking rules)? Other than that, I'm not a moderator, but I am going to restore the page to its original state (without my edit). Could you PLEASE consider how important it is to us? I have a forum of over 200 people that play the game that refer to it at least a few times a month. I know this if this was a battle of wits, you would win hands down. I am just asking you to understand our point of view here.
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobMonty1987 ( talk • contribs) 13:54, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
"Meh"I'm sure you know what that means. I'm honestly surprised at how Wikipedia operates due to your last message. The thing is, we the players ARE the source providing the facts stated on the Tanarus Wiki page. We are the ones who uncovered, calculated, and posted the completely relevant and accurate information onto the wiki page over the years. Take a step back from your analytical methods just for the next few sentences. Use your common sense: Why would anyone in their right mind spend that much time and effort to document such specific data with any kind of goal in mind other than to accurately provide information? Really. What would someone have to gain by putting up the information that you/MLauba had deleted? No, seriously. Go look at the page that was removed, and tell me what their motive would be. That aside, the data was never disproven. As I said, we ARE the source. So if I made a Wikipedia page about myself, and told you that an orange is my favorite fruit, it would be removed and claimed to not have any proof to the statement? This is how I see the entire situation. Nobody is arguing our information, yet after a year of strong standing, the page was taken down, literally without a single good reason other than the weak claim of 'lack of proof'. You have utter tons of Wikipedia pages that describe places/people/things without factual proof. My point is, what was there was all true. All fact. No1 disagreed. The players who would know better than anyone else, the same people that selflessly maintained the game for 13 years, these are the people you are telling to provide sources. It's ridiculous. Your argument holds no ground, but because you have a little moderator power, you win. Pathetic. Oh, and as for MLauba threatening me with a lock, please tell him that I could easily have SMAC pro renewing my IP and MAC address every 10 minutes and a quick bot made to constantly keep editing the page back to how I think it should be. Your 'lock' or 'ban' would literally have 0 effect, and there would literally be no way to implement any form of punishment, legal or otherwise. That's what I could do, so please save the lock-talk for someone you could actually perform a lock on. Honestly though? No, I won't waste my time. Why? Because that would be helping WP, and I'm past that at this point. If WP wants to purposely lack information and settle for inferior, so be it. I figured the one supposedly unbiased dictionary on the internet would be troll-free, but I guess this isn't the case. If you ever feel like accurately providing information on the Tanarus (Video Game) Wikipedia page, feel free to check it out on Wikia, with all the correct data provided from the source. You can spare yourselves an apologetic and explanatory response, because I won't be reading it. I hold some negative thoughts about your opinions, but moreso on your narrow-mindedness. Other than that, thank you for at least referring me to another Wiki. That much was definitely the best advice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobMonty1987 ( talk • contribs) 16:29, 30 September 2010 (UTC) |
Hi Moonriddengirl,
I have made a proposal to merge Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic) with Mary (mother of Jesus). One of the editors has split the discussion over both talk pages. The noticed was posted on both articles and talk pages, but the discussion was primarily on this article talk page. [19] but was then changed to this page where 'voting' was begun. [20] Which talk page is most appropriate for the discussion? It seems that this could be confusing for other editors to have it split like this and it might be more convenient for other editors if the discussion remained on Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic) so the editors could easily access the page that is the primary focus. Is there a policy for this? Malke 2010 ( talk) 14:22, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Well said: [21] Malke 2010 ( talk) 18:37, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if you've seen this AN discussion yet, but if he is violating our copyright policy the way the discussion suggests, then something must be done, hopefully without a filibuster. On his talk page, he denies copyvio, referring in particular to a discussion at Talk:Enron scandal#Recent changes where he says " Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria states that "Articles and other Wikipedia pages may, in accordance with the guideline, use brief verbatim textual excerpts from copyrighted media, properly attributed or cited to its original source or author" and on the basis of that restores to the article the sentence "Enron’s use of distorted, "hyper-inflated" revenues was more important to it in creating the impression of innovation, high growth, and spectacular business performance than the masking of debt", which is verbatim from here. The sentence remains in Enron scandal - and is not attributed. Dougweller ( talk) 10:26, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey MRG, I know absolutely nothing about copyright law, so can you look at Carrigaline#History for me? It has been copied directly from a book written in the 1800's (see the bottom of the section), and I don't know if it's in the public domain or not. Thanks -- Nole lover 01:21, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Would you please comment on the discussion on Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic). I believe that using one of Richard's words the "combative" nature of Malke 2010 is turning the page into a battleground. Just a minor example is even mentioned on this page where she blaims me for an issue related to her merge request when the problem was actually related to how she set up the merge request in the first place. It has been requested several times that she state exactly what her cite and OR issues are. But I will let you read through the page to get your own opinion. I personally think she needs some more time off from the Marian articles. Marauder40 ( talk) 14:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Malke, please don't call people "tendentious". I'm afraid that kind of language only inflames situations, which is not what we should be doing. What is the basic dispute here, that this constitutes "original research" or that it is non-neutral? I'd be happy to request feedback myself from a relevant noticeboard, but I don't want to ask at multiple noticeboards. If I do ask, I will make sure to do so neutrally. The goal is to get enough uninvolved contributors to read consensus as to whether there is currently a problem with the article or not. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:51, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I can clear up for you what the problem is with the understanding of the Catholic tradition of veneration of Mary and the saints: Council of Trent:
It seems that Marauder came over here to get you to solve the dispute in his favor, or at the very least, to turn this into a discussion about me. That's obvious from the title he gave the thread. Richard S. has already responded here: [22]. I don't believe he is neutral since he clearly states he supports History2007 and Maraurder.
And as you've often told me, there's no rush here. There's no emergency to remove the tags. The tags will eventually attract others. The current talk page discussion might be keeping others from participating so for now, so I'd say, let things settle and see who shows up on their own.
I don't think it's fair that our mentorship is being dragged into what is only a content dispute, but I understand that when editors can't get their way they will fall back on that. That's why we now have the notice on the mentor page so they don't post there. Unfortunately, they'll be coming here. You can see that I've not turned anything into a battle, I've not been uncivil, etc.
The article needs to be opened up to a lot more editors to come along and edit. That's why I put the tags there in the first place. They don't want the tags there, that's why they fall back on the mentorship and making it about Malke.
It will take awhile, but for now, I don't think trying to get lots of people today is going to help. They'll just be there to make a quick judgment and leave. The article needs other editors to take an interest and stay and edit. Malke 2010 ( talk) 16:02, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
I hope it was a fun and interesting conference (or at least not agonizing and boring) and that you didn't have to take all of those notes by hand. ^_^
<sigh> And now that the niceties are out of the way, while there isn't a backlog waiting for you, another possible issue of widespread copyvio did show up at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Epson291 and I posted some more confirmed issues I found from a spot check (but haven't acted on yet) at User talk:Epson291#Plagiarism. I haven't gone through enough of their contribs to see if a CCI might be needed yet. VernoWhitney ( talk) 12:01, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
More notes for later: Wedding cake topper, from August 2009:
Otherwise, the rewriting there seems adequate. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Speaking of groaning, why is it that repeat copyright offenders tend to sockpuppet? Here I was hoping to close a CCI today and instead I need to run edits for three more accounts and tack them on... VernoWhitney ( talk) 19:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
I'd rather ask you, whether you're currently here or not as you're always helpful :). Can you move the entire TVD season 1 Incubator content to The Vampire Diaries (season 1) it will be a lot easier to work on it there, it was one user who moved it across, a user now permanently banned for sockpuppetry. The season 2 incubator just needs deletion. Can you do that too, please? With these articles, it's much easier to work on them from the mainspace as many editors won't know where the incubators are. There's more information on these pages than some other TV shows too. Reply/make the changes when you can. Thank you. Jayy008 ( talk) 01:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I think one possible solution with the question of the POV content forking in the Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic) article would be to restore this article Blessed Virgin Mary and merge BVM RC with it. In this way, all views that recognize this unique name for Mary could be presented the question of the POV content fork, which violates policy, could be eliminated. Is it possible to either pull back the original article from the merge with Mary (mother of Jesus), or to at least restore the use of the article name Blessed Virgin Mary? Thanks for your help. Malke 2010 ( talk) 16:59, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2010 October 4#File:SonsOfMIT.ogg and see what you think? -- GrapedApe ( talk) 19:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
I actually wrote the article and got it checked by the owner of the company. She will be contacting the email, since all written material on the listed websites that I "copied from" are owned by them and have the same materials that I used on the article.
Are there any other issues with the articles that you want me to address?
Debolina Sengupta 21:03, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Can you just check that you agree with the {{
copyvio}}
on
Stonehouse Brick and Tile Co Ltd for me.
