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Hi Moonriddengirl, seriously, can you read the language on the website? Can you verify that it's a legitimate news source by Wiki standards? USchick ( talk) 18:34, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Do you remember how you helped me with the article on Forum for Stable Currencies?
I would like to update it and noticed that the references are not correct.
BUT: there is this 'general notability' remark. Hence I'd like to add the reference to this article: http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/McNeill2009.pdf
And I'd like to make the link from Elizabeth Kucinich who came to the FORUM @ the House of Lords.
Do you think that might help solve the notability issue?
With many thanks in advance for your help,
Sabine Sabine McNeill ( talk) 21:13, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank You!!!
Meanwhile I found the HELP for References. But my additions haven't made the para on notability disappear... :( Sabine McNeill ( talk) 12:42, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
THANKS A LOT once again, dearest Moon Ridden Girl!
Will act on your advice and keep you informed!
Sabine —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.227.120.162 ( talk) 20:12, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
I have my doubts about most of the prose in Postage stamps and postal history of Nepal that is there since the first edit but unfortunately I don't have access to the given source and that editor is not active. It appears the prose may be a verbatim, or plagarised, copy of the source. I will see if one of my philatelic friends can check it but Nepal collectors are a scarce breed. The book is available from Nepal for $60, per a recent Postal Himal book review that states: … It is then followed by the postal history, which is very detailed and I must say that describes the article's prose rather well. Should I just wait and see or take action now? TIA ww2censor ( talk) 03:38, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Where do you need the most help with copyright issues from an administrator. I know the whole area is backlogged, but where would be a good place for me to start? NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 22:09, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
So I stumbled onto something today that might be helpful for copyvio work and thought of you - see the bit at the end of
Wikipedia talk:Credo accounts#Suggested criteria. I'm afraid it's not the tool you've been asking for forever to compare two different webpages, though.
Maybe someone will be able to make the time to code that up for you soon.
VernoWhitney (
talk) 02:45, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey :) so I have created this sandbox: User:AJona1992/Sandbox7 and turned it a worthy article, that contains 7 stub album articles and 5 deleted articles (because they contained the same info) into one. Do you think this was a good idea and can be merged? or will it be tagged deleted (once all the other 7 stub articles are merged to this one)? Thanks! AJona1992 ( talk) 00:39, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again but since you have all the experience perhaps you can figure this one out better than I can. Recently I noticed a user adding this text to the article on Lithuanian Armed Forces:
"The Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces (NDVF) is an important part of Lithuanian Land Force. The Commander of the NDVF is appointed by the Minister of National Defence and is subordinate to the Commander of the Armed Forces. The NDVF is organised along administrative boundaries. It is composed of companies organised into battalions within territorial defence brigades. Each NDVF unit down to battalion level contains regular army officers and a skeletal cadre that directs training and administrative functions. The rest of the NDVF personnel are volunteers who serve with no pay. The volunteers have already successfully participated in international operations in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. The NDVF consists of five territorial units and Lithuanian Grand Duke Butigeidis Dragoon Training Battalion."
It read very "formulaic" to me so I copy pasted the passage into google and came up with this [3] where one of the links was to wn.com (world news something) - the link however led to a video [4]. I'm assuming that the text is in one of the subpages. Since this was added in recently I'm wondering if it isn't a copy/paste from that page.
(Update: I wrote this earlier today but decided to put off asking you before I did some more searching. Then got busy and stuff. Just now, I found that portions of the text are copied from the Nato website [5] - I don't know if that's copyrighted or not). Thanks. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 04:53, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
More from the same user, User:GiW. On the Lithuanian Armed Forces article, chunks of text are copied verbatim from this pdf [7]. On Military Police in Lithuania, it's a copy/paste from [8]. Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces from [9]. This Lithuanian Special Operations Force could also be problematic, with links leading to the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania and the same news aggregator site [10]. This Airspace Surveillance and Control Command (Lithuania) is from here [11]. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 17:36, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG, could you please provide advice at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 March 21, especially the Water Tribe DRV? The argument made is that for our licensing requirements we require attribution of all material in the page history, regardless whether it is in the current article or not. Yoenit ( talk) 09:58, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, just reminding you of your thread on Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Copyright_tool.2C_not_bot.3B_can_somebody_help_anyway.3F. I've whipped up a basic Duplication Detector tool on Toolserver. For curious talk page stalkers, see see demonstration: [12]. Please go ahead and try it out and let me know how it works out for you, if it finds the things you're looking for, if it's fast enough, if you can locate the matching phrases that it identifies, that kind of thing. :-) All feedback appreciated. Dcoetzee 14:51, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Do you know if there is a good place to discuss evolving issues related to copyright, such as Righthaven lawsuits backfire, reduce protections for newspapers. I guess I could post it on the Wikipedia talk:Copyrights, but I wonder if there is a better place for people interested in keeping current?-- SPhilbrick T 20:51, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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Barnstars in general have lost their value through inflation but sometimes they still mean something. I do have to say that this one is more than deserved. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 07:47, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Please can you take a look at the Wiki page of - JS Group
It is continuously being vandalised with copyright infringed material, please can you revert it to previous versions which are fully cited. You have pointed this out before, but this continues to be done, thanks.
220.255.1.162 ( talk) 07:56, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Some time back, you were involved in a series of sockpuppet cases and a CCI case involving Roman888 and his rather sizeable sockfarm. At the same time this was going on, he had a side project disrupting Kitchen Nightmares and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares by pushing inclusion of updates regarding the status of restaurants long after we had consensus to exclude them (the discussions are archived now.) There's a new IP hopper who popped up on Kitchen Nightmares pushing much the same agenda; he's now moved on to Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and is doing the same thing. When he got there, I began to notice some patterns in his writing that seemed familiar, and made me wonder if this might be Roman888 back again. He's editing from the same ISP (Telstra) and hopping between Sydney and Brisbane, AUS thus far; we know he did something similar between Victoria and at least one other city (Melbourne?) previously. Another admin has already semi-protected Kitchen Nighmares, and I've given him a heads up about RKN, but I thought it would be well to let you know what I've noticed given you were very involved in that earlier case. I've also dropped a note on the talk page of the editor who initiated the sockpuppet investigation. Drmargi ( talk) 19:34, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
(outdent) One more quick question, then I'll leave you in peace. I archived the discussion at RKN, and Roman is back, trying to start it again. Does RI extend to talk page contributions as well? I want to be careful, and fair, as well as avoid inflaming the situation. I've left a fairly to the point response suggesting he check on his status, and providing appropriate links. Thank you again for the help and support! Drmargi ( talk) 05:40, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
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Courcelles 05:55, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Great news, many thanks to Dcoetzee. Maybe we could use this to help clear one of the outstanding CCIs, which still has hundreds of entries, I think.
Would it be OK there to put a check mark with a notation 'no matches to the corresponding Banglapedia article that exceeded five words, per this tool'. This doesn't exclude the possibility that article text was copy/pasted from somewhere else; that inhibits some of us from describing it as clear. But would it pass muster for that CCI? Novickas ( talk) 18:41, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey Moon. I ran across a new article on Feb 1st and removed a speedy deletion tag as I felt that there was a claim of notability (satisfying point 1 of WP:ACADEMIC as the subject was part of group that discovered PTSD). Throughout this process, the author identified himself as the subject's son. At least one other editor and I believed that this was an obituary as it seems fairly obvious but were unable to find where the text was previously published. Recently, another user has found that the text was published by The Sacramento Bee on February 6th, 2011 but the text appeared on WP five days before that. It seems obvious that someone in the family, most likely the son and author, either wrote the obituary published by the Sacramento Bee or the Bee gave the subject's son a copy of the obit before it was published and he posted it here. Regardless, I have no idea how to proceed and thought you might have a suggestion. Thanks for your time. OlYeller Talktome 19:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Mission Accomplished! If I missed anything, it was not for lack of trying!
DocOfSoc has given you a breath of Spring to promote
WikiLove and Joy ;-)
— DocOfSoc • Talk • 07:34, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Hope you are doing well; Being the IT personal of JS Group, i have the copyright of the material which i posted on wikipedia from this URL http://www.pak-times.com/2009/05/14/a-self-made-jahangir-siddiqui-in-the-beginning, which you have deleted from wikipedia. some of our rivals are trying to degrade our esteem organization which we cannot tolerate. so you are requested to please restore the material which we posted on 17th March 2011 at 12:38.
your cooperation in this regard will highly appreciated and you may contact us any time on the following numbers
Zahid Khurshid 00923018225993 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bberry91077 ( talk • contribs) 08:16, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
See [15] where I have removed an image that it is alleged to be a copyvio. Could you look at this for me, if I'm in error and there is no problem please feel free to revert. I've no issue otherwise with the edit. Wee Curry Monster talk 12:24, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I am back with the understanding that I am submitting my main page prose to a monitor for a prior review before posting in article space. Hence, I am devoting more time this month to clearing out the GA backlog than to article creation. An editor involved in this review has left this remark questioning my ability to spot copyright violations. Perhaps it would be best if I put forward the name of another expert to review the article for copyright / close paraphrasing problems, which I subjectively feel are present:
The Goal Shooter's main role is to shoot goals.[38] Players in this position can move within the attacking goal third, including the shooting circle.[34][39] This player is often defended by the opposing team's Goal Keeper. The Goal Shooter works closely with Goal Attack in the shooting circle, and work to position themselves to receive passes from the feeding midcourt players.[38]
comes from:
This player must get past the Goal Keeper of the other team. He or she can move within the "attacking" goal third, including the shooting circle.
I recommended quotation from the rulebook over close paraphrase. Please let me know if I can put foward you or another expert to take a look. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 20:23, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
I deleted this as a copyvio of http://www.rude.com.au/biography.php. An IP has said on my talk page that in fact the website copied it from us, and given the longish history of the article, and the way it developed, that seems likely; but there's no way to tell when the website text was posted (is there?) and it displays a copyright notice. What to do? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 14:20, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Okay: strongly indicative of natural evolution, the first edit in 2004 includes this and only this:
Rodney Rude is an Australian stand-up comedian. He is renowned for his low brow humour. He has released 10 albums throughout his long career.
This all looks like seeds of the supposed source:
Rodney Rude (born Rodney Keft in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian 'blue' stand-up comedian, poet and writer. He is infamous for his bawdy humour. He has released 12 albums and 5 videos throughout his long career, all of which are distributed by EMI Music Australia.
I'll look for when our text altered. If there's good separation of time and contributors, it strongly suggests we wrote it. I may take notes here as I go. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
What I would suggest we do at this point is restore the text and place {{ backwardscopy}} at the article's talk page. I'll be happy to do that, if you like, since I'm familiar with the template. :) They shouldn't be displaying a copyright notice for Wikipedia text, but I generally leave that up to the editors to deal with, if they like. I've only tried to address misattribution or licensing once or twice, and I have never once had it go well. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:41, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear moonriddengirl.
I am an environmental student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Recently there has been a huge raise in concern levels amongst numerous parties, regarding the interest Shell (and 4 other petrochemical companies) has shown in drilling for Natural Gas (fracking) in our Karoo. The extensive Karoo landscape of South Africa comprises largely untouched arid farm lands, home to many endangered species, both plant and animal. Water is also a very scarce resource in these areas.
Through having become involved with this subject quite closely, my research lead me to some information that exists, but has been removed. I wanted to inquire from you as to the reason behind this removal? Below are the titles of the extinct Wikipedia links:
I would be greatly appreciative if you could help me out with this. This is a major concern for our country, (and I mean that with total conviction).
Thanks for your help
Kind regards
Liam May
University of Cape Town Energy Research Center Cape Town South Africa —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.132.136.119 ( talk) 19:23, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this page? Bit of a mess. It's clearly been lifted from a copyrighted document (as it admits in the text) but the article creator also claims to be the original author so it's possible we could get the right releases. User:RadioFan tagged it for G12 speedy but I converted this to using a copyvio tag given it's possible we'll get permission. They've now restored the speedy tag with the edit summary "there are significant concerns with the content (see AFD), not seeing the need to save it.", this despite two keeps at AfD. As far as I can see given the keeps at AfD it's not a valid speedy for anything other than a copyright problem and speedy is probably not the best way to deal with the copyright problem. While typing this the article has been deleted by User:NawlinWiki. Any advice. (Will let NawlinWiki know about this). Dpmuk ( talk) 20:49, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
can you please block me from posting things
Nikkotg ( talk) 00:32, 24 March 2011 (UTC).
nikkotg
On Jon M. Huntsman School of Business (which you had looked at before, and removed large chunks of for copyvios), an editor has determined that the source that was copied from (a school brochure) is licensed CC-BY-SA and GFDL. As such, xe re-added the info. While I'm still in the process of editing it (we don't need nearly the same level of details that is in the brochure), I vaguely recall that we're supposed to add some sort of template to show that the text isn't plagiarism (i.e., attribution). I place a "CCBYSASource" template in the reference section in this edit. Is this the correct template, even though the original is GFDL licensed? And does this go here, or on the talk page? Or is this not even necessary at all? Qwyrxian ( talk) 05:42, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Sangeen01 ( talk) 03:22, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Please help me remove the "Possible copyright infringement" the article was written and used is in the public domain, and is already under a license suitable for Wikipedia. I am a memeberof the potiical party, it was translated from a foriegn language and was provided to all interested parties to publish on any of the sites including http://afghanmellat.eu. You can always write to them and confirm my statment to fahim.wardag@afghanmellat.eu The Afghan Mellat UK Jerga would be delighted if the content is published on Wikipedia to world about this great man.
