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Hi Moon, a couple of questions to help nudge me in the right direction. This issue here of a pic I nominated for discussion and it got a couple of supports Talk:Israel_Shamir#pic, and this discussion on a user talkpage User_talk:SitDownOnIt regarding their uploads. Off2riorob ( talk) 10:15, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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edit count)Hi MRG, VdT here. During the course of the rather acrimonious AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What Men Know that Women Don't (It's the title of a book), the self-identified author of said book, 72.234.207.192, posted large chunks of verbatim articles about himself, etc. to the discussion as evidence of his notability. I moved them to the talk page as they had taken up half the discussion page, but they probably ought to be deleted from the talk page. There's also a small chunk that he later posted to the actual discussion page. It's after the "arbitrary break" somewhere.
I would do it myself, but I'm leaving for the US tomorrow and more importantly, following these delightful messages from him on my talk page (and similar ones in the AfD), it's better if someone else deletes them. Also, the original article has now been deleted and userfied at User:Lew Loot/What Men Know that Women Don't. When it was first created, I had to remove a big chunk of copyvio from it [1]. I've explained several times to the article's creator about basic copyright issues at his talk page and at the AfD. But let's just say that there was a lot of "I didn't hear that" going on. So you (or one of your faithful minions) might want to keep that userfied page on watch. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 17:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Editors at Commons are denying me my moral rights over my images that I have uploaded at Commons. The CC license states that my moral rights are not affected by the license, and I have added a statement in the permission section of my images that makes it clear I am exerting my moral rights. I have seen my images used without any attribution to me, which the license requires, and I have decided that along with attribution it would be wise to assert my moral rights because the images are being spread around somewhat. I do not wish to loose any protections I have a right to because I have not asserted them.
The whole thing was brought to an ANI at commons, and nothing came of it. However, some editors continue to remove and deny my moral rights nonetheless, citing that the discussion had no decision so it was not decided they can't remove my moral rights. One admin that continues to remove my moral rights even blocked me on Commons because of the conflict.
Could you assist me with this matter at all? I was told by Xeno that you are more familiar with Commons and would be the admin to ask. [tk] XANDERLIPTAK 20:38, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
In each of these discussions, Xanderliptak displays excessive WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT behavior, with overtones of WP:COMPETENCE. He is told the same thing over and over my multiple editors, and refuses to accept what they say, then misrepresents their opinions and the consensus of the discussion in subsequent discussions. The "problem" here is not anything wrong with Commons, or Wikipedia, policies or normal procedures, the problem here is Xanderliptak, who seems to believe he can ignore consensus, Creative Commons licensing and everyone and everything who disagrees with his idees fixe. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 03:12, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
You have been wrong straight down the board about Wikipedia policies since the beginning of this issue, and you have behaved atrociously, resulted in a 24 hour block here, and a 2 hour attention-getting block on Commons. You need to learn to accept consensus when it is brought out, and not act as if anything you think of must be correct.
The main points you refuse to accept are (1) that any embellishments to a coat of arms which are not covered by the blazon or another reliable source showing that the subject accepted and used them, are, as far as Wikipedia is concerned original research, and cannot be used here, and (2) that once you have uploaded an image to the Commons, you cannot change the conditions under which you uploaded it.
Those are pretty simple and straght-forward concepts, which have been confirmed here and there by a clear consensus. That you disagree with them is your right, but you nevertheless must accept them, and act as if they were in force. Going to admin after admin looking for someone who will tell you otherwise is not acceptable behavior. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 05:58, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
in any event, it's irrelevant, because the consensus at Commons is you can't do it, and in any case the language you're trying to insert is not compatible with the license you already agreed to.
I would really, really love it if this is the last time we have to interact. I'd enjoy so much seeing you in my rear view mirror and not having to deal with you anymore, but for that to happen, you've gotta stop misbehaving! You've got to stop ignoring consensus and believing only what you want to believe, you've gotta stop edit warring, and you need to play nice with others. If you can do those things, you and I can be quits. I'm certain you'd like that, and I know I sure as hell would too. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 06:43, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Dude, really, what are you talking about me misbehaving? You're creepy and weird, are you trying to be my mother? Have the crap you are talking about isn't even happening, so I don't know what is wrong with you. Again, just stop it and let it go. It was just a simple discussion about heraldry, you said you don't even know anything about heraldry, so I do not know why you are making it a big deal. Stop already. [tk] XANDERLIPTAK 06:50, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry to correct you, but there is no issue whatsoever about failure to attribute properly. The image at the core of this issue is this one, in which Xanderliptak's name remains in the very name of the image, and in which I copied verbatim all the information from Xanderliptak's original image. In addition, my own information summary credited him, by name, as the author of the image, with my name appended as having altered it. All provisions of the Creative Commons license were adhered to, and then some. The problem is not with my attribution, the problem is that Xanderliptak didn't like the change I made – which I did as a result of a consensus finding that part of his original image was original research not supported by the reference he provided – and wants to control any future alterations, which is (as you say) beyond the scope of his rights under the license. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 09:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
If you are at all interested in self-knowledge, I suggest that your start with our article on Projection (psychology). It may give you some insight into yourself. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 00:23, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I've reproduced some source text at the BLPN noticeboard, here, to aid discussion of a BLP concern. I trust that's within the spirit of Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_States_law; but if it isn't, please let me know and I'll remove it. -- JN 466 14:50, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I created and helped to populate this page with accurate information, properly sourced from government webpages...
We are currently in the middle of an election in winnipeg, and while I understand that wikipedia is not a means of campaigning, the public should be able to read accurate biographical information about councillor nordman.
Why has this page been marked as a copyright violation?
Kyle —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.200.221.7 ( talk) 15:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Could you undelete this article or userfy it to the last creator's subpage or something for me? We've gotten OTRS permission (so that covers the most recent reason for deletion) but the most recent deleting admin won't restore it because it's in such rough shape, and I need to be able to tell the copyright holders something. VernoWhitney ( talk) 22:48, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, got an article here that needs some RevDel work. This is the article: Ramón Hoyos. I reverted it back to DD's first version which contained his standard boiler plate text. Everything from at least his fourth version (where it gains that second big paragraph) to the version where Uncle G's workbot comes in should probably be revdeled since its almost certainly copyvio. If there is another page where I should put this sort of request feel free to direct me to it. Thanks, -- *Kat* ( talk) 02:46, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, if you have a look at the history of 2010 Commonwealth Games medal table, you'll notice a section copyvio was introduced a few days ago and existed for about 15 edits before I caught it. I'm assuming these can't be RD1'd because of the additional positive changes in those edits? Can the four edits which introduced the copyvios (but before anyone else edited the page) be RD1'd? Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 02:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I had a question about WP:COPYVIOs of television episode summaries and decided I should check with you before I proceed. I recently removed summaries from Grey's Anatomy (season 7), Grey's Anatomy (season 6) and Grey's Anatomy (season 5), which were copied word-for-word from press releases. (I just happened to visit one of these pages which repairing disambig links.) I must admit I was surprised that a popular show like Grey's would have copyvios, (I figured someone would have caught it!) but I started deleting. Then I got to thinking... is there a point when (like after so many years) the press releases become like public domain? Was I wrong to remove these? Maybe this is actually allowed? I figured I'd ask before I do anymore deleting. Thanks. -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 15:11, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Of relevance to this issue, there's a request that {{ Plot2}} be moved/renamed to something more descriptive at Template talk:Plot2. Input from any interested owners/stalkers of this page would be appreciated. VernoWhitney ( talk) 03:36, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
A copyvio issue recently cropped up on World Vegetable Center, an article I am affiliated with through my rescuing of it at AfD. I attempted to fix said copyvio here (Ignore my rationale saying COI, it was late, I was tired, and I couldn't fix it afterwards), by making sure to get rid of the infringing info from the PDF and main website. However, the user who originally put up the copyvio template informed me here that i'm not allowed to remove a copyvio template myself, that an admin or OTRS agent must do so. Therefore, i've come to you, as a member of both, and being the super-awesome person at dealing with copyvios that you are. Can you just look over the changes I made, you really just need to compare it to the PDF to make sure there's no more copied info, and reinstate them if you think i've taken care of any copyvio issues? Silver seren C 16:39, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, apparently History2007 isn't content to let the AfD proceed and he's now initiating a merge proposal. His usual supporters are on the talk page of Catholic views on Mary along with the editor who nominated this article for AfD. This seems disruptive to me as it is confusing the process. Can it be simultaneously merged and deleted? Shouldn't the process of the AfD be allowed to continue first, and also, there's been no time to even work on the article since it's just new. Any suggestions that will bring quiet over there? Malke 2010 ( talk) 19:20, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I stripped all potential copyvio out of the article on Kayla Sharland. I'm honestly unsure if this was the right thing to do because what is left is present in DD's first version...along with some of the potential copyvio (which was probably pulled from a media guide).-- *Kat* ( talk) 06:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I just did the same thing with Phillip Tahmindjis. This time I was able to find where DD pulled his prose from. The URL is in my edit summary. If I am doing the right thing then RevDel will be needed for the preceding edits. And if I'm not then RevDel will be needed for ALL the edits. lol -- *Kat* ( talk) 06:26, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
There's a new user over at the user's talkpage who is developing a military history article on a South African parachute brigade. He's uploaded a few images but, as a new user, is unsure which copyright tags to use. Could you pop over and give it a look over? I think he has permission to use most of the images, so it might just be a case of getting OTRS permission. But I can't explain it very well as I'm not au fait with all of the intricacies of images. Thanks for any help you could give. Skinny87 ( talk) 20:29, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
I've started going through the Richard Norton CCI, and I had a question regarding FUR's. Allot of the uploaded images have FUR's that are four, five or six words long. I don't think they count as 'detailed fair use rationales' and don't really know what action to take. I don't really think that {{ Short-Rationale}} is appt. because there is virtually no rationale at all, but maybe I'm wrong. Thanks in advance for your help :) Acather96 ( talk) 07:22, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you have time to please check why CorenSearchBot sparked this error here? The Bot compared the title of an article I had just created and apparently found a copyright violation here. When you click on that link, you'll see that the site has the same title as the title of the Wikipedia article. Any ideas what's to be done here? Lastly, when I use short quotations from newspaper articles in wikipedia articles (e.g. here, the quote is in italics & quoation marks), is that acceptable or is this already considered copyright violation? Regards Amsaim ( talk) 16:19, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I don't know how to do the fancy star thing yet, but if I could, I would give you a star for both keeping a look out for me and helping me with an edit. Thanks! - Ludasaphire ( talk) 21:52, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that quite a lot of speedskating articles have been originated by Darius Dhlomo where he used a template that basically consists of
X (born date, year) is a former speed skating|ice speed skater from Y, who represented his/her native country Y in Z consecutive
Winter Olympics, starting in 19xx Winter Olympics|19xx] in somewhere, somplace|common name, country.
===Reference=== (with 3 ==='s)
http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/xxx SkateResults
category:19xx births|X
category:Y speed skaters|X
category:Place of birth missing|X (he seems to lack this information)
category:Olympic competitors for Y|X
skatingbio-stub
Y-bio-stub
As I have contributed to quite a number of those pages myself I'd like to know what I can do. And no, it is not clear from all the pages I've been directed to. Where is case of e.g. Silvia Brunner do I have to make changes? I am quite willing to re-wite all speedskating articles by Darius, where can I find such a list?
kind regards,
Dirk P Broer (
talk) 10:50, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi
Quick question - about the picture File:PwCLondon.jpg on the PwC page, I think that it is probably a copyright picture, and I think it is stretching WP:FUP to say that it can be used on this page, I have tagged the picture on commons but it is still there 10 days later - is there anything else I should be doing ?
Thanks
Codf1977 ( talk) 21:07, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
List of airports in Pakistan.