Codf1977 (
talk)
13:24, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi :) Just a reminder that it's that time again! I'm not sure if you had any further tweaks to make to the second part of your article, though it looks great to me. I've posted it up here - please feel free to make any amendments necessary. On past form it'll be a week or so before we get the newsletter out. Best, EyeSerene talk 10:53, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Off2riorob suggested i give the Wikipedia:WikiProject Copyright Cleanup a helping hand :) for some strange reason he thinks i may one day be a quality contributor :), were should one start on this and what is the recommended reading before starting? Thanks mark nutley ( talk) 09:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, another question. I just went to an article Ana M. Briongos which has Official biography from her website under creative commons license (by NC-ND) What does one do about this? The website has noting about the content being free [25] so i have subst:copyvio|url=source used this tag to blank the page. I asked on the article talk page as well about this. Thanks mark nutley ( talk) 15:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
On that respect, WP:CCPS can also be of use (we should update that one more regularly anyway) MLauba ( Talk) 16:08, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Here. Also, I guess you have an email backlog again? :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:22, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Asking here since the deleting admin is infrequently active. Assuming Image Institute of technology & management was copied from iitmctc.org could you undelete it? I got OTRS permission for it. VernoWhitney ( talk) 00:05, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Have you seen the discussion at ANI about copyvio? It's almost at the bottom of the page. Dougweller ( talk) 12:11, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the exceptionally quick turnaround time on that! Best, MarmadukePercy ( talk) 11:52, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Speaking of thanks, I note that
two other folks now want to be you. Hope that's more flattering than it is creepy. ;)
Cheers,
Amalthea
14:06, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've left a question for you on our page. Thanks. Malke 2010 ( talk) 18:07, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
The user Md iet ( talk · contribs)had copied text from other websites in articles which he states he has removed after being told by user VernoWhitney who had blanked some of the article can you please verify this.Further he has uploaded over around 50 images and all of them appear with a licence created this work entirely by myself. and this includes a picture taken with a Egyptian President while I Wp:AGF with the licence I would like you check the images. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 18:35, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you have time to please assist me in sorting out this redirect? I created a redirect page here, and for some strange reason the title of the page appeared with quotation marks. Then I moved that page to the same title name without the quotation marks. The redirect page with the quotation marks however is still around. Could you maybe delete these redirect so that I can recreate a fresh redirect page without the quotation marks? Thank you. Amsaim ( talk) 19:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
To look at the text copied from Burker's peerage to my talk page and to Talk:Anwyl of Tywyn Family in good faith by an editor (who thinks I'm victimising him - see my comments on the bottom of that page for background, thus the need for someone else to look at this and remove if necessary). I appreciate why he's done this, but is it copyvio? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 12:58, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, given that you are familiar with the situation, I think we need some "Admin attention" on Mary (mother of Jesus) and Catholic views on Mary in view of merge proposal that is generating secondary effects. I am not sure where the best place for posting is, but if you cannot handle it yourself, could you arrange for some attention to the issues, to avoid reverts, etc. Thank you. History2007 ( talk) 22:00, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you sandbox Doyle Grisham for me please? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 00:39, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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I see you doing your typical "Copyright removal" work today! Anyway, may I request you to rev-delete some edits on the Beaver Creek Camp page please? The content that was added by User:NAKANA were copyright infringements. I reverted most of their edits and gave NAKANA a warning. [1] Minima c ( talk) 18:28, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
He's back! On one of his old IP's. He used an edit summary this time, but I disagree. I've put it up for discussion as you know, so unless he makes the effort to get involved. Can he be blocked again or page be protected? I don't want to revert until action has been taken. Thanks for your help as always :). Jayy008 ( talk) 18:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Oh, dear. Jayy, this isn't exactly what I had in mind. :) It reads a bit confrontational. Maybe you could change it a bit so it sounds more like, "Hi, thanks for explaining what you're going for! I'm afraid, though, that it may not really work for us because....(explanation) Please come by the article's talk page to talk about it more." We want to be friendly, even if he's been a bit difficult to deal with in the past. :D Who knows? He could wind up being a great contributor. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
...as an aside that I appreciate the tone of your conversation and your willingness to consider the matter more fully. Essential qualities in a Wikipedian. Thanks. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi I saw you did some work on the copyright project-page regarding text. Is this a copyvio?
I am checking into P. Niyogi's contributions and have a doubt. Niyogi has created content sourced to many offline books published locally and not available in gbooks. What to do in such cases where there is no way of checking the text?-- Sodabottle ( talk) 13:55, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering why the Wikipedia article on myself, Michael Korolenko, was deleted. There was nothing false in the article and nothing copyrighted in the article. I myself did not write the original article (it was pretty much taken word for word from my biography in one of my online classes). It has been on Wikipedia for a while and I edited it a year or so ago if I remember correctly to simply update it. I see no reason why it should have been deleted. If you could reinstate the article I would appreciate it.
Michael Korolenko korrys.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.81.187 ( talk) 06:10, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG! Could I get you to help me at T:TDYK with this nomination? As I stated in my review of it:
Reading Town Hall appears to be copied in wording, style and tone from the first reference, and not re-written from scratch as required by WP:COPYVIO. Am concerned about putting a potential copyright violation (not saying it necessarily is one, but it's subjective) on the main page.
I saw you were online, and since you work in an area dealing with copyright issues, could you offer a second opinion? Thanks! Strange Passerby ( talk) 16:56, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to gather evidence for an SPI and was wondering if you would be so kind as to look up the previously deleted copies of Mrigendra Kumar Singh and Madhurendra Kumar Singh and tell me if either User:Ramnareshyadav1982 or User:Mrigendra Ranjan edited them? VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:21, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Once I hear from the powers that be at Wikipedia, I will give them permission to use the article. And thank you again for the quick response. Michael Korolenko —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.81.187 ( talk) 22:45, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, thanks to clean the Bina Nusantara University article. I'm really appreciate it, but it appears that someone with IP 202.58.180.58 is doing major addition to the article. Could you help again to recheck the article for possible copyright violation? If the additional text is not an infringement, I will proofread and clean-up the Wiki markup in that article. Thanks before. Oh yeah after resolving that IP address, it actually an IP from Bina Nusantara University (but, university's IP can be used by anyone inside the university, so further checking to the article is very needed) Ivan Akira ( talk) 10:25, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Rajasekhar1961 ( talk · contribs) is apparently still having some issues with closely paraphrasing copyrighted sources even after their previous block and I'm not sure whether another block is in order or what. VernoWhitney ( talk) 17:34, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking the user. I was really hoping he/she was going to change when I saw the edit summary. But the user just put the same edit summary for the edit again. I don't think there's any hope. May I revert the edits? Or was there a reason you left them? Jayy008 ( talk) 18:11, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to track down the possible copyright violation for the Saul Hertz page from August 2010. I'd like to re-post the article, but with the appropriate changes. Jabrody24 ( talk) 21:08, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
On November 12, 1936 Dr. Karl Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke at a luncheon lecture at Harvard Medical School. His topic was "What Physics can do for Biology and Medicine". After the presentation, Dr. Hertz asked Dr. Compton "could iodine be made artificially radioactive?"
On November 12, 1936 Dr. Karl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke at a luncheon lecture. His topic was What Physics can do for Biology and Medicine. After the presentation Dr. Hertz asked Dr. Compton, "Could iodine be made artificially radioactive?"
I reverted the edits you referred to in your last comment on my talk page ( User:Maharshi Balmiki). It's definitely an old sock who edits articles on the Hungry generation and has created pages on many marginally notable poets related to that movement. Most of his recent edits seem to be copy pasted from somewhere, perhaps a wiki mirror or some old version of the page.