Thank you in advance.
Hello there,
As you suggested, I have asked the content owner to send an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Please resolve this item now.
Thank you in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sangeen01 ( talk • contribs) 01:33, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Copied from my talk page: I noticed that you had warned Grinevitski ( talk · contribs) for plagiarising material in Cyrus Cylinder. I've found that he has done the same on Sadeq Hedayat, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Ferdinand Eisenstein, copying large chunks of material from http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Hedayat/Hedlife.html and the book Carl Friedrich Gauss: titan of science. The Eisenstein article now unfortunately contains many plagiarised sections [21]. In fact, I haven't found a non-trivial edit by Grinevitski that isn't straightforward plagiarism. Given all the copyright warnings on his page, I think a block would be advisable. I'll see if I can clean up the plagiarism later on today. Prioryman ( talk) 08:23, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Okay, there's not a lot here. That's good. I'll list it out for quick checking. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:13, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
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The SCV backlog (including all of today's taggings) is completely cleared out now for what I think is the first time this year! I also finally got to use {{ OGL-text}} on not one but two articles today which used some nice freely licensed material courtesy of the UK government. It's looking to be a good day. ^_^ VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hypothetically, let's say I wanted to add an image to this article, since he was also instrumental in the revolution. I think someone like that should have a picture in their biography. But the image itself (unless there's one of the self-immolation) would not be the subject of discussion in the article. Which means NFCC would be a bear. So free-content would be the only way...? Curious if you have any comments or suggestions, wise one. Ocaasi c 19:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Sangeen01 ( talk) 23:30, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there,
As you suggested, I have asked the content owner to send an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. He has done that. Here is a copy of the email:
Please resolve this item.
Thank you in advance.
Sangeen01 (
talk) 01:36, 25 March 2011 (UTC) oops apologies, I didn't how to alert you to resolve the page. Thank you any way for letting me know...
Hi. A couple of days ago you blocked the IP User:99.59.87.102 at my instigation. The editor is now making the same edits (adding unsourced birth & death information to Margie Hines) as User:99.34.90.244. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 00:39, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
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For all of your great work with copyright infringement Jessy T/ C 00:52, 25 March 2011 (UTC) |
This is frustrating, I feel as if all my efforts & contributions were in vain. I've spent much of my valuable time contributing to certain articles and you just deleted them all! Almost ALL the knowledge in Wikipeda is in one way or another from encyclopedias, text-books and websites, no doubt there will be similarities. If you erased them simply because I didn't cite the sources then you could have just let me know and I'd have added them myself. I just forgot to mention the sources for the Bernhardt, Eisenstein, Dirichlet, Hedayat articles. Besides many of the sentences were completely rephrased/re-written, NOT copied! Perhaps only short phrases remained the same, but under US law, copyright does not extend to short phrases. Besides, if you actually knew so well that it came from Encyclopedia Britannica, why didn't you bother to add that to the article yourself? Instead you erased my entire contributions. As if I had all the spare time in the world to type it in. Remarkable.
-- Grinevitski ( talk) 04:13, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there,
I've been editing the Wallsend Football Club page, which has subsequently been edited more so by yourself and others. Firstly, sorry about a few of Wikipedia formatting breaches; this is the first time I've used it. It's a little hard when the guidelines to an ideal page are endless and extensive.
I'll admit to some bias, I wasn't aware of that, but now I understand. However, some sections, namely the information sourced from the website has been removed, About page and so on. While you're probably thinking you made the right decision to remove the information due to the copy/pasting, I wrote what was on the website. I guess that is more a referencing issue? In terms of the removal of the history section, that's also part of the club's property, written for the club. What's the process there? Re-write the whole section while lacing it with quotes and facts from the original?
Finally, not having a dig at you, but the article is classed as "Low-importance." Now is that a customary approach to all football clubs at a similar level, or are you degrading its importance based on your knowledge of the club? I don't necessarily understand how this importance scale works.
If you'd like to pin-point areas of the article that you do not deem appropriate so I can adequately fix them, I'd appreciate it.
Best,
Anthokoch ( talk) 14:45, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
The three clubs have all enjoyed stellar success down the years, stemming from a desire to achieve and be recognised as the premier club in Northern NSW. Unfortunately, poorer times have seen the clubs' domination of the region diminish, but their history will always earn the respect it ought to.
Any chance you can revert revert this move? See the talk page? The singular naming is simply wrong. ww2censor ( talk) 21:47, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Hammouda Salhi, I am using the Nickname of: Milham Kabbani on Wikipedia. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that I am the author of the Article on "English-Arabic Parallel Corpus of United Nations Texts". I have copied this text onto my own web site ( http://hammouda-salhi.webs.com/eapcount.htm). When you raised the copyright problem I deleted the page once for all and created a new one containing a link to the original Wikipedia article. As for the other link you mentioned, It is again my own presention where I mentioned this Corpus. Therefore, I hereby confirm that I am the owner of the copyright of the three sources of information on this EAPCOUNT. Thank you in advance for your kind understanding Hammouda Salhi
Hammouda Salhi
41.227.116.148 (
talk) 18:48, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Moonriddengirl. The requsted email has been sent from hammouda_s(at)hotmail(dot)com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milhim Kabbani ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I have sent you a mail. -- Supreme Deliciousness ( talk) 10:54, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
I was sorry to see that the article on Ernesta Ballard had been deleted, apparently fairly recently (Jan '11). Do you still know what the problem was specifically (I realize it was copyright related), and how it might be corrected? I am not an author of the article, but I am an admirer of hers and know some members of her family. Does an archived version of the deleted article exist, from which someone might get some help or a jumpstart in starting over? 108.2.147.192 ( talk) 02:11, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Just to double check before I go and upset a bunch of people: am I correct in that the latest advice from counsel means that the lists need to be removed from all of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars series of articles since they're creative? VernoWhitney ( talk) 20:29, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
You may remember a little while back I removed a lot of text from this article as a copyright infrimgement. Now some of that removed text has been re-added by the editor that originally added it. The problem is, apart from one sentence I can't find a source for what they've re-added so far. I'd originally removed it under the assumption that all their edits were suspect. If it wasn't for the one sentence ("To honor the brave and gallant men who fought those bitter battles of the Civil War 70 years before, blue was selected for the Union and gray for the Confederacy." taken from [28]) I'd probably be assuming good faith and thinking they were only re-introducing text that wasn't copyrighted but that one sentence gives me doubts. Could you take a look please as a) I'm unsure how to proceed and b) I think this may now need admin intervention (even if only in the sense that most novice editors seem to take more notice of admins). Dpmuk ( talk) 21:36, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could you comment here about a copyright issue. Thanks, Mathsci ( talk) 10:41, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey Moonriddengirl. First of all, I hope all is well with you and as ever, my best to you for all the good you do around here. I have a specific question, and then a general one, both relating to copyright of images and fair use. Neither are urgent in any way, but would certainly help my understanding of fair use!
Firstly, I'm interested in expanding Terry Butcher. Perhaps not well known to you but he is very famous for his "blood-soaked headband" (see a simple Google image search), so much so that he has it on the front cover of his autobiography. This injury has been often written about, (to put it into context, he smashed his head to bits, got patched up, bled on throughout the remainder of the match, and hence the famous photos) but there are, as far as I know, no free images available. Do you think it would be fair use, when discussing this iconic image, to use a low-res fair use-licenced image?
Secondly, and on a related but different note, I was wondering about the "impossible to re-create" stuff I've read in fair use rationales for some images. When Diego Maradona scored his "hand of God" goal against England in 1986 (see here for examples), it became perhaps the most iconic photo in modern soccer history. Now this cannot be recreated either, well not as far as I can tell. Can a low-res image of this be used under fair use?
I do apologise in advance if I'm asking the wrong question of the wrong person that perhaps has been asked far too many times, but I've always wondered about this fair use "cannot be recreated" (my words) get-out clause. As ever, thanks for your time and energy here. The Rambling Man ( talk) 19:28, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Left a note at Talk:Mark Nauseef regarding content permission. Adrignola ( talk) 20:13, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Please can you hlep me add this information to wikipedia, I work for GfK Retail and Technology and hold the international copyright for this product.
I dont want to promote the product, just explain what it is. Please find the text below.
Thanks Will Morrison International Marketing (Digital Media) GfK Retail and Technology Tel. +49 911 395 2319 Fax +49 911 395 4046 william.morrison@gfk.com GfK Retail and Technology Global: http://www.gfkrt.com GfK TEMAX (Technical Market Index): http://www.gfktemax.com
"GfK TEMAX (Technical Market Index)
GfK Retail and Technology’s index tracks technical consumer goods markets in 34 countries worldwide. GfK TEMAX (Technical Market Index) is designed to support decision makers from Industry and Retail in obtaining substantiated facts about their markets.
GfK Retail and Technology is the world's leading market researcher tracking technical consumer goods in more than 80 countries.
Reports and press releases are published on a quarterly basis in February, May, August and November at macro level for the following markets:
Like-for-like comparisons with corresponding periods in previous years reveal fundamental developments in the technical consumer goods market and also identify trends and volumes specific to particular market segments. Explanatory background information, such as the impact of major trade fairs, international sporting events or significant changes in tax policy, is also provided.
Statistics are produced in both tabular and diagram form. Starting with full year 2008 data, GfK TEMAX reports are available for selected countries together with corresponding press releases in English and local languages on this website.
GfK TEMAX findings are based on the retail panel surveys of GfK Retail and Technology which are carried out continuously in over 80 countries worldwide." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gfkrt ( talk • contribs) 14:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Bonjour Moonriddengirl, I would like to recreate this page http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Co-ordinated_organisations&action=edit&redlink=1 which was deleted by User talk: MLauba on 23 February 2010 for CopyVio. I have put the new proposal in my Sandbox, it is a translation of a page of the French Wikipedia, and I hope there is no CopyVio this time - although, of course, I used some web data which I quote in the text and in the footnotes (inter alia, EU web, and OECD) in addition to my knowledge of these institutions, and of recent news. Unfortunately, MLauba is on "indefinite Wikibreak" (which is a pity for the Wiki community I think..), so could you have a look at my proposal or indicate a way to have it checked for acceptability? Thanks in advance for your time and help, User:GillesAuriault Gilles 21:13, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Just a courtesy note to let you know I closed the interaction ban on Wjemather last night, and added your idea of him contacting you directly with CCI concerns. I'd have checked if this was OK with you before closing, but it you did volunteer (:P) and it seems non-contentious. Let me know if there are any issues :) - Errant ( chat!) 08:14, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! I copied the full text of a USA Today article that appears not to be available without cost online to a talk page, in collapsed form. The subject area is so contentious that I thought citing to a behind-a-paywall source would evoke suspicion, but perhaps I did wrong? You can see the USA Today source, in collapsed format, in this section on the talk page. Please feel free to revert this edit if I've been bad, or just let me know here, if you'd prefer, and I'll do so myself, if I've violated fair use.
I've never met a Queen of Malapropisms, before: very cool! I'm no good at those, I regret to say. But you might enjoy knowing that while I was rummaging in our refrigerator I once said to my girlfriend, "Didn't we have some veg-over leftables?" This seems especially charming to me because (to be candid) I said it ... but also because I just learned it might appropriately be categorized as a kniferism and forkerism, which seems very apt! Best, – OhioStandard ( talk) 10:52, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Oh, and then there was the really adorable nine-year old kid from next door that we took to lunch at KFC one afternoon, and who, while we were there, earnestly and repeatedly insisted we were dining at "KenFriarTucky Chicken". He had and his brother had just seen a Robin Hood movie, and acting out its scenes had become a favorite bit of play. When he finally was able to grok what he was saying he had had the giggles for about an hour over it. Too cute! – OhioStandard ( talk) 11:04, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Could you please revert the Diablada article to the version which was agreed upon between me and User:Erebedhel (Proof: [29])? Which would be this one: [30]. As stated before, User:Erios30 is coming over from the Spanish WP with the goal to do in the English WP what the admins and users in the Spanish WP did not allow him. By protecting the article under his version, you're giving the guy wings to keep his plans in motion. Best regards.-- MarshalN20 | Talk 12:51, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
filed 3/23, needed to be re-tagged 3/30 as original author removed the tag. page history. The author is still trying to tinker with the article despite the template. With the need to re-tag the article, it's possible it got caught in the shuffle. Thanks, We hope ( talk) 19:24, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
To me, it seems to be an SPA dedicated to the promotion of the subject of the article. Saw the YouTube, Facebook and Twitter links be removed by others and re-added (still there) by the original author. Actually backed into this copyvio because of an uploaded file (non free, subject living) for the article. When I went to tag the image, I started reading and doing some comparing. We hope ( talk) 19:57, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I was at the 04/01 SPI for Jimbo when I noticed the section just above had a copyright question I think you would be perfect to consider answering. I am curiously interested based on the premise. If you are able, and as always, much appreciation. My76Strat ( talk) 05:31, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
FYI I've added a template {{ dupdet}} that makes it easy to link to Duplication Detector reports, like this:
{{
dupdet|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Silard%7Chttp://arh.pub.ro/mcristea/Silardcv.htm}}
Thought you might find it handy. :-) I was pondering if I should have a bot add links like this to CP to streamline things further. Dcoetzee 21:15, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
{{
dupdet|Andrei Silard|
http://arh.pub.ro/mcristea/Silardcv.htm}}
Hi. Congrats for your recent the contributions on Russ Nelson. I just wanted to ask you to be cautious with the use of self published sources, specially those published by Mr. Nelson himself and people close to him. There's a lot of self-promotion among those celebrity-programmers. Of course his weblog is an acceptable source for simple information like his father's name, but we need an independent reference for all self-serving information he promotes about himself.