I'm not sure of the process required for the CCI? I'm interested and think I could be of help. :) Talktome( Intelati) 05:23, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello... Thank you for watching over this matter. It seems that the other photo here was actually of something else, and that there was confusion. Upon further and more careful research and analysis......as you and others have done. But it seems that this here, as you pointed out, is the correct image of said "Arius." I was hoping though that maybe you can somehow (with your expertise) bring about that image onto Wikipedia, and onto the Arius article. Since it is the more accurate image. The Arius article is a good one, and it is a shame in a way that there's no intro image of the subject in question. At present, the beginning of the article looks a little too plain. With no image on the top area. I was wondering if maybe you could do something... Much appreciated. And thank you for your attention to this. 68.237.240.68 ( talk) 06:31, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl
We have made the first upload of the new series of articles (previously known as Bujutsu Kodosokukai) to the sandbox of user:Freezydk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Freezydk/Yakami-ryu We know we are a bit late with this upload, but if you will be kind to take a look at this first draft and make your comments regarding objectivity and what else to take into consideration before presenting it to COIN. There is no linking yet to other sources, but that we will work on pretty soon. We have an issue regarding finding reliable sources and what is reliable sources, maybe you can help defining this a bit as well. Thanks in advance Freezydk ( talk) 12:52, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi
More copyright questions :
Codf1977 ( talk) 16:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, just bumped into a situation, I've tried to direct the person to the right info, but I'm out of my comfort zone. Saw your posts on WP:CP and thought if you couldn't help you might know someone who could. Earlier today I happened on the Freedom Now page, and realized a new user had coppied the info from the organization's website. I left the user a talk page note, and reverted the problem area. You can see the conversation on User talk:Pgriffith06 where the editor is apparently a staff atorney for the organization and wants to give permission to use text/logo. I directed him to the WP:Donating copyrighted materials page, but as I said I'm about as far as my comfort zone in giving advice in this area. Not sure if you're interested in taking a look here, but figured I'd take a stab at finding some additional help here. Thanks for your time.-- Cube lurker ( talk) 19:41, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
The attention of the Copyright Squad is needed, here. Uncle G ( talk) 15:21, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Moonridden. I will contact a couple of the Professors at Ilmenau - and follow your instructions. Finally some constructive feedback. Thanks again. This whole process has been frustrating - I guess partly due to my ignorance. Vinayaka94 ( talk) 22:36, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind giving me a bit of micro-feedback on my civility/style on Talk:Death of Linda Norgrove? There are two overly long debates there where I might appear to be holding on to the stick for rather too long. I'm a bit stuck as in both instances they appear to me to be types of failure to meet WP:5P#2. In some ways I'm enjoying the test of policy but I think I am in danger of appearing like an overly argumentative wikilawyer; particular as one user seems to be in violation of 3RR (and I would not like to be seen as the sort of contributor that sets others up for a fall). I would appreciate your experience and if you suggest I drop it, I'm prepared to take the page off my watch-list and leave them to sort it out without my help. Thanks, Fæ ( talk) 11:58, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MoonRiddenGirl! Can I upload a copy of the book cover image for In Defense of Reason that is found here? If I did, would I be violating copyright any more than Google Books is? Also, is there some special dispensation for book covers? I notice that, for instance, virtually all of the Agatha Christie books have book cover images (e.g., The Murder of Roger Ackroyd). Thanks! — Spike Toronto 20:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Done — Spike Toronto 04:27, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, Hope you are doing well. Just wanted to let you know that a large chunk of the Arts and Culture section of the article Saint Kitts is copied verbatim from: http://www.stkittsheritage.com/cultural_heritage.asp
I did not check the rest of the article. Best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 01:34, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
If I recall correctly, you've been involved in some of the discussions regarding the works of Florida government agencies being public domain, so I was thinking you may be able to shed some light on the situation for a different state. The issue is with Utah State Parks and Recreation website and is thankfully recent, so most of the conversation appears to be at User talk:Moabdave, some notes I left at User talk:Bradadkins274 and a new comment on my talk. VernoWhitney ( talk) 17:31, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
The State has made the content of certain pages of its Web sites available to the public. Anyone may view, copy, or distribute information found within these web pages (not including the design or layout of the pages) for personal or informational use without owing an obligation to the State if the documents are not modified in any respect, and unless otherwise stated on the particular materials or information to which a restriction on free use applies.
Hi! Sorry to bother you with this, but I figured you would be well worth asking. :) I noticed today that we have a lot of references which link to rickross.com, which seems to be collecting media articles and providing them online. For example, http://www.rickross.com/reference/maranatha/maranatha4.html from the Wall Street Journal is included there, and is linked to in one of our articles. However, my impression from the disclaimer on rickross.com is that the site is collating these articles but not seeking permission up front - instead they allow people to request that the articles be removed should they object. I'm inclined to assume that they don't have permission, which suggests that it is a WP:LINKVIO issue, but that may entail removing the links and this site (along with some similar sites doing the same thing) is extensively used in articles. Thus I'm wondering where I should sit on this, as I suspect there will be opposition to removing the links, should that be the situation. - Bilby ( talk) 16:39, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, can you please look at; Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/2010 October 13#Lionel Wendt,Dayananda Gunawardena.
I noticed you deleted one of the pages they asked about...so you may have dealt with this elsewhere - in which case, could you please just leave a note on the feedback page, so that we know it has been dealt with. Thanks, Chzz ► 04:17, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind full information and observations. i did one edit according to your suggestions article of Lionel Wendt. Could you please see for while. if you can see same problem further is'nt it possible to forward this article to correct to other writer ? Thanks.-- Wipeouting ( talk) 05:35, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear Friend Thanks for your reply. I got the point . Thanks-- Wipeouting ( talk) 04:05, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Is this closer to hitting both nails on the head? [5] Best, Roger Davies talk 18:24, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
You may recall helping me with adding photos by Tom Frost to Commons. Thanks again for that. I've just finished an article on Joseph Asher, who was for many years senior rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, California). Much to my surprise, I noticed just now that the article about the synagogue has been wiped nearly clean due to copyvio. This is a sad situation, as this is perhaps the most historic Jewish congregation west of the Mississippi. Any light you can shed would be appreciated, as I feel obligated to begin work on a reconstruction devoid of copyright problems. Thank you so much. Cullen328 ( talk) 02:06, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, this edit introduced close paraphrasing of this and this. I've re-written the section, but that edit (and the next two) still has the CP. RD1? Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 04:27, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you have a look at User:JJJ999's userpage, I think there are a number of issues with it as it might volatile WP:UP#NOT or WP:UP#COPIES. Is is a copy of Principality of Estland deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Principality of Estland as it lacks attribution should it be CSD'ed as a copyvio ? Codf1977 ( talk) 10:50, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh dear me. I just now discovered that the entire section about Brimstone Hill is copied verbatim from [16]. I suppose I'd better check all the rest of the prose too. Maybe almost all of it is copied from one place or another? Invertzoo ( talk) 18:13, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
If you wouldn't mind taking a look at this I would appriciate it. The article was created by the artist as a copy paste from her website and she and her manager are now interested in releasing it to us through OTRS. I am not familiar with this process or the relevant policies and am not able to advise adequately or respond to queries. Also, a coi cautionary warning may be relevant. Cheers. 4meter4 ( talk) 20:45, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
I know you are the copyright patrol for this one so I though you should have a look see. User:AJona1992 - using lyrics from a Selina song, properly cited yes, but normally only accepted via "fair use." Wikipedia doesn't allow fair use images on a user page, so I don't believe quotes/lyrics are allowed either. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:43, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, have uncovered a massive WP:COI and copyvio issue at World Masters Games — user in question is Masters Games ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Not sure how to proceed from here, any advice or help would be great. Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 03:30, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
As I know you just love to read over website copyright/use pages so this is a good one for you. I am not sure about File:AFLA Officers.jpg which I am guessing was taken from AFLA History 1969 to 1979, but not sure. (Check out the section at the start of the article that reads "As stated in the March issue of Automotive Fleet[1]..." and click on the link - it goes to the users Wikipedia page) Also there is File:EdBobit.JPG. My main issue is twofold - they were uploaded by someone who clearly works for the company however all the images are uploaded under a "free" license, and that included File:AFLA logo.jpg, and the website make no mention of any of their images being "free". At least I can't find it anywhere if it does say that. The most obvious place is their Terms of Use but that mostly talks about "your" terms of use when you create an account there. The parts that I think do relate are comments such as "You agree to not use automotive-fleet.com to" [SNIP] "reproduce, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of automotive-fleet.com." and "automotive-fleet.com, the Automotive Fleet logo, trademarks and service marks are property of automotive-fleet.com and Automotive Fleet Magazine. Without Automotive Fleet Magazine/automotive-fleet.com's prior permission, you agree not to display or use these logos/marks." It would seem slightly odd that nobody can use information or material on the website for "for any commercial purposes" yet allow it to be used as such via the CCL used here. Or does the (presumed) fact User:AFLA Wiki was acting as a representative of the company fulfill the "Without Automotive Fleet Magazine/automotive-fleet.com's prior permission" section and allow everyone to "reproduce, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes" these images? (And you might want to look over the Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association (AFLA) article as it was created by the same user and mostly uses information taken from the website.) Soundvisions1 ( talk) 04:39, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
File:Lufthansa A380-841 D-AIMB.JPEG.jpg, uploaded by a problematic user I've watchlisted. Thoughts? -- Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 12:36, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! I'm sure you won't remember but you were involved with blocking a disruptive editor that I had complained about some months back, and I thought that you came across as a fair and level-headed administrator. I just wanted to ask your advice on something. Over the last year or so I've done a lot of work getting The Byrds-related articles up to scratch. It's come to my attention that over the last 3 days Frokor, an editor on the Norwegian version of Wikipedia, has been copying and pasting from The Byrds' articles on the English Wikipedia and creating almost identical versions of the articles—except obviously they're translated into Norweign. I know that they are close to identical because all of the inline citations that I've sourced and used on the English Wiki are duplicated as well. Check out the article for Eight Miles High and its Norweign counterpart here, or It Won't Be Wrong and its counterpart, or Set You Free This Time and the same Norweign article.
I must confess, that this is bugging me a little, although I realise that it's not really any different to when articles that I've worked on are reproduced on Wiki mirror sites. But at least there's attribution given on those mirror sites. If you look at this user's contributions ( see here), you'll notice that he's systematically going through every single Byrds-related article on the English Wiki and translating it, but without providing any attribution for the page contents. Looking at WP:COPYWITHIN (specifically the section on "Translating from other language Wikimedia Projects") it seems as though what this editor is doing is frowned upon, at least by the English Wikipedia. I just wondered what you thought I should do? Or am I just being silly about this? -- Kohoutek1138 ( talk) 20:03, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello MRG, how are you? I'm just wandering if there's a way to block edits on TV show pages that change the ratings. For example 90210 (season 1) is a completed season with source ratings. Users keep inflating to overnight figures. Jayy008 ( talk) 20:34, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
You could try emailing history@merck.de The german website has a huge flash presentation [18] that includes this picture. My guess is that it was painted pre 1827, as the business moved premises in that year. Elen of the Roads ( talk) 00:38, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
I used THIS. But I too may have heard it both ways. It doesn't matter, whatever... Mercy11 ( talk) 00:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Are you still around? Malke 2010 ( talk) 02:25, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Quick question before I load an image that may get deleted: are images, documents, letters, and whatnot kept by the National Archives in the U.S. in the public domain? Specifically, anything from this site? Thanks. -- Moni3 ( talk) 17:17, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Ping. -- Moni3 ( talk) 18:40, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Bad news at User talk:John Vandenberg#C'est moi, with a PD question. Sorry for the delay. -- John Vandenberg ( chat) 22:44, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there,
I am Darlene Hunt's publicist and created her Wikipedia page which was simply her approved bio. Within the bio, there are quotes that she has given and have been previously published in a local newspaper in Kentucky. These quotes were the reason for the article's deletion; however, these are direct quotes from Darlene and they are in her official bio that is used for all official business.
I would very much appreciate the page being reinstated as it isn't plagiarism of the article when the quotes were actually said by her. If I asked her to give me rewordings of the exact quotes, according to your policies it wouldn't do any good because basically the same quotes exist in this newspaper article.
Best, Jordan Van Brink Publicist —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvanbrink ( talk • contribs) 15:25, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
That other website has an old version of her own bio - the updated one was seen here written by my team and approved by her. It is a general use bio that she herself approved and would be used anywhere appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvanbrink ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
So this article has been blanked for copyvio and there's a clean rewrite in place at Talk:Sergio Rendine/Temp, but we also got permission for the original text. I added the OTRS tag to the talk page, but should I just merge them together using edit summaries for attribution and then G6 the temp page or is there a better way to clean it all up? VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
For the last week or so, the Wikipedia page for the writer Franz Lidz has been under attack by Robert Garside (using two different Wikipedia accounts), the subject of a lengthy 2002 profile in Sports Illustrated by Mr. Lidz. Lidz's Wiki page mentions the story and provides a link the the actual piece. Mr. Garside, whose curious and questionable past was chronicled in the 2002 piece, has repeatedly tried to delete the description and the citation, calling it "libellous" and a "personal attack." This speaks more of Mr. Garside's paranoid -- richly detialed in Lidz's article -- and not at all of the story, which has gone unchallenged -- and remains posted prominently at SI's website -- since 2002. Mr. Garside is attempting to alter, if not entirely erase history, and won't take NO for an answer. Is it possible to bar him from further edits on Mr. Lidz's page? He seems to spend an inordinate amount of time preventing others from citing published sources on his OWN page (see the history of Garside's page). This is more than a case of a contributor being a mere nuisance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TrentonBot ( talk • contribs) 19:14, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! Just a quick question: in general, should the snippets taken from out-of-copyright sources marked somehow specially, or is just the normal citation/attribution enough? I think Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 has it's own template, but what about the others? I could probably use Boulenger (1882) to flesh out other articles, too—see Nannophrys guentheri for example. 78.27.71.157 ( talk) 19:52, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Understand my frustration...