BTW, you might be interested in this, where yet another new incarnation of a banned editor commented on you (and a few other admins) who deleted his own or his favorite NN poet autobiographies. (his last incarnation I assume was Bineeto Pathok ( talk · contribs), banned after a large scale vandalism spree). -- Ragib ( talk) 23:43, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Oops, sorry for readding that template. That'll teach me to edit while still wiping the sleep from my eyes! Thank you for the quick response and handling of the copyright issue! keɪɑtɪk flʌfi ( talk) 13:53, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
On the commons I nominated this stamp for deletion because Australian stamps are copyright for 50 years per Public domain stamp templates because I disputed the validity of the attached OTRS ticket. Túrelio declined the nomination and left this comment on my talk page saying that the OTRS permission obviously came from Australia Post but when I questioned him he cannot confirm the ticket as he is not an OTRS volunteer. Would you kindly have a look at it for me as I have never heard of a postal administration giving a free licence for any of its stamps other than press and media use, which is essentially fair-use? TIA ww2censor ( talk) 15:53, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Moonriddengirl, as a member of the OTRS team, I was wondering, could you verify that File:LAgha Star.jpg was released under a free license? Thank you. — ξ xplicit 06:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please have a look at the edits made on the temp page for the article on Leprous and let me know if it's ok to remove the warnings? Thanks Lakeoftearz ( talk) 12:48, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
... at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#Another kind of reward. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
When removing <ref>s using blacklisted links, as you did in this edit, please be sure not to leave orphaned refs behind (e.g. these). An easy way to check is to see if the page ends up in the hidden category Category:Pages with broken reference names after your edit. Thanks! Anomie ⚔ 23:54, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, I am sorry to trouble you. If you do not want me to edit or create new articles in Wikipedia, I will stop doing any edits immediately. Is that what you want. Please give your view, whether I am unfit to write articles in Wikipedia, the so called free encyclopedia.Dr. Rajasekhar A. 07:56, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
You're better placed to answer, I think. Uncle G ( talk) 16:04, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello... Don't judge by the title, I'm not here to tell you about the user being back lol. Can you tell me which template to use for expansion of character descriptions on the page please? I don't want to just put "expand" as the articles long enough and may give people the wrong idea. Jayy008 ( talk) 14:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Oh, is it that simple? How can I get it to say "this section needs expansion with a more detailed bio" or something. I've seen it done, but I don't know how to do specifics.
Jayy008 (
talk)
15:01, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Oh, I did it! I thought that's where the date went, but now I need to know where the date goes. LOL, sorrry! Can you view my edit on the page and let me know please. Thank you!
Jayy008 (
talk)
15:03, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Done it all. All I had to do was click the thing you posted here above, my bad lol. Thank you as always! Jayy008 ( talk) 15:04, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
What is your problem? Why did you delete Civil war in Chad (1998-2002)? That was a real war. Are you crazy? B-Machine ( talk) 14:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
If I've done things correctly, everything on User:Moonriddengirl/checked should now have been tagged. I'm going to pause for a little while to let the dust settle, again. I've just looked at the all-in-one list's related changes; several editors are already unblanking. Uncle G ( talk) 20:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I seem to have an issue with another user, specifically User:Pectore. I do not know if i'm going to make any headway in discussion with him, but I don't feel like the situation is (yet) something that should be taken to ANI. So, i'm coming to ask your advice on what I should do to help the situation. Here's what's going on:
A CfD was recently conducted about the Saffron terror category, which only had the Saffron terror article in it. Considering that the category was far too specific, it was decided in the discussion here that the category should instead be renamed to Hindu terrorism. The consensus of the users in the discussion was for rename, all except for User Pectore. Thus, the category was renamed here, which I was the one to go about remaking it. Then, I went and started adding articles to the category that had once been on there. These included 2006 Malegaon blasts, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, Mecca Masjid bombing and also Terrorism in India because of the sections relating to the previous articles. I was systematically reverted by User Pectore ( [3], [4], [5], and [6]).
I then had a discussion with User Pectore about these reversions on his talk page here. I eventually conceded the point and decided to go look for more specific, obvious, and non-ambiguous examples of Hindu terrorism. What I found was the Bajrang Dal. They appeared to be a militant organization that used fear and other tactics against non-Hindus, the definition of terrorism. So, I added them. I was then reverted and a comment was left on the talk page here.
As can be seen from the comment in parentheses, "(if it serves any purpose at all)", User Pectore appears to be on a drive to remove any articles from the category and to get the category removed altogether once it is empty.
This can be highlighted by the fact that User Pectore has been involving himself heavily in the talk page on Saffron Terror for the past few months, trying to put in information that more and more tries to show Saffron terror and Hindu terrorism to be made up and not real. He and User:Wasifwasif have butted heads about the article for quite some time. I personally believe they are both biased in their own way, as is everyone, with one against and one for the idea of Hindu terrorism. And because it is terrorism, it's clearly going to be a contentious subject.
So...i'm coming to you, you being the most capable and cool-headed administrator that I know of, to ask for advice on what my next step should be to deal with this issue, in terms of the Hindu terrorism category and my attempts to put articles into it, and with User Pectore in general. I will take this to ANI if I have to, but I really don't like having to do that. Silver seren C 22:18, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Help! T_T Silver seren C 14:04, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I am Simon Harris, author of the majority of the text on my own wikipedia page which I have been contributing to for several years under my wikipedia username: megalaser
Today I have checked my page and it has been dramatically shortened, much of the text deleted, most information removed and now it is very short and has inaccuracies as well. I gather this is because a wikipedia editor thought that the page contained copyright violations because the text matched that on my own website: www.harrismix.com
Well, there is no copyright violation - I wrote it all, the website is mine and I am the subject of the wikipedia article.
This wikipedia page is very important to me, I put a lot of work into keeping my public information true and accurate. I understand from the history that it was you who looked at the page, considered it a copyright violation and removed most of the content, this would be a couple of weeks ago?
Please can you undo this edit and return the page to how it was before? I would very much appreciate this. If you would like proof that I am Simon Harris I am happy to provide whatever you need, I am the copyright holder of the text and I hereby state that everything in the article was true and accurate.
I am not an expert on wikipedia and how it works, if you need me to provide any proof please just let me know what I need to do but i would sincerely appreciate it if you could please re-instate my page to how it was before this happened.
My email address is: simon@harrismix.com
Many Thanks
Simon Harris Megalaser ( talk) 23:52, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
DJ/Producer/founder of record label 'Music of Life —Preceding unsigned comment added by Megalaser ( talk • contribs) 23:49, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I just read about the massive deletion of 10,000 articles due to copyright violations. You have helped me with copyright violations with a number of articles while I edit as an IP. I think that your editing wikipedia is one of the best things about this encyclopedia: volunteers who see the potential for excellence. Thanks for your contributions to making wikipedia useful.
-- JaRoad ( talk) 15:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
The article Sean Duffy has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
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notice, but please explain why in your
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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{
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articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
Lincolnite (
talk)
18:27, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
i have provided 68 references for the article rajesh khanna in the wikipedia. i need ur help to make it semi protected so that unregistered users do noit edit it at first place. also to my knowledge all sources are mostly from newspapers,magazines,big box office dotcoms, movie websites,interviews by stars. but some registered users are indulging in vandalism...simply editing the artcile. if at all by mistake some blog reference is there i request that these registered users be made to understand that they are facts and if at all references need to be added freshly in place of that(blog reference ) then that reference be given and not that the para /sentence e be deleted Shrik88music ( talk) 18:59, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Active_Banana
at present u will be able to see that this user is sabotaging ....indulging in vandalism and unecssary edits Shrik88music ( talk) 19:05, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
but the refernces provided by me are genuine and not bolgs. thats why iam asking for your help as if senior people go through the references , all of u would be satisfied and approve my references. moreoverhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Active_Banana also very clearly says he doesnt want to contribute v=by adding references but wants to remove whats written and what he isnt ready to accept ..
how can he send me a message If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice when he is the person who is doing this childishly. please give him a warning he deserves it.
can u give me the link where i can speak to other seniors .. my references are all genuine and not blogs but magazines,newspapers, etc... Shrik88music ( talk) 19:15, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thats waht iam saying that all the 68 references i provided in the article are all RELIABLE AND if there are any you can remove it or instead put a relaible source as the facts have only been written Shrik88music ( talk) 19:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I saw this just now. [7] We don't do that, do we? Malke 2010 ( talk) 19:26, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Yeah I realised you were doing that so skipped ahead of the competition articles to focus on checking a bunch of biographies instead! I didn't realise just how deep into obscurity Darius was delving. One problem with the bot approach is that I very much doubt anyone is watching something like this, such articles will have to be reviewed in a more piecemeal manner rather than in the hope that someone watching or reading the article will address the problem! SFB 12:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that you have restored articles that was under suspicion of copyright infringements. More articles, mass blanked by Uncle G's bot, have shown up on my watchlist. If I find no copyrighted material on those articles, am I right to revert the bot's actions? I tried to read some of the information, but it was so much and intricate, that I gave up! Therefore I hoped you could help me? =) Like in
this case, should I simply revert the bot's edit, and insert a or a
along with my signature
here? If so, does
mean "OK, no copyright", or does
mean "NO copyright"? At last, could I check articles that haven't been tagged yet? Or will they get tagged sooner or later anyway? Thanks, in advance...
lil2mas (
talk)
13:01, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
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Despite heading up one of the biggest cleanup operations Wikipedia has ever seen, you still find time to be a decent person. More editors like you could only be a positive. J Milburn ( talk) 15:10, 22 September 2010 (UTC) |
Xeno did a rewrite of Aaron Feltham. I double-checked with Bing and the Wayback Machine and couldn't find anything. But the 2007 RIO Canadian Olypmpic Team Handbook is no longer available on the WWW as far as I can see, and past experience leads me to believe that that's where the running prose came from. Please review the rewrite, just to be sure that it's enough. Uncle G ( talk) 15:31, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
see iam not here for disputes. but iam very surprised that some user who happens to be plain anti khanna is just editing out valid 68 references. i know all are valid but how come no administartor is blocking him or warning that he must not engage in edit war.