That said, I want to repeat that your work there is great an much appreciated. -- Damiens.rf 17:54, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please cast your experienced eyes over this MCQ thread? The new template may be 100% legal and correct for all I know, but it could be seriously damaging to leave an incorrect fair-use template lying around. -- John of Reading ( talk) 06:48, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks a lot for [31] + [32]- I delete - Our french is better than my english - Have a good day - -- Lomita ( talk) 10:20, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi - would appreciate your input with respect to this discussion, notably the image's fair use in the Stuxnet article. Thanks in advance. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 11:53, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG, been a while. I've been off and come back to see that it looks like we have a reincarnation of User:Vrghs jacob -- Chindia (China-India) ( talk · contribs). His last unblock request stated that if he wasn't going to be unblocked he's going to come back and do the same stuff under a new account. Same articles, same behavior (especially at commons where he's been uploading images from the same flickr account -- copyvios from Vrghs jacob's flickr!!), see Central Secretariat Service as an example. Do you think this is ducky enough? cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 09:50, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, many thanks on fixing copyvios made by the (currently) blocked user on Rajiv Gandhi. I was getting suspicious when I saw the Flickr image having Vrghs Jacob's name, but fell short on reporting; Looks like SpacemanSpiff has done the honours. Thanks again! Regards, Yes Michael? • Talk 13:24, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
This post at MCQ re a quotation on Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear which is probably right up your street if you don't watch the page. ww2censor ( talk) 15:46, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. I am encouraged by your declarations of good intent on your user page to approach you, after some months of consideration, about a post by you at WP:ANI that seems to me to contain an egregious lapse in judgement. Can we seek a better understanding here? The subject is my exchange with user APL here. It must be apparent that I asked a question then APL responds with a question about my honesty. It must also be accepted that I may give a factual and civil reply to a question. To "Are you confused about my meaning...?" I replied "I can guess what you tried....to write", which is simply true and relevant to the question whether I am somehow pretending dishonestly not to understand. That was never the case. (I don't object to the question having being asked.) The sensitive issue is that a minor punctuation error really had been made. APL agrees that error was made. It was unquestionably a failure to follow the grammatical rules of English. English is the language of this Wikipedia and its rules are also documented in Wikipedia using reliable sources. Almost everyone including myself make such occasional errors and it would be indefensible for someone's pride to get in the way of editing out such errors in Wikipedia articles (done voluntarily) or paper publications (done by copy editors who are paid for their work), or even pointing to such an error as is the case here. I read with incredulity your judgement "I can guess what you tried and failed to write in English". This is absolutely unacceptable. I am hopeful that you will reply constructively here. Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 13:14, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
See User:Moonriddengirl#What I do elsewhere -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:28, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. Like you, I have been trying to keep the Sami Yusuf page accurate, balanced, neutral and reliably sourced. I find it rather difficult at the moment because of the flood of subjective fan-like edits by user:Turquoise21. I am at a loss as to how to get rid of his peacock sentences and weazel words without painstakingly going through the entire page sentence-by-sentence again. I have tried to remove the peacock sentences by undoing his latest edits, but the peacock template seems to stop me from doing this via the "undo" facility. Any ideas? Regards GorgeCustersSabre ( talk) 20:46, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, Moonriddengirl. Thank you very kindly for your advice. I am grateful to you. I suspect that I'll have to watch the Yusuf page very carefully. My regards, GorgeCustersSabre ( talk) 19:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC) :)
The additions by Ernetti ( talk · contribs) look like clear copyvio; google indicates they existed on websites prior to the addition. So, I reverted to the prior version.
I think, probably, the intermediate revisions should be deleted? If you agree, could you do so? There's little other editing, so this one seems quite simple, I think.
Cheers, Chzz ► 13:11, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I changed the license template of File:Pasteur_Model.jpg to Template:Non-free fair use in. I think this resolves the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 April 2#Template:Non-free book scan. Template:Non-free book scan is therefore no longer used and thus (as far as I know) suitable for deletion. I copied the Wiki-Markup of the template to a subpage in my userspace to preserve it for possible future use, should consensus ever be reached to allow its use. I apologize for any trouble this template has caused. I still think the template does neither break US law, nor Wikipedia policy. It was never my intention to stimulate misleading beliefs of the usability of non-free content on Wikipedia.
Sincerely, Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 20:10, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm an Algerian PhD student and I work on Fuzzy SQL queries with a French university laboratory. I was surprised to see that the FSQL article has been deleted. I understand now the reasons of that deletion but I was wondering:
I see that the Spanish Wikipedia didn't delete the es:FSQL article but I'm not very comfortable with Spanish. -- Amine Brikci N ( talk) 08:40, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
You state that you have a "catch and release" philosophy to copyright, yet you are still haunting me. I created a page for Hill Place using a précis of available material, with the permission of the copyright owner. This then created an ongoing battle which has left me in the position of not really feeling like I can contribute without every edit I make being criticised for copyright. Whilst I understand your position, I don’t agree with the actions you have taken. Perhaps you wish to explain as I have read your talk page. Hennahairgel ( talk) 14:25, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moodriddengirl, Can you tell me why the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scanlan was deleted? Many thanks, John Flaherty Grand Island, NE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.135.23.209 ( talk) 15:37, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! Just wanted to let you know that if you find any copyvio problems on any article with a WPEQ tag, we are pretty active over there, so please feel free to ask us to fix any problems that come to your attention. Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 19:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Another ( talk page stalker) - on a related note - would you would be willing to add your voice in support of this proposal to add confirmed copyvio notices to Article Alerts? Wikipedia_talk:Article_alerts/Feature_requests#Copyvio.2Fproject_intersect. Project members may be willing and able to act before coreopsis sets in. Novickas ( talk) 21:18, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Here's my thinking on when to notify: I notify when either (a) notification will advise the contributor a policy that they may not understand and help prevent future issues or (b) notification will help establish a pattern of repeated issues that may lead to a CCI or sanctions. In this particular case, the contributor who placed the content has been notified of copyright policies, so (a) is not necessary. It's relatively minor, and I didn't see a history in talk page to suggest that (b) is going to be necessary. That said, looking at it in more depth now, I do notice another issue. We may need to double-check some of the ones he's marked cleared to make sure that his marking them wasn't based on the same misunderstanding that led to his placing the content here. :/ -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:19, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
{{subst:Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Banglapedia (source)/Note|article}}
, substituting in (of course) the name of the article. If you like it, I'll note it at the CCI page. If you don't like it but like the idea, let's talk about how to make it better. :) The language is straight off the top of my head. --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 15:11, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
I understand that you are the go-to girl on copyright issues. Svea Orden is an automatic translation of the official webpage of this society. I pointed this out to the page creator nearly two months ago, but there has been no reaction since (see User talk:Alla7). He/she has only created a few pages, all with similar problems. -- Hegvald ( talk) 19:54, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
{{subst:copyvio|url=http://....}}
on the article. Once that's done, it generates its own templates for listing at
WP:CP and notifying the contributor. I'll be happy to help, if you like, but I'd need you to please give me the precise URLs that are being machine translated. :) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 20:11, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Would you take a look at Template talk:Did you know#Post-detection policies? At issue here is whether the content at Post-detection policies#IAA SETI Declaration of Principles is a copyright violation. I think the attribution is sufficient (the {{ blockquote}} template), though I believe such a large quote may violate WP:NFCC. Would you advise new user Boonefrog ( talk · contribs) and myself about what to do? Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 05:10, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Content can be fully and perfectly attributed, but still follow too closely on the source to meet our mandate to write content from scratch (except for brief excerpts). Can you elaborate on this for me? I was under the impression that it was acceptable to lift text from one of my articles and place it into another. Hawkeye7 ( talk) 22:31, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Moonridden girl. I am not an experienced editor but like to contribute to a better bio of the band. So far it is not really that good, it kinda rattles. Also the history is actually wrong: Ronny Moorings and Anke Wolbert started the band in Nijmegen in 1983 . The other 2 Nooten and Weyzig only joined the band in 1984 AFTER the release of the said Sunsequent Pleasures EP. I base this on the numerous interviews and bios you can find all over the web. "Funny" that only WIki makes this mistake. I ask you to look into this as I saw a lot of confusion going on with this.
I added some quotes just to spice a dull summing up of releases and quoting some phrases as was allowed with the negative Best of Clan Of Xymox review or Nootens " "To be honest I never listen to pop music" | which I find irrelevant..
Apart from that I thank you for keeping an eye on the page. If you want I can submit edit suggestions to you and you can approve them or not..or I am willing to argue some point (when I have time :) 567fuall ( talk) 13:32, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Just checking in. Things are getting a bit tense over the issue. Obviously, the editor does not agree that close paraphrasing is a problem because she check with one of her professors who used the "John Smith was born on July 1, 1940." example as permissible. In this case, the article paraphrases websites which explain the rules of a game. In my opinion, such content is copyrightable and not mere facts without literary expression. She has now gone to a dozen places claiming "I've been unfairly accused of plagiarism," even though I am careful not to use that word and not to attribute the problem text to any particular editor. I have zero credibility with her and her friends. So we really need an expert well-versed in Wikipedia policy to take a look. I've cited WP:PARAPHRASE and she has cited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism#What_is_not_plagiarism because she feels that the website's presentation of the rules is "the simplest and most obvious way to present information." I have recommended putting quotation marks around the text, but she rejects that.
On a somewhat related issue, who is the best person to consult regarding on-wiki Trademark infringement problems? Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 04:42, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Hmm. Being an avowed enemy to organized team sports, I may be missing some nuances. :) But a 1996 issue of The Bulletin ( [41], alas only viewable in snippet) says, "Australia - winner of seven of the nine world championships since 1963 - is still the dominant force in netball, which has now been recognised as an Olympic sport, although it lacks the vital ingredient of a politically aggressive..." something. I don't know; the snippet cuts off there (see the quote at [42]). The BBC said, in January of this year, "The International Olympic Committee approved netball as an Olympic sport in 1995, but it has still failed to gain classification as a participation sport at the games, and lost out to rugby sevens and golf for Rio 2016."< [43]> Just a week or so ago, The Voice online wrote, "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved netball as an Olympic sport in 1995 but it has never gained classification as a participation sport at the Games." [44].
The Olympics website clarifies that "To make it onto the Olympic programme, a sport first has to be recognised: it must be administered by an International Federation which ensures that the sport's activities follow the Olympic Charter. If it is widely practised around the world and meets a number of criteria established by the IOC session, a recognised sport may be added to the Olympic programme on the recommendation of the IOC's Olympic Programme Commission." 2006's Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement says, "Netball has never been contested at the Olympic Games, even as a demonstration sport. However, it's governing body, the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA), is recognized by the International Olympics Committee.( Mallon, Bill; Ian Buchanan (2006). Historical dictionary of the Olympic movement. Scarecrow Press. p. 189. ISBN 9780810855748. Retrieved 7 April 2011., bolding in original)
Based on that, it seems that netball has cleared recognition and its administering body has been recognized, but it has not yet become a participation sport? I'm not really sure about approaching the attorney on this one. I try to do that only when we're absolutely against a wall, and in this case we have reliable sources that do seem to use the term "Olympic sport" in reference to this game. :/ -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:10, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I am attempting to solve a copyright problem on our page: [ [45]].
I believe we need to send an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org? Is this correct?
I have prepared the following email to be addressed to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org.
I hereby affirm that I, Paul Rogers am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of LogZilla, LLC and all of the content published at www.logzilla.pro. I agree to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).] I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project. Paul Rogers, CEO of LogZilla, LLC I have the full authority of LogZilla, LLC to enter into this agreement. April 7, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogZilla
Would this clear up our issues? Any guidance or comment you may provide is most appreciated.
Thank you,
Paul Rogers Paulrogerslogzilla ( talk) 16:16, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please delete the article David Lee Smith. It was proposed for deletion but that simply isnt enough. it is infringing on this website. Thanks MRG. You rock. Jessy ( talk) ( contribs) • 22:01, April 7, 2011 ( UTC)
copied from the talk page at the The Fiscal Times entry.
I'm at least relieved that the editing is now serious. The above history has not been professional and this current shift is a welcome one after the previous back and forth edits. However as for neutrality, I beg to differ. Were it I to stop this dispute by contacting Wikipedia 'authorities', the balance would have had to be against the recent pro-fiscal times edit, and thus neutrality would have been for example to reinstate a clear criticism section, albeit with certain 'correcting'.
I am not a professional news person, nor am I being paid for this crusade. Jackieleo and the other anonymous ips are associated with the Fiscal Times. I do not have their resources, so when I'm not familiar with Wikipedia procedures (technically a 'bureaucracy', however benign), and I see my edits as reactions to a self-interested entry, I see it appropriate to work as an automat and not to begin a new process. The Fiscal Times have employees that can do this.