Over the passed five years the name "Robert Garside" has been abused on the following pages:
Robert Garside Guinness World Records Royal Holloway university of London
and now
Franz Lidz
What does it take? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.110.186.3 ( talk) 19:59, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MoonRiddenGirl! Is there any copyright “rule” that would let me upload this photo to the wikiarticle on Eric Birley? I would like to use it in the article’s infobox. Thanks! — Spike Toronto 05:55, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Verno for your quick answer! I took a look at the {{ Non-free use rationale}} at File:JD Salinger.jpg. It is a great exemplar. Unfortunately, I do not have that level of detail for this image. I do not know who created it, when it was created, etc. I understand it to be hanging at Hatfield College along with portraits of each of the masters of the college. I assume the copyright would be held by the college. I cannot find this image anywhere else but on the college’s website, and there is no information given about the image. It is also the only image I have been able to find of him. Any suggestions? Thanks! — Spike Toronto 19:08, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
P.S. Thanks Moonriddengirl for letting this discussion take place on your talk page! — Spike Toronto 19:09, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Done The image has been uploaded as File:Eric Birley (resize) 002.jpg and had been inserted into the infobox at Eric Birley. For licencing, I used the pulldown list and selected the only one that applied for deceased persons, etc. This generated the {{ Non-free historic image}} template. Thanks again to both of you for all your help! — Spike Toronto 04:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
What do you think? File:AIM Song repeated motif.png - copyright or not? The music itself might be PD but this is not a sample of the actual music. And the uploader did not upload any other music notations or transcriptions so it is hard to tell if this is really their own work or not. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 02:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. You rock. As you have for quite some time on wikipedia. When I have more time I'll figure out how to do the requests properly, but that was such a monster! vio! and I'm desperately categorizing algae the few minutes I have. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 05:45, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I believe that according to copyright law, editors need to attribute material copied from one Wikipedia article to another in the edit summary and/or talk page. Are you aware of any policies and/or guidelines that are telling our editors to do so, and how to do it? I can't find a reference to that scenario in WP:Copyrights; if it is a legal requirement, I think it should have a prominent section somewhere.
If I'm just daft and have failed to spot it, please let me know where it is, for future reference. If it isn't me, and we don't address it specifically, I propose we add a corresponding section to WP:Copyrights. Thanks! -- JN 466 18:58, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Hope you're having a good day! Wilhelmina Will ( talk) 02:05, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi and thanks for your message. Have looked at the site where I obtained the image and it has been removed. It is therefore perfectly possible that the image is not Ivan Moffat so I would support its being removed. Thanks Jack1956 ( talk) 15:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Could you look at Mayra Conde for me, please? On the face of it, it looks as though the article has been lifted from this article from Female Muscle dated 25 November 2009. But then when I look more closely and compare dates, it seems to me that it may be the other way round.-- Plad2 ( talk) 18:16, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
I've just realised that this page has been deleted, despite - as I recall from my last edit to it - it containing much more material than could have been copied from [21]. This is an exceptionally notable DJ duo, and I find it rather incredible that the page was deleted in its entirety. I would note that in crecent weeks there seemed to be a concerned effort by IP editors to pare the page down, as well as others related to it. Was the page history checked to see when the copyvio text was added? Nick Cooper ( talk) 20:35, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Their production and remix work has spanned the last 10 years under various guises, such as Hyperlogic, Untidy Dubs, Tidy Boys and many more. The weekend sees the boys hitting clubs both in the U.K and oversees as they join their a-list friends behind the decks.
Hi, I responded to the OTRS request at Ticket:2010102010000718 before I noticed your note there. Sorry. On balance I believe it's better not to take the risk, but feel free to undo my deletion if you do think this is likely a reverse copyvio. Sandstein 21:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Vadjihoudine has been warned several times by me and by a bot that his non-free uploads, without any info, are inappropriate. I gave him a final warning and reported him to AIV but was not sure that is the best place. Can you look? TIA ww2censor ( talk) 16:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
User:Scania N113 has left an "odd" message (basically a threat and personal attack) on User:Dave1185's talk page, per this diff. I can't find any actvity by Dave on Scania or any of the users he mentioned in the last few days, , and Scania has made only one edit since Aug 31 before posting this message, so this appears to be some sort of trolling. I've removed the comments from Dave's talk page, and warned the user, but since you've been active on Scania's talk page in the past, I wanted to inform you of the activity. Thanks. (PS, a check-user on all the listed accounts might be informative, just in case.) - BilCat ( talk) 17:24, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, there is a RFC going on at the talk page of the article Paul Bern. The discussion isn't the problem though the article is. The article was written for the most part I believe in 2005, at least that's when the article was started. The article needs references so I was doing a search and came to this. As I was reading this source to see if it would be useful I felt like I was reading our article so I compared. The article looks close to a copy/paste of this source minus a few changes here and there. I brought up my concerns at the talk page but there are only two active editors there which was the cause of the RFC. I got there due to seeing it at WT:Actor and the other two who commented after me got there by a comment I made at my talk page asking my lurkers to please check out the RFC and give an opinion on it. Now, I think I've gotten better at seeing plagerism and copyright problems but this time it jumped out at me. I still feel I need your opinion on what I am seeing and if I am seeing it correctly. Then, if I am, I don't know what to do with what I found if I am correct. I sure would appreciate it again if you would take your precious time to check this out for me. This shouldn't take long at all to check out since the article is real small and you can decide in the beginning of the article, not the lead part so much as the first paragraph or two Thank you in advance, -- CrohnieGal Talk 17:56, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
I have reason to believe that this user is a sock of this user which is a sock of someone who has been socking and bypassing indef blocks since early this year ( sock archive). They're editing the same articles (Kate Plus 8, 19 Kids and Counting, Law and Order: SVU, and Smallville; all focuses of the previous socks (if they add Murder She Wrote and 7th Heaven, they'll have covered all their bases)) and have already made the exact edit the most recent sock made as their very last edit before being indef blocked ( here and here). It looks like a pretty clear cut duck to me, but I'm always very hesitant to go forward in case I'm wrong. Could you please give me some advice on what to do? -- 13 2 20:45, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Just in case me passing on one messy issue isn't enough, now you can get two for the price of one!! Directive 2002/24/EC is listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 October 14. VernoWhitney ( talk) 21:04, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl,
congratulations on the new editorial in the Signpost. As with your previous editorial, I have learnt new things. While it now stints my writing style till these new skills become second nature, I am grateful to have learnt it albeit at a late stage. This of course forces me to raise my English skills to a higher level. I consider this learning, painful though it is, as a reward for my contributions to Wikipedia and I thank you as the agency through which I recieve this gratification.
AshLin ( talk) 03:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks~! Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 05:34, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
MRG, I could use some advice on handling a BLP issue regarding an author, Elizabeth Moon. Hopefully you don't have a COI issue here! :) See the main discussion at Talk:Elizabeth Moon#"Controversy" about 9/11 remarks. Thanks. - BilCat ( talk) 05:56, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I'm back again looking for your advice! Do you remember an issue from last March with the DSM? I presume the procedure for blatant copy-pastes is still just to remove them, as usual, but I wanted to check whether any further developments had come out of that case. Thanks, -- Beloved Freak 07:57, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
stripping to what does not seem to be copied. The parent organization is notable; is the Junior?
I doubt it.
I think it is adequately covered on
IOOF, or if it's not, it could/should be.
Ditto, the girl's org. (Theta rho??) [I now can't look it up because you've deleted everything! BTW: I'm not complaining, just making an observation.]
Does that agree with your assessment of the situation? Cheers,
Pdfpdf (
talk) 12:35, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Amantha ( talk) 13:07, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
Appreciate your revising and condensing the article.But, you have removed lot of information which were available in the previous artcle like the names of music composers and the female playback singers with whom he worked with.These are probably not even complete, but leads you to find out information on the other artistes as well..These are historical facts which also connects to lot of other artistes involved.It was interesting and does not seem like a fan's jabbering.The introduction at the top referring to his old songs was meaningful.The blog is in Telugu, but main thing is that it guides you through to his first songs in Telugu for HMV, his first Tamil song, his first Hindi song, etc.We all do not read all the references at the bottom, but drawing attention to this was a good and it was a treat.I note that the nunmber of visits are steadily increasing going beyond 100 visits during the last few days. I think you have been too severe in editing by chopping off lot of information, some of which reveals his character, the good points and the bad points about him.
Kind regards
Amantha
Amantha ( talk) 13:07, 22 October 2010 (UTC) Amantha
Raycrosthwaite has redirected his user page and talk page to John Crosthwaite. I don't know how to revert that other than a cut and paste which is wrong. Can you fix it and explain it to the user? ww2censor ( talk) 16:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I was just going through the talk stalk report. Below is a partial list of articles that have had copyvio removed but have not had any revisions deleted.
AGradman said that he "remedied copyvio" in the Canada Cup (soccer) article. But what he really did was reword it. I don't know if he really found copyvio or if he was just playing it safe. Currently he's on an extended Wikibreak so, short of emailing him, there's no way to find out. I'm dedicated but not interested in emailing him.
I hope you are doing well. -- *Kat* ( meow?) 06:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Amantha ( talk) 06:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC) Amanthas
Dear Moonriddengirl, I appreciate your comments.But, wikipaedia is an encyclopaedia and should be more informative.It is good to know the famous films he sang for, the music directors he worked with and the famous female playback singers he sang with.I for one, far removed from the fifties and sixties , did not so far have much knowlede. May be this information must be formated in a differnt way.
Best regards
Amantha
Amantha ( talk) 06:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC) Amantha
Hi MG, I decided to start checking this article also. I found that in the section "History", the first rather long sentence and paragraphs 4 and 5 (all but the last half a sentence) are copied verbatim from [23]. I also think that some of the rest of it is copied from [24]. Invertzoo ( talk) 14:42, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I thought I'd bring this to you, as you're always very impartial and helpful. The usual places don't work, so I'm asking for a personal review. I'm having a problem with a user. Everything ends up looking like content issues, but it's not. First off, can you look on my talk page and tell me if that's a personal attack. I have tried to reason with the user in the past, but the user only replies when it's something positive and nothing contesting an edit. I'm trying really hard to keep pages notable. I added a ratings section recently to the 90210 (season 3) page, with information on repeats too, if you tell his edit summary saying "nobody cares," I find that rude. I don't care much for repeats, but any extra information, reliably sourced, is allowed? The user in the past has been a constant ratings inflater, but gets away with it. Removes information from pages based on personal opinion. All I need to know is if I have a case here. Here is the user's talk page, Here's the most recent edit summary made by the user on 90210 (season 3), My talk page. I don't know what else I can dig out, but I don't think the user knows how to be friendly when his "opinion" is challenged. All my warnings go deleted, nice comments unanswered. I don't know what to do. Jayy008 ( talk) 22:46, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Too similar for Wikipedia or no? -- *Kat* ( meow?) 02:25, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Darius's original version of this article is a word for word copy of the first paragraph of his source. None his original text was removed, per say, but it was expanded, referenced, revised and reworded until it looked nothing like the original.
Is this still considered a derivative work? Thanks, -- *Kat* ( meow?) 02:46, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
If you think that knowing copyrights is actually essential, then there needs to be a serious talk where every admin who's granting it to editors without checking if they have a history of copyvios can be straigtened out. The topic has come up before and there was no interest from...well, anyone. There's also a reluctance to remove reviewer once granted even when violations have been pointed out; I seem to remember a discussion saying that there had to actually be documented abuse of this right to remove it but I couldn't tell you where at the moment. VernoWhitney ( talk) 16:24, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
While I wanted to start Brian Tuke and had worked on the DNB wiksource pages, some one got to it first but I see that the article seems like a close paraphrase of the DNB Brian Tuke page. What is the general guideline and how much is too much prose to paste? TIA ww2censor ( talk) 17:01, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I've posted my case Here, please read and tell me if you think it's okay, and if I put it in the right place? Jayy008 ( talk) 17:33, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
{{subst:WQA-notice|User:CloudKade11}} --~~~~
It'll make the notice for you. I hope it goes well for you! --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 18:26, 23 October 2010 (UTC)Hi Moonriddengirl, The AfD is still open. I understand there's a backlog, but this article has been up now for 2 weeks. Do you know if this will finally be decided today? Thanks. Malke 2010 ( talk) 17:48, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Themistoclea - is the 2nd para now rewritten enough so it isn't copyvio of the 4th para at [27]? I've edited it twice today (as has its creator, who may not know about 3RR although seems to be sophisticated in some aspects of markup). Thanks. (I also don't want to appear a heavy-handed male in this case) Dougweller ( talk) 18:03, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I know you're probably super busy on here, but if you have some free time, can you please look at some more of this? As I'm very close to deciding to RfA, I don't want too many copyvios to derail me. Thanks, CTJF83 chat 18:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm really sorry to trouble you again. It seems I always trouble you with tedious issues that shouldn't be issues in the first place. I have done what you said, but the user basically turned it all on me. And the impartial user who responded, pretty much said everything the user said to me was because he was frustrated or irritated. And accused me of being "less than civil" to begin with. I don't think being his reasoning is accurate. It feels like I'm just supposed to allow a user to potential say hurtful things to me (could be classed as bullying), and another user make excuses for it. When to begin with I always start a conversation politely. Anyway, yawn, yawn, where can I go next? Again, really sorry to trouble you. Jayy008 ( talk) 23:07, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
112.135.23.144 ( talk) 16:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Amantha
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I take your point.But, discography like the references is for the keen fans.Main body should present facts which can be picked up at a glance.Further, you have deleted the names of films given there for which he composed music.There is only Kalyana Parisu and then you go straight to Nenjil Or Alayam.The linking events have also been omitted.It is rather incomplete now.
