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Dear Moonriddengirl,
from the edit history of the Clan Of Xymox page it seems you are the only one who can prevent this page from being vandalized by the likes of Dr.mies who seems to revert versions to his own outdated versions all the time without being constructive. Please have a look at this editing behavior and maybe lock the page till the last time you had a look and say in it .
thank you 72.13.91.134 ( talk) 11:40, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, it's me again. Hopefully this one will be easier. Do you think that this would qualify as public domain? I am looking at the letter from Ester Jusuf. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 15:32, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, an uninvolved admin is needed to take a look at this.
I previously started a discussion about articles calling places in West Jerusalem "in Israel": [3] there is also discussion here: [4]
I asked for evidence showing that West Jerusalem is internationally recognized as part of Israel, and I don't believe I have received it.
I believe the point has now been reached were no one could confirm that West Jerusalem is internationally recognized as part of Israel, and therefore I believe that I can now remove this what I believe is a non neutral pov from articles.
Do you think you can take a look at this and see where to go from now? You can reply here. -- Supreme Deliciousness ( talk) 15:54, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey MRG. Could you delete One Tree Hill (Season 9) for me please. There is already a page called One Tree Hill (season 9), a user made a page using a capital letter because I redirected the original. Thanks. Jayy008 ( talk) 21:34, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I don't care what's done with the original page, my only issue was a new one being made with a capital letter as that's not what the name's supposed to be for any television page. Either way, thank you everyone for your help :) and thanks MRG for making the correct changes. Jayy008 ( talk) 16:04, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Sorry for troubling you again but could you (or someone else watching this page) please take a look at User talk:Thewar364 and the contributions of this user. I have tried to be non-" bitey" and started by leaving a personal message rather than one of those officious-sounding templates. -- Hegvald ( talk) 18:05, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
I do not understand why you have eliminated my photos of Pengov's paintings in Bled, in Žale and in the Parliament House of Slovenia. I have made these photos myself and I have dedicated a lot of my time to recover the work of this slovenian artist. I am very dissapointed with this violation of my work.-- Oliver-Bonjoch ( talk) 22:18, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Have you got time to look at the conversation at User_talk:TransporterMan#Ruth_Glass about a close paraphrase situation at Ruth Glass - it is fairly short conversation. I think someone may have over-reacted here, especially as it was clear that I was looking at it. - Sitush ( talk) 20:20, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
I, too, would like to thank Moonriddengirl for her caring and thoughtful analysis. I don't entirely agree with everything that was said, but you might be surprised at just how much with which I do agree. On the quickness / biting issue and what might be done to be more welcoming to newcomers I've stated my opinion and reservations in this thread and won't belabor the point further here. While this instance with Ruth Glass may make me look a bit bitey, I'd like to point out that I have a track record of trying to give newcomers who show some bona fide interest in really improving the encyclopedia at least some advice and encouragement. See, for example, this and this and this. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 14:19, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
PS: I do have to admit that I got one thing wrong in this case. I was, perhaps, a bit more certain in my reaction to the close paraphrase copyvio than I might have otherwise have been with some other editor because of the number of copyvio (and other warnings) on Msrasnw's talk page. I came away from seeing them with the impression that s/he was cavalier, frivolously sloppy, or had a "if you catch me I'll fix it" attitude, indeed to the point that in the heat of things I was considering reporting him/her to WP:CCI. Having taken a closer look I've now come to believe that those problems were far more innocent than they appeared on first blush and that the creator appears to be a good-faith, hard-working editor with a enviable sense of kindness. I was wrong, I believe, about him/her and I'd like to admit it here and apologize to him/her for my false impression even though I never expressed it before now. That is not to say that I would have done anything different if I had had the correct impression about Msrasnw from the beginning, but I do want to admit and apologize for misjudging him. Respectfully, TransporterMan ( TALK) 15:21, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
I've done some general rewording and rearranging to make the meaning and instruction of the examples a bit more clear. Let me know what you think. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 15:25, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
PS: Can someone familiar with template editing figure out why the {{ quotebox}} template — at least I think that's the villain — causes the following See also heading to disappear? — TransporterMan ( TALK) 15:36, 23 May 2011 (UTC) PPS: I've kludged around it but it needs to be fixed properly. TM 15:45, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Facts cannot be copyrighted. It is legal to read an encyclopedia article or other work, reformulate the concepts in your own words, and submit it to Wikipedia, although the structure, presentation, and phrasing of the information should be your own original creation. The United States Court of Appeals noted in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service that factual compilations of information may be protected with respect to "selection and arrangement, so long as they are made independently by the compiler and entail a minimal degree of creativity," as "[t]he compilation author typically chooses which facts to include, in what order to place them, and how to arrange the collected data so that they may be used effectively by readers." [5] You can use the facts, but unless they are presented without creativity (such as an alphabetical phone directory), you may need to reorganize as well as restate them to avoid substantial similarity infringement. It can be helpful in this respect to utilize multiple sources, which can provide a greater selection of facts from which to draw. (With respect to paraphrasing works of fiction, see derivative works section below.)
Just FYI, I did an end run around the foreign language problem by trying
this at the Swedish Wikipedia and it may have worked. Best regards,
TransporterMan (
TALK) 18:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC) PS: If we keep hanging around the same places, people are going to say we're in love.