As result, this recent edit would be more welcome for Fiscal Times than it should be with people concerned with the proper use of Wikipedia as an independent community tool. Businesses creating, embellishing and protecting their own controversial entries are not native members of this community. They are interested parties. As long as an entry can clearly be shown to have been dominated by an interested party (jackieleo), any subsequent edit that comes as a direct response is completely appropriate. When texts have been copied without reference from the their website, it is justified to have criticism that answers directly to claims of non-partisanship (copied word for word from fiscaltimes.com) by contrasting it with existing arguments saying the publication is part of an advocacy network.
As long as you go to great lengths to resolve this dispute, by actually rewriting many of the sections, or recontextualizing by way of removal, then please pay mind to the fact that there probably could have still been a "criticism" section without hurting the 'structure' or integrity of the entry. News sources linking this publication which runs a "debt watch" section with other Peterson funded advocacy operations dealing specifically with national debt could be quoted as arguing that advocacy is taking place, not just bias.
Wikipedia itself is in spirit meant to work as a balance to institutional and interested information sources. It has become perhaps the most important such balance. When it becomes clear that now interested parties manage their own entries, it is the role of the community to make sure every such entry is equipped with an unmovable criticism section. A criticism section gives voice to controversiality. Not having one, or contextualizing criticism within 'history', whitewashes criticisms into noncontroversial sections. Just think of the Environmental Record section on the ExxonMobil entry being under History, with a neutralizing view to each point.
You should look into the fallacy of "neutrality" in the sciences. Sometimes neutrality is achieved through balancing an inherently imbalanced situation.
Regarding calling out people on self-editing, please take a look at WikiScanner#Wikipedia_reaction. I recall that at the time these self edits were mentioned in criticism sections. Checking now, it is disturbing to see that the Pepsico entry doesn't even have a criticism section. More to the point perhaps is the Conrad_Burns#Untoward_editing_of_Wikipedia section. Wikinews is the qouted source here, and it is part of the Wikimedia Foundation. Is it the foundation's policy to view Wikipedia manipulations by politicians more "wikinews" worthy than manipulation by self-legitimized news sources? I see your point of needing an external source, but where is the balance for the real-life editor of the Fiscal Times acting also as the main wikipedia editor for the fiscal times, in obvious conflict of interest? in handing them back their entry to play with?
joeav Joeav ( talk) 00:15, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I lack words in English to express how important you are for this project, and how much you have encouraged me in working hard and good, so i`ll keep it simple: Happy Wikibirthday to our beloved Girl. Zidane tribal ( talk) 17:53, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, there seems to a commonly used interpretation of WP:QUOTEFARM (in turn reliant on WP:NPS) that quotations in citations are a copyright problem and the QUOTE essay is used to justify deletion of quotations from citations. I have come across this before but the current case in point is this instance of multiple quote deletions by Acroterion with the rationale "...please don't quote within refs - there are copyright issues we needn't get into". Admittedly the quotations are extensive but these were added in the light of the article being up for deletion on the basis of a lack of independent reliable sources and with the likely prospect of the quotations being integrated into the article in the future, at which point they would be naturally trimmed down. Without quotations many of the citations would lack sufficient context to understand why they are relevant (the article titles would not be obvious) and many have no free online version for the layman reader to check and understand the context for themselves. There is some earlier discussion at User talk:Fæ#Quotes in refs.
If you would like to give an opinion this might help future similar discussion where this approach might be used for an article rescue with multiple citations. As I see it the key questions are:
Thanks, Fæ ( talk) 09:27, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, you removed content for 11 revisions as article had copyright issues, but why didn't you care of my two edits - one for tagging the article for wikification and other of language temp of Hindi; you should at least exempt the lang-hi temp. Bill william compton Talk 23:41, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Natalia Ioana Olaru and I am a final year master student in the Corporate Communication programme at the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. I am currently working on my final paper on the topic of user motivation to create content on collaborative media websites, the focus being Wikipedia. As a sample I chose the English and Danish portals. I would like to invite you for an online interview on the topic of what motivates you, to participate in editing and creating articles for this platform. I plan on doing the actual interviews in the period between 1st and the 15th of May via Skype, MSN or Yahoo Messenger. I am, however, open to other channels of communication too. Please let me know if you would like to participate in this interview and the preferred channel.
Thank you, Natalia Olaru Email: natalia.ioana.olaru@gmail.com MulgaEscu ( talk) 12:53, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you take a quick look at this article for me if you have a moment. To me it's a clear copyvio of [46] (it's not word for word but pretty close) and so a G12. However an IP has now twice removed my speedy tag. Rather than continue to add the tag and then have it removed before an admin has a chance to look at it I thought I'd see if the friendly copyright admin had a little bit of spare time. Thanks. Dpmuk ( talk) 21:02, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I'm Joe Fab. Could you tell me why you changed the page about me? I see a notation "blatant copyright violation" -- can you please tell me what items on the page caused you to think that was being done? Thanks in advance!
98.191.210.88 ( talk) 19:27, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG and stalkers. Would anybody so kind to link me the article/website comparison tool presented here a while ago? I seem to have lost the link to it and it would be quite useful now. Yoenit ( talk) 20:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello my page 'Be The Bear' was recently deleted, the band has done music for two TV commercials so I thought they meritted inclusion here, I didn't have time to add this on the talk page as rationale before it was speedily deleted. Can you help? Bunnyman78 ( talk) 06:36, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Great job on the reverse copyvio on Peter Roget!! -- Nczempin ( talk) 14:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please review my responses at commons:User_talk:Fetchcomms#Please_provide_a_policy and commons:Template_talk:No_permission_since#Rediculous? I'm trying to find a policy that explicitly says that we need explicit permission, and that AGFing that permission was given to "trusted" or experienced users is not enough. Thanks in advance, / ƒETCH COMMS / 15:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Any chance you want to grab Ticket:2011041310026732? It's another one of those state copyright deals, so I'd like to be extra sure on it. VernoWhitney ( talk) 01:01, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, in case you haven't seen them, I have requested your opinion on some misinformation that Dijcks is placing in the vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome articles. For one issue in the vasectomy article, he wrote a combative edit summary, and the sources he is providing for his claims on the preferred method of vasectomy do not support his point-of-view claims. Please assist when you have the chance. Best wishes. Giancoli ( talk) 01:25, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Can you check out File:Defender-of-Tall-Buildings.jpg as the uploader claims an OTRS ticket was issued but it does not seem to have been applied to the image? TIA. ww2censor ( talk) 04:20, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I invite you to a short survey about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." cooldenny ( talk) 15:01, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the administrative action you took in this matter. Thank you very much for all the work you do here. It is appreciated. Cullen328 ( talk) 15:44, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I can't find the answer to this anywhere, so I've come to the Copyright Oracle. Free software is normally provided under a variety of licenses very different from the documentation type licenses used for Wikipedia text. CC-BY-SA can perhaps cover software, especially for new contributions. But what about using free software libraries provided by others under licenses such as the LGPL or the standard GPL? I write a lot of user scripts used in the management of Wikipedia. They aren't part of the encyclopedia, but they are loaded on the site and executed by many others. Can I incorporate software licensed under the LGPL into my scripts if I retain the original author attribution? Technically, the edit window doesn't permit such a license. In some cases, I have seen scripts marked as copyrighted by the author, while also being provided under one of the free licenses. Note that the LGPL permits use in proprietary products while the GPL does not. Others sometimes use a free MIT license, the only restriction on which is a disclaimer of all warranties. Thanks! — UncleDouggie ( talk) 17:20, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Per the ANI thread, I agree although I did not have time to comment and pile on. I just want to tell you that you made the correct decision. I have had to save and clean up many of this user's misguided attempts at clean-up, most recently Amy Krouse Rosenthal, which I took from Wuhwazdat's speedy tagging to the main page's DYK section in a week. Bearian ( talk) 16:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
For banning User:Wuhwuzdat from nominating more articles for deletion. Bearian ( talk) 16:52, 14 April 2011 (UTC) |
Wow! Thank you. :) Seriously, though, all I did was read a pretty clear consensus. If anybody deserves that barnstar, you do, for taking an article that was blatantly not an A7 candidate and polishing it up so beautifully. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
It's still not about what you think LOL :-D
Got this message .... and it seems he is busy writing to lots of editors... "Contributions". Before doing anything, I thought an Admin might want to take a peek at him. CanadianLinuxUser ( talk) 18:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to let you know that earlier today, I've offered a truce to user:giancoli . I hope it is accepted.
Also, there is an something that I think is important to note, which I pointed out to him.
They are separate and distinct things. It's relevant due to his past desire to use citations that include PVPS, and struggles if PVPS is not considered in abstracts/conclusions of these citations. Good Evening Dijcks HotTub Pool 00:53, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I've just tagged this user space draft for copy vio. It's a pretty obvious copyvio but in the requested move that alerted me to it there's a vague claim of permission so thought the copyvio template was the right way to go rather than G12. I notice however that the template breaks in user space. Is this a problem with the template or is there another process for copyvio's in user space? I haven't listed it yet at WP:CP as given that it's in user space I'm not sure it's the correct forum. Will list it if you advice that's the correct thing to do. Dpmuk ( talk) 21:18, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, I want to personally thank you for what will have been several hours of your time regarding the debate over at "vasectomy". I do, however have some questions, sentiments, and concerns and I am, asking for your help (or insights) here..
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What it's all come down to basically is, I should NOT have to work this hard to "qualify the word "sometimes" or use the word "traditionally", which now your are aware of in dispute. Or deal with resistance regarding insertion of what is well-known acceptance of certain methods. Yes, you can always find an article that refutes anything I suppose. There is substantial support for my edits in question, and yet hours, days have now been lost by all.
Analogy: Green light. You drive through an intersection. You get hit by cross traffic. Nobody witnesses it. The person who hit you says YOU ran the red light. What do you do? You Fight To Defend Your Rights, and The Truth. Thats what I've been forced to do because I value my efforts here ~ and I believe in the truth Dijcks HotTub Pool 19:33, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I've read this, and will take your advice moving forward for sure. Recently, I spent a good deal of time reading the vote process at RfA for a hopeful, and I can't imagine it was that hard some years ago for a new "recruit"! He's been grilled to every level of "done", lol. It's an interesting process, and myself having been in a leadership role nearly my whole life, hence business owner, manager, corporate officer, and usually someone that others come to for help, well it intrigues me. I can't help wanting to work toward that goal (I think that's a good thing, right?). It should be noted that it has nothing to do with having power and everything to do with wanting to be in a position to actually do something at a level that some or most simply can not or should not be at. This might sound presumptuous but it's not. It's simply how I've already spent my life with and interacted with others. Everybody has a "self-sense" of value and I simply feel (or would feel) more satisfied knowing I can contribute at that level. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but recently I met with a colleague who was complaining about his employee-base (I'll spare you the particulars), but what I pointed out, is, "we NEED people who are willing to be employees, else everybody would be an entrepreneur or business-owner". There are ~ those who are satisfied doing an 8-hour day and others, innately, are willing to work past 5pm. "It takes all kinds" comes to mind here.
I realize that I would have to give up (to an extent) my desire to work on articles. I'm okay with that because to be honest, I simply want to see if, over time I can develop (with help of course) an article to GA or better, and I think with that will come a lot of experience, which now will have included "war-wounds" :), of the current process I/we are dealing with.
This is not an appeal for anything and I don't want to dwell what you've already gone over, but on the page protection.. ..as much as I am unhappy with the other individual, we have both exhibited restraint in edit-warring, and this should have been considered, especially given the heat involved. We've both been around long enough to have been given this benefit of the "doubt".
Okay, I'm done for now.. take care, Dijcks HotTub Pool 21:20, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I have added some IP addresses which this user has as aliases. Would like to note the most peculiar obsessions in his edits, but no doubt you know this since you seem to have been investigating for some time. Karnan ( talk) 21:24, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Moon, after noticing a large uncited (well written) addition I went to ask google where it could have come from and found web cashe and now the google address redirects to here at wikipedia http//www.inf.aber.ac.uk/advisory/faq/956/ is this normal practice. Off2riorob ( talk) 11:56, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Is this alright? Zidane tribal ( talk) 04:27, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, the discussion regarding the book scan licensing template has been closed, see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_April_2#Template:Non-free_book_scan. Just to let you know. Cheers. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 19:59, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
On a website such as this, does "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, redistributed or derived from." mean that a Wikipedia editor (or anyone else) can't use it at all?-- NortyNort (Holla) 11:56, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
See User talk:Moonriddengirl/Archive_18#Query over extensive quotations
I believe at the time your opinion was this was fine for a short time during a mediation case. That is long over.
User:Ecemaml/Selected quotations about Gibraltar
The page is still there, as are copies.
User:Imalbornoz/Gibraltar User:Imalbornoz/Capture of Gibraltar User:Imalbornoz/Exodus to San Roque
As it happens, there are extensive quotes in the Gibraltar cites, so the original purpose of these pages appears moot at best. Wee Curry Monster talk 13:22, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks very much. It's greatly appreciated. ScottyBerg ( talk) 15:58, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG, While trying to do a little referencing for an unsourced BLP, I came across this page which has identical content to our article, 3-D Studios. I suspect that the page has mirrored our content, rather than our article being a copyright violation, but I don't really have any logical basis for that suspicion. What do you recommend? Ladyof Shalott 16:05, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Please provide me a copy of this article on my userpage untill i can recreate it with reliable resources. Thanks :) Amirreza talk 18:33, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Moonriddengirl, seriously, can you read the language on the website? Can you verify that it's a legitimate news source by Wiki standards? USchick ( talk) 18:34, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Do you remember how you helped me with the article on Forum for Stable Currencies?