Best regards
112.135.23.144 ( talk) 16:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC) Amantha
The Wikiproject Dyslexia main aim last year was to slim down the main Dyslexia article to become a summary article, and then to develop a series of new sub articles to provide more detailed information on some of the more complex issues regarding dyslexia. The "Theories of Dyslexia" article was one of the new articles which was created during this process. When the article was created it I copied to existing content of the "Theories of dyslexia" section of the Dyslexia article to the new article with the intention of adding more detail at a later date. At this point I had been left on my own by the other members of the Wikiproject Dyslexia to do all of the proposed editing. Then some members of the Wikiproject Dyslexia and others started something close to an editing war regarding some parts of the new articles and revising the recently revised main dyslexia article. As a result of trying to keep track of these various interventions, I did lost track of the overall changes that had been made, and due to the nature of my own information processing disability I forgot about some of the outstanding edits required to finish the aims of the 2009 Wikiproject dyslexia targets.
If there are any problems I would appreciate it if you could inform me so that i can try to make the required corrections. From my perspective due to the nature of my disability, I am very able at sourcing information but my real problem is copy editing, I prefer to rely on others to do this task, who do not share may disability. dolfrog ( talk) 19:58, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I just noticed, as George's talk page is on my watchlist, that you alerted him of an RFC/U. However, your comment, happening today, is actually placed above two other threads which happened earlier, so I'm wondering if there was some error that caused this to happen, instead of placing the message the bottom like normal.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 20:35, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
User:Malke 2010 is not playing well with others. [28] [29] If there's anything you can do to help prevent another ANI thread about her this would be a good time to do so. Will Beback talk 10:13, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
MRG, could I shortcircuit processes for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/archive4? I don't know how to tell if the copyvio there is ours or others, but we had the text over a year ago-- I listed info on the FAC. The article was pretty much over the hump at FAC when I stumbled upon this. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
My stupid computer is really slow tonight. I should be able to find you evidence to prove reverse infringement soon, I hope. I'm focusing on this: [ on June 24 2009, our article said, "Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) travel with three friends to a cemetery holding the grave of Hardestys' grandfather." (omitting markup). Right before blanking, our article said, "Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), travel with three friends—Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail) and Pam (Teri McMinn)—to a cemetery containing the grave of the Hardesty's grandfather." The external site says, "Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain), traveling with three friends, Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail) and Pam (Teri McMinn), a cemetery containing the grave of his grandfather Hardesty." This is clear evidence of evolution, but I'm looking for the coffin nail. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:39, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
MRG, thank you so much for getting right on that, and my apologies for "jumping the line" and not going through regular channels (not that I know where to find those :). I greatly appreciate your speed, so a FAC wasn't held up. You're still the best! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 00:52, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Now to return the favor, even if all you get out of it is a chuckle. Way back when that discussion occurred at WT:FAC, I ordered a copy of "Elcobbola's article" (the typewriter) on LLC Books from Amazon. [33] LLC Books paired it with Jockstrap (to our amusement). Jockstrap has a big fat copyvio tag that has been there for a very long time. LLC Books simply removed the Copyvio tag, and printed it anyway! Their version picked up this change, so it was clearly printed after August 2010, but didn't pick up this September change; it was an exact copy without the copyvio tag of the article just before the September change. The copyvio was added to the article on October 23, 2007, and shockdoctor.com is in archive.org at May 22, 2007, so it is our copyvio, yet LLC Books removed the copyvio tag and printed it. I understand Wiki has no recourse, since the damages are to shockdoctor.com, and they would have to pursue the copyvio. More interestingly, no one ever blanked the text (so I just did). SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:17, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I spoke to another admin about a problem I have regarding copyright and he suggested I ask you. I've been working on the article London Road Stadium and there is an image I would like to put on it. It's a CG image from the BBC's website and it's relevant to the article. However, I'm not really sure how to go about uploading it. In the past I've only really uploaded my own photos and when I've tried to upload images from the internet, I've (rightly) been pulled up about copyright issues and the images have been deleted. Could you tell me exactly what I should do, since I feel that the article should have this image and knowing how to do this will help me in the future. Thanks very much,
AndrewvdBK ( talk) 19:13, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I've attached the link here. I basically would like the main image on this page to go with the 'Future' section on London Road Stadium. It's not vital, but if it can be done then I think it would be a useful addition to the article. If it can't be done for copyright reasons, then that's fine. I don't really know much about the non-free content policies and guidelines, so I can't really comment in that respect. Thanks,
AndrewvdBK ( talk) 21:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I've found this image and this image. They're both artist's concepts of proposed stadia for Everton and Tottenham respectively and they both use Template:Non-free use rationale. Do you think I should use this template for the image I want to upload?
AndrewvdBK ( talk) 15:23, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
OK, thanks both of you for all your help. I'm pretty sure I know what to do now! I'll come back if I get stuck again. Cheers,
AndrewvdBK ( talk) 20:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting the copyvio on Parracombe & I presume your happy with St Petrock's Church, Parracombe now (which someone else removed the copyvio tag from). After your note I've looked at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia but can I just check when you say copying from one wp article to another you need to give credit is it enough to put a note in the edit summary or is some other action required?— Rod talk 17:02, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Do Election Symbols like the Elephant used by Political Parties Worldwide have copyright.There is a dispute going on here after a few images were marked for deletion Unlike Company Logos they are not exclusive.I feel they do not .Can you please clarify on this and do I need to go the broader community. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 17:52, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Since I'm the one who cleaned it once and then blanked it I'm not sure if I count as a fresh pair of eyes, but I haven't read through it in a couple of weeks, so if you think that's close enough to fresh let me know and I'll look at the rewrite.
In exchange, maybe you would be interested in having a further talk with Wipeouting ( talk · contribs) about close paraphrasing? I just skimmed over their recent articles and saw some similar issues in Merciline Jayakody, such as the article:
While at Duwa he wrote script of the original Duwa Passion play related to Jacome Gonsalves. He introduced live actors both male and female replacing. traditional puppets used before as actors
versus the source:
While at Duwa he dared to change the script of the original Duwa Passion play related to Jacome Gonsalves. He introduced live actors both male and female replacing the traditional puppets used till then.
I think there're more at Solias Mendis too, but I haven't blanked either of them or checked any more of their articles yet. VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:52, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I was hoping you can help me (or one of your talk page stalkers). I need to direct another editor to the correct place. I recently removed text from Leeza Gibbons for WP:COPYVIO which was copied from her home page [34]. The editor Leezagibbons ( talk · contribs) left a comment in the edit summary giving the impression that it might actually be Leeza Gibbons, so when I added the copyright warning to the users talk page, I also added the COI warning. Today, the editor left a message on my talk page that he is Bobby, Leeza Gibbons' online media person. He wants to know how to update her page with a bio she wrote, and photos she owns. I'm not sure how to help him (assuming he is who he says), or the rules for using text from a persons personal website. Where should I direct him? WP:PERMISSIONS? Thanks for your help, this is way beyond my knowledge and I am uncomfortable giving him advice. Thanks! -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 20:38, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, I've found a complicated case (or so I think). This image was taken from a site that states how their web content can be "republished" with attribution. At the source site there's however nothing said about derivatives or licensing, so the pic is most-likely non-free after all. Which kind of license tag should be applied to it? I guess we could go with a fair-use rationale? De728631 ( talk) 21:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Non-free fair use in|Article}}
would be an appropriate tag and it would also need a FUR, however, at a glance it would appear that this image would fail
WP:NFCC#1 since someone could just take a free photo of the band, and so we can't use the photo (unless there are some exceptional circumstances I'm unaware of).
VernoWhitney (
talk) 21:50, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Non-free fair use in|Article}}
with a rationale then since reusing the image is explicitely allowed.
De728631 (
talk) 22:06, 25 October 2010 (UTC)How do I go about reporting a sockpuppet for blocking. I suspect one. Thanks Fry1989 ( talk) 22:17, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
AHH, there it is. Thanks again. Fry1989 ( talk) 23:01, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
you did a great job on the article about yoshiko chuma. As I have written the text for her website, in the original article, I simply copied some of my (uncited) texts. HOwever, your text is much much better. I have added a few more ciations and links to press articles that exist online. thank you. bashadetroit —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bashadetroit ( talk • contribs) 04:49, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello copyright types,
I created The Bridge in Curve and just want a quick sanity check that I have sufficient originality in the text from the sources used. How's the sport article copy-vio problem going? Need any help there at the moment?
Bigger digger ( talk) 23:22, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Has this [35] all been decided now? Malke 2010 ( talk) 12:15, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
I honestly hate to do this, but I have noticed a user that needs to be dealt with by an admin. I happen to run across what he did while working on the {{ puf}} dissuion board. I spoke to user:NuclearWarfare first (he deleted the first image), but he asked me to bring this up with you. Five days after user:NuclearWarfare deleted this image [36] user user:Uhhmazinq turned around and re-uploaded it on commons here using the same {{ pd-self}} claim. I tagged it to be deleted here. This user has 11 other images on commons and 15 on Wikipedia that have been tagged for having bad copyright claims. I think he need to be delete with by an admin. -- ARTEST4ECHO ( talk| contribs) 00:19, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Mrg. There is a group of six lengthy articles that were created last March by User:Waterfox1 which were copied from this book. See Cold War nuclear legacies for one example. On his user page, Waterfox stated he was using the text and said that he is A. DeVolpi, one of the 4 listed authors. I do believe he is who he says he is. So I listed the articles at CP rather than speedy delete them as obvious copyvios -- thinking that he might want to release the text. (There is no way the text could be rewritten without being a foundational copyright violation, so without a release, it will need to be deleted). My problem is that: even if he is contacted and could somehow provide a release for the text, wouldn't it still require all four of the authors to release it? What do you think? — CactusWriter (talk) 18:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I am sorry to bother you again, you are my copyvio go-to person when I am not sure what to do. I have found an new editor Moviebuff 1990 ( talk · contribs) who is repeatedly creating new articles with copyrighted text. (They are TV articles, and s/he copies the plot from elsewhere. I have cleaned 8 of 13 so far.) I warned the editor several times on their talk page, but s/he is continuing to introduce such articles with copyvios. I was hoping there was a way to temporarily block this person to let them realize this is a serious issue? I can't go to WP:AIV because it is not vandalism. WP:CCI isn't really necessary, it is a new user, and I have been trying to keep up with it. That's just for cleaning, right? (Although I have not found all sources yet, I am certain that each article has copied material.) Where do I go with this? Thanks -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 11:49, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl I have been seeking an admin who knows about copyright issues, to ask about a question regarding a table I would like to add to a Wikipedia article. I have created a table to reproduce a diagram which appears in a number of research papers to explain the psycholinguistic models of reading, which most researchers admit are still incomplete because they still do not fully understand all of the cognitive processes involved in the task of reading. I would like if possible to use the table in the Alexia (acquired dyslexia) article to help explain the various subtypes of Alexia. I have created the table on Sandbox page One of the research papers, review, Aphasia, Alexia, and Oral Reading If it possible to use the table then it would be a key part the next step in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Dyslexia/Proposed organization, and from what you have mentioned on my talk page will require a great deal more organisation to comply with Wikipedia requirements.
This will also now require a new team of editors, as it has become increasingly apparent that my own disability means that i am not really suited to this type of task. dolfrog ( talk) 20:22, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, nice to meet you. I am hear in need of your help an guidance.
Some very important photos of Alex Riel, a Jazz recording artist, are around the Internet. You can find hundreds of them if not thousands. There are four-specific photos which are highly relevant to Mr. Riel's article. Since I started editing, I improved it a lot and it now looks much more balanced. I am planning to expand the article with a Bio section icluding Videos sub section. This recording artist has a rich Jazz history behind. He is 70 years old. He played/recorded extensively with many American greats such as Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Art Farmer, Nat Adderley to name few. He received his "Danish Jazz Musician of the Year" award from the hands of Duke Ellington. A photo depicts that and a 1965 video too. Here [37], here [38] and here at his official site [39] you can see these photos and watch some of the videos.
It is rather important to his article, in terms of Jazz history. Do I have a chance?:-) Cheers and thanks. Fusion is the future ( talk) 19:23, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for a kind response. I hope your headache wasn't triggered by my question.:-) So, it seems I can't use them, even with low resolution.
Mr Riel sent me an e-mail with attached photo and a permission given by the author which I forwarded to Permissions on October 23rd. I am still waiting their response with a ticket#.