i thought of directly talking to seniors ... but i have also mesaaged in the link u have given me.
i am not here for disputes but only to contribute facts and remove misconceptions prevailing. Shrik88music ( talk) 19:45, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
are the following websites unrelaible??? 1 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Do-you-want-a-partner-/2592 , 2 ^ http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999, 3 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/%E2%80%98I-had-an-affair-with-Gary-Sobers-on-rebound-/2905 , 4 http://www.rediff.com/%0Amovies/2002/sep/13dinesh.htm, 5 http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/20041021-0.html,
7 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999, 8 http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/memories.html, 9 http://www.bollywood501.com/classic_m/rajesh_khanna/index.html, 10 http://www.indian-times.com.au/entertainment_housewives.html 11 http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020623/herworld.htm 12 http://www.liveindia.com/sai/Rajesh_Khanna.html 13 http://www.leenacom.com/MOVIE.htm
let me know then i will find replacements ...if ny amomg them is unrelaible Shrik88music ( talk) 21:15, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for making the proposed copyvio amendment! I'm in full agreement, but am trying to stay out of making any of the accelerated sanctions (for obvious reasons, mentor and all). So... thanks again to you xeno and Strange Passerby (who I've thanked separately). Best, Robert ROBERTMFROMLI TALK/ CNTRB 17:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
If you don't mind acting in such capacity, could you revise the list of admins willing to impose the accelerated sanctions (if the need arises)? Thanks, Robert ROBERTMFROMLI TALK/ CNTRB 18:02, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
User:Active Banana - this user is continuing his same old story of sites not being relaible and that blogs have been used etc..... yesterday Hebrides (talk) even helped me in converting them to citation format, including the title, publisher, date, etc. even she agrees that the 68 were genuine. now i added up more sources which are yes relaible upto 75 to convince all detractors.. now what needs to be done to ensure that the article contributed by me at present which contains solely and solely facts supported by valid references is being made open to public for reading and not deleted? please help seriously i need ur help Shrik88music ( talk) 18:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
following are the references i provided from reputed magazines,newspapers,websites of tv channels,news channels,articles on filmstars etc,..... i know all my 75 references are valid but do not understand y no action can be taken to make such biased editors away from such articles.
Old revision of Rajesh Khanna Shrik88music ( talk) 19:04, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I've just trawled through Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Commonwealth Games looking to see who made this edit so that I could warn them. When I found it, I also found that you'd already blocked the editor responsible. By bizarre coincidence, I've only just commented on your awesomeness on my talkpage... OK, sycophancy over, please continue to be awesome! TFOWR 11:43, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
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For all your hard work in dealing with copyright issues, including dealing with difficult copyright violators, handling copyrights on OTRS and reviewing suspected violations when asked for a third opinion like you did for me with Reading Town Hall, I hereby award you the barnstar you yourself created, the Copyright Cleanup Barnstar. Thanks for doing what you do! Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 12:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC) |
I am trying to get members of WP:POLAND to help with the recent mess, does that sound right? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:32, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Could you move the temp page rewrite of Chord Overstreet over the blanked article? It looks to be clean. VernoWhitney ( talk) 11:19, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Got another one if you've got a minute: The rewrite for Richie Fitzgerald is all stubby and clean. VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:49, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Will probably come across your radar at some time, thought you might like a heads up on it..... Codf1977 ( talk) 14:53, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Thought I was going to let a week slip by without bothering you? Nope. Ok - could you possible protect File:Aleksandarstanojevic.jpg as the uploader keeps removing the {{ di-no permission}} tag. After they removed the tag the first time and I reverted and replaced the notice on their page (Which they have removed both times) I had a look at all of their uploads and most all of them appear to be possible copyvios and mis-licensed. I have addressed the tag removal issue and the full image issues with a message on their talk page stating I will give them one week to address the rest of their images as well. Anything you can do to re-enforce why permission, either via OTRS or on the source website, is needed would be helpful. Thanks. (EDIT - I am seeing they are going through their uploads and changing license's however they are still not provided proof of permission, example difs: "cc-by-sa-3.0" to "GFDL-self-en" and "FAL" / "PD-self" to "GFDL-self-en") Soundvisions1 ( talk) 15:16, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
LOL! Are you me? We are doing the same things at the same times. I added a warning the same time you blocked. I reverted three images the same time you did - so I am just gonna let me...er you...do it. :) Soundvisions1 ( talk) 19:34, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I'd do that bit too, but those pages seem to take an age to load, and they're not listed A-Z either. Lugnuts ( talk) 18:38, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for efforts at above article. Following house move, most of my books are still in storage but will re-visit this page as a priority when 'normal service resumes'. Best. RashersTierney ( talk) 23:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
I would like to say that I am so thankful that you have come to the AN/I and decided to keep me around. I won't let any of you guys down, I want to keep reaching my goals which is to transform stub articles into GA and FA's which I have almost successfully have done. Thank you, your such a kind person who I am so happy to have meet in my life. Thank you. AJona1992 ( talk) 01:39, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Have a look at some rather dubious images uploaded by User talk:Keyan20.think he doesn't get our copyright policy.many images uploaded by him have been deleted before.some which he has uploaded are under fair use.but they are for BLP's.give a look. Linguistic Geek 12:35, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
sorry my net connection is kind of funny today.i login and then the page doesn't load.great work by you.cheers. Linguistic Geek 15:11, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Please provide some guidance. I believe I recognize File:Arecibo naic big.gif because of its similarity to a photo that has been hanging in my office (without a copyright notice). The photo was taken in order to document the 1974 upgrade of the telescope to an aluminum dish. I can tell by the antenna that the photo certainly predates 1998 (the date claimed by the uploader). The person uploading the photo claimed it was the work of NASA because he found it on a NASA website. I then put a {{ puf}} tag on the photo page and on the Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2010 September 17 page. However, a robot correctly noted the image in on Commons and not on Wikipedia.
The uploader claims that this is a NASA image. However it comes from APOD which in turn states, "Specific rights apply." The subpage states, "All the images on the APOD page are credited to the owner or institution where they originated. Some of the images are copyrighted and to use these pictures publicly or commercially one must write to the owners for permission. For the copyrighted images, the copyright owner is identified in the APOD credit line (please see the caption under the image), along with a hyperlink to the owner's location." In this case, Cornell University. The NAIC website gallary says, "Note to the media.... You are welcome to download these images for non-profit / non-commercial use. For permissions and credit policies see our "media services and support" page. Please credit all photos with: "courtesy of the NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF"
I could not find a puf page on Commons, so I changed the attribution to {{ PD-US-no notice}} even though I cannot prove that this is the 1974 photo. Could you please resolve this or forward it to someone who can resolve it. The photo is currently available under a "no commercial use" license. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 19:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
At the AfD for the above page and on the articles talk page Unflavoured has raised concerns of CopyVio with http://www.answering-ansar.org. I am not so sure, however since a possiable outcome of the AfD is merge, would you mind having a look and see what you think.
Thanks
Codf1977 ( talk) 08:16, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Okay, this one is tricky. (I actually did glance at it first thing, but onnot seeing an obvious answer pushed it off for later...and forgetting. :) There is some cause for concern in the article. For instance, it says
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The source says, @ #60:
This has been present since the article was created. Also problematic, from the article's creation:
The source says, @ #52:
These both remain too closely paraphrased for us to use them as they are in the present version of the article. They need to be rewritten. The opening section uses a quote from [8], but it's not excessive by itself. I'm inclined to think that the article as it was founded was excessive in its use of quotations, unless the quotes were from non-free sources, and the section "Enmity towards Muhammad and his Family and support for their enemies" is still very heavy in quotations. These should be reduced, unless the sources from which they are quoting are public domain. Finally, the last paragraph under "Revere heretics" says: . This site says:
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Unless it can be shown that these sources are PD, I agree that there are copyright problems with this article in these closely paraphrased sections. Has anybody claimed that they are PD? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:01, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I have obtained the copyright from www.answering-ansar.org and have forwarded the permission copy via mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. - Humaliwalay ( talk) 05:26, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Codf1977 you are welcome to fix any mistakes done by me, past clashes should not be deterrent for this. Yeah, I unintentionally created 2 articles earlier which were copyright violations, hence this time I obtained permission in writing. But still I admit my mistakes and if there is any punishment I will take since the mistake was committed and I admit that. After having a brief discussion with TFOWR I realized that, however I still do not justify the Block by TFOWR to me - Humaliwalay ( talk) 05:26, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I forwarded the Copyright permission few days ago at the given Id, what is the next course of action, why are you not removing the Copyright tag now???- Humaliwalay ( talk) 07:12, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
If you like User:Moonriddengirl/CCI stalk report 1000, I can arrange to do the whole ten thousand. Uncle G ( talk) 12:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I recently uploaded. File:MANI RATNAM.jpg, File:Jayakandhan-padma bhushan.jpg, File:Ar-rahman-accepts-the-oscars.jpg, File:Ilaiyaraaja-PadmaBhushan.jpg, File:Illayaraaja-synthesizing-music model.jpg, File:Ilayaraja-in-early-days.jpg, File:MGR-at-Pulic-Meeting.jpg, File:Kamal-in-salangai oli.jpg, File:Sivaji-with-Marlon Brando.jpg, and File:Rajni-with-Kalignar.JPG -----these files..