I would like to update it and noticed that the references are not correct.
BUT: there is this 'general notability' remark. Hence I'd like to add the reference to this article: http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/McNeill2009.pdf
And I'd like to make the link from Elizabeth Kucinich who came to the FORUM @ the House of Lords.
Do you think that might help solve the notability issue?
With many thanks in advance for your help,
Sabine Sabine McNeill ( talk) 21:13, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank You!!!
Meanwhile I found the HELP for References. But my additions haven't made the para on notability disappear... :( Sabine McNeill ( talk) 12:42, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
THANKS A LOT once again, dearest Moon Ridden Girl!
Will act on your advice and keep you informed!
Sabine —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.227.120.162 ( talk) 20:12, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
I have my doubts about most of the prose in Postage stamps and postal history of Nepal that is there since the first edit but unfortunately I don't have access to the given source and that editor is not active. It appears the prose may be a verbatim, or plagarised, copy of the source. I will see if one of my philatelic friends can check it but Nepal collectors are a scarce breed. The book is available from Nepal for $60, per a recent Postal Himal book review that states: … It is then followed by the postal history, which is very detailed and I must say that describes the article's prose rather well. Should I just wait and see or take action now? TIA ww2censor ( talk) 03:38, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Where do you need the most help with copyright issues from an administrator. I know the whole area is backlogged, but where would be a good place for me to start? NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 22:09, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
So I stumbled onto something today that might be helpful for copyvio work and thought of you - see the bit at the end of
Wikipedia talk:Credo accounts#Suggested criteria. I'm afraid it's not the tool you've been asking for forever to compare two different webpages, though.
Maybe someone will be able to make the time to code that up for you soon.
VernoWhitney (
talk) 02:45, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey :) so I have created this sandbox: User:AJona1992/Sandbox7 and turned it a worthy article, that contains 7 stub album articles and 5 deleted articles (because they contained the same info) into one. Do you think this was a good idea and can be merged? or will it be tagged deleted (once all the other 7 stub articles are merged to this one)? Thanks! AJona1992 ( talk) 00:39, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again but since you have all the experience perhaps you can figure this one out better than I can. Recently I noticed a user adding this text to the article on Lithuanian Armed Forces:
"The Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces (NDVF) is an important part of Lithuanian Land Force. The Commander of the NDVF is appointed by the Minister of National Defence and is subordinate to the Commander of the Armed Forces. The NDVF is organised along administrative boundaries. It is composed of companies organised into battalions within territorial defence brigades. Each NDVF unit down to battalion level contains regular army officers and a skeletal cadre that directs training and administrative functions. The rest of the NDVF personnel are volunteers who serve with no pay. The volunteers have already successfully participated in international operations in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. The NDVF consists of five territorial units and Lithuanian Grand Duke Butigeidis Dragoon Training Battalion."
It read very "formulaic" to me so I copy pasted the passage into google and came up with this [3] where one of the links was to wn.com (world news something) - the link however led to a video [4]. I'm assuming that the text is in one of the subpages. Since this was added in recently I'm wondering if it isn't a copy/paste from that page.
(Update: I wrote this earlier today but decided to put off asking you before I did some more searching. Then got busy and stuff. Just now, I found that portions of the text are copied from the Nato website [5] - I don't know if that's copyrighted or not). Thanks. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 04:53, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
More from the same user, User:GiW. On the Lithuanian Armed Forces article, chunks of text are copied verbatim from this pdf [7]. On Military Police in Lithuania, it's a copy/paste from [8]. Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces from [9]. This Lithuanian Special Operations Force could also be problematic, with links leading to the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania and the same news aggregator site [10]. This Airspace Surveillance and Control Command (Lithuania) is from here [11]. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 17:36, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG, could you please provide advice at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 March 21, especially the Water Tribe DRV? The argument made is that for our licensing requirements we require attribution of all material in the page history, regardless whether it is in the current article or not. Yoenit ( talk) 09:58, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, just reminding you of your thread on Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Copyright_tool.2C_not_bot.3B_can_somebody_help_anyway.3F. I've whipped up a basic Duplication Detector tool on Toolserver. For curious talk page stalkers, see see demonstration: [12]. Please go ahead and try it out and let me know how it works out for you, if it finds the things you're looking for, if it's fast enough, if you can locate the matching phrases that it identifies, that kind of thing. :-) All feedback appreciated. Dcoetzee 14:51, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Do you know if there is a good place to discuss evolving issues related to copyright, such as Righthaven lawsuits backfire, reduce protections for newspapers. I guess I could post it on the Wikipedia talk:Copyrights, but I wonder if there is a better place for people interested in keeping current?-- SPhilbrick T 20:51, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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Barnstars in general have lost their value through inflation but sometimes they still mean something. I do have to say that this one is more than deserved. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 07:47, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Please can you take a look at the Wiki page of - JS Group
It is continuously being vandalised with copyright infringed material, please can you revert it to previous versions which are fully cited. You have pointed this out before, but this continues to be done, thanks.
220.255.1.162 ( talk) 07:56, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Some time back, you were involved in a series of sockpuppet cases and a CCI case involving Roman888 and his rather sizeable sockfarm. At the same time this was going on, he had a side project disrupting Kitchen Nightmares and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares by pushing inclusion of updates regarding the status of restaurants long after we had consensus to exclude them (the discussions are archived now.) There's a new IP hopper who popped up on Kitchen Nightmares pushing much the same agenda; he's now moved on to Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and is doing the same thing. When he got there, I began to notice some patterns in his writing that seemed familiar, and made me wonder if this might be Roman888 back again. He's editing from the same ISP (Telstra) and hopping between Sydney and Brisbane, AUS thus far; we know he did something similar between Victoria and at least one other city (Melbourne?) previously. Another admin has already semi-protected Kitchen Nighmares, and I've given him a heads up about RKN, but I thought it would be well to let you know what I've noticed given you were very involved in that earlier case. I've also dropped a note on the talk page of the editor who initiated the sockpuppet investigation. Drmargi ( talk) 19:34, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
(outdent) One more quick question, then I'll leave you in peace. I archived the discussion at RKN, and Roman is back, trying to start it again. Does RI extend to talk page contributions as well? I want to be careful, and fair, as well as avoid inflaming the situation. I've left a fairly to the point response suggesting he check on his status, and providing appropriate links. Thank you again for the help and support! Drmargi ( talk) 05:40, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
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Courcelles 05:55, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Great news, many thanks to Dcoetzee. Maybe we could use this to help clear one of the outstanding CCIs, which still has hundreds of entries, I think.
Would it be OK there to put a check mark with a notation 'no matches to the corresponding Banglapedia article that exceeded five words, per this tool'. This doesn't exclude the possibility that article text was copy/pasted from somewhere else; that inhibits some of us from describing it as clear. But would it pass muster for that CCI? Novickas ( talk) 18:41, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey Moon. I ran across a new article on Feb 1st and removed a speedy deletion tag as I felt that there was a claim of notability (satisfying point 1 of WP:ACADEMIC as the subject was part of group that discovered PTSD). Throughout this process, the author identified himself as the subject's son. At least one other editor and I believed that this was an obituary as it seems fairly obvious but were unable to find where the text was previously published. Recently, another user has found that the text was published by The Sacramento Bee on February 6th, 2011 but the text appeared on WP five days before that. It seems obvious that someone in the family, most likely the son and author, either wrote the obituary published by the Sacramento Bee or the Bee gave the subject's son a copy of the obit before it was published and he posted it here. Regardless, I have no idea how to proceed and thought you might have a suggestion. Thanks for your time. OlYeller Talktome 19:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Mission Accomplished! If I missed anything, it was not for lack of trying!
DocOfSoc has given you a breath of Spring to promote
WikiLove and Joy ;-)
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Hi, Hope you are doing well; Being the IT personal of JS Group, i have the copyright of the material which i posted on wikipedia from this URL http://www.pak-times.com/2009/05/14/a-self-made-jahangir-siddiqui-in-the-beginning, which you have deleted from wikipedia. some of our rivals are trying to degrade our esteem organization which we cannot tolerate. so you are requested to please restore the material which we posted on 17th March 2011 at 12:38.
your cooperation in this regard will highly appreciated and you may contact us any time on the following numbers
Zahid Khurshid 00923018225993 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bberry91077 ( talk • contribs) 08:16, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
See [15] where I have removed an image that it is alleged to be a copyvio. Could you look at this for me, if I'm in error and there is no problem please feel free to revert. I've no issue otherwise with the edit. Wee Curry Monster talk 12:24, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I am back with the understanding that I am submitting my main page prose to a monitor for a prior review before posting in article space. Hence, I am devoting more time this month to clearing out the GA backlog than to article creation. An editor involved in this review has left this remark questioning my ability to spot copyright violations. Perhaps it would be best if I put forward the name of another expert to review the article for copyright / close paraphrasing problems, which I subjectively feel are present:
The Goal Shooter's main role is to shoot goals.[38] Players in this position can move within the attacking goal third, including the shooting circle.[34][39] This player is often defended by the opposing team's Goal Keeper. The Goal Shooter works closely with Goal Attack in the shooting circle, and work to position themselves to receive passes from the feeding midcourt players.[38]
comes from:
This player must get past the Goal Keeper of the other team. He or she can move within the "attacking" goal third, including the shooting circle.
I recommended quotation from the rulebook over close paraphrase. Please let me know if I can put foward you or another expert to take a look. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 20:23, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
I deleted this as a copyvio of http://www.rude.com.au/biography.php. An IP has said on my talk page that in fact the website copied it from us, and given the longish history of the article, and the way it developed, that seems likely; but there's no way to tell when the website text was posted (is there?) and it displays a copyright notice. What to do? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 14:20, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Okay: strongly indicative of natural evolution, the first edit in 2004 includes this and only this:
Rodney Rude is an Australian stand-up comedian. He is renowned for his low brow humour. He has released 10 albums throughout his long career.
This all looks like seeds of the supposed source:
Rodney Rude (born Rodney Keft in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian 'blue' stand-up comedian, poet and writer. He is infamous for his bawdy humour. He has released 12 albums and 5 videos throughout his long career, all of which are distributed by EMI Music Australia.
I'll look for when our text altered. If there's good separation of time and contributors, it strongly suggests we wrote it. I may take notes here as I go. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
What I would suggest we do at this point is restore the text and place {{ backwardscopy}} at the article's talk page. I'll be happy to do that, if you like, since I'm familiar with the template. :) They shouldn't be displaying a copyright notice for Wikipedia text, but I generally leave that up to the editors to deal with, if they like. I've only tried to address misattribution or licensing once or twice, and I have never once had it go well. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:41, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear moonriddengirl.
I am an environmental student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Recently there has been a huge raise in concern levels amongst numerous parties, regarding the interest Shell (and 4 other petrochemical companies) has shown in drilling for Natural Gas (fracking) in our Karoo. The extensive Karoo landscape of South Africa comprises largely untouched arid farm lands, home to many endangered species, both plant and animal. Water is also a very scarce resource in these areas.
Through having become involved with this subject quite closely, my research lead me to some information that exists, but has been removed. I wanted to inquire from you as to the reason behind this removal? Below are the titles of the extinct Wikipedia links:
I would be greatly appreciative if you could help me out with this. This is a major concern for our country, (and I mean that with total conviction).
Thanks for your help
Kind regards
Liam May
University of Cape Town Energy Research Center Cape Town South Africa —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.132.136.119 ( talk) 19:23, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this page? Bit of a mess. It's clearly been lifted from a copyrighted document (as it admits in the text) but the article creator also claims to be the original author so it's possible we could get the right releases. User:RadioFan tagged it for G12 speedy but I converted this to using a copyvio tag given it's possible we'll get permission. They've now restored the speedy tag with the edit summary "there are significant concerns with the content (see AFD), not seeing the need to save it.", this despite two keeps at AfD. As far as I can see given the keeps at AfD it's not a valid speedy for anything other than a copyright problem and speedy is probably not the best way to deal with the copyright problem. While typing this the article has been deleted by User:NawlinWiki. Any advice. (Will let NawlinWiki know about this). Dpmuk ( talk) 20:49, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
can you please block me from posting things
Nikkotg ( talk) 00:32, 24 March 2011 (UTC).
nikkotg
On Jon M. Huntsman School of Business (which you had looked at before, and removed large chunks of for copyvios), an editor has determined that the source that was copied from (a school brochure) is licensed CC-BY-SA and GFDL. As such, xe re-added the info. While I'm still in the process of editing it (we don't need nearly the same level of details that is in the brochure), I vaguely recall that we're supposed to add some sort of template to show that the text isn't plagiarism (i.e., attribution). I place a "CCBYSASource" template in the reference section in this edit. Is this the correct template, even though the original is GFDL licensed? And does this go here, or on the talk page? Or is this not even necessary at all? Qwyrxian ( talk) 05:42, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Sangeen01 ( talk) 03:22, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Please help me remove the "Possible copyright infringement" the article was written and used is in the public domain, and is already under a license suitable for Wikipedia. I am a memeberof the potiical party, it was translated from a foriegn language and was provided to all interested parties to publish on any of the sites including http://afghanmellat.eu. You can always write to them and confirm my statment to fahim.wardag@afghanmellat.eu The Afghan Mellat UK Jerga would be delighted if the content is published on Wikipedia to world about this great man.