I think headache is better than a heartache. Cheers and thanks. Fusion is the future ( talk) 14:58, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Moon, a couple of questions to help nudge me in the right direction. This issue here of a pic I nominated for discussion and it got a couple of supports Talk:Israel_Shamir#pic, and this discussion on a user talkpage User_talk:SitDownOnIt regarding their uploads. Off2riorob ( talk) 10:15, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
On 9 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Darell Hammond, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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edit count)Hi MRG, VdT here. During the course of the rather acrimonious AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What Men Know that Women Don't (It's the title of a book), the self-identified author of said book, 72.234.207.192, posted large chunks of verbatim articles about himself, etc. to the discussion as evidence of his notability. I moved them to the talk page as they had taken up half the discussion page, but they probably ought to be deleted from the talk page. There's also a small chunk that he later posted to the actual discussion page. It's after the "arbitrary break" somewhere.
I would do it myself, but I'm leaving for the US tomorrow and more importantly, following these delightful messages from him on my talk page (and similar ones in the AfD), it's better if someone else deletes them. Also, the original article has now been deleted and userfied at User:Lew Loot/What Men Know that Women Don't. When it was first created, I had to remove a big chunk of copyvio from it [1]. I've explained several times to the article's creator about basic copyright issues at his talk page and at the AfD. But let's just say that there was a lot of "I didn't hear that" going on. So you (or one of your faithful minions) might want to keep that userfied page on watch. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 17:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Editors at Commons are denying me my moral rights over my images that I have uploaded at Commons. The CC license states that my moral rights are not affected by the license, and I have added a statement in the permission section of my images that makes it clear I am exerting my moral rights. I have seen my images used without any attribution to me, which the license requires, and I have decided that along with attribution it would be wise to assert my moral rights because the images are being spread around somewhat. I do not wish to loose any protections I have a right to because I have not asserted them.
The whole thing was brought to an ANI at commons, and nothing came of it. However, some editors continue to remove and deny my moral rights nonetheless, citing that the discussion had no decision so it was not decided they can't remove my moral rights. One admin that continues to remove my moral rights even blocked me on Commons because of the conflict.
Could you assist me with this matter at all? I was told by Xeno that you are more familiar with Commons and would be the admin to ask. [tk] XANDERLIPTAK 20:38, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
In each of these discussions, Xanderliptak displays excessive WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT behavior, with overtones of WP:COMPETENCE. He is told the same thing over and over my multiple editors, and refuses to accept what they say, then misrepresents their opinions and the consensus of the discussion in subsequent discussions. The "problem" here is not anything wrong with Commons, or Wikipedia, policies or normal procedures, the problem here is Xanderliptak, who seems to believe he can ignore consensus, Creative Commons licensing and everyone and everything who disagrees with his idees fixe. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 03:12, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
You have been wrong straight down the board about Wikipedia policies since the beginning of this issue, and you have behaved atrociously, resulted in a 24 hour block here, and a 2 hour attention-getting block on Commons. You need to learn to accept consensus when it is brought out, and not act as if anything you think of must be correct.
The main points you refuse to accept are (1) that any embellishments to a coat of arms which are not covered by the blazon or another reliable source showing that the subject accepted and used them, are, as far as Wikipedia is concerned original research, and cannot be used here, and (2) that once you have uploaded an image to the Commons, you cannot change the conditions under which you uploaded it.
Those are pretty simple and straght-forward concepts, which have been confirmed here and there by a clear consensus. That you disagree with them is your right, but you nevertheless must accept them, and act as if they were in force. Going to admin after admin looking for someone who will tell you otherwise is not acceptable behavior. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 05:58, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
in any event, it's irrelevant, because the consensus at Commons is you can't do it, and in any case the language you're trying to insert is not compatible with the license you already agreed to.
I would really, really love it if this is the last time we have to interact. I'd enjoy so much seeing you in my rear view mirror and not having to deal with you anymore, but for that to happen, you've gotta stop misbehaving! You've got to stop ignoring consensus and believing only what you want to believe, you've gotta stop edit warring, and you need to play nice with others. If you can do those things, you and I can be quits. I'm certain you'd like that, and I know I sure as hell would too. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 06:43, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Dude, really, what are you talking about me misbehaving? You're creepy and weird, are you trying to be my mother? Have the crap you are talking about isn't even happening, so I don't know what is wrong with you. Again, just stop it and let it go. It was just a simple discussion about heraldry, you said you don't even know anything about heraldry, so I do not know why you are making it a big deal. Stop already. [tk] XANDERLIPTAK 06:50, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry to correct you, but there is no issue whatsoever about failure to attribute properly. The image at the core of this issue is this one, in which Xanderliptak's name remains in the very name of the image, and in which I copied verbatim all the information from Xanderliptak's original image. In addition, my own information summary credited him, by name, as the author of the image, with my name appended as having altered it. All provisions of the Creative Commons license were adhered to, and then some. The problem is not with my attribution, the problem is that Xanderliptak didn't like the change I made – which I did as a result of a consensus finding that part of his original image was original research not supported by the reference he provided – and wants to control any future alterations, which is (as you say) beyond the scope of his rights under the license. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 09:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
If you are at all interested in self-knowledge, I suggest that your start with our article on Projection (psychology). It may give you some insight into yourself. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 00:23, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I've reproduced some source text at the BLPN noticeboard, here, to aid discussion of a BLP concern. I trust that's within the spirit of Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_States_law; but if it isn't, please let me know and I'll remove it. -- JN 466 14:50, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I created and helped to populate this page with accurate information, properly sourced from government webpages...
We are currently in the middle of an election in winnipeg, and while I understand that wikipedia is not a means of campaigning, the public should be able to read accurate biographical information about councillor nordman.
Why has this page been marked as a copyright violation?
Kyle —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.200.221.7 ( talk) 15:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Could you undelete this article or userfy it to the last creator's subpage or something for me? We've gotten OTRS permission (so that covers the most recent reason for deletion) but the most recent deleting admin won't restore it because it's in such rough shape, and I need to be able to tell the copyright holders something. VernoWhitney ( talk) 22:48, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, got an article here that needs some RevDel work. This is the article: Ramón Hoyos. I reverted it back to DD's first version which contained his standard boiler plate text. Everything from at least his fourth version (where it gains that second big paragraph) to the version where Uncle G's workbot comes in should probably be revdeled since its almost certainly copyvio. If there is another page where I should put this sort of request feel free to direct me to it. Thanks, -- *Kat* ( talk) 02:46, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, if you have a look at the history of 2010 Commonwealth Games medal table, you'll notice a section copyvio was introduced a few days ago and existed for about 15 edits before I caught it. I'm assuming these can't be RD1'd because of the additional positive changes in those edits? Can the four edits which introduced the copyvios (but before anyone else edited the page) be RD1'd? Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 02:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I had a question about WP:COPYVIOs of television episode summaries and decided I should check with you before I proceed. I recently removed summaries from Grey's Anatomy (season 7), Grey's Anatomy (season 6) and Grey's Anatomy (season 5), which were copied word-for-word from press releases. (I just happened to visit one of these pages which repairing disambig links.) I must admit I was surprised that a popular show like Grey's would have copyvios, (I figured someone would have caught it!) but I started deleting. Then I got to thinking... is there a point when (like after so many years) the press releases become like public domain? Was I wrong to remove these? Maybe this is actually allowed? I figured I'd ask before I do anymore deleting. Thanks. -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 15:11, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Of relevance to this issue, there's a request that {{ Plot2}} be moved/renamed to something more descriptive at Template talk:Plot2. Input from any interested owners/stalkers of this page would be appreciated. VernoWhitney ( talk) 03:36, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
A copyvio issue recently cropped up on World Vegetable Center, an article I am affiliated with through my rescuing of it at AfD. I attempted to fix said copyvio here (Ignore my rationale saying COI, it was late, I was tired, and I couldn't fix it afterwards), by making sure to get rid of the infringing info from the PDF and main website. However, the user who originally put up the copyvio template informed me here that i'm not allowed to remove a copyvio template myself, that an admin or OTRS agent must do so. Therefore, i've come to you, as a member of both, and being the super-awesome person at dealing with copyvios that you are. Can you just look over the changes I made, you really just need to compare it to the PDF to make sure there's no more copied info, and reinstate them if you think i've taken care of any copyvio issues? Silver seren C 16:39, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, apparently History2007 isn't content to let the AfD proceed and he's now initiating a merge proposal. His usual supporters are on the talk page of Catholic views on Mary along with the editor who nominated this article for AfD. This seems disruptive to me as it is confusing the process. Can it be simultaneously merged and deleted? Shouldn't the process of the AfD be allowed to continue first, and also, there's been no time to even work on the article since it's just new. Any suggestions that will bring quiet over there? Malke 2010 ( talk) 19:20, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I stripped all potential copyvio out of the article on Kayla Sharland. I'm honestly unsure if this was the right thing to do because what is left is present in DD's first version...along with some of the potential copyvio (which was probably pulled from a media guide).-- *Kat* ( talk) 06:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I just did the same thing with Phillip Tahmindjis. This time I was able to find where DD pulled his prose from. The URL is in my edit summary. If I am doing the right thing then RevDel will be needed for the preceding edits. And if I'm not then RevDel will be needed for ALL the edits. lol -- *Kat* ( talk) 06:26, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
There's a new user over at the user's talkpage who is developing a military history article on a South African parachute brigade. He's uploaded a few images but, as a new user, is unsure which copyright tags to use. Could you pop over and give it a look over? I think he has permission to use most of the images, so it might just be a case of getting OTRS permission. But I can't explain it very well as I'm not au fait with all of the intricacies of images. Thanks for any help you could give. Skinny87 ( talk) 20:29, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
I've started going through the Richard Norton CCI, and I had a question regarding FUR's. Allot of the uploaded images have FUR's that are four, five or six words long. I don't think they count as 'detailed fair use rationales' and don't really know what action to take. I don't really think that {{ Short-Rationale}} is appt. because there is virtually no rationale at all, but maybe I'm wrong. Thanks in advance for your help :) Acather96 ( talk) 07:22, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you have time to please check why CorenSearchBot sparked this error here? The Bot compared the title of an article I had just created and apparently found a copyright violation here. When you click on that link, you'll see that the site has the same title as the title of the Wikipedia article. Any ideas what's to be done here? Lastly, when I use short quotations from newspaper articles in wikipedia articles (e.g. here, the quote is in italics & quoation marks), is that acceptable or is this already considered copyright violation? Regards Amsaim ( talk) 16:19, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I don't know how to do the fancy star thing yet, but if I could, I would give you a star for both keeping a look out for me and helping me with an edit. Thanks! - Ludasaphire ( talk) 21:52, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that quite a lot of speedskating articles have been originated by Darius Dhlomo where he used a template that basically consists of
X (born date, year) is a former speed skating|ice speed skater from Y, who represented his/her native country Y in Z consecutive
Winter Olympics, starting in 19xx Winter Olympics|19xx] in somewhere, somplace|common name, country.
===Reference=== (with 3 ==='s)
http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/xxx SkateResults
category:19xx births|X
category:Y speed skaters|X
category:Place of birth missing|X (he seems to lack this information)
category:Olympic competitors for Y|X
skatingbio-stub
Y-bio-stub
As I have contributed to quite a number of those pages myself I'd like to know what I can do. And no, it is not clear from all the pages I've been directed to. Where is case of e.g. Silvia Brunner do I have to make changes? I am quite willing to re-wite all speedskating articles by Darius, where can I find such a list?
kind regards,
Dirk P Broer (
talk) 10:50, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi
Quick question - about the picture File:PwCLondon.jpg on the PwC page, I think that it is probably a copyright picture, and I think it is stretching WP:FUP to say that it can be used on this page, I have tagged the picture on commons but it is still there 10 days later - is there anything else I should be doing ?
Thanks
Codf1977 ( talk) 21:07, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
List of airports in Pakistan.