As a true wiki user I am bold and confident that you will accept me here. You said me on my talk page. "I believe that they are unusable for other reasons". Look there is a bottle filled with half water. I am seeing the remaining to be filled on upper part. You are seeing that it already is half filled in the lower part. So the matter - one but views - two.
since you accepted saying "There is no doubt that these are fine images that would add substantially to the presentation of the articles in which they are included". You should be knowing in what regard it is added there. Merely to improve the article and illustrate it.
If keep on looking that everything is added based on decorativeness, sorry that we will not be making a good article. I am making my more hardest time in explaining to you now. Please dont mistake me. As we all here to improve the articles.
If I really made a mistake I am ready to accept it. But certainly on most cases I used all fair use images to support the articles with all possible proof I can provide and I did that. I respect all wiki rules.
Lastly please consider each image on its own terms and conditions and do not delete it all as a pack of cards. And give me appropriate images that has still copyrighted violations, so that In future I will be careful and be alert before adding it in wiki.
I beleive this is a very serious issue. Please consider every article and its image seperately and analyse whether it is really supporting the article or not and then delete it, if at all needed so.
Many thanks,
Ungal Vettu Pillai 15:57, 24 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keyan20 ( talk • contribs)
Here's another blatant copyright violation I've just found! This selection of copyrighted text was added by 122.172.226.73 . I removed the copyrighted text and gave the IP a warning. Please could you rev-delete it to my latest revision? Minima c ( talk) 17:31, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999
is the zoom tv a prestigious channel in india run by times news network not a relaible source? just confirm. iam tired as active banana is the only user to claim n call it as unrelaible!!! angelfire is also a famous website which is relaible but are these both unrelaible? Shrik88music ( talk) 20:04, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
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For your absolutely amazing job on two separate OTRS tickets, which was invaluable to me personally and to the Wikimedia Foundation. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 02:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC) |
dang.... I guess this means you're hot shit. Congrats! -- *Kat* ( talk) 03:13, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, when you have a minute, could you please give your opinion here on what constitutes a copyvio? Thanks :), Airplaneman ✈ 02:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
I got a question on my talk page about the permission used to create Ansley J. Coale. The source states: "Permission is given to adapt, reprint or excerpt material from the Bulletin for use in other media" which I thought may be broad enough to be usable, but I figured I'd run it by you since you've been doing this longer. VernoWhitney ( talk) 12:55, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl
How are you doing? Thanks for the advice concerning our article "Bujutsu Kodosokukai" [9]. We have worked with all your highly valuable inputs during the summer. So far our conclusion is to split up the article into three separate articles in order to maintain focus and then link to the other articles where appropriate. The three articles are ready as drafts but our approach would be to get them "approved" one by one at the COIN. We would appreciate your help once more and ask you for a review of the articles before they are send to COIN and also your thoughts about our new approach.
BR Shindenkan Wiki-team Freezydk ( talk) 19:37, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Freezydk ( talk) 21:49, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
The aforelinked requires review from the Close Paraphrasing Squad. If only that editor had spotted the pattern back then! Uncle G ( talk) 02:40, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that this editor was reviewing the CCI blanked articles at the rate of one article every 20 seconds or so. So I started going through xyr edit history. Unfortunately, xe has made at least two, possibly (see #Close paraphrase) three, errors that I've found so far, and I haven't even looked at all of xyr edits yet. Uncle G ( talk) 02:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, could I get you to review Leonard Case Jr.? It's the latest article by User:HenryXVII, who I've warned in the past about close paraphrasing and has had three prior articles tagged copyvios for close-paraphrasing. I suspect his latest effort is also copyvio but I really don't want to come across as biting or stalking (he's only just added the article link to his userpage, which I'm watching because of my previous warning to him). I think it's time an admin spoke to him. Thanks, Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 04:56, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi - could you take a look at this discussion and comment if you think it worthwhile? It's been pretty messy including an apparently unjustified block. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 05:22, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
An editor I blocked a few months ago, Sweetpoet ( talk · contribs) wrote me a thoughtful email stating that s/he feels she is being hounded by Novaseminary ( talk · contribs). It appears that Novaseminary has tagged a slew of images that the poet has uploaded as problematic fair use issues. If you have a few moments, could you take a look as to the validity of the tags. Fair use boundaries are well beyond my depth of knowledge. I think the poet's talk page has most if not all of them listed. Cheers. Toddst1 ( talk) 05:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
hey i finally fixed my internet problem.btwn i see the images by keyan are still in a limbo.nevertheless i had a query.i came across this rather excellent website called http://www.kamat.com/ and it has a collection of images which can used on wikipedia.the chap who holds the copyright is a rather nice fellow and permits it's usage on wikipedia see here .question is what licence applies while uploading them. Linguistic Geek 06:48, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
got it.thanks. Linguistic Geek 13:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Phantastic95 ( talk · contribs) is a persistent copyright violator who continues to upload obvious copyvios, even after a block back in September. Perhaps you could make the point to this user a little bit clearer?-- GrapedApe ( talk) 14:36, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering why the blanking had been undone. To be honest, I was a little concerned in the beginning about some kind of mass reversion happening; hopefully this will be the only time and articles like this can be checked properly. Oh, and thanks for your praise. :-) Giants2008 ( 27 and counting) 15:45, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
Thank you Hrcolyer ( talk) 11:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
PS: The page in question is Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Commonwealth Games, material seems to have been originally from the BBC
Hi Moonriddengirl, Nuclearwarfare had suggested to yeasimhuman (the author of the original article on Ken Zaretzky) that we contact you for advice. The original article was deleted in early august (notability was the issue) after discussing it with Nuclearwarfare it was suggested (on nuclearwarfares talk page) that it actually looked like Ken Zaretzky actually did meet the notability guidlines and suggested that yesimhiman appeal the decision. The administrators upheld the decision because the procedure had been followed correctly but suggested that another article on Ken Zaretzky showcasing the proof of his notability could (should?) be written. Yesimhuman asked me to write the article because he didn't feel confident with his ability as a writer. I have done so in my userspace (yesimhuman did help me with some facts and details). Could you please look the article over and give me your opinion and any suggestions you have on it before I try to post it as a regular article? I would appreceate the assistance very much. Oh, Please not that the catagories at the bottom are not formatted correctly. i did that on purpose so that it wouldn't show up in any catagories until it was ready for prime time :). Thank you for your help. Youngshakespeara ( talk) 00:34, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
citation? or should i just delete Wheeling? The speaking citations, most are links to websites of some organizations that announce that he is speaking there. Is there something else I could (or should use) use? I suppose I could change the words "couples guy" to "he is a pioneer in coaching couples with ADHD based on the magasine articles, his paper and that he has spoken on it a number of times. Would that work? His MCC credential? That is refered to everywhere. do I need to try to get a scan of his MCC certificate? Last, The public domain issue, the bottom of both of those programs say they can be used or copied freely as long as the notice remains on them and the name isn't changed. Is that not enough or is there another way to demonstrate that? You have been a lot of help. Sorry about all the Questions. Thanks again! Youngshakespeara ( talk) 13:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Okay, he has been referred to as a pioneer on some other people's and organizations websites. Can I site them? re: the public domain. Should I say he allows them to be used freely by the public with minimal restrictions"?
Once again, thank you for all your help. i just want to make this a great article! Youngshakespeara ( talk) 14:20, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Youngshakespeara ( talk) 14:29, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you! Youngshakespeara ( talk) 16:21, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Youngshakespeara ( talk) 18:25, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I can't guarantee that I can help you get it into a state that it won't be deleted. I can't guarantee that about my own articles. :) But I hope I can help. :)
(1) To get a reference to list twice, give it a name. For example, <ref name=NYT>. The first time you use it, fill it out completely, and close it when you're done with </ref>. The second time you use it, all you have to do is type <ref name=NYT/>. The software will do the rest. I usually try to come up with a refname that will make sense to me later, either referring to the place of publication or the last name of the author.