Thank you in advance.
Hello there,
As you suggested, I have asked the content owner to send an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Please resolve this item now.
Thank you in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sangeen01 ( talk • contribs) 01:33, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Copied from my talk page: I noticed that you had warned Grinevitski ( talk · contribs) for plagiarising material in Cyrus Cylinder. I've found that he has done the same on Sadeq Hedayat, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Ferdinand Eisenstein, copying large chunks of material from http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Hedayat/Hedlife.html and the book Carl Friedrich Gauss: titan of science. The Eisenstein article now unfortunately contains many plagiarised sections [21]. In fact, I haven't found a non-trivial edit by Grinevitski that isn't straightforward plagiarism. Given all the copyright warnings on his page, I think a block would be advisable. I'll see if I can clean up the plagiarism later on today. Prioryman ( talk) 08:23, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Okay, there's not a lot here. That's good. I'll list it out for quick checking. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:13, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
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The SCV backlog (including all of today's taggings) is completely cleared out now for what I think is the first time this year! I also finally got to use {{ OGL-text}} on not one but two articles today which used some nice freely licensed material courtesy of the UK government. It's looking to be a good day. ^_^ VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hypothetically, let's say I wanted to add an image to this article, since he was also instrumental in the revolution. I think someone like that should have a picture in their biography. But the image itself (unless there's one of the self-immolation) would not be the subject of discussion in the article. Which means NFCC would be a bear. So free-content would be the only way...? Curious if you have any comments or suggestions, wise one. Ocaasi c 19:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Sangeen01 ( talk) 23:30, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there,
As you suggested, I have asked the content owner to send an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. He has done that. Here is a copy of the email:
Please resolve this item.
Thank you in advance.
Sangeen01 (
talk) 01:36, 25 March 2011 (UTC) oops apologies, I didn't how to alert you to resolve the page. Thank you any way for letting me know...
Hi. A couple of days ago you blocked the IP User:99.59.87.102 at my instigation. The editor is now making the same edits (adding unsourced birth & death information to Margie Hines) as User:99.34.90.244. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 00:39, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
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For all of your great work with copyright infringement Jessy T/ C 00:52, 25 March 2011 (UTC) |
This is frustrating, I feel as if all my efforts & contributions were in vain. I've spent much of my valuable time contributing to certain articles and you just deleted them all! Almost ALL the knowledge in Wikipeda is in one way or another from encyclopedias, text-books and websites, no doubt there will be similarities. If you erased them simply because I didn't cite the sources then you could have just let me know and I'd have added them myself. I just forgot to mention the sources for the Bernhardt, Eisenstein, Dirichlet, Hedayat articles. Besides many of the sentences were completely rephrased/re-written, NOT copied! Perhaps only short phrases remained the same, but under US law, copyright does not extend to short phrases. Besides, if you actually knew so well that it came from Encyclopedia Britannica, why didn't you bother to add that to the article yourself? Instead you erased my entire contributions. As if I had all the spare time in the world to type it in. Remarkable.
-- Grinevitski ( talk) 04:13, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there,
I've been editing the Wallsend Football Club page, which has subsequently been edited more so by yourself and others. Firstly, sorry about a few of Wikipedia formatting breaches; this is the first time I've used it. It's a little hard when the guidelines to an ideal page are endless and extensive.
I'll admit to some bias, I wasn't aware of that, but now I understand. However, some sections, namely the information sourced from the website has been removed, About page and so on. While you're probably thinking you made the right decision to remove the information due to the copy/pasting, I wrote what was on the website. I guess that is more a referencing issue? In terms of the removal of the history section, that's also part of the club's property, written for the club. What's the process there? Re-write the whole section while lacing it with quotes and facts from the original?
Finally, not having a dig at you, but the article is classed as "Low-importance." Now is that a customary approach to all football clubs at a similar level, or are you degrading its importance based on your knowledge of the club? I don't necessarily understand how this importance scale works.
If you'd like to pin-point areas of the article that you do not deem appropriate so I can adequately fix them, I'd appreciate it.
Best,
Anthokoch ( talk) 14:45, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
The three clubs have all enjoyed stellar success down the years, stemming from a desire to achieve and be recognised as the premier club in Northern NSW. Unfortunately, poorer times have seen the clubs' domination of the region diminish, but their history will always earn the respect it ought to.
Any chance you can revert revert this move? See the talk page? The singular naming is simply wrong. ww2censor ( talk) 21:47, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Hammouda Salhi, I am using the Nickname of: Milham Kabbani on Wikipedia. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that I am the author of the Article on "English-Arabic Parallel Corpus of United Nations Texts". I have copied this text onto my own web site ( http://hammouda-salhi.webs.com/eapcount.htm). When you raised the copyright problem I deleted the page once for all and created a new one containing a link to the original Wikipedia article. As for the other link you mentioned, It is again my own presention where I mentioned this Corpus. Therefore, I hereby confirm that I am the owner of the copyright of the three sources of information on this EAPCOUNT. Thank you in advance for your kind understanding Hammouda Salhi
Hammouda Salhi
41.227.116.148 (
talk) 18:48, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Moonriddengirl. The requsted email has been sent from hammouda_s(at)hotmail(dot)com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milhim Kabbani ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I have sent you a mail. -- Supreme Deliciousness ( talk) 10:54, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
I was sorry to see that the article on Ernesta Ballard had been deleted, apparently fairly recently (Jan '11). Do you still know what the problem was specifically (I realize it was copyright related), and how it might be corrected? I am not an author of the article, but I am an admirer of hers and know some members of her family. Does an archived version of the deleted article exist, from which someone might get some help or a jumpstart in starting over? 108.2.147.192 ( talk) 02:11, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Just to double check before I go and upset a bunch of people: am I correct in that the latest advice from counsel means that the lists need to be removed from all of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars series of articles since they're creative? VernoWhitney ( talk) 20:29, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
You may remember a little while back I removed a lot of text from this article as a copyright infrimgement. Now some of that removed text has been re-added by the editor that originally added it. The problem is, apart from one sentence I can't find a source for what they've re-added so far. I'd originally removed it under the assumption that all their edits were suspect. If it wasn't for the one sentence ("To honor the brave and gallant men who fought those bitter battles of the Civil War 70 years before, blue was selected for the Union and gray for the Confederacy." taken from [28]) I'd probably be assuming good faith and thinking they were only re-introducing text that wasn't copyrighted but that one sentence gives me doubts. Could you take a look please as a) I'm unsure how to proceed and b) I think this may now need admin intervention (even if only in the sense that most novice editors seem to take more notice of admins). Dpmuk ( talk) 21:36, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could you comment here about a copyright issue. Thanks, Mathsci ( talk) 10:41, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey Moonriddengirl. First of all, I hope all is well with you and as ever, my best to you for all the good you do around here. I have a specific question, and then a general one, both relating to copyright of images and fair use. Neither are urgent in any way, but would certainly help my understanding of fair use!
Firstly, I'm interested in expanding Terry Butcher. Perhaps not well known to you but he is very famous for his "blood-soaked headband" (see a simple Google image search), so much so that he has it on the front cover of his autobiography. This injury has been often written about, (to put it into context, he smashed his head to bits, got patched up, bled on throughout the remainder of the match, and hence the famous photos) but there are, as far as I know, no free images available. Do you think it would be fair use, when discussing this iconic image, to use a low-res fair use-licenced image?
Secondly, and on a related but different note, I was wondering about the "impossible to re-create" stuff I've read in fair use rationales for some images. When Diego Maradona scored his "hand of God" goal against England in 1986 (see here for examples), it became perhaps the most iconic photo in modern soccer history. Now this cannot be recreated either, well not as far as I can tell. Can a low-res image of this be used under fair use?
I do apologise in advance if I'm asking the wrong question of the wrong person that perhaps has been asked far too many times, but I've always wondered about this fair use "cannot be recreated" (my words) get-out clause. As ever, thanks for your time and energy here. The Rambling Man ( talk) 19:28, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Left a note at Talk:Mark Nauseef regarding content permission. Adrignola ( talk) 20:13, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Please can you hlep me add this information to wikipedia, I work for GfK Retail and Technology and hold the international copyright for this product.
I dont want to promote the product, just explain what it is. Please find the text below.
Thanks Will Morrison International Marketing (Digital Media) GfK Retail and Technology Tel. +49 911 395 2319 Fax +49 911 395 4046 william.morrison@gfk.com GfK Retail and Technology Global: http://www.gfkrt.com GfK TEMAX (Technical Market Index): http://www.gfktemax.com
"GfK TEMAX (Technical Market Index)
GfK Retail and Technology’s index tracks technical consumer goods markets in 34 countries worldwide. GfK TEMAX (Technical Market Index) is designed to support decision makers from Industry and Retail in obtaining substantiated facts about their markets.
GfK Retail and Technology is the world's leading market researcher tracking technical consumer goods in more than 80 countries.
Reports and press releases are published on a quarterly basis in February, May, August and November at macro level for the following markets:
Like-for-like comparisons with corresponding periods in previous years reveal fundamental developments in the technical consumer goods market and also identify trends and volumes specific to particular market segments. Explanatory background information, such as the impact of major trade fairs, international sporting events or significant changes in tax policy, is also provided.
Statistics are produced in both tabular and diagram form. Starting with full year 2008 data, GfK TEMAX reports are available for selected countries together with corresponding press releases in English and local languages on this website.
GfK TEMAX findings are based on the retail panel surveys of GfK Retail and Technology which are carried out continuously in over 80 countries worldwide." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gfkrt ( talk • contribs) 14:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Bonjour Moonriddengirl, I would like to recreate this page http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Co-ordinated_organisations&action=edit&redlink=1 which was deleted by User talk: MLauba on 23 February 2010 for CopyVio. I have put the new proposal in my Sandbox, it is a translation of a page of the French Wikipedia, and I hope there is no CopyVio this time - although, of course, I used some web data which I quote in the text and in the footnotes (inter alia, EU web, and OECD) in addition to my knowledge of these institutions, and of recent news. Unfortunately, MLauba is on "indefinite Wikibreak" (which is a pity for the Wiki community I think..), so could you have a look at my proposal or indicate a way to have it checked for acceptability? Thanks in advance for your time and help, User:GillesAuriault Gilles 21:13, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Just a courtesy note to let you know I closed the interaction ban on Wjemather last night, and added your idea of him contacting you directly with CCI concerns. I'd have checked if this was OK with you before closing, but it you did volunteer (:P) and it seems non-contentious. Let me know if there are any issues :) - Errant ( chat!) 08:14, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! I copied the full text of a USA Today article that appears not to be available without cost online to a talk page, in collapsed form. The subject area is so contentious that I thought citing to a behind-a-paywall source would evoke suspicion, but perhaps I did wrong? You can see the USA Today source, in collapsed format, in this section on the talk page. Please feel free to revert this edit if I've been bad, or just let me know here, if you'd prefer, and I'll do so myself, if I've violated fair use.
I've never met a Queen of Malapropisms, before: very cool! I'm no good at those, I regret to say. But you might enjoy knowing that while I was rummaging in our refrigerator I once said to my girlfriend, "Didn't we have some veg-over leftables?" This seems especially charming to me because (to be candid) I said it ... but also because I just learned it might appropriately be categorized as a kniferism and forkerism, which seems very apt! Best, – OhioStandard ( talk) 10:52, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Oh, and then there was the really adorable nine-year old kid from next door that we took to lunch at KFC one afternoon, and who, while we were there, earnestly and repeatedly insisted we were dining at "KenFriarTucky Chicken". He had and his brother had just seen a Robin Hood movie, and acting out its scenes had become a favorite bit of play. When he finally was able to grok what he was saying he had had the giggles for about an hour over it. Too cute! – OhioStandard ( talk) 11:04, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Could you please revert the Diablada article to the version which was agreed upon between me and User:Erebedhel (Proof: [29])? Which would be this one: [30]. As stated before, User:Erios30 is coming over from the Spanish WP with the goal to do in the English WP what the admins and users in the Spanish WP did not allow him. By protecting the article under his version, you're giving the guy wings to keep his plans in motion. Best regards.-- MarshalN20 | Talk 12:51, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
filed 3/23, needed to be re-tagged 3/30 as original author removed the tag. page history. The author is still trying to tinker with the article despite the template. With the need to re-tag the article, it's possible it got caught in the shuffle. Thanks, We hope ( talk) 19:24, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
To me, it seems to be an SPA dedicated to the promotion of the subject of the article. Saw the YouTube, Facebook and Twitter links be removed by others and re-added (still there) by the original author. Actually backed into this copyvio because of an uploaded file (non free, subject living) for the article. When I went to tag the image, I started reading and doing some comparing. We hope ( talk) 19:57, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I was at the 04/01 SPI for Jimbo when I noticed the section just above had a copyright question I think you would be perfect to consider answering. I am curiously interested based on the premise. If you are able, and as always, much appreciation. My76Strat ( talk) 05:31, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
FYI I've added a template {{ dupdet}} that makes it easy to link to Duplication Detector reports, like this:
{{
dupdet|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Silard%7Chttp://arh.pub.ro/mcristea/Silardcv.htm}}
Thought you might find it handy. :-) I was pondering if I should have a bot add links like this to CP to streamline things further. Dcoetzee 21:15, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
{{
dupdet|Andrei Silard|
http://arh.pub.ro/mcristea/Silardcv.htm}}
Hi. Congrats for your recent the contributions on Russ Nelson. I just wanted to ask you to be cautious with the use of self published sources, specially those published by Mr. Nelson himself and people close to him. There's a lot of self-promotion among those celebrity-programmers. Of course his weblog is an acceptable source for simple information like his father's name, but we need an independent reference for all self-serving information he promotes about himself.