. TM
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 21:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I just learned of your promotion. Wonderful, wonderful news! Sad to say, I already have a request. You have likely heard of the hard-banned user Bambifan101. This is a ninth-grade boy in Mobile, Alabama who is single-handedly responsible for staggering cross-wiki abuse and he's returned to wreak more havoc. Check the ANI board to see what I mean. I tried three times to mentor him and three times he continued to create abusive, insulting socks while pretending to accept my offers. Worse, he followed another hard-banned and truly dangerous user who had me in his sights across several Wikia projects and other wikis. BF followed his example and I lived a nine-week-long nightmare last summer over this idiot child. It was only when he'd wreaked that havoc via his school IP that I got the district's IT department to step in and they did so immediately. They're the ones who told me that he was a student and his computer privileges were revoked but of course could not elaborate further, nor did I pry further as to his identity. He hasn't attacked me yet, but he just got through with yet another cross-wiki rampage with machine translated garbage on non-English WP projects. I'd contacted Bell South to no avail. Perhaps you'll have better luck if you decide to step in. Thank you SO much. All my best, PMDrive1061 ( talk) 14:38, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
PS: Here's the ANI discussion. Take care and congratulations once more. [6] PMDrive1061 ( talk) 14:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I was momentarily confused by the table in FAQ/Copyright. Not a big deal, but I left a suggestion for improvement on the talk page. Yes, I know about bold, but when something has been around this long, and possibly the result of solid discussions, I want to talk about it before doing it, in case there are solid reasons for the existing presentation I missed.-- SPhilbrick T 11:45, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I already posted this on
PBS's talk page -- but he's too busy to help --
It seems to be that the editor
Boleyn is using incorrect information and creating pages that are under the incorrect title. I have found two HUGE mistakes lately. One having to do with
Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh in which the page she started was originally named Thomas Burgh, 7th Baron Strabolgi. I had to move the page and re-do it! I now find that she edited the page
Kirton in Lindsey putting incorrect information which she quoted from a book -- only problem being it was not what was written in the book, it was completely wrong. She quotes that Catherine Parr and her second husband, the 3rd Baron of Gainsborough lived there -- er, incorrect and not even what it says in Porter's Katherine, the Queen. I corrected her info and put another source by it. I have the two books right here in front of me and I can tell you that what she quoted was/is completely false -- and I'm pretty sure that there is a snippet of Porter's book on
Google ebooks which states the correct husband but does not have pg 55 -- it's blocked. To see what she originally put in there -- see Revision as of 13:19, 29 March 2011 -- should I address this person or leave it to you because I am really starting to get annoyed with her -- she doesn't use correct sources, quotes what's not even in the book, creates pages with titles that are incorrect, and is spreading the wrong information around Wiki. I'm frankly tired of cleaning up her mess (which seems to have to do with
Catherine Parr and her husband's families). --
Lady Meg (
talk) 21:11, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
For now I think I will just let it go. I might say something, but I don't feel like dealing with confrontation right now. I'll check her editing in the future and confront her if I see anything else. Thanks for your input. -- Lady Meg ( talk) 01:10, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Surat al-Muddaththir see [7] and Surat Qaf see [8] - this bit about see someone for detailed analysis is the giveaway, although the first article has a lot of other text that's pretty clearly copied. I've got to get out of the house shortly or I'd deal with it myself. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 12:54, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I need some advice from you, please have a look: [9], I had a big and tedious argument with user:ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ(Dungane) over Boxer Rebellion. It will take forever to read through it, but basically, I was advocating implementation of WP Neutrality, and he was:
“ | what I want is for an admin to make clear any kind of unsubstantiated fringe conspiracy theory pushing involving ad hominem attacks of marxism, black panthers, communists, or the chinese government/chinese textbooks is forbidden as off topic on the talk page of the Boxer Rebellion article,ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ (talk) 02:55, 24 May 2011 (UTC) | ” |
User Dungane had written more than 10,000 words of argument, mostly consist of personal attacks against me and user John Smith's, and just refuse to calm down to join me on discussion on how to implement WP rules. Since no admin had even care to make any statement on this ANI, let alone any decision, I hereby come here to seek your advice. Arilang talk 05:18, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
User A Thousand Doors is making article after article of nothing but lists of top-chart songs taken from, in each instance, a single chart source. See Special:Contributions/A_Thousand_Doors. These sources seem to me to be the exact type of source which was described in your last quote in our Ruth Glass discussion, above, and to merely copy them from that source and relist them here seems to me to be a copyvio. What do you think (before I make a fool of myself at WP:CCI)? Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 17:55, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
This is more for my future reference than immediate (because I think the article isn't long for this world on other grounds), but I removed a long copyvio at McMaster Association of Part-Time Students as a copyvio of http://www.mcmaster.ca/maps/history.html. The last section of that was a long list of past and current officers. The editor rewrote a chunk of it adequately to avoid the copyvio but restored most of the officers list character-for-character verbatim. Is there any Wikipolicy or Wikiprecedent for whether those kinds of list constitute a copyvio? (Oh, and much belatedly, congrats on the new job.) Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 20:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi;
Could I bother you for some suggestions?