I'm not sure of the process required for the CCI? I'm interested and think I could be of help. :) Talktome( Intelati) 05:23, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello... Thank you for watching over this matter. It seems that the other photo here was actually of something else, and that there was confusion. Upon further and more careful research and analysis......as you and others have done. But it seems that this here, as you pointed out, is the correct image of said "Arius." I was hoping though that maybe you can somehow (with your expertise) bring about that image onto Wikipedia, and onto the Arius article. Since it is the more accurate image. The Arius article is a good one, and it is a shame in a way that there's no intro image of the subject in question. At present, the beginning of the article looks a little too plain. With no image on the top area. I was wondering if maybe you could do something... Much appreciated. And thank you for your attention to this. 68.237.240.68 ( talk) 06:31, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl
We have made the first upload of the new series of articles (previously known as Bujutsu Kodosokukai) to the sandbox of user:Freezydk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Freezydk/Yakami-ryu We know we are a bit late with this upload, but if you will be kind to take a look at this first draft and make your comments regarding objectivity and what else to take into consideration before presenting it to COIN. There is no linking yet to other sources, but that we will work on pretty soon. We have an issue regarding finding reliable sources and what is reliable sources, maybe you can help defining this a bit as well. Thanks in advance Freezydk ( talk) 12:52, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi
More copyright questions :
Codf1977 ( talk) 16:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, just bumped into a situation, I've tried to direct the person to the right info, but I'm out of my comfort zone. Saw your posts on WP:CP and thought if you couldn't help you might know someone who could. Earlier today I happened on the Freedom Now page, and realized a new user had coppied the info from the organization's website. I left the user a talk page note, and reverted the problem area. You can see the conversation on User talk:Pgriffith06 where the editor is apparently a staff atorney for the organization and wants to give permission to use text/logo. I directed him to the WP:Donating copyrighted materials page, but as I said I'm about as far as my comfort zone in giving advice in this area. Not sure if you're interested in taking a look here, but figured I'd take a stab at finding some additional help here. Thanks for your time.-- Cube lurker ( talk) 19:41, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
The attention of the Copyright Squad is needed, here. Uncle G ( talk) 15:21, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Moonridden. I will contact a couple of the Professors at Ilmenau - and follow your instructions. Finally some constructive feedback. Thanks again. This whole process has been frustrating - I guess partly due to my ignorance. Vinayaka94 ( talk) 22:36, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind giving me a bit of micro-feedback on my civility/style on Talk:Death of Linda Norgrove? There are two overly long debates there where I might appear to be holding on to the stick for rather too long. I'm a bit stuck as in both instances they appear to me to be types of failure to meet WP:5P#2. In some ways I'm enjoying the test of policy but I think I am in danger of appearing like an overly argumentative wikilawyer; particular as one user seems to be in violation of 3RR (and I would not like to be seen as the sort of contributor that sets others up for a fall). I would appreciate your experience and if you suggest I drop it, I'm prepared to take the page off my watch-list and leave them to sort it out without my help. Thanks, Fæ ( talk) 11:58, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MoonRiddenGirl! Can I upload a copy of the book cover image for In Defense of Reason that is found here? If I did, would I be violating copyright any more than Google Books is? Also, is there some special dispensation for book covers? I notice that, for instance, virtually all of the Agatha Christie books have book cover images (e.g., The Murder of Roger Ackroyd). Thanks! — Spike Toronto 20:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Done — Spike Toronto 04:27, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, Hope you are doing well. Just wanted to let you know that a large chunk of the Arts and Culture section of the article Saint Kitts is copied verbatim from: http://www.stkittsheritage.com/cultural_heritage.asp
I did not check the rest of the article. Best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 01:34, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
If I recall correctly, you've been involved in some of the discussions regarding the works of Florida government agencies being public domain, so I was thinking you may be able to shed some light on the situation for a different state. The issue is with Utah State Parks and Recreation website and is thankfully recent, so most of the conversation appears to be at User talk:Moabdave, some notes I left at User talk:Bradadkins274 and a new comment on my talk. VernoWhitney ( talk) 17:31, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
The State has made the content of certain pages of its Web sites available to the public. Anyone may view, copy, or distribute information found within these web pages (not including the design or layout of the pages) for personal or informational use without owing an obligation to the State if the documents are not modified in any respect, and unless otherwise stated on the particular materials or information to which a restriction on free use applies.
Hi! Sorry to bother you with this, but I figured you would be well worth asking. :) I noticed today that we have a lot of references which link to rickross.com, which seems to be collecting media articles and providing them online. For example, http://www.rickross.com/reference/maranatha/maranatha4.html from the Wall Street Journal is included there, and is linked to in one of our articles. However, my impression from the disclaimer on rickross.com is that the site is collating these articles but not seeking permission up front - instead they allow people to request that the articles be removed should they object. I'm inclined to assume that they don't have permission, which suggests that it is a WP:LINKVIO issue, but that may entail removing the links and this site (along with some similar sites doing the same thing) is extensively used in articles. Thus I'm wondering where I should sit on this, as I suspect there will be opposition to removing the links, should that be the situation. - Bilby ( talk) 16:39, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, can you please look at; Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/2010 October 13#Lionel Wendt,Dayananda Gunawardena.
I noticed you deleted one of the pages they asked about...so you may have dealt with this elsewhere - in which case, could you please just leave a note on the feedback page, so that we know it has been dealt with. Thanks, Chzz ► 04:17, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind full information and observations. i did one edit according to your suggestions article of Lionel Wendt. Could you please see for while. if you can see same problem further is'nt it possible to forward this article to correct to other writer ? Thanks.-- Wipeouting ( talk) 05:35, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear Friend Thanks for your reply. I got the point . Thanks-- Wipeouting ( talk) 04:05, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Is this closer to hitting both nails on the head? [5] Best, Roger Davies talk 18:24, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
You may recall helping me with adding photos by Tom Frost to Commons. Thanks again for that. I've just finished an article on Joseph Asher, who was for many years senior rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, California). Much to my surprise, I noticed just now that the article about the synagogue has been wiped nearly clean due to copyvio. This is a sad situation, as this is perhaps the most historic Jewish congregation west of the Mississippi. Any light you can shed would be appreciated, as I feel obligated to begin work on a reconstruction devoid of copyright problems. Thank you so much. Cullen328 ( talk) 02:06, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, this edit introduced close paraphrasing of this and this. I've re-written the section, but that edit (and the next two) still has the CP. RD1? Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 04:27, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you have a look at User:JJJ999's userpage, I think there are a number of issues with it as it might volatile WP:UP#NOT or WP:UP#COPIES. Is is a copy of Principality of Estland deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Principality of Estland as it lacks attribution should it be CSD'ed as a copyvio ? Codf1977 ( talk) 10:50, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh dear me. I just now discovered that the entire section about Brimstone Hill is copied verbatim from [16]. I suppose I'd better check all the rest of the prose too. Maybe almost all of it is copied from one place or another? Invertzoo ( talk) 18:13, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
If you wouldn't mind taking a look at this I would appriciate it. The article was created by the artist as a copy paste from her website and she and her manager are now interested in releasing it to us through OTRS. I am not familiar with this process or the relevant policies and am not able to advise adequately or respond to queries. Also, a coi cautionary warning may be relevant. Cheers. 4meter4 ( talk) 20:45, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
I know you are the copyright patrol for this one so I though you should have a look see. User:AJona1992 - using lyrics from a Selina song, properly cited yes, but normally only accepted via "fair use." Wikipedia doesn't allow fair use images on a user page, so I don't believe quotes/lyrics are allowed either. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 01:43, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, have uncovered a massive WP:COI and copyvio issue at World Masters Games — user in question is Masters Games ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Not sure how to proceed from here, any advice or help would be great. Strange Passerby ( talk • c • status) 03:30, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
As I know you just love to read over website copyright/use pages so this is a good one for you. I am not sure about File:AFLA Officers.jpg which I am guessing was taken from AFLA History 1969 to 1979, but not sure. (Check out the section at the start of the article that reads "As stated in the March issue of Automotive Fleet[1]..." and click on the link - it goes to the users Wikipedia page) Also there is File:EdBobit.JPG. My main issue is twofold - they were uploaded by someone who clearly works for the company however all the images are uploaded under a "free" license, and that included File:AFLA logo.jpg, and the website make no mention of any of their images being "free". At least I can't find it anywhere if it does say that. The most obvious place is their Terms of Use but that mostly talks about "your" terms of use when you create an account there. The parts that I think do relate are comments such as "You agree to not use automotive-fleet.com to" [SNIP] "reproduce, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of automotive-fleet.com." and "automotive-fleet.com, the Automotive Fleet logo, trademarks and service marks are property of automotive-fleet.com and Automotive Fleet Magazine. Without Automotive Fleet Magazine/automotive-fleet.com's prior permission, you agree not to display or use these logos/marks." It would seem slightly odd that nobody can use information or material on the website for "for any commercial purposes" yet allow it to be used as such via the CCL used here. Or does the (presumed) fact User:AFLA Wiki was acting as a representative of the company fulfill the "Without Automotive Fleet Magazine/automotive-fleet.com's prior permission" section and allow everyone to "reproduce, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes" these images? (And you might want to look over the Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association (AFLA) article as it was created by the same user and mostly uses information taken from the website.) Soundvisions1 ( talk) 04:39, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
File:Lufthansa A380-841 D-AIMB.JPEG.jpg, uploaded by a problematic user I've watchlisted. Thoughts? -- Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 12:36, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! I'm sure you won't remember but you were involved with blocking a disruptive editor that I had complained about some months back, and I thought that you came across as a fair and level-headed administrator. I just wanted to ask your advice on something. Over the last year or so I've done a lot of work getting The Byrds-related articles up to scratch. It's come to my attention that over the last 3 days Frokor, an editor on the Norwegian version of Wikipedia, has been copying and pasting from The Byrds' articles on the English Wikipedia and creating almost identical versions of the articles—except obviously they're translated into Norweign. I know that they are close to identical because all of the inline citations that I've sourced and used on the English Wiki are duplicated as well. Check out the article for Eight Miles High and its Norweign counterpart here, or It Won't Be Wrong and its counterpart, or Set You Free This Time and the same Norweign article.
I must confess, that this is bugging me a little, although I realise that it's not really any different to when articles that I've worked on are reproduced on Wiki mirror sites. But at least there's attribution given on those mirror sites. If you look at this user's contributions ( see here), you'll notice that he's systematically going through every single Byrds-related article on the English Wiki and translating it, but without providing any attribution for the page contents. Looking at WP:COPYWITHIN (specifically the section on "Translating from other language Wikimedia Projects") it seems as though what this editor is doing is frowned upon, at least by the English Wikipedia. I just wondered what you thought I should do? Or am I just being silly about this? -- Kohoutek1138 ( talk) 20:03, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello MRG, how are you? I'm just wandering if there's a way to block edits on TV show pages that change the ratings. For example 90210 (season 1) is a completed season with source ratings. Users keep inflating to overnight figures. Jayy008 ( talk) 20:34, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
You could try emailing history@merck.de The german website has a huge flash presentation [18] that includes this picture. My guess is that it was painted pre 1827, as the business moved premises in that year. Elen of the Roads ( talk) 00:38, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
I used THIS. But I too may have heard it both ways. It doesn't matter, whatever... Mercy11 ( talk) 00:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Are you still around? Malke 2010 ( talk) 02:25, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Quick question before I load an image that may get deleted: are images, documents, letters, and whatnot kept by the National Archives in the U.S. in the public domain? Specifically, anything from this site? Thanks. -- Moni3 ( talk) 17:17, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Ping. -- Moni3 ( talk) 18:40, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Bad news at User talk:John Vandenberg#C'est moi, with a PD question. Sorry for the delay. -- John Vandenberg ( chat) 22:44, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there,
I am Darlene Hunt's publicist and created her Wikipedia page which was simply her approved bio. Within the bio, there are quotes that she has given and have been previously published in a local newspaper in Kentucky. These quotes were the reason for the article's deletion; however, these are direct quotes from Darlene and they are in her official bio that is used for all official business.
I would very much appreciate the page being reinstated as it isn't plagiarism of the article when the quotes were actually said by her. If I asked her to give me rewordings of the exact quotes, according to your policies it wouldn't do any good because basically the same quotes exist in this newspaper article.
Best, Jordan Van Brink Publicist —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvanbrink ( talk • contribs) 15:25, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
That other website has an old version of her own bio - the updated one was seen here written by my team and approved by her. It is a general use bio that she herself approved and would be used anywhere appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvanbrink ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
So this article has been blanked for copyvio and there's a clean rewrite in place at Talk:Sergio Rendine/Temp, but we also got permission for the original text. I added the OTRS tag to the talk page, but should I just merge them together using edit summaries for attribution and then G6 the temp page or is there a better way to clean it all up? VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
For the last week or so, the Wikipedia page for the writer Franz Lidz has been under attack by Robert Garside (using two different Wikipedia accounts), the subject of a lengthy 2002 profile in Sports Illustrated by Mr. Lidz. Lidz's Wiki page mentions the story and provides a link the the actual piece. Mr. Garside, whose curious and questionable past was chronicled in the 2002 piece, has repeatedly tried to delete the description and the citation, calling it "libellous" and a "personal attack." This speaks more of Mr. Garside's paranoid -- richly detialed in Lidz's article -- and not at all of the story, which has gone unchallenged -- and remains posted prominently at SI's website -- since 2002. Mr. Garside is attempting to alter, if not entirely erase history, and won't take NO for an answer. Is it possible to bar him from further edits on Mr. Lidz's page? He seems to spend an inordinate amount of time preventing others from citing published sources on his OWN page (see the history of Garside's page). This is more than a case of a contributor being a mere nuisance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TrentonBot ( talk • contribs) 19:14, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! Just a quick question: in general, should the snippets taken from out-of-copyright sources marked somehow specially, or is just the normal citation/attribution enough? I think Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 has it's own template, but what about the others? I could probably use Boulenger (1882) to flesh out other articles, too—see Nannophrys guentheri for example. 78.27.71.157 ( talk) 19:52, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Understand my frustration...