That said, I want to repeat that your work there is great an much appreciated. -- Damiens.rf 17:54, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please cast your experienced eyes over this MCQ thread? The new template may be 100% legal and correct for all I know, but it could be seriously damaging to leave an incorrect fair-use template lying around. -- John of Reading ( talk) 06:48, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks a lot for [31] + [32]- I delete - Our french is better than my english - Have a good day - -- Lomita ( talk) 10:20, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi - would appreciate your input with respect to this discussion, notably the image's fair use in the Stuxnet article. Thanks in advance. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 11:53, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG, been a while. I've been off and come back to see that it looks like we have a reincarnation of User:Vrghs jacob -- Chindia (China-India) ( talk · contribs). His last unblock request stated that if he wasn't going to be unblocked he's going to come back and do the same stuff under a new account. Same articles, same behavior (especially at commons where he's been uploading images from the same flickr account -- copyvios from Vrghs jacob's flickr!!), see Central Secretariat Service as an example. Do you think this is ducky enough? cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 09:50, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, many thanks on fixing copyvios made by the (currently) blocked user on Rajiv Gandhi. I was getting suspicious when I saw the Flickr image having Vrghs Jacob's name, but fell short on reporting; Looks like SpacemanSpiff has done the honours. Thanks again! Regards, Yes Michael? • Talk 13:24, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
This post at MCQ re a quotation on Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear which is probably right up your street if you don't watch the page. ww2censor ( talk) 15:46, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. I am encouraged by your declarations of good intent on your user page to approach you, after some months of consideration, about a post by you at WP:ANI that seems to me to contain an egregious lapse in judgement. Can we seek a better understanding here? The subject is my exchange with user APL here. It must be apparent that I asked a question then APL responds with a question about my honesty. It must also be accepted that I may give a factual and civil reply to a question. To "Are you confused about my meaning...?" I replied "I can guess what you tried....to write", which is simply true and relevant to the question whether I am somehow pretending dishonestly not to understand. That was never the case. (I don't object to the question having being asked.) The sensitive issue is that a minor punctuation error really had been made. APL agrees that error was made. It was unquestionably a failure to follow the grammatical rules of English. English is the language of this Wikipedia and its rules are also documented in Wikipedia using reliable sources. Almost everyone including myself make such occasional errors and it would be indefensible for someone's pride to get in the way of editing out such errors in Wikipedia articles (done voluntarily) or paper publications (done by copy editors who are paid for their work), or even pointing to such an error as is the case here. I read with incredulity your judgement "I can guess what you tried and failed to write in English". This is absolutely unacceptable. I am hopeful that you will reply constructively here. Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 13:14, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
See User:Moonriddengirl#What I do elsewhere -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:28, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. Like you, I have been trying to keep the Sami Yusuf page accurate, balanced, neutral and reliably sourced. I find it rather difficult at the moment because of the flood of subjective fan-like edits by user:Turquoise21. I am at a loss as to how to get rid of his peacock sentences and weazel words without painstakingly going through the entire page sentence-by-sentence again. I have tried to remove the peacock sentences by undoing his latest edits, but the peacock template seems to stop me from doing this via the "undo" facility. Any ideas? Regards GorgeCustersSabre ( talk) 20:46, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, Moonriddengirl. Thank you very kindly for your advice. I am grateful to you. I suspect that I'll have to watch the Yusuf page very carefully. My regards, GorgeCustersSabre ( talk) 19:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC) :)
The additions by Ernetti ( talk · contribs) look like clear copyvio; google indicates they existed on websites prior to the addition. So, I reverted to the prior version.
I think, probably, the intermediate revisions should be deleted? If you agree, could you do so? There's little other editing, so this one seems quite simple, I think.
Cheers, Chzz ► 13:11, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I changed the license template of File:Pasteur_Model.jpg to Template:Non-free fair use in. I think this resolves the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 April 2#Template:Non-free book scan. Template:Non-free book scan is therefore no longer used and thus (as far as I know) suitable for deletion. I copied the Wiki-Markup of the template to a subpage in my userspace to preserve it for possible future use, should consensus ever be reached to allow its use. I apologize for any trouble this template has caused. I still think the template does neither break US law, nor Wikipedia policy. It was never my intention to stimulate misleading beliefs of the usability of non-free content on Wikipedia.
Sincerely, Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 20:10, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm an Algerian PhD student and I work on Fuzzy SQL queries with a French university laboratory. I was surprised to see that the FSQL article has been deleted. I understand now the reasons of that deletion but I was wondering:
I see that the Spanish Wikipedia didn't delete the es:FSQL article but I'm not very comfortable with Spanish. -- Amine Brikci N ( talk) 08:40, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
You state that you have a "catch and release" philosophy to copyright, yet you are still haunting me. I created a page for Hill Place using a précis of available material, with the permission of the copyright owner. This then created an ongoing battle which has left me in the position of not really feeling like I can contribute without every edit I make being criticised for copyright. Whilst I understand your position, I don’t agree with the actions you have taken. Perhaps you wish to explain as I have read your talk page. Hennahairgel ( talk) 14:25, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moodriddengirl, Can you tell me why the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scanlan was deleted? Many thanks, John Flaherty Grand Island, NE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.135.23.209 ( talk) 15:37, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! Just wanted to let you know that if you find any copyvio problems on any article with a WPEQ tag, we are pretty active over there, so please feel free to ask us to fix any problems that come to your attention. Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 19:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Another ( talk page stalker) - on a related note - would you would be willing to add your voice in support of this proposal to add confirmed copyvio notices to Article Alerts? Wikipedia_talk:Article_alerts/Feature_requests#Copyvio.2Fproject_intersect. Project members may be willing and able to act before coreopsis sets in. Novickas ( talk) 21:18, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Here's my thinking on when to notify: I notify when either (a) notification will advise the contributor a policy that they may not understand and help prevent future issues or (b) notification will help establish a pattern of repeated issues that may lead to a CCI or sanctions. In this particular case, the contributor who placed the content has been notified of copyright policies, so (a) is not necessary. It's relatively minor, and I didn't see a history in talk page to suggest that (b) is going to be necessary. That said, looking at it in more depth now, I do notice another issue. We may need to double-check some of the ones he's marked cleared to make sure that his marking them wasn't based on the same misunderstanding that led to his placing the content here. :/ -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:19, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
{{subst:Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Banglapedia (source)/Note|article}}
, substituting in (of course) the name of the article. If you like it, I'll note it at the CCI page. If you don't like it but like the idea, let's talk about how to make it better. :) The language is straight off the top of my head. --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 15:11, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
I understand that you are the go-to girl on copyright issues. Svea Orden is an automatic translation of the official webpage of this society. I pointed this out to the page creator nearly two months ago, but there has been no reaction since (see User talk:Alla7). He/she has only created a few pages, all with similar problems. -- Hegvald ( talk) 19:54, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
{{subst:copyvio|url=http://....}}
on the article. Once that's done, it generates its own templates for listing at
WP:CP and notifying the contributor. I'll be happy to help, if you like, but I'd need you to please give me the precise URLs that are being machine translated. :) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 20:11, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Would you take a look at Template talk:Did you know#Post-detection policies? At issue here is whether the content at Post-detection policies#IAA SETI Declaration of Principles is a copyright violation. I think the attribution is sufficient (the {{ blockquote}} template), though I believe such a large quote may violate WP:NFCC. Would you advise new user Boonefrog ( talk · contribs) and myself about what to do? Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 05:10, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Content can be fully and perfectly attributed, but still follow too closely on the source to meet our mandate to write content from scratch (except for brief excerpts). Can you elaborate on this for me? I was under the impression that it was acceptable to lift text from one of my articles and place it into another. Hawkeye7 ( talk) 22:31, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Moonridden girl. I am not an experienced editor but like to contribute to a better bio of the band. So far it is not really that good, it kinda rattles. Also the history is actually wrong: Ronny Moorings and Anke Wolbert started the band in Nijmegen in 1983 . The other 2 Nooten and Weyzig only joined the band in 1984 AFTER the release of the said Sunsequent Pleasures EP. I base this on the numerous interviews and bios you can find all over the web. "Funny" that only WIki makes this mistake. I ask you to look into this as I saw a lot of confusion going on with this.
I added some quotes just to spice a dull summing up of releases and quoting some phrases as was allowed with the negative Best of Clan Of Xymox review or Nootens " "To be honest I never listen to pop music" | which I find irrelevant..
Apart from that I thank you for keeping an eye on the page. If you want I can submit edit suggestions to you and you can approve them or not..or I am willing to argue some point (when I have time :) 567fuall ( talk) 13:32, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Just checking in. Things are getting a bit tense over the issue. Obviously, the editor does not agree that close paraphrasing is a problem because she check with one of her professors who used the "John Smith was born on July 1, 1940." example as permissible. In this case, the article paraphrases websites which explain the rules of a game. In my opinion, such content is copyrightable and not mere facts without literary expression. She has now gone to a dozen places claiming "I've been unfairly accused of plagiarism," even though I am careful not to use that word and not to attribute the problem text to any particular editor. I have zero credibility with her and her friends. So we really need an expert well-versed in Wikipedia policy to take a look. I've cited WP:PARAPHRASE and she has cited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism#What_is_not_plagiarism because she feels that the website's presentation of the rules is "the simplest and most obvious way to present information." I have recommended putting quotation marks around the text, but she rejects that.
On a somewhat related issue, who is the best person to consult regarding on-wiki Trademark infringement problems? Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 04:42, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Hmm. Being an avowed enemy to organized team sports, I may be missing some nuances. :) But a 1996 issue of The Bulletin ( [41], alas only viewable in snippet) says, "Australia - winner of seven of the nine world championships since 1963 - is still the dominant force in netball, which has now been recognised as an Olympic sport, although it lacks the vital ingredient of a politically aggressive..." something. I don't know; the snippet cuts off there (see the quote at [42]). The BBC said, in January of this year, "The International Olympic Committee approved netball as an Olympic sport in 1995, but it has still failed to gain classification as a participation sport at the games, and lost out to rugby sevens and golf for Rio 2016."< [43]> Just a week or so ago, The Voice online wrote, "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved netball as an Olympic sport in 1995 but it has never gained classification as a participation sport at the Games." [44].
The Olympics website clarifies that "To make it onto the Olympic programme, a sport first has to be recognised: it must be administered by an International Federation which ensures that the sport's activities follow the Olympic Charter. If it is widely practised around the world and meets a number of criteria established by the IOC session, a recognised sport may be added to the Olympic programme on the recommendation of the IOC's Olympic Programme Commission." 2006's Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement says, "Netball has never been contested at the Olympic Games, even as a demonstration sport. However, it's governing body, the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA), is recognized by the International Olympics Committee.( Mallon, Bill; Ian Buchanan (2006). Historical dictionary of the Olympic movement. Scarecrow Press. p. 189. ISBN 9780810855748. Retrieved 7 April 2011., bolding in original)
Based on that, it seems that netball has cleared recognition and its administering body has been recognized, but it has not yet become a participation sport? I'm not really sure about approaching the attorney on this one. I try to do that only when we're absolutely against a wall, and in this case we have reliable sources that do seem to use the term "Olympic sport" in reference to this game. :/ -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:10, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I am attempting to solve a copyright problem on our page: [ [45]].
I believe we need to send an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org? Is this correct?
I have prepared the following email to be addressed to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org.
I hereby affirm that I, Paul Rogers am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of LogZilla, LLC and all of the content published at www.logzilla.pro. I agree to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).] I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project. Paul Rogers, CEO of LogZilla, LLC I have the full authority of LogZilla, LLC to enter into this agreement. April 7, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogZilla
Would this clear up our issues? Any guidance or comment you may provide is most appreciated.
Thank you,
Paul Rogers Paulrogerslogzilla ( talk) 16:16, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please delete the article David Lee Smith. It was proposed for deletion but that simply isnt enough. it is infringing on this website. Thanks MRG. You rock. Jessy ( talk) ( contribs) • 22:01, April 7, 2011 ( UTC)
copied from the talk page at the The Fiscal Times entry.
I'm at least relieved that the editing is now serious. The above history has not been professional and this current shift is a welcome one after the previous back and forth edits. However as for neutrality, I beg to differ. Were it I to stop this dispute by contacting Wikipedia 'authorities', the balance would have had to be against the recent pro-fiscal times edit, and thus neutrality would have been for example to reinstate a clear criticism section, albeit with certain 'correcting'.
I am not a professional news person, nor am I being paid for this crusade. Jackieleo and the other anonymous ips are associated with the Fiscal Times. I do not have their resources, so when I'm not familiar with Wikipedia procedures (technically a 'bureaucracy', however benign), and I see my edits as reactions to a self-interested entry, I see it appropriate to work as an automat and not to begin a new process. The Fiscal Times have employees that can do this.