A long-term editor has produced a large volume of edits, of which a small subset seem to be... unhelpful (not copyvio per se). I'm wrestling with a huge Excel spreadsheet, trying to separate positive edits from a minority which are problematic. Edits to well-trafficked articles will have been seen by others and probably fixed where necessary; so it would be helpful to identify obscure articles which have been edited solely or mainly by this editor (apart from bots and the occasional passerby who fixes spelling/categories &c) as these are likely to pose quality problems. Maybe copyright-cleanup can involve some similar work; so are there any tools/scripts/whatever which I could use? Simply looking at article creations isn't helpful, as there are cases where this editor added the vast majority of the content to an article which somebody else started as a microstub.
Are there any tools from the world of copyright cleanup which could be helpful here? Feel free to say "No"
bobrayner (
talk) 13:39, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
A discussion about improving the help documentation inspired an idea--Wikipedia tutorials would be best if they were interactive and immersive. The thought of a learning-teaching game came up, one based on a real interface with realistic 'missions'. Would you be interested in providing some feedback or helping work on it, or know editors who might? The idea is just getting started and any assistance with the help/policy side, the experienced-editor side, or the coding/game-making side would be great. Cheers, Ocaasi c 03:08, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
For copy editing the No. 79 Squadron RAAF - much appreciated. Nick-D ( talk) 10:26, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Sorry to bother you, but could you please edit "www.robertgarside.com" back onto the "Robert Garside" page? It is the official web portal and was recently (sneakily) deleted by CanadianLinuxUser. No surprises there! Many thanks. It was in the box on the left hand side of the page, underneath where the photo is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.196.122.103 ( talk) 11:06, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I realize you're very busy, but wanted to bring your attention to this ANI thread. Specifically I'd like to know how we deal with persistent copyvio vandals and what to do about the pages they edit. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 ( talk) 12:38, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi - I have another question. Under the user name SusanneNYC2009, ILT took The Story of Miss Moppet to FAC and it passed. Later, I scrubbed the page, removed the plagiarism, and rewrote sections with the copyvio. I documented what I found in my edit summaries and on the talkpage. However, the plagiarism still exists in the page's history which has not been scrubbed. In my view that should have been done, and should be done now. Then I'd like to send the page to FAR. How do I go about having the all of Susanne's edits deleted? Truthkeeper88 ( talk) 01:13, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
It may be a good idea to use Wikipedia:Revision deletion on the versions that contain the copyright infringement to help avoid inadvertent restoration in the future if the copyrighted content is extensive. Otherwise, so long as the infringing text is removed from the public face of the article, it may not need to be removed/deleted permanently unless the copyright holder complains via OTRS or unless other contributors persist in restoring it.
Not sure if the issue about using ads has ever been resolved or not. Had copied my findings to the page after bringing them up with you here. Haven't uploaded or transferred anything like this to Commons since because I'm not certain it's settled.
I seem to have some kind of "vio magnet" because it seems like I either am reading for information or trying to expand/ref an article and there's the vio. :( Am now working on restoring my last "find", Red Skelton. Is there possibly some way users could be made aware of the articles that need to be redone after they've been cleared of vios to try to get them back in decent order again, and possibly some type of encouragement for those who would be willing to do this? Seeing what was left of Skelton afterward started me thinking about this. Thanks! We hope ( talk) 17:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Can we come up with a template that would replace the copyvio one after the article has been cleaned which would basically say that the article now needs restoration? If a list of these articles could be found on the project page, it would be a central location where those who want to help get articles back in shape could find them. If we could also come up with another template that can be placed on the article's talk page after it's been restored, saying something to the effect that the article was restored by the copyright project, it would make a bit more "noise" toward awareness. :) If there proves to be enough articles in need of restoration, perhaps a drive to work on them similar to copyedit, wikify and BLPs? We hope ( talk) 15:42, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
If you'll consider a category for them and a link to it, I'll keep my eyes open and see what I can help out with in the way of restoration. (Only fitting since I seem to have a copyvio magnet. :) ) Am about to say "Good night and may God bless" to Red, so I'll be open to lend a hand if needed. We hope ( talk) 18:19, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
I asked a question here on NortyNort's talk page in an attempt not to overburden you. I got some useful advice but (contradiction, I know) am still confused. Do you mind taking a look please, if/when you have some time + are wearing the correct hat ? - Sitush ( talk) 12:04, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Good morning, I made a draft here. It is based off of Advice for admins but with some of my changes, I added some new/different tips that apply to both. Let me know what you think and feel free to make changes.-- NortyNort (Holla) 12:14, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Is the ticket related to image File:HesburghLibrary.jpg having to do with the photo or with the mural? If it has to do with the mural, is it from someone who can legitimately state the copyright status of the mural? Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 15:23, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Congrats on your good news. I have been away for a few days. Please see my reply to email. Best. Off2riorob ( talk) 18:38, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Blatant copyvio is a bit harsh verdict on too close paraphrasing. But you are right that it had to go. Night of the Big Wind ( talk) 19:26, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Please note that your recent link deletion was not explained. There is a Talk page discussion on the link that is still ongoing, and has been added to ENL: Goldie Hawn link. There are two editors that were discussing it, but you simply deleted it with a rationale that is the essence of the discussion, and without any explanation. -- Wikiwatcher1 ( talk) 21:54, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG, somebody has recreated the page with the capitol letter. I'm not touching it as I would ask you to take a look. I thought since you merged it only an admin could bring it back? Jayy008 ( talk) 11:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I have a doozy for you. I know you don't focus on images, but could you help me with this? I recently ( boldly) uploaded this picture to the Commons. It is a Photoshopped combination (i.e. derived work) of two screenshots from The Seven Year Itch's trailer, which seems to be in public domain because it was released prior to 1964 and never copyrighted separately; therefore, the chance to register it for copyright has expired (1955 + 28 = 1983). I am basing my reasoning off of a couple other The Seven Year Itch uploads by other editors and this site. Could you take a look and let me know what you think about the status of the trailer? Should it be on Commons? Thanks. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 15:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Does this help? We hope ( talk) 17:34, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
It looks like she has earned a living with the information. I just started reading things like this and bookmarking them when I started uploading files, so I at least had some guidelines before deciding to use a file or not. :) We hope ( talk) 17:57, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Gamaliel recently blocked the IP address 68.255.4.56, whose single contribution can be seen here. Obviously, this seems like a case of WP:INVOLVED. But, first, backstory time: Yes, the IP address is very likely to be a banned user, known as Victim of Censorship over on WR. Apparently, he and Gamaliel know each other in real life, where a lot of this stems from, and it's been spilling over onto both of their internet activities. There have been numerous other clashes between the two, but I really believe this is a situation where Gamaliel needs to step back and let other admins take care of it. He's only perpetuating the drama by doing things like blocking after VoC makes a rude comment on his talk page.