Over the passed five years the name "Robert Garside" has been abused on the following pages:
Robert Garside Guinness World Records Royal Holloway university of London
and now
Franz Lidz
What does it take? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.110.186.3 ( talk) 19:59, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MoonRiddenGirl! Is there any copyright “rule” that would let me upload this photo to the wikiarticle on Eric Birley? I would like to use it in the article’s infobox. Thanks! — Spike Toronto 05:55, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Verno for your quick answer! I took a look at the {{ Non-free use rationale}} at File:JD Salinger.jpg. It is a great exemplar. Unfortunately, I do not have that level of detail for this image. I do not know who created it, when it was created, etc. I understand it to be hanging at Hatfield College along with portraits of each of the masters of the college. I assume the copyright would be held by the college. I cannot find this image anywhere else but on the college’s website, and there is no information given about the image. It is also the only image I have been able to find of him. Any suggestions? Thanks! — Spike Toronto 19:08, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
P.S. Thanks Moonriddengirl for letting this discussion take place on your talk page! — Spike Toronto 19:09, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Done The image has been uploaded as File:Eric Birley (resize) 002.jpg and had been inserted into the infobox at Eric Birley. For licencing, I used the pulldown list and selected the only one that applied for deceased persons, etc. This generated the {{ Non-free historic image}} template. Thanks again to both of you for all your help! — Spike Toronto 04:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
What do you think? File:AIM Song repeated motif.png - copyright or not? The music itself might be PD but this is not a sample of the actual music. And the uploader did not upload any other music notations or transcriptions so it is hard to tell if this is really their own work or not. Soundvisions1 ( talk) 02:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. You rock. As you have for quite some time on wikipedia. When I have more time I'll figure out how to do the requests properly, but that was such a monster! vio! and I'm desperately categorizing algae the few minutes I have. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 05:45, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I believe that according to copyright law, editors need to attribute material copied from one Wikipedia article to another in the edit summary and/or talk page. Are you aware of any policies and/or guidelines that are telling our editors to do so, and how to do it? I can't find a reference to that scenario in WP:Copyrights; if it is a legal requirement, I think it should have a prominent section somewhere.
If I'm just daft and have failed to spot it, please let me know where it is, for future reference. If it isn't me, and we don't address it specifically, I propose we add a corresponding section to WP:Copyrights. Thanks! -- JN 466 18:58, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Hope you're having a good day! Wilhelmina Will ( talk) 02:05, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi and thanks for your message. Have looked at the site where I obtained the image and it has been removed. It is therefore perfectly possible that the image is not Ivan Moffat so I would support its being removed. Thanks Jack1956 ( talk) 15:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Could you look at Mayra Conde for me, please? On the face of it, it looks as though the article has been lifted from this article from Female Muscle dated 25 November 2009. But then when I look more closely and compare dates, it seems to me that it may be the other way round.-- Plad2 ( talk) 18:16, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
I've just realised that this page has been deleted, despite - as I recall from my last edit to it - it containing much more material than could have been copied from [21]. This is an exceptionally notable DJ duo, and I find it rather incredible that the page was deleted in its entirety. I would note that in crecent weeks there seemed to be a concerned effort by IP editors to pare the page down, as well as others related to it. Was the page history checked to see when the copyvio text was added? Nick Cooper ( talk) 20:35, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Their production and remix work has spanned the last 10 years under various guises, such as Hyperlogic, Untidy Dubs, Tidy Boys and many more. The weekend sees the boys hitting clubs both in the U.K and oversees as they join their a-list friends behind the decks.
Hi, I responded to the OTRS request at Ticket:2010102010000718 before I noticed your note there. Sorry. On balance I believe it's better not to take the risk, but feel free to undo my deletion if you do think this is likely a reverse copyvio. Sandstein 21:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Vadjihoudine has been warned several times by me and by a bot that his non-free uploads, without any info, are inappropriate. I gave him a final warning and reported him to AIV but was not sure that is the best place. Can you look? TIA ww2censor ( talk) 16:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
User:Scania N113 has left an "odd" message (basically a threat and personal attack) on User:Dave1185's talk page, per this diff. I can't find any actvity by Dave on Scania or any of the users he mentioned in the last few days, , and Scania has made only one edit since Aug 31 before posting this message, so this appears to be some sort of trolling. I've removed the comments from Dave's talk page, and warned the user, but since you've been active on Scania's talk page in the past, I wanted to inform you of the activity. Thanks. (PS, a check-user on all the listed accounts might be informative, just in case.) - BilCat ( talk) 17:24, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, there is a RFC going on at the talk page of the article Paul Bern. The discussion isn't the problem though the article is. The article was written for the most part I believe in 2005, at least that's when the article was started. The article needs references so I was doing a search and came to this. As I was reading this source to see if it would be useful I felt like I was reading our article so I compared. The article looks close to a copy/paste of this source minus a few changes here and there. I brought up my concerns at the talk page but there are only two active editors there which was the cause of the RFC. I got there due to seeing it at WT:Actor and the other two who commented after me got there by a comment I made at my talk page asking my lurkers to please check out the RFC and give an opinion on it. Now, I think I've gotten better at seeing plagerism and copyright problems but this time it jumped out at me. I still feel I need your opinion on what I am seeing and if I am seeing it correctly. Then, if I am, I don't know what to do with what I found if I am correct. I sure would appreciate it again if you would take your precious time to check this out for me. This shouldn't take long at all to check out since the article is real small and you can decide in the beginning of the article, not the lead part so much as the first paragraph or two Thank you in advance, -- CrohnieGal Talk 17:56, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
I have reason to believe that this user is a sock of this user which is a sock of someone who has been socking and bypassing indef blocks since early this year ( sock archive). They're editing the same articles (Kate Plus 8, 19 Kids and Counting, Law and Order: SVU, and Smallville; all focuses of the previous socks (if they add Murder She Wrote and 7th Heaven, they'll have covered all their bases)) and have already made the exact edit the most recent sock made as their very last edit before being indef blocked ( here and here). It looks like a pretty clear cut duck to me, but I'm always very hesitant to go forward in case I'm wrong. Could you please give me some advice on what to do? -- 13 2 20:45, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Just in case me passing on one messy issue isn't enough, now you can get two for the price of one!! Directive 2002/24/EC is listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 October 14. VernoWhitney ( talk) 21:04, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl,
congratulations on the new editorial in the Signpost. As with your previous editorial, I have learnt new things. While it now stints my writing style till these new skills become second nature, I am grateful to have learnt it albeit at a late stage. This of course forces me to raise my English skills to a higher level. I consider this learning, painful though it is, as a reward for my contributions to Wikipedia and I thank you as the agency through which I recieve this gratification.
AshLin ( talk) 03:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks~! Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 05:34, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
MRG, I could use some advice on handling a BLP issue regarding an author, Elizabeth Moon. Hopefully you don't have a COI issue here! :) See the main discussion at Talk:Elizabeth Moon#"Controversy" about 9/11 remarks. Thanks. - BilCat ( talk) 05:56, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I'm back again looking for your advice! Do you remember an issue from last March with the DSM? I presume the procedure for blatant copy-pastes is still just to remove them, as usual, but I wanted to check whether any further developments had come out of that case. Thanks, -- Beloved Freak 07:57, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
stripping to what does not seem to be copied. The parent organization is notable; is the Junior?
I doubt it.
I think it is adequately covered on
IOOF, or if it's not, it could/should be.
Ditto, the girl's org. (Theta rho??) [I now can't look it up because you've deleted everything! BTW: I'm not complaining, just making an observation.]
Does that agree with your assessment of the situation? Cheers,
Pdfpdf (
talk) 12:35, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Amantha ( talk) 13:07, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
Appreciate your revising and condensing the article.But, you have removed lot of information which were available in the previous artcle like the names of music composers and the female playback singers with whom he worked with.These are probably not even complete, but leads you to find out information on the other artistes as well..These are historical facts which also connects to lot of other artistes involved.It was interesting and does not seem like a fan's jabbering.The introduction at the top referring to his old songs was meaningful.The blog is in Telugu, but main thing is that it guides you through to his first songs in Telugu for HMV, his first Tamil song, his first Hindi song, etc.We all do not read all the references at the bottom, but drawing attention to this was a good and it was a treat.I note that the nunmber of visits are steadily increasing going beyond 100 visits during the last few days. I think you have been too severe in editing by chopping off lot of information, some of which reveals his character, the good points and the bad points about him.
Kind regards
Amantha
Amantha ( talk) 13:07, 22 October 2010 (UTC) Amantha
Raycrosthwaite has redirected his user page and talk page to John Crosthwaite. I don't know how to revert that other than a cut and paste which is wrong. Can you fix it and explain it to the user? ww2censor ( talk) 16:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I was just going through the talk stalk report. Below is a partial list of articles that have had copyvio removed but have not had any revisions deleted.
AGradman said that he "remedied copyvio" in the Canada Cup (soccer) article. But what he really did was reword it. I don't know if he really found copyvio or if he was just playing it safe. Currently he's on an extended Wikibreak so, short of emailing him, there's no way to find out. I'm dedicated but not interested in emailing him.
I hope you are doing well. -- *Kat* ( meow?) 06:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Amantha ( talk) 06:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC) Amanthas
Dear Moonriddengirl, I appreciate your comments.But, wikipaedia is an encyclopaedia and should be more informative.It is good to know the famous films he sang for, the music directors he worked with and the famous female playback singers he sang with.I for one, far removed from the fifties and sixties , did not so far have much knowlede. May be this information must be formated in a differnt way.
Best regards
Amantha
Amantha ( talk) 06:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC) Amantha
Hi MG, I decided to start checking this article also. I found that in the section "History", the first rather long sentence and paragraphs 4 and 5 (all but the last half a sentence) are copied verbatim from [23]. I also think that some of the rest of it is copied from [24]. Invertzoo ( talk) 14:42, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I thought I'd bring this to you, as you're always very impartial and helpful. The usual places don't work, so I'm asking for a personal review. I'm having a problem with a user. Everything ends up looking like content issues, but it's not. First off, can you look on my talk page and tell me if that's a personal attack. I have tried to reason with the user in the past, but the user only replies when it's something positive and nothing contesting an edit. I'm trying really hard to keep pages notable. I added a ratings section recently to the 90210 (season 3) page, with information on repeats too, if you tell his edit summary saying "nobody cares," I find that rude. I don't care much for repeats, but any extra information, reliably sourced, is allowed? The user in the past has been a constant ratings inflater, but gets away with it. Removes information from pages based on personal opinion. All I need to know is if I have a case here. Here is the user's talk page, Here's the most recent edit summary made by the user on 90210 (season 3), My talk page. I don't know what else I can dig out, but I don't think the user knows how to be friendly when his "opinion" is challenged. All my warnings go deleted, nice comments unanswered. I don't know what to do. Jayy008 ( talk) 22:46, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Too similar for Wikipedia or no? -- *Kat* ( meow?) 02:25, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Darius's original version of this article is a word for word copy of the first paragraph of his source. None his original text was removed, per say, but it was expanded, referenced, revised and reworded until it looked nothing like the original.
Is this still considered a derivative work? Thanks, -- *Kat* ( meow?) 02:46, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
If you think that knowing copyrights is actually essential, then there needs to be a serious talk where every admin who's granting it to editors without checking if they have a history of copyvios can be straigtened out. The topic has come up before and there was no interest from...well, anyone. There's also a reluctance to remove reviewer once granted even when violations have been pointed out; I seem to remember a discussion saying that there had to actually be documented abuse of this right to remove it but I couldn't tell you where at the moment. VernoWhitney ( talk) 16:24, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
While I wanted to start Brian Tuke and had worked on the DNB wiksource pages, some one got to it first but I see that the article seems like a close paraphrase of the DNB Brian Tuke page. What is the general guideline and how much is too much prose to paste? TIA ww2censor ( talk) 17:01, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I've posted my case Here, please read and tell me if you think it's okay, and if I put it in the right place? Jayy008 ( talk) 17:33, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
{{subst:WQA-notice|User:CloudKade11}} --~~~~
It'll make the notice for you. I hope it goes well for you! --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 18:26, 23 October 2010 (UTC)Hi Moonriddengirl, The AfD is still open. I understand there's a backlog, but this article has been up now for 2 weeks. Do you know if this will finally be decided today? Thanks. Malke 2010 ( talk) 17:48, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Themistoclea - is the 2nd para now rewritten enough so it isn't copyvio of the 4th para at [27]? I've edited it twice today (as has its creator, who may not know about 3RR although seems to be sophisticated in some aspects of markup). Thanks. (I also don't want to appear a heavy-handed male in this case) Dougweller ( talk) 18:03, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I know you're probably super busy on here, but if you have some free time, can you please look at some more of this? As I'm very close to deciding to RfA, I don't want too many copyvios to derail me. Thanks, CTJF83 chat 18:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm really sorry to trouble you again. It seems I always trouble you with tedious issues that shouldn't be issues in the first place. I have done what you said, but the user basically turned it all on me. And the impartial user who responded, pretty much said everything the user said to me was because he was frustrated or irritated. And accused me of being "less than civil" to begin with. I don't think being his reasoning is accurate. It feels like I'm just supposed to allow a user to potential say hurtful things to me (could be classed as bullying), and another user make excuses for it. When to begin with I always start a conversation politely. Anyway, yawn, yawn, where can I go next? Again, really sorry to trouble you. Jayy008 ( talk) 23:07, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
112.135.23.144 ( talk) 16:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Amantha
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I take your point.But, discography like the references is for the keen fans.Main body should present facts which can be picked up at a glance.Further, you have deleted the names of films given there for which he composed music.There is only Kalyana Parisu and then you go straight to Nenjil Or Alayam.The linking events have also been omitted.It is rather incomplete now.