(2) You should source as much as you can. The first thing that jumps out to me: "He was also a guest on CoachTV (Manhattan) in 2007." The earlier speaking engagements--do you have references to verify the topic of those conversations on those dates? If not, you might want to change the sentence so that you can use some of the prior references, which did not mention the subject. (You want to be sure that your references support what you're actually saying.) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:11, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I know he's spoken a lot on how it's done 101 and I know a lot of the cities. But when I researched them on the web i found that those organizations didn't keep a record of old events in thier archives (Like San Francisco Coaches, East Bay Coaches, ICF Madison Area Chapter and Chicago coach federation. How can I use them if there is no record on thier websites?
Youngshakespeara ( talk) 21:25, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I'll try to find more on the web then (there must be more somewhere).
Oh, I understand the policy about articles on subjects they know. It makes total sense. I actually have never met him. I do know a couple of people who know him but I'm sure I can be objective. Thanks for the heads up though.
It's a shame there isn't a repository somewhere for deleted and expired web pages. Because it appears that there are a lot of speaking engagements that he has done in the past that have been deleted or removed or whatever because they are old.
If I can get the Ann Babiarz stuff (If she ever replies to my e-mail) and can find proof of a couple more older speaking engagements do you think this article might me ready?
Oh, also, do you think I should get a picture of him (maybe one from his website) to put in the info box? I feel like I may be starting to get the hang of doing this, :)! Thank you again! Youngshakespeara ( talk) 15:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I came upon this article after CSD-tagging a recently created article from the same user as a copyvio. However, this one dates back to 2006. Consequently, even though the exact content is on other websites, I am not sure which have copied from Wikipedia. For example, it is on servinghistory.com, but examination of that site shows that it copies from Wikipedia [10]. I'm not sure what to do in such cases, so I'm appreciate advice. (I'll check back here for replies). Best, Chzz ► 19:10, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Whilst probably not as bad as the one above I think that someone may need to have a word with User:Mohsen1248 regarding mass reverts of the DD CCI blankings. They have several periods of reverting the bot changes within the space of a few minutes. Unfortunately I cannot find any definite copyvios that they have restored though Kazakhstan women's national volleyball team is rather suspicious (that text is rather old so the number of mirrors is large). Boissière ( talk) 21:30, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
We've already clashed on this issue. I do not understand on what grounds you are deleting content like this edit. It is all sports statistics, in this case, released to the world in 1984 by the International Olympic Committee, through their local organizing body the LAOOC. This is now public record information that was spread throughout the world over 25 years ago. Wikipedia, one of the dominant websites for information in the world, has had this public information copied to it, probably from some other site that obtained the information from its original source. If the original source does not enforce protecting this information, how can a subsequent source claim copyright. Obviously they don't, nobody has brought suit. This is your own individual policy. I have no fanatical interest in this this particular article. My concern is for thousands of articles just like it that you and Uncle G's robot are blanking and re-enforcing with edits like this, that are now not visible to the world through your actions. Don't just send me away to generic policy statements as you have done in the past. Don't get sidetracked from two edits out of thousands I have made here. This is about YOUR actions. Trackinfo ( talk) 23:25, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
While I was writing Leonard Case, Jr., another user provided a new source about him, so I cited some information from it. Now.... May I revert it to a former version that contains less contents but may not be regarded as copyright infringement? Heinrich ⅩⅦ von Bayern ( talk) 05:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
What should I do about this article? I can't find where the source material might be, but I'm almost certain its a copyvio. It doesn't "sound" like anything that DD would have written on his own.-- *Kat* ( talk) 07:52, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
{{subst:copyvio|url=see talk}}
on the article's face and {{
subst:CCId|name=Darius Dhlomo}}
on the article's talk page. Then list the article as instructed at the copyright problems board (but don't bother notifying Darius; he knows what is going on, so the notice is both unnecessary and probably a bit unkind.) I'll save this and go look at the other one. :) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk)
11:26, 27 September 2010 (UTC)Hi, I've just seen that my article about Cameleon Software has been deleted. I think it is because of copyright issues, but as I've explained, I an currently working for the company Cameleon Software and I am in charge to create the article about them on Wikipedia. For this I used their official description they used in different website (Linkedin, Appexchange,...), so the company gave me the right to use this official text on the Wikipedia article I created for them. What can I do to have the article back? How can I proove that I have the right to write this article without copyright issues? Can you explain to me because I could not find what I had to do to prevent deletion. Thank you for your help Best regards, Mdainelli —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdainelli ( talk • contribs) 09:57, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, Thanks for clearing the copyright infringement tag. I assure to be more careful next before I initiate or edit an article. Jyrejoice ( talk) 15:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I found an image on Google and I was wondering, how do I find out if it's copyright free or okay to use it on wikipedia? This is it: [12]. I've seen it on holy cards, prayer cards, etc., but that's all I know about it. Malke 2010 ( talk) 15:11, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
1 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Do-you-want-a-partner-/2592 , 2 ^ http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999, 3 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/%E2%80%98I-had-an-affair-with-Gary-Sobers-on-rebound-/2905 7 http://www.zoomtv.in/stories/Era-of-superstars-is-over/5999, 8 http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/memories.html, 10 http://www.indian-times.com.au/entertainment_housewives.html 12 http://www.liveindia.com/sai/Rajesh_Khanna.html 13 http://www.leenacom.com/MOVIE.htm
please confirm .. zoom tv is a channel run by times of india group. angelfire is also a valid site where Cine Blitz magazines artciles are posted. just confirm so that the reference can be given of them Shrik88music ( talk) 20:07, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
you may give me a mentor. but my point is when zoom tv is a reputed bollywood channel run by times news network and cineblitz a popular magazine of films .---both are relaible then how come iam hearing that sources are unrelaible??? Shrik88music ( talk) 18:35, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rajesh_Khanna&oldid=387538673 I hope the above version is free of any of the violations of wikipedia!
Shrik88music (
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I have heavily edited the Saul Hertz entry and re-posted it with copyright permissions from the owner of the Saul Hertz archive collection and website. A note on the wiki page said that I should consult you since it was a previously deleted article. Can you please comment and help me improve the article and give it sticking power? Thanks. Jabrody24 ( talk) 18:26, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
There is a redirect for Padre Pio, but the redirect says "Padre pio." Pio is his name and therefore a proper noun and should be capitalized. How do I fix that? Malke 2010 ( talk) 00:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello. My name is Trevor Wayne. I am an actor/model/artist in LA. I had a page for a while, created for me. It has been deleted and I'm not sure why. I have read the above and I'm still unclear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.124.58.225 ( talk) 01:10, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I recently gave some informal advice via OTRS for a query with regard to re-use of a image tagged as PD as it was a photograph of a painting where the artist died in 1869. My advice was slightly cagey in that:
Consequently my advice was the the image would be considered PD in any country as de facto there is little chance of anyone having success coming forward to claim copyright more than 120 years after the death of the artist. I then advised them to consult their publisher to confirm the appropriateness of the use of such an image for their publications. I now feel my advice was a bit weak, is there a boiler-plate somewhere that unequivocally explains international re-use in these situations? Fæ ( talk) 07:06, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, My article about "Imran Channa Visual Artist " was deleted , Imran Channa is the well known contemporary Pakistani artist. i have given all the links and sources. I m also an artist and a new user of wikipedia , my task is to creates articles on art & artists of pakistan , because there is no material available on wikipedia on pakistani art & artist so that art historians and students from all over the world can get some sort of information, so plz could u help me out to add my 1st article of Imran Channa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Art wart1234 ( talk • contribs) 21:07, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear,
Thank u , for ur quick response, i m waiting for ur help to add my article. —Preceding
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Thank u so much for editing the article. I will be needing ur help in future . —Preceding
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Hello Dear, could u plz edit my article a bit more, i have also edit it. i think it is now fine ,plz check it. but i m afraid that how can i remove the above tag " article for delection " ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Art wart1234 ( talk • contribs) 21:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Looks like the VPP discussion to amend our policy to match practice got archived, and we got the typical low participants consensus that marks any copyright issue. I expect it's enough to put the language in, but you're the expert in doing these changes. How do we proceed from here? MLauba ( Talk) 15:25, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
here it is. Like it? MLauba ( Talk) 13:34, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
With the task here. Please note that the results might not have been moved from the project page to the COI pages (as I cannot do so). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, thank you for your message, and thanks for all the obvious hard work you do around here (going out of your way to hook up adopters and adoptees is beyond the call of duty IMO). I'd be happy to help Shrik88music, and backstop the other user who has agreed to give him a hand. I'm not familiar with Indian topics or Indian sources really, but I can certainly help guide Shrik88music in the right direction as far as it regards being a good Wikipedian who contributes good content. — e. ripley\ talk 17:34, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you so much! I understand now. Yes the person who wrote that release also copied it onto here. I can't believe he didn't respond to you guys. I will work on putting up a new page soon. Thanks!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.124.57.57 ( talk) 17:46, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Do you mind scanning over all the photographs in this article to make sure that they comply with image policy? I have a tip from a user that some of them might be questionable. If some do not comply, please remove them so we can replace them with better rated photos...-- Novus Orator 07:57, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Hiyas Moonriddengirl. Is there any way you could check out the OTRS ticket validity on Talk:Giorgos_Xylouris? It was added by the editor who created the article, which I've never seen before...and you're the only OTRS personage I know. If you're too busy to check, maybe you could point out another OTRS person I can bug. Thanks :) Syrthiss ( talk) 15:19, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I apologize for the misundrestanding. The OTRS permission is only for the greek text. Now I saved a new version of my article and I hope that there is no problem. If there is any problem please let me know. Thank you. Kriti28 ( talk) 14:21, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, After having reviewed all the sources, I've retagged Wealth Masters International for CSD A7 & G11. Feel free to rv if you feel strongly against my action.-- Kudpung ( talk) 18:19, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
I've been maintaining the Tanarus (Video Game) wiki for the past year now, mostly as an unregistered user. Lately I decided to register though, because I wanted to send/receive messages on a certain issue.