I just came here to get your opinion on the subject. Oh, and the WR thread about this is here, where VoC is complaining about...something. It's rather incoherent. (Any talk page stalkers, feel free to weigh in) Silver seren C 21:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
This probably isn't the forum to debate any of this, but I did want to say some things for the record:
Please feel free to ask me anything you want to know about this matter. Gamaliel ( talk) 02:54, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
As you may or may not have noticed, VWBot destroyed your nice new changes to this page last night. I'm still not up to speed again, so I'm not sure what's going on with clerking instructions and the like, but feel free to revert the bot - it only edits that page because Zorglbot requires it (should it ever be unblocked and run as primary again), not for any actual functional reason. I don't think I'll be home before VWBot runs again tonight, so it'll probably ruin your layout one more time before I can disable or update that part of the code. VernoWhitney ( talk) 15:12, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps you can assist in this one. In Phoenix Park an anonIP, using a few similar IP addresses, keeps adding material with an Encyclopaedia Brittanica citation that is proven to be in error but he insists on using WP:V as his reason for readding it many times. Even though there has been a full discussion on the talk page at: Talk:Phoenix Park#Europe's largest enclosed urban park he keeps up the same actions; now it is just vandalism to me or at least disruptive editing. Opposed editors have quoted alternate sources and there is a consensus not to have the inaccurate citation, even though EB is generally regarded as a WP:RS, this is an instance where its inclusion is not justified and only this one editors insists. Besides 3RR warnings and the discussion he keeps reverting or refactoring the same error. Mainly Special:Contributions/46.7.29.75, Special:Contributions/46.7.72.30 and most recently Special:Contributions/46.7.72.149. ww2censor ( talk) 16:34, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, this is Survir again. I need your help with the following user who has logged in with the following IP addresses and user names User:71.93.75.114, User:71.93.68.103, User:70.27.13.55, User:188.135.116.29, User:Tamimomari, etc. This user keeps adding Top Shows or whatever list to the following pages: Zee TV, Sahara One, Imagine TV, STAR Plus, STAR One, Aapka Colors, etc... (either under the main page or list of prgrammes page), without any proper references. This is just personal opinion becasuse their is no such list on the Internet exists. He/she keeps adding "Citation needed" tag but not adding any reference, and I don't think that anybody can add a reference to such list because it doesn't exists. Besides, these channels have shown a lot of hit programmes, so it is hard to choose top 10 out of all the programmes they have shown. I have removed this list several times, but he/she keeps adding it back. Just to let you know that there was a user in the past who was doing the same thing. Can you please help me remove this bogus info and stop this user from making such edits. Thank you, your friend, Survir ( talk) 18:44, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Abdul Majid Abdullah was proposed as a CSD G12. I reviewed it, had some questions about whether it was really unambiguous, and shared my concerns with the tagging editor. I intended to return and remove the CSD, then nominate at Copyright problems so someone with more experience could sort it out. However, it wa deleted before I remembered to follow up. I thought perhaps it would be reported to Copyright problems anyway, but it appears not to be in the list. I do see some deleted items in the list, so my first question is simply to confirm process. My guess is that tagging an article with a CSD G12 does not also list it at Copyright problems. My guess is that is someone does list it there, then concludes it is a G12, it gets deleted, but stays in the list.
I do see that some of the items in the list come from CorenSearchBot. I assume those are automatically added by the bot. I'm not sure what happens if CSB tags an article, and someone CSDs it. One possibility is that all CSB items are added to the list, and a CSD action removes it from the list. Another possibility is that CSB adds it to the list and if CSD'd, someone manually removes it from the list.