Best regards
112.135.23.144 ( talk) 16:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC) Amantha
The Wikiproject Dyslexia main aim last year was to slim down the main Dyslexia article to become a summary article, and then to develop a series of new sub articles to provide more detailed information on some of the more complex issues regarding dyslexia. The "Theories of Dyslexia" article was one of the new articles which was created during this process. When the article was created it I copied to existing content of the "Theories of dyslexia" section of the Dyslexia article to the new article with the intention of adding more detail at a later date. At this point I had been left on my own by the other members of the Wikiproject Dyslexia to do all of the proposed editing. Then some members of the Wikiproject Dyslexia and others started something close to an editing war regarding some parts of the new articles and revising the recently revised main dyslexia article. As a result of trying to keep track of these various interventions, I did lost track of the overall changes that had been made, and due to the nature of my own information processing disability I forgot about some of the outstanding edits required to finish the aims of the 2009 Wikiproject dyslexia targets.
If there are any problems I would appreciate it if you could inform me so that i can try to make the required corrections. From my perspective due to the nature of my disability, I am very able at sourcing information but my real problem is copy editing, I prefer to rely on others to do this task, who do not share may disability. dolfrog ( talk) 19:58, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I just noticed, as George's talk page is on my watchlist, that you alerted him of an RFC/U. However, your comment, happening today, is actually placed above two other threads which happened earlier, so I'm wondering if there was some error that caused this to happen, instead of placing the message the bottom like normal.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 20:35, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
User:Malke 2010 is not playing well with others. [28] [29] If there's anything you can do to help prevent another ANI thread about her this would be a good time to do so. Will Beback talk 10:13, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
MRG, could I shortcircuit processes for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/archive4? I don't know how to tell if the copyvio there is ours or others, but we had the text over a year ago-- I listed info on the FAC. The article was pretty much over the hump at FAC when I stumbled upon this. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
My stupid computer is really slow tonight. I should be able to find you evidence to prove reverse infringement soon, I hope. I'm focusing on this: [ on June 24 2009, our article said, "Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) travel with three friends to a cemetery holding the grave of Hardestys' grandfather." (omitting markup). Right before blanking, our article said, "Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), travel with three friends—Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail) and Pam (Teri McMinn)—to a cemetery containing the grave of the Hardesty's grandfather." The external site says, "Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain), traveling with three friends, Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail) and Pam (Teri McMinn), a cemetery containing the grave of his grandfather Hardesty." This is clear evidence of evolution, but I'm looking for the coffin nail. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:39, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
MRG, thank you so much for getting right on that, and my apologies for "jumping the line" and not going through regular channels (not that I know where to find those :). I greatly appreciate your speed, so a FAC wasn't held up. You're still the best! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 00:52, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Now to return the favor, even if all you get out of it is a chuckle. Way back when that discussion occurred at WT:FAC, I ordered a copy of "Elcobbola's article" (the typewriter) on LLC Books from Amazon. [33] LLC Books paired it with Jockstrap (to our amusement). Jockstrap has a big fat copyvio tag that has been there for a very long time. LLC Books simply removed the Copyvio tag, and printed it anyway! Their version picked up this change, so it was clearly printed after August 2010, but didn't pick up this September change; it was an exact copy without the copyvio tag of the article just before the September change. The copyvio was added to the article on October 23, 2007, and shockdoctor.com is in archive.org at May 22, 2007, so it is our copyvio, yet LLC Books removed the copyvio tag and printed it. I understand Wiki has no recourse, since the damages are to shockdoctor.com, and they would have to pursue the copyvio. More interestingly, no one ever blanked the text (so I just did). SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:17, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I spoke to another admin about a problem I have regarding copyright and he suggested I ask you. I've been working on the article London Road Stadium and there is an image I would like to put on it. It's a CG image from the BBC's website and it's relevant to the article. However, I'm not really sure how to go about uploading it. In the past I've only really uploaded my own photos and when I've tried to upload images from the internet, I've (rightly) been pulled up about copyright issues and the images have been deleted. Could you tell me exactly what I should do, since I feel that the article should have this image and knowing how to do this will help me in the future. Thanks very much,
AndrewvdBK ( talk) 19:13, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I've attached the link here. I basically would like the main image on this page to go with the 'Future' section on London Road Stadium. It's not vital, but if it can be done then I think it would be a useful addition to the article. If it can't be done for copyright reasons, then that's fine. I don't really know much about the non-free content policies and guidelines, so I can't really comment in that respect. Thanks,
AndrewvdBK ( talk) 21:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I've found this image and this image. They're both artist's concepts of proposed stadia for Everton and Tottenham respectively and they both use Template:Non-free use rationale. Do you think I should use this template for the image I want to upload?
AndrewvdBK ( talk) 15:23, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
OK, thanks both of you for all your help. I'm pretty sure I know what to do now! I'll come back if I get stuck again. Cheers,
AndrewvdBK ( talk) 20:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting the copyvio on Parracombe & I presume your happy with St Petrock's Church, Parracombe now (which someone else removed the copyvio tag from). After your note I've looked at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia but can I just check when you say copying from one wp article to another you need to give credit is it enough to put a note in the edit summary or is some other action required?— Rod talk 17:02, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Do Election Symbols like the Elephant used by Political Parties Worldwide have copyright.There is a dispute going on here after a few images were marked for deletion Unlike Company Logos they are not exclusive.I feel they do not .Can you please clarify on this and do I need to go the broader community. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 17:52, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Since I'm the one who cleaned it once and then blanked it I'm not sure if I count as a fresh pair of eyes, but I haven't read through it in a couple of weeks, so if you think that's close enough to fresh let me know and I'll look at the rewrite.
In exchange, maybe you would be interested in having a further talk with Wipeouting ( talk · contribs) about close paraphrasing? I just skimmed over their recent articles and saw some similar issues in Merciline Jayakody, such as the article:
While at Duwa he wrote script of the original Duwa Passion play related to Jacome Gonsalves. He introduced live actors both male and female replacing. traditional puppets used before as actors
versus the source:
While at Duwa he dared to change the script of the original Duwa Passion play related to Jacome Gonsalves. He introduced live actors both male and female replacing the traditional puppets used till then.
I think there're more at Solias Mendis too, but I haven't blanked either of them or checked any more of their articles yet. VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:52, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I was hoping you can help me (or one of your talk page stalkers). I need to direct another editor to the correct place. I recently removed text from Leeza Gibbons for WP:COPYVIO which was copied from her home page [34]. The editor Leezagibbons ( talk · contribs) left a comment in the edit summary giving the impression that it might actually be Leeza Gibbons, so when I added the copyright warning to the users talk page, I also added the COI warning. Today, the editor left a message on my talk page that he is Bobby, Leeza Gibbons' online media person. He wants to know how to update her page with a bio she wrote, and photos she owns. I'm not sure how to help him (assuming he is who he says), or the rules for using text from a persons personal website. Where should I direct him? WP:PERMISSIONS? Thanks for your help, this is way beyond my knowledge and I am uncomfortable giving him advice. Thanks! -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 20:38, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, I've found a complicated case (or so I think). This image was taken from a site that states how their web content can be "republished" with attribution. At the source site there's however nothing said about derivatives or licensing, so the pic is most-likely non-free after all. Which kind of license tag should be applied to it? I guess we could go with a fair-use rationale? De728631 ( talk) 21:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Non-free fair use in|Article}}
would be an appropriate tag and it would also need a FUR, however, at a glance it would appear that this image would fail
WP:NFCC#1 since someone could just take a free photo of the band, and so we can't use the photo (unless there are some exceptional circumstances I'm unaware of).
VernoWhitney (
talk) 21:50, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Non-free fair use in|Article}}
with a rationale then since reusing the image is explicitely allowed.
De728631 (
talk) 22:06, 25 October 2010 (UTC)How do I go about reporting a sockpuppet for blocking. I suspect one. Thanks Fry1989 ( talk) 22:17, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
AHH, there it is. Thanks again. Fry1989 ( talk) 23:01, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
you did a great job on the article about yoshiko chuma. As I have written the text for her website, in the original article, I simply copied some of my (uncited) texts. HOwever, your text is much much better. I have added a few more ciations and links to press articles that exist online. thank you. bashadetroit —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bashadetroit ( talk • contribs) 04:49, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello copyright types,
I created The Bridge in Curve and just want a quick sanity check that I have sufficient originality in the text from the sources used. How's the sport article copy-vio problem going? Need any help there at the moment?
Bigger digger ( talk) 23:22, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Has this [35] all been decided now? Malke 2010 ( talk) 12:15, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
I honestly hate to do this, but I have noticed a user that needs to be dealt with by an admin. I happen to run across what he did while working on the {{ puf}} dissuion board. I spoke to user:NuclearWarfare first (he deleted the first image), but he asked me to bring this up with you. Five days after user:NuclearWarfare deleted this image [36] user user:Uhhmazinq turned around and re-uploaded it on commons here using the same {{ pd-self}} claim. I tagged it to be deleted here. This user has 11 other images on commons and 15 on Wikipedia that have been tagged for having bad copyright claims. I think he need to be delete with by an admin. -- ARTEST4ECHO ( talk| contribs) 00:19, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Mrg. There is a group of six lengthy articles that were created last March by User:Waterfox1 which were copied from this book. See Cold War nuclear legacies for one example. On his user page, Waterfox stated he was using the text and said that he is A. DeVolpi, one of the 4 listed authors. I do believe he is who he says he is. So I listed the articles at CP rather than speedy delete them as obvious copyvios -- thinking that he might want to release the text. (There is no way the text could be rewritten without being a foundational copyright violation, so without a release, it will need to be deleted). My problem is that: even if he is contacted and could somehow provide a release for the text, wouldn't it still require all four of the authors to release it? What do you think? — CactusWriter (talk) 18:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I am sorry to bother you again, you are my copyvio go-to person when I am not sure what to do. I have found an new editor Moviebuff 1990 ( talk · contribs) who is repeatedly creating new articles with copyrighted text. (They are TV articles, and s/he copies the plot from elsewhere. I have cleaned 8 of 13 so far.) I warned the editor several times on their talk page, but s/he is continuing to introduce such articles with copyvios. I was hoping there was a way to temporarily block this person to let them realize this is a serious issue? I can't go to WP:AIV because it is not vandalism. WP:CCI isn't really necessary, it is a new user, and I have been trying to keep up with it. That's just for cleaning, right? (Although I have not found all sources yet, I am certain that each article has copied material.) Where do I go with this? Thanks -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 11:49, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl I have been seeking an admin who knows about copyright issues, to ask about a question regarding a table I would like to add to a Wikipedia article. I have created a table to reproduce a diagram which appears in a number of research papers to explain the psycholinguistic models of reading, which most researchers admit are still incomplete because they still do not fully understand all of the cognitive processes involved in the task of reading. I would like if possible to use the table in the Alexia (acquired dyslexia) article to help explain the various subtypes of Alexia. I have created the table on Sandbox page One of the research papers, review, Aphasia, Alexia, and Oral Reading If it possible to use the table then it would be a key part the next step in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Dyslexia/Proposed organization, and from what you have mentioned on my talk page will require a great deal more organisation to comply with Wikipedia requirements.
This will also now require a new team of editors, as it has become increasingly apparent that my own disability means that i am not really suited to this type of task. dolfrog ( talk) 20:22, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, nice to meet you. I am hear in need of your help an guidance.
Some very important photos of Alex Riel, a Jazz recording artist, are around the Internet. You can find hundreds of them if not thousands. There are four-specific photos which are highly relevant to Mr. Riel's article. Since I started editing, I improved it a lot and it now looks much more balanced. I am planning to expand the article with a Bio section icluding Videos sub section. This recording artist has a rich Jazz history behind. He is 70 years old. He played/recorded extensively with many American greats such as Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Art Farmer, Nat Adderley to name few. He received his "Danish Jazz Musician of the Year" award from the hands of Duke Ellington. A photo depicts that and a 1965 video too. Here [37], here [38] and here at his official site [39] you can see these photos and watch some of the videos.
It is rather important to his article, in terms of Jazz history. Do I have a chance?:-) Cheers and thanks. Fusion is the future ( talk) 19:23, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for a kind response. I hope your headache wasn't triggered by my question.:-) So, it seems I can't use them, even with low resolution.
Mr Riel sent me an e-mail with attached photo and a permission given by the author which I forwarded to Permissions on October 23rd. I am still waiting their response with a ticket#.
I think headache is better than a heartache. Cheers and thanks. Fusion is the future ( talk) 14:58, 29 October 2010 (UTC)