On the Tanarus (video game) wiki page, I noticed that my edits keep getting removed. They are all factual, and meant to do nothing but inform. Recently the game has gone under and alot of players have felt some animosity toward the owning company, SOE. This is a well known fact, and I stated this in the wiki as gently as possible. I even made a custom GIF just for this wiki page, yet both my edits and gif keep getting removed, so I have a few questions:
- Is this a moderator doing this?
- If so, am I doing something wrong? I haven't been notified of breaking any rules. Perhaps I've missed any kind of messages sent to me somehow? I still am not exactly sure how a moderator would notify me of any wrongdoing.
- If this isn't a moderator, is there any way to prevent the individual from removing my edits? After all, they are removing factually correct information...
- If there is a problem with my edits for some reason, please let me know what it is. It seems the other edits I have made stay on the page, but this one (particularly with the gif) keeps getting removed.
Up until now I've just been re-updating the page every now and then when I see my edit has been removed again. If I'm doing something wrong, let me know and I'll stop. The only reason I'm even messaging you is because I saw you on the page's history. I'm not sure why I'm not receiving any messages, so could you please send a reply to my email instead? Thanks. {redacted} —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobMonty1987 ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Have a look at User:Alexcooper1 and their talk page. Should these be deleted or just blanked? Or are there any sort of privacy/copyright issues to be worried about? Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I ran into this article a while back and noticed that a large chunk of it was taken from a copyrighted website. I removed the copyrighted material and left the article for a few months. When I came back, I found that a lot of the text on the article is identical to that of a well known fan site called dethklok.org. I'm not completely sure what to do at this point. Every few days, new material is added that matches that of dethklok.org and it's not completely clear which came first. In my opinion, I'd rather just wipe all the descriptions in question and have editors rewrite them but there's been some resistance to my removal of material that I feel is copyrighted. You're my copyvio guru so I thought you might have a good idea as to what to do. Any advice or help you can supply would be greatly appreciated. OlYeller Talktome 04:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl: I am writing about the editing to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recycling_and_Northern_Development_Canal 2 Problems: 1 The old bad links seem to be back in the article even though the history does not disclose any changes. How is that possible? 2. The new links http://web.archive.org/web/20091027035959/ca.geocities.com/grandcanal2005/index.htm no longer works. 88.101.247.62 ( talk) 08:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: I am writing to you about two problems with this article which you so kindly editted and linked to and achived web site. Firstly it appears that the old dead links are back. It appears that some robot reverted your changes. How can we make edits that won't be reverted?
Second the new links that you inserted [15] no longer work. This could be just a server problem. I am re-directed to a page that says that the server connection has failed.
Mkierans ( talk) 09:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Also, have a good break. Thank you for your patience. I'll respond on the appropriate pp. (if I can). -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 14:09, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thanks for your help and apologies for the hassle and feel free to edit if you wish, thanks again, regards Sean —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sean McPhillips ( talk • contribs) 15:10, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello again. I did all what you told me to do with my permission request on images, My source and owner of the images sent an e-mail to your mail address (permissions-en@wikimedia.org), and I also putt proper tag on all images included in that permission confirm mail, but however, nothing has been changed. I just want to ask you how much time it takes until this will be considered? Greetings. -- Zuull (talk) 15:39, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Why did you edit the 18:18, 15 September 2010 version which was already accepted by Moderator JayJasper? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.225.111.89 ( talk)
Dear Moonriddengirl, Why did u delete my contribution in the article of sindhis notable personalities, you argued that "no source" but most of the personalities which i listed are even in wikipedia, why you people delete the contribution without any research. is this the criteria if u a an admin or old user o wiki that u can delete any thing as u want... thanx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artmartxxx ( talk • contribs) 19:46, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey now, MLaura I appreciate the explanation here for the Tanarus (Video Game) wiki, but did you REALLY have to blank the entire thing? That is entirely unacceptable! Why would you remove all of that information? Granted that I did not realize that Wikipedia would go so out of its way to prevent even an inkling of expressed distaste (which would include my latest edit, I suppose) but the rest of what you deleted is practically 13 years of history for us gamers! That information was not just 'given'. It was found by playing over time. There is no place that information (stats/ranks/values) was written down ANYWHERE but here on Wikipedia. Deleting it is... well you made my jaw drop.
Now... Can you tell me if there is a way I can create my own Wikipage that will go unaffected and express its own views (without breaking rules)? Other than that, I'm not a moderator, but I am going to restore the page to its original state (without my edit). Could you PLEASE consider how important it is to us? I have a forum of over 200 people that play the game that refer to it at least a few times a month. I know this if this was a battle of wits, you would win hands down. I am just asking you to understand our point of view here.
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobMonty1987 ( talk • contribs) 13:54, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
"Meh"I'm sure you know what that means. I'm honestly surprised at how Wikipedia operates due to your last message. The thing is, we the players ARE the source providing the facts stated on the Tanarus Wiki page. We are the ones who uncovered, calculated, and posted the completely relevant and accurate information onto the wiki page over the years. Take a step back from your analytical methods just for the next few sentences. Use your common sense: Why would anyone in their right mind spend that much time and effort to document such specific data with any kind of goal in mind other than to accurately provide information? Really. What would someone have to gain by putting up the information that you/MLauba had deleted? No, seriously. Go look at the page that was removed, and tell me what their motive would be. That aside, the data was never disproven. As I said, we ARE the source. So if I made a Wikipedia page about myself, and told you that an orange is my favorite fruit, it would be removed and claimed to not have any proof to the statement? This is how I see the entire situation. Nobody is arguing our information, yet after a year of strong standing, the page was taken down, literally without a single good reason other than the weak claim of 'lack of proof'. You have utter tons of Wikipedia pages that describe places/people/things without factual proof. My point is, what was there was all true. All fact. No1 disagreed. The players who would know better than anyone else, the same people that selflessly maintained the game for 13 years, these are the people you are telling to provide sources. It's ridiculous. Your argument holds no ground, but because you have a little moderator power, you win. Pathetic. Oh, and as for MLauba threatening me with a lock, please tell him that I could easily have SMAC pro renewing my IP and MAC address every 10 minutes and a quick bot made to constantly keep editing the page back to how I think it should be. Your 'lock' or 'ban' would literally have 0 effect, and there would literally be no way to implement any form of punishment, legal or otherwise. That's what I could do, so please save the lock-talk for someone you could actually perform a lock on. Honestly though? No, I won't waste my time. Why? Because that would be helping WP, and I'm past that at this point. If WP wants to purposely lack information and settle for inferior, so be it. I figured the one supposedly unbiased dictionary on the internet would be troll-free, but I guess this isn't the case. If you ever feel like accurately providing information on the Tanarus (Video Game) Wikipedia page, feel free to check it out on Wikia, with all the correct data provided from the source. You can spare yourselves an apologetic and explanatory response, because I won't be reading it. I hold some negative thoughts about your opinions, but moreso on your narrow-mindedness. Other than that, thank you for at least referring me to another Wiki. That much was definitely the best advice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobMonty1987 ( talk • contribs) 16:29, 30 September 2010 (UTC) |
Hi Moonriddengirl,
I have made a proposal to merge Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic) with Mary (mother of Jesus). One of the editors has split the discussion over both talk pages. The noticed was posted on both articles and talk pages, but the discussion was primarily on this article talk page. [19] but was then changed to this page where 'voting' was begun. [20] Which talk page is most appropriate for the discussion? It seems that this could be confusing for other editors to have it split like this and it might be more convenient for other editors if the discussion remained on Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic) so the editors could easily access the page that is the primary focus. Is there a policy for this? Malke 2010 ( talk) 14:22, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Well said: [21] Malke 2010 ( talk) 18:37, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if you've seen this AN discussion yet, but if he is violating our copyright policy the way the discussion suggests, then something must be done, hopefully without a filibuster. On his talk page, he denies copyvio, referring in particular to a discussion at Talk:Enron scandal#Recent changes where he says " Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria states that "Articles and other Wikipedia pages may, in accordance with the guideline, use brief verbatim textual excerpts from copyrighted media, properly attributed or cited to its original source or author" and on the basis of that restores to the article the sentence "Enron’s use of distorted, "hyper-inflated" revenues was more important to it in creating the impression of innovation, high growth, and spectacular business performance than the masking of debt", which is verbatim from here. The sentence remains in Enron scandal - and is not attributed. Dougweller ( talk) 10:26, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey MRG, I know absolutely nothing about copyright law, so can you look at Carrigaline#History for me? It has been copied directly from a book written in the 1800's (see the bottom of the section), and I don't know if it's in the public domain or not. Thanks -- Nole lover 01:21, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Would you please comment on the discussion on Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic). I believe that using one of Richard's words the "combative" nature of Malke 2010 is turning the page into a battleground. Just a minor example is even mentioned on this page where she blaims me for an issue related to her merge request when the problem was actually related to how she set up the merge request in the first place. It has been requested several times that she state exactly what her cite and OR issues are. But I will let you read through the page to get your own opinion. I personally think she needs some more time off from the Marian articles. Marauder40 ( talk) 14:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Malke, please don't call people "tendentious". I'm afraid that kind of language only inflames situations, which is not what we should be doing. What is the basic dispute here, that this constitutes "original research" or that it is non-neutral? I'd be happy to request feedback myself from a relevant noticeboard, but I don't want to ask at multiple noticeboards. If I do ask, I will make sure to do so neutrally. The goal is to get enough uninvolved contributors to read consensus as to whether there is currently a problem with the article or not. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:51, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I can clear up for you what the problem is with the understanding of the Catholic tradition of veneration of Mary and the saints: Council of Trent:
It seems that Marauder came over here to get you to solve the dispute in his favor, or at the very least, to turn this into a discussion about me. That's obvious from the title he gave the thread. Richard S. has already responded here: [22]. I don't believe he is neutral since he clearly states he supports History2007 and Maraurder.