Separate form understanding the interaction between Automated duplication detectors such as Duplication Detector report or CSB and the list at Copyright problems, I'm not sure how to handle Abdul Majid Abdullah. I'd like some other eyes to look at it, to see if my suspicion about reverse copyvio is a possibility. Should I:
SPhilbrick T 23:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, I wonder if in your new-found role you could do anything in relation to the suggestion at Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost#Developer_communication_suggestion, or whether you could nudge some people who might be interested? Rd232 talk 00:44, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey there! My Wikipedia profile for "Trevor Wayne" was deleted over a year ago. The problem is Wikipedia created a Facebook page for "Trevor Wayne" (me) and won't delete it! Facebook keeps linking my official public page to it and calling me a "Community Created" page. That is not true. I have asked Facebook to delete the Wikipedia made Facebook page and they just don't answer. It is really messing with my actual official page. I am at my end.. is there anyway Wikipedia will delete it from their end? Thank you so much! The URL for my Wikipedia Facebook created page is: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Trevor-Wayne/113239452022740?sk=info — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.124.56.207 ( talk) 04:10, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
MRG, I think you've got more on your plate at the moment than is good for you, so perhaps you could place this with someone else to deal with, but you're obviously my first port of call!
User:OpenScience has just posted a message noting that the Srebrenica Genocide article is a (partial)copy - or vice versa - of the webpage at http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/srebrenica_massacre.html
There's certainly duplication of material but having been involved with the article for several years I'd be pretty certain that the material added to the article during that time was assembled at the article rather than being lifted from elsewhere - the process has been too much like hand-to-hand combat for anything else. I can't speak for earlier content but for obvious reasons reflected in the fact that it wasn't until yesterday that Ratko Mladic arrived in The Hague I imagine that the earlier development of the article was a similarly organic process. I did a quick breeze through the martinfrost.ws material and it doesn't appear to mention the outcome of the the ICTY Krstic appeal findings in 2004 but does include reference to the video of the Trnovo killings which Natasa Kandic submitted to the ICTY in 2005. The lacuna suggests that it's not an authoritative original source. There's no mention of the International Court of Justice ruling in 2007 so it's presumably older than that. I'd appreciate it if someone can help check User:OpenScience's implicit copyright violation suggestion. Opbeith ( talk) 07:19, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Good to hear about your new role. Stifle ( talk) 09:20, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I had a doubt about copyright stuff, but in connection with another Wikipedia project. The thing is: I have a few verses of text, which are in the public domain. Now, I want to copy that text on to Wikipedia. But, all text in Wikipedia comes under CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL (if i'm not wrong). So, this being the case, is it necessary to specify explicitly that those verses (which are in the Public Domain) are under the Public Domain?
I hope you got my question properly; will offer a better explanation if needed. Thanks :) Lynch 7 11:42, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations on your new job! I believe you will be an excellent liason. I would have used a fancy template for this message, but could not find anything appropriate. Instead you get some homemade Dutch apple pie, like my grandma used to make them. Yoenit ( talk) 22:38, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations on the new job. Good luck. Racepacket ( talk) 22:30, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Don't know if you can help, but is there a problem with File:Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui.jpg and copying it from [14] ? Mtking ( talk) 11:25, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
{{
db-f9}}
, following up by giving the uploader the notice that it generates. Given that he is a
WP:SPA (or seems to be, at this point), he may have permission to use this image. I don't remember what the F9 deletion warning looks like, but if it does not include a link to
Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries, I'd recommend dropping a little note underneath the template pointing it out, in case he can verify license. Let me know if you'd like assistance with this. :) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 11:51, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all of that, can you suggest how to approach User:BenJBass and his picture uploads, he is just copying them off websites. 11:41, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Can you look at File:ForeclosureRescueAd.jpg and tell me if there is an issue, the uploader took it himself, but I think the sign it'self is copyright of the sign's creator. Mtking ( talk) 22:29, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
I have added the following comment to the copyright violation page and hope you will agree. I have notified User:Kirk who brought the original complaint and will notify others who have commented. I might add that this is a lengthy article or list of events with many discrete entries and many references (about 8 or 10 are most cited; many entries have more than one reference). That is why it took some time to go through it all. Also, with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War upon us, a few articles about events which took place 150 years ago needed a little attention. Thanks.: "The two editors who have worked on this article most recently have reviewed the entries and checked them against the citations; and added additional citations and a few entries. We believe there should now be no objection to restoration of this article." Donner60 ( talk) 23:34, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
I have a complicated question. It is to me, at least.
So a froofraw has occurred at AN where User:Damiens.rf nominated dozens of nonfree images to be deleted for not complying with NFCC policy. I got into it because he tagged three images in articles I wrote. (These are the images: 1, 2, and 3) I feel rather certain that I fully justified the inclusion of these images based on my experience writing FAs and GAs. In fact, the third image there was included in a 2009 Featured contact Dispatch about how to write a fair use rationale. But now I get from the disjointed discussion that the issue of "transformative use" is undecided and without consensus. According to those pushing for transformative use, a historical image has to be involved in the article, which qualifies for the historical images in Birmingham campaign, which I wrote.
I apologize because this is now so spread out I can't keep track of it anymore. There is the AN discussion here, an RfC about the issue of transformative use, which I can't even track it's so all over the place, and the discussions about each of the images that were tagged for deletion (start there and scroll down).