As result, this recent edit would be more welcome for Fiscal Times than it should be with people concerned with the proper use of Wikipedia as an independent community tool. Businesses creating, embellishing and protecting their own controversial entries are not native members of this community. They are interested parties. As long as an entry can clearly be shown to have been dominated by an interested party (jackieleo), any subsequent edit that comes as a direct response is completely appropriate. When texts have been copied without reference from the their website, it is justified to have criticism that answers directly to claims of non-partisanship (copied word for word from fiscaltimes.com) by contrasting it with existing arguments saying the publication is part of an advocacy network.
As long as you go to great lengths to resolve this dispute, by actually rewriting many of the sections, or recontextualizing by way of removal, then please pay mind to the fact that there probably could have still been a "criticism" section without hurting the 'structure' or integrity of the entry. News sources linking this publication which runs a "debt watch" section with other Peterson funded advocacy operations dealing specifically with national debt could be quoted as arguing that advocacy is taking place, not just bias.
Wikipedia itself is in spirit meant to work as a balance to institutional and interested information sources. It has become perhaps the most important such balance. When it becomes clear that now interested parties manage their own entries, it is the role of the community to make sure every such entry is equipped with an unmovable criticism section. A criticism section gives voice to controversiality. Not having one, or contextualizing criticism within 'history', whitewashes criticisms into noncontroversial sections. Just think of the Environmental Record section on the ExxonMobil entry being under History, with a neutralizing view to each point.
You should look into the fallacy of "neutrality" in the sciences. Sometimes neutrality is achieved through balancing an inherently imbalanced situation.
Regarding calling out people on self-editing, please take a look at WikiScanner#Wikipedia_reaction. I recall that at the time these self edits were mentioned in criticism sections. Checking now, it is disturbing to see that the Pepsico entry doesn't even have a criticism section. More to the point perhaps is the Conrad_Burns#Untoward_editing_of_Wikipedia section. Wikinews is the qouted source here, and it is part of the Wikimedia Foundation. Is it the foundation's policy to view Wikipedia manipulations by politicians more "wikinews" worthy than manipulation by self-legitimized news sources? I see your point of needing an external source, but where is the balance for the real-life editor of the Fiscal Times acting also as the main wikipedia editor for the fiscal times, in obvious conflict of interest? in handing them back their entry to play with?
joeav Joeav ( talk) 00:15, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I lack words in English to express how important you are for this project, and how much you have encouraged me in working hard and good, so i`ll keep it simple: Happy Wikibirthday to our beloved Girl. Zidane tribal ( talk) 17:53, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, there seems to a commonly used interpretation of WP:QUOTEFARM (in turn reliant on WP:NPS) that quotations in citations are a copyright problem and the QUOTE essay is used to justify deletion of quotations from citations. I have come across this before but the current case in point is this instance of multiple quote deletions by Acroterion with the rationale "...please don't quote within refs - there are copyright issues we needn't get into". Admittedly the quotations are extensive but these were added in the light of the article being up for deletion on the basis of a lack of independent reliable sources and with the likely prospect of the quotations being integrated into the article in the future, at which point they would be naturally trimmed down. Without quotations many of the citations would lack sufficient context to understand why they are relevant (the article titles would not be obvious) and many have no free online version for the layman reader to check and understand the context for themselves. There is some earlier discussion at User talk:Fæ#Quotes in refs.
If you would like to give an opinion this might help future similar discussion where this approach might be used for an article rescue with multiple citations. As I see it the key questions are:
Thanks, Fæ ( talk) 09:27, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, you removed content for 11 revisions as article had copyright issues, but why didn't you care of my two edits - one for tagging the article for wikification and other of language temp of Hindi; you should at least exempt the lang-hi temp. Bill william compton Talk 23:41, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Natalia Ioana Olaru and I am a final year master student in the Corporate Communication programme at the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. I am currently working on my final paper on the topic of user motivation to create content on collaborative media websites, the focus being Wikipedia. As a sample I chose the English and Danish portals. I would like to invite you for an online interview on the topic of what motivates you, to participate in editing and creating articles for this platform. I plan on doing the actual interviews in the period between 1st and the 15th of May via Skype, MSN or Yahoo Messenger. I am, however, open to other channels of communication too. Please let me know if you would like to participate in this interview and the preferred channel.
Thank you, Natalia Olaru Email: natalia.ioana.olaru@gmail.com MulgaEscu ( talk) 12:53, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you take a quick look at this article for me if you have a moment. To me it's a clear copyvio of [46] (it's not word for word but pretty close) and so a G12. However an IP has now twice removed my speedy tag. Rather than continue to add the tag and then have it removed before an admin has a chance to look at it I thought I'd see if the friendly copyright admin had a little bit of spare time. Thanks. Dpmuk ( talk) 21:02, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I'm Joe Fab. Could you tell me why you changed the page about me? I see a notation "blatant copyright violation" -- can you please tell me what items on the page caused you to think that was being done? Thanks in advance!
98.191.210.88 ( talk) 19:27, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG and stalkers. Would anybody so kind to link me the article/website comparison tool presented here a while ago? I seem to have lost the link to it and it would be quite useful now. Yoenit ( talk) 20:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello my page 'Be The Bear' was recently deleted, the band has done music for two TV commercials so I thought they meritted inclusion here, I didn't have time to add this on the talk page as rationale before it was speedily deleted. Can you help? Bunnyman78 ( talk) 06:36, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Great job on the reverse copyvio on Peter Roget!! -- Nczempin ( talk) 14:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please review my responses at commons:User_talk:Fetchcomms#Please_provide_a_policy and commons:Template_talk:No_permission_since#Rediculous? I'm trying to find a policy that explicitly says that we need explicit permission, and that AGFing that permission was given to "trusted" or experienced users is not enough. Thanks in advance, / ƒETCH COMMS / 15:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Any chance you want to grab Ticket:2011041310026732? It's another one of those state copyright deals, so I'd like to be extra sure on it. VernoWhitney ( talk) 01:01, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, in case you haven't seen them, I have requested your opinion on some misinformation that Dijcks is placing in the vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome articles. For one issue in the vasectomy article, he wrote a combative edit summary, and the sources he is providing for his claims on the preferred method of vasectomy do not support his point-of-view claims. Please assist when you have the chance. Best wishes. Giancoli ( talk) 01:25, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Can you check out File:Defender-of-Tall-Buildings.jpg as the uploader claims an OTRS ticket was issued but it does not seem to have been applied to the image? TIA. ww2censor ( talk) 04:20, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I invite you to a short survey about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." cooldenny ( talk) 15:01, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the administrative action you took in this matter. Thank you very much for all the work you do here. It is appreciated. Cullen328 ( talk) 15:44, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I can't find the answer to this anywhere, so I've come to the Copyright Oracle. Free software is normally provided under a variety of licenses very different from the documentation type licenses used for Wikipedia text. CC-BY-SA can perhaps cover software, especially for new contributions. But what about using free software libraries provided by others under licenses such as the LGPL or the standard GPL? I write a lot of user scripts used in the management of Wikipedia. They aren't part of the encyclopedia, but they are loaded on the site and executed by many others. Can I incorporate software licensed under the LGPL into my scripts if I retain the original author attribution? Technically, the edit window doesn't permit such a license. In some cases, I have seen scripts marked as copyrighted by the author, while also being provided under one of the free licenses. Note that the LGPL permits use in proprietary products while the GPL does not. Others sometimes use a free MIT license, the only restriction on which is a disclaimer of all warranties. Thanks! — UncleDouggie ( talk) 17:20, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Per the ANI thread, I agree although I did not have time to comment and pile on. I just want to tell you that you made the correct decision. I have had to save and clean up many of this user's misguided attempts at clean-up, most recently Amy Krouse Rosenthal, which I took from Wuhwazdat's speedy tagging to the main page's DYK section in a week. Bearian ( talk) 16:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
For banning User:Wuhwuzdat from nominating more articles for deletion. Bearian ( talk) 16:52, 14 April 2011 (UTC) |
Wow! Thank you. :) Seriously, though, all I did was read a pretty clear consensus. If anybody deserves that barnstar, you do, for taking an article that was blatantly not an A7 candidate and polishing it up so beautifully. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
It's still not about what you think LOL :-D
Got this message .... and it seems he is busy writing to lots of editors... "Contributions". Before doing anything, I thought an Admin might want to take a peek at him. CanadianLinuxUser ( talk) 18:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to let you know that earlier today, I've offered a truce to user:giancoli . I hope it is accepted.
Also, there is an something that I think is important to note, which I pointed out to him.
They are separate and distinct things. It's relevant due to his past desire to use citations that include PVPS, and struggles if PVPS is not considered in abstracts/conclusions of these citations. Good Evening Dijcks HotTub Pool 00:53, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I've just tagged this user space draft for copy vio. It's a pretty obvious copyvio but in the requested move that alerted me to it there's a vague claim of permission so thought the copyvio template was the right way to go rather than G12. I notice however that the template breaks in user space. Is this a problem with the template or is there another process for copyvio's in user space? I haven't listed it yet at WP:CP as given that it's in user space I'm not sure it's the correct forum. Will list it if you advice that's the correct thing to do. Dpmuk ( talk) 21:18, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, I want to personally thank you for what will have been several hours of your time regarding the debate over at "vasectomy". I do, however have some questions, sentiments, and concerns and I am, asking for your help (or insights) here..
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What it's all come down to basically is, I should NOT have to work this hard to "qualify the word "sometimes" or use the word "traditionally", which now your are aware of in dispute. Or deal with resistance regarding insertion of what is well-known acceptance of certain methods. Yes, you can always find an article that refutes anything I suppose. There is substantial support for my edits in question, and yet hours, days have now been lost by all.
Analogy: Green light. You drive through an intersection. You get hit by cross traffic. Nobody witnesses it. The person who hit you says YOU ran the red light. What do you do? You Fight To Defend Your Rights, and The Truth. Thats what I've been forced to do because I value my efforts here ~ and I believe in the truth Dijcks HotTub Pool 19:33, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I've read this, and will take your advice moving forward for sure. Recently, I spent a good deal of time reading the vote process at RfA for a hopeful, and I can't imagine it was that hard some years ago for a new "recruit"! He's been grilled to every level of "done", lol. It's an interesting process, and myself having been in a leadership role nearly my whole life, hence business owner, manager, corporate officer, and usually someone that others come to for help, well it intrigues me. I can't help wanting to work toward that goal (I think that's a good thing, right?). It should be noted that it has nothing to do with having power and everything to do with wanting to be in a position to actually do something at a level that some or most simply can not or should not be at. This might sound presumptuous but it's not. It's simply how I've already spent my life with and interacted with others. Everybody has a "self-sense" of value and I simply feel (or would feel) more satisfied knowing I can contribute at that level. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but recently I met with a colleague who was complaining about his employee-base (I'll spare you the particulars), but what I pointed out, is, "we NEED people who are willing to be employees, else everybody would be an entrepreneur or business-owner". There are ~ those who are satisfied doing an 8-hour day and others, innately, are willing to work past 5pm. "It takes all kinds" comes to mind here.
I realize that I would have to give up (to an extent) my desire to work on articles. I'm okay with that because to be honest, I simply want to see if, over time I can develop (with help of course) an article to GA or better, and I think with that will come a lot of experience, which now will have included "war-wounds" :), of the current process I/we are dealing with.
This is not an appeal for anything and I don't want to dwell what you've already gone over, but on the page protection.. ..as much as I am unhappy with the other individual, we have both exhibited restraint in edit-warring, and this should have been considered, especially given the heat involved. We've both been around long enough to have been given this benefit of the "doubt".
Okay, I'm done for now.. take care, Dijcks HotTub Pool 21:20, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I have added some IP addresses which this user has as aliases. Would like to note the most peculiar obsessions in his edits, but no doubt you know this since you seem to have been investigating for some time. Karnan ( talk) 21:24, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Moon, after noticing a large uncited (well written) addition I went to ask google where it could have come from and found web cashe and now the google address redirects to here at wikipedia http//www.inf.aber.ac.uk/advisory/faq/956/ is this normal practice. Off2riorob ( talk) 11:56, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Is this alright? Zidane tribal ( talk) 04:27, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, the discussion regarding the book scan licensing template has been closed, see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_April_2#Template:Non-free_book_scan. Just to let you know. Cheers. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 19:59, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
On a website such as this, does "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, redistributed or derived from." mean that a Wikipedia editor (or anyone else) can't use it at all?-- NortyNort (Holla) 11:56, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
See User talk:Moonriddengirl/Archive_18#Query over extensive quotations
I believe at the time your opinion was this was fine for a short time during a mediation case. That is long over.
User:Ecemaml/Selected quotations about Gibraltar
The page is still there, as are copies.
User:Imalbornoz/Gibraltar User:Imalbornoz/Capture of Gibraltar User:Imalbornoz/Exodus to San Roque
As it happens, there are extensive quotes in the Gibraltar cites, so the original purpose of these pages appears moot at best. Wee Curry Monster talk 13:22, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks very much. It's greatly appreciated. ScottyBerg ( talk) 15:58, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG, While trying to do a little referencing for an unsourced BLP, I came across this page which has identical content to our article, 3-D Studios. I suspect that the page has mirrored our content, rather than our article being a copyright violation, but I don't really have any logical basis for that suspicion. What do you recommend? Ladyof Shalott 16:05, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Please provide me a copy of this article on my userpage untill i can recreate it with reliable resources. Thanks :) Amirreza talk 18:33, 18 April 2011 (UTC)