And as you've often told me, there's no rush here. There's no emergency to remove the tags. The tags will eventually attract others. The current talk page discussion might be keeping others from participating so for now, so I'd say, let things settle and see who shows up on their own.
I don't think it's fair that our mentorship is being dragged into what is only a content dispute, but I understand that when editors can't get their way they will fall back on that. That's why we now have the notice on the mentor page so they don't post there. Unfortunately, they'll be coming here. You can see that I've not turned anything into a battle, I've not been uncivil, etc.
The article needs to be opened up to a lot more editors to come along and edit. That's why I put the tags there in the first place. They don't want the tags there, that's why they fall back on the mentorship and making it about Malke.
It will take awhile, but for now, I don't think trying to get lots of people today is going to help. They'll just be there to make a quick judgment and leave. The article needs other editors to take an interest and stay and edit. Malke 2010 ( talk) 16:02, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
I hope it was a fun and interesting conference (or at least not agonizing and boring) and that you didn't have to take all of those notes by hand. ^_^
<sigh> And now that the niceties are out of the way, while there isn't a backlog waiting for you, another possible issue of widespread copyvio did show up at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Epson291 and I posted some more confirmed issues I found from a spot check (but haven't acted on yet) at User talk:Epson291#Plagiarism. I haven't gone through enough of their contribs to see if a CCI might be needed yet. VernoWhitney ( talk) 12:01, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
More notes for later: Wedding cake topper, from August 2009:
Otherwise, the rewriting there seems adequate. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Speaking of groaning, why is it that repeat copyright offenders tend to sockpuppet? Here I was hoping to close a CCI today and instead I need to run edits for three more accounts and tack them on... VernoWhitney ( talk) 19:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
I'd rather ask you, whether you're currently here or not as you're always helpful :). Can you move the entire TVD season 1 Incubator content to The Vampire Diaries (season 1) it will be a lot easier to work on it there, it was one user who moved it across, a user now permanently banned for sockpuppetry. The season 2 incubator just needs deletion. Can you do that too, please? With these articles, it's much easier to work on them from the mainspace as many editors won't know where the incubators are. There's more information on these pages than some other TV shows too. Reply/make the changes when you can. Thank you. Jayy008 ( talk) 01:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I think one possible solution with the question of the POV content forking in the Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic) article would be to restore this article Blessed Virgin Mary and merge BVM RC with it. In this way, all views that recognize this unique name for Mary could be presented the question of the POV content fork, which violates policy, could be eliminated. Is it possible to either pull back the original article from the merge with Mary (mother of Jesus), or to at least restore the use of the article name Blessed Virgin Mary? Thanks for your help. Malke 2010 ( talk) 16:59, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2010 October 4#File:SonsOfMIT.ogg and see what you think? -- GrapedApe ( talk) 19:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
I actually wrote the article and got it checked by the owner of the company. She will be contacting the email, since all written material on the listed websites that I "copied from" are owned by them and have the same materials that I used on the article.
Are there any other issues with the articles that you want me to address?
Debolina Sengupta 21:03, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Can you just check that you agree with the {{
copyvio}}
on
Stonehouse Brick and Tile Co Ltd for me.
Codf1977 (
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13:24, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi :) Just a reminder that it's that time again! I'm not sure if you had any further tweaks to make to the second part of your article, though it looks great to me. I've posted it up here - please feel free to make any amendments necessary. On past form it'll be a week or so before we get the newsletter out. Best, EyeSerene talk 10:53, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Off2riorob suggested i give the Wikipedia:WikiProject Copyright Cleanup a helping hand :) for some strange reason he thinks i may one day be a quality contributor :), were should one start on this and what is the recommended reading before starting? Thanks mark nutley ( talk) 09:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, another question. I just went to an article Ana M. Briongos which has Official biography from her website under creative commons license (by NC-ND) What does one do about this? The website has noting about the content being free [25] so i have subst:copyvio|url=source used this tag to blank the page. I asked on the article talk page as well about this. Thanks mark nutley ( talk) 15:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
On that respect, WP:CCPS can also be of use (we should update that one more regularly anyway) MLauba ( Talk) 16:08, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Here. Also, I guess you have an email backlog again? :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:22, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Asking here since the deleting admin is infrequently active. Assuming Image Institute of technology & management was copied from iitmctc.org could you undelete it? I got OTRS permission for it. VernoWhitney ( talk) 00:05, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Have you seen the discussion at ANI about copyvio? It's almost at the bottom of the page. Dougweller ( talk) 12:11, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the exceptionally quick turnaround time on that! Best, MarmadukePercy ( talk) 11:52, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Speaking of thanks, I note that
two other folks now want to be you. Hope that's more flattering than it is creepy. ;)
Cheers,
Amalthea
14:06, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've left a question for you on our page. Thanks. Malke 2010 ( talk) 18:07, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
The user Md iet ( talk · contribs)had copied text from other websites in articles which he states he has removed after being told by user VernoWhitney who had blanked some of the article can you please verify this.Further he has uploaded over around 50 images and all of them appear with a licence created this work entirely by myself. and this includes a picture taken with a Egyptian President while I Wp:AGF with the licence I would like you check the images. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 18:35, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you have time to please assist me in sorting out this redirect? I created a redirect page here, and for some strange reason the title of the page appeared with quotation marks. Then I moved that page to the same title name without the quotation marks. The redirect page with the quotation marks however is still around. Could you maybe delete these redirect so that I can recreate a fresh redirect page without the quotation marks? Thank you. Amsaim ( talk) 19:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
To look at the text copied from Burker's peerage to my talk page and to Talk:Anwyl of Tywyn Family in good faith by an editor (who thinks I'm victimising him - see my comments on the bottom of that page for background, thus the need for someone else to look at this and remove if necessary). I appreciate why he's done this, but is it copyvio? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 12:58, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, given that you are familiar with the situation, I think we need some "Admin attention" on Mary (mother of Jesus) and Catholic views on Mary in view of merge proposal that is generating secondary effects. I am not sure where the best place for posting is, but if you cannot handle it yourself, could you arrange for some attention to the issues, to avoid reverts, etc. Thank you. History2007 ( talk) 22:00, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you sandbox Doyle Grisham for me please? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 00:39, 9 October 2010 (UTC)