I learned how to justify images by being schooled by User:Elcobbola, who is semi-retired. He did pop into the FfD discussion for the Stonewall riots image to say that the "transformative use" interpretation of the NFCC rule is "a profound misunderstanding and misapplication of NFCC and sourcing policies". I'm not a copyright attorney. I can't parse all this. I just don't want the articles' qualities decreased because someone went on a deletion tear when none of the rules are clear. -- Moni3 ( talk) 20:45, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
You undoubtedly have more of a sense of NFC philosophies than I do, Carcharoth. :) I've only kind of tangentially paid attention to it in doing my text based copyright, and I haven't often participated in conversations related to developing it. Moni3, I know it would be really reassuring if there were clear-cut guidelines from the US courts, but, alas, there's not much we can do about that. :/ On a meta sense, the question plays nationally much like it does here; there are vague guidelines, and we are expected to do our best to comply with them. If these were not so vague, there'd probably be far fewer lawsuits.
In terms of the attorneys, Wikimedia has two attorneys serving every project WMF sustains--English Wikipedia is, obviously, the biggest of these, but there are over 270 other language versions in addition to the other projects (Commons, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, Wikinews, etc.). Two attorneys simply could not micromanage on such scale, but, again, that's not to address the major point that they don't want to. If WMF became a publisher rather than a service provider, the entire project would change. They would no longer be able to allow contributors to post content without screening it, because they would be directly liable for content that was placed here. I suspect it would kill the website.
That's not to say that WMF doesn't care about these issues. For instance, the Board has recently passed several image-related resolutions, based on Controversial content and Images of identifiable people.
Just as with the exemption doctrine policy, they put out the principles and trust us to work out a sensible approach within them. The community has done a really good job, I think, of working with the WMF over the years, but that's not to say it's without difficulty. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:25, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
A user, User:Paul Stephen Farmer has uploaded a "self portrait", for use on an article about himself, setting aside WP:COI issues, and the fact the article is at AfD at the moment, he with this edit asserts his copyright over the file, my question is, is this allowed ? Mtking ( talk) 11:36, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
My congratulations on your new role. A few months ago you very nicely recreated the Max Conrad article after it was deleted and I appreciated this. Thank you again for what you do for Wikipedia. RFD ( talk) 16:51, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
For the benefit of my talk page stalkers (hi!), who I presume are generally interested in copyright, we're talking about revising the copyright problem template to make it more user friendly (literally). See the copyclean discussion and the mock-up at User:MLauba/Copyviocore, please, if you want to provide input. I'm hoping that we can keep it informative (it's actually more informative; the directions for cleanup have been expanded behind their little hide boxes) but make it less accusatory and officious, at the same time avoiding watering down its message or making it seem like we aren't serious about the issue. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:02, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Congrats on the Community Liaison thingy! :) I've been working through some image backlogs today [19] and I came across File:Portrait of tommy allen.jpg. Is the copyright stuff here really correct? This doesn't seem to be right: "i have no knowledge of the author but as this is a family member we have rights of the deceased in the photo". Have a look whenever you have time! Thanks, Theleftorium (talk) 14:29, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Buster Seven Talk 15:07, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
hey, I commended you to wikipedia, my account is either block or compromised, or perhaps both! sorry, I did not know how else to let you know! Someone said I said some mean things about you, this is not true!
Again, the airrunwesker account does appear compromised!
Someone did promised me a "lifehack" and I have filed a police report against them.
I am sure you already know both I appreciate your help, and that I also use better grammar :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.24.128.225 ( talk) 04:14, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop a note of thanks for your help with Dr. Blofield. I got an email from him, and it appears things aren't nearly as dire as I first thought. OHHHH ... and by the way ... congratulations (although a bit late) on that job/promotion thing too. Always glad to see someone getting ahead in life. Cheers and best MRG. :) — Ched : ? 14:09, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Greetings! I was talking with La goutte de pluie about a copyright violation I spotted and how to handle it. I showed her what evidence I'd taken with me, with the potential that I'd need to go back to the library for a full scan. She said we may need more expertise. I also received a message at NFCR suggesting that I put a tag on it so it gets a proper review. I'm unsure how to proceed. But I noticed you're somewhat of a specialist in this area, if not an expert. Keep in mind that the article is currently at AFD for a combination of reasons, including but not limited to WP:COPYVIO.
I've sent you an email so that I'm not posting huge copyrighted quotes on your talkpage. Would appreciate any guidance on the next appropriate step. Shooterwalker ( talk) 20:18, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
{{
copyvio}}
and at the talk page explain that the timeline is copied. I have verified, for instance, through Google books beyond what you've e-mailed me that such content as "The Calormenes in Telmar behave very wickedly and Aslan turns them into dumb beasts. The country lies waste. King Gale of Narnia delivers the Lone Isiands from a dragon and is made emperor by their grateful inhabitants" is entirely reproduced. This is not permitted by policy, whether the article itself stands. Make a note at the AfD of what you've done and why, in case people are confused. If the article is retained, the copyright investigation will be completed after a week. --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 20:36, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
File:Holy Wood logo.jpg This is listed here as not free and "not replaceable" with free media. But go to Commons and it has a free license. ???? Thanks, We hope ( talk) 21:15, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
About a year ago you intercepted an article on Antonio Paoli I had edited using some material you identified as CR violation. While I meant no harm or malice with my actions, and had always thought I was actually -helping- the encyclopedia, I learnt quite a bit from that experience. In particular, I wanted to thank you for having provided me the opportunity to fix the article (Tony the Marine did most of the fixing) in such gracious manner. Your approach, which involved no chastisement (as it unvaribly always occurs with every other CR-protestionist at WP), did not go unnoticed. Thank you.
Now I have come across an edit in an article I had edited in the past called Puerto Rican citizenship and which contains THIS edit that, based on whatever little I learned from my own experience before, appears to be CR violation. I did not want to undo those edits since I don't have the expertise in CR vio that you seem to have. The information seems to have been all taken verbatim from these 2 sources: 1 and 2. And the editor then appears to have just mingled the 2 sources interchangably into the wikipedia article. If you can take a look at this and determine if there was a CR vio, I would appreciate it as I was looking to take this article to GA status. Regards, Mercy11 ( talk) 01:41, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
What happens about this now the seven days have gone past ? Mtking ( talk) 06:59, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl (or any helpful talk-page stalker), I'm having a discussion with a user who appears to have some misunderstandings about copyright. I think I've explained everything to him correctly, but it might be good if someone else also clarifies things to him. The copyright violation I found was in this version. Ucucha 15:51, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. Is this [23] statement of faith on the Eston College website [24] copyrighted? How am I supposed to know? Thanks for your help. Kenatipo speak! 19:40, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Am I right in thinking the lyrics should be removed from Ich will? The source [25] says " Lyrics by Rammstein are the property of the respective authors, artists and labels, Ich Will (Actually English) Lyrics by Rammstein are provided for educational purposes only" and is used in a number of other articles. Do we consider it a copyvio site? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 12:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
The correct regex is \bherzeleid\.com/en/lyrics\b. Don't forget to log the addition. MER-C 10:59, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl,
I am looking to create an article/page for OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, but I think the previous page that has been deleted may have had similar information that I want to post. Should I continue to create it, or will that cause a problem?
Thanks for your help!
Aschrader18 ( talk) 20:10, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I was given your name as a person to possibly help confirm that I have taken adequate steps to eliminate any copyright problems associated with my Wikipedia entries.
My entries are for public places in Austin Texas and the content is taken from a website that I have authored. I live in the neighborhood and I have done extensive research on these topics. The intention is not to “advertise” for the neighborhood or parks, rather create/start Wikipedia entries and let others contribute. Although I am the author, the material is not copyrighted and the content is to be considered that of the public domain. To make certain however, I have added the following statement “The text of this web page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License” to the web pages used as source information for the Wikipedia articles. I have read the Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials page and I *think* that I have taken necessary/required action.
My Wikipedia entries are : • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brykerwoods/Bryker_Woods • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brykerwoods/Bailey_Park • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seider's_Springs
My associated web pages: • http://www.txinfo.com/brykerwoods/BWNA/index.html • http://www.txinfo.com/brykerwoods/History/index.html • http://www.txinfo.com/brykerwoods/Parks/index.html • http://www.txinfo.com/brykerwoods/Parks/BaileyPark.html
Please take a look and let me know if I am in full compliance. Many thanks for any time you can give this request. Brykerwoods ( talk) 21:21, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. Now that I have eliminated the copyright problems associated with my Wikipedia entries, how can the articles be made active again? Can you republish and make official the Wikipedia entries listed below?
Many thanks again for helping me with this important and fundamental issue. Brykerwoods ( talk) 17:02, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Do you know any good copyright admins at Commons? (I don't want to bother you all the time!) I don't really know how they handle copyright problems over there but I keep finding images that need to be taken care of... Theleftorium (talk) 13:40, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Posting here rather than replying on my talk page as I want to suggest something about clerking that I'd be interested in any talk page stalker's views of. Sorry for not replying earlier, I wanted to give it some thought and I've been busy arguing with LaTeX to sort out the formatting for my thesis. Yes, I would be interested in clerking, although as you rightly assumed I may not be that active over the next few months (I would imagine I'll be dipping in for a few minutes at a time to escape writing).
It occurs to me that we now have clerks for CCI and CP and that there is a significant amount of overlap between them (especially as the new CP clerk page gives as one of the tasks "Evaluating if repeated prior issues warrant contributor copyright investigation and requesting an investigation if so"). I've also been dealing a bit with C:CVSD removing the G12 tag from pages where it doesn't apply (PD source, backwards copy etc). Would it be sensible to combine the two clerking roles into one? Even if people don't think that's sensible is it worth including in the CP Clerk page that they can also deal with G12 tagging as much as a non-admin can. In essential what I'm suggesting is a single (text) copyright clerk role. Dpmuk ( talk) 17:25, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
He's now back as Goldfinger123 ( talk · contribs). This set of edits intro'd some copyvios (the section on Second admin commission is enmasse copyvio). I'll look up and clean soon, but if you get a chance to clean the rest, please feel free. Now he has three accounts on Commons for us to keep track of, though no copyvios on this one yet. — Spaceman Spiff 14:07, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
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The Socratic Barnstar | |
I hereby award you this barnstar for all the time and effort you take to eloquently provide wisdom and knowledge to inquiring editors.-- NortyNort (Holla) 12:43, 12 June 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks in particular for answering all my copyright questions and helping me learn a lot. I originally wanted to make this a 'Yoda award' but I couldn't find an image of Yoda that would pass the fair-use/license test, especially on this talk page.-- NortyNort (Holla) 12:43, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your copyright cleanup efforts at business broker! I am frankly floored by your diligence, dedication, and hard work. — Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 16:51, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
I know images aren't really your area but I still feel you may have something useful to add so would you mind taking a look at the conversation at User_talk:J_Milburn#Question and comment if you feel you have anything to add. (Don't worry it's not a non-free use issue). Dpmuk ( talk) 20:47, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Would you or one of your talk page stalkers mind giving a second opinion here. I'm pretty certain about what I've said but that one phrase makes me think getting a second opinion is worthwhile as I'm still not that confident when it comes to questionable close paraphrasing issues. Dpmuk ( talk) 13:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Moonriddengirl,
The person himself wants it to be Joey Foster Ellis.... So I delete Joey Ellis....Sorry for the short notice, as I am new to Wikipedia... Thanks for paying attention. And I change it back!
Hope you had a nice day!
Ellen.clementia ( talk) 14:16, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
atleast update the list.. ready is the new highly grossing movie.. i dont know how the current list is legal.. and the list is not so useful.. dabangg is not there in the list.. atleat update the list with new grossers.. User talk:Geocraze ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Here. → ROUX ₪ 22:45, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
CANADIAN LINUX USER IS VANDALISING "ROBERT GARSIDE"-RELATED PAGES ON WIKIPEDIA. IN THIS CASE HE HAS DELETED AN ENTIRE ENTRY ABOUT ROBERT GARSIDE ON THIS PAGE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_run_across_Australia. Robert Garside was the first person to run around the world, including Australia. This is public knowledge and there are numerous media stories on the Internet. In this case I feel he has finally revealed his intentions against Robert Garside, as I stated in December 2010. Why is he allowed to hide behind the mask of an established editor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.196.122.103 ( talk) 00:09, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
All content from User:Dromeaz is suspect as he is banned user. As per policy, it is WP:BRI, therefore I am reverting all his edits first and asking questions later as per all blocked users. CanadianLinuxUser ( talk) 01:54, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, my gripe is with the Jesper Olsen (runner) page. If you look at the pattern of edits by CanadianLinuxUser, you will see that he is promoting the "Jesper Olsen (runner)" page. When I initially complained and resisted he simply tricked me into getting blocked. He made sure to elect himself as an 'established editor' first by editing other pages and then drew me into an "edit war". It was a trap that I assumed you would see through.
CanadianLinuxUser's edits are signature of who he really is and he is promoting Jesper Olsen, pure and simple. Now he appears to have complete control of the Jesper Olsen (runner) page and any other page related to the name Jesper Olsen (runner). It's a marketing campaign, that simple!
He also has a control on Robert Garside pages and regularly tries to play down Robert's success in any way he can get away with it. My only way to deal with this guy is to encourage you (Moonriddengirl) in the hope that you will ensure articles are fair. I sensed you had a strict sense of fairness and impartiality. I hope I'm right.
Is it not offensive to me that this other editor is allowed a free reign to re-write history however he chooses? Of course it is. It is propaganda. CanadianLinuxUser uses shaky references to puport the Jesper Olsen (runner) page, that should not even exist.
FACTS THAT HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED:
1. Jesper Olsen has NO world record or Guinness World Record and he has NOT circumnavigated the world either. His distance was far too short and there is no proof that he has actually even done the distance he said, except his own web site. Propaganda. 2. Talk Archives on the Jesper Olsen (runner) page have been concealed. Is it not because that it says there that he takes taxi cabs across bridges? 3. The person protecting the Jesper Olsen (runner) page is a part of his team. Bias. 4. The Jesper Olsen (runner) page is an advert, wholly controlled by CanadianLinuxUser. Try editing it and you will see that he'll be there observing you. WHY?
Requesting block for block evasion, Edit warring and personal attacks. here here as well as here CanadianLinuxUser ( talk) 10:04, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Desired changed: Robert Garside, also known as "The Runningman"
References (from AP, PA to CNN and Reuters): http://www.deseretnews.com/article/786406/British-runner-hoofs-it-in-LA-during-42000-mile-footrace.html http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1019897/index.htm http://www.deseretnews.com/article/775603/Runningman-get-chased-on-bad-days.html http://printstore.pressassociation.com/round_the_world_run_robert_garside_piccadilly_circus/print/1922323.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/815052/Running-Man-runs--from-Colombia.html http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PlanetaBizarro/0,,MUL15762-6091,00-BRITANICO+DA+A+VOLTA+AO+MUNDO+CORRENDO.html http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/53/53379_running_man_still_on_for_record.html http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/24/i_at.09.html http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/27403_race_to_finish_for_global_marathon_man — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.153.138.23 ( talk) 11:44, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey there! I uploaded a file similar to this file, because it was of a higher resolution, but the uploader keeps reverting my edits saying no guideline stipulate that all non-free images must not be in high resolution. What do I do? Appreciate your help. GaneshBhakt ( talk) 06:25, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Could you take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plastic Recycling and the need for Bio-polymers in India. My view is that the administrator who originally removed the {{ db-g12}} from the article was in error. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 16:19, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I just wandered across the images [27] and [28]. They seem to be the same, but the one on enwiki has a fair use tag, while the one on commons is licensed under free licenses. Is there something I am missing, or is there a problem with the licensing part somewhere? I also left a note on the commons helpdesk, but I've seen that you answer better and faster than helpdesks :P , so here I am. Lynch 7 19:52, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl (or a stalker). I was wondering if you could delete all revisions prior to the current one at Talk:Morotai Island Regency. An IP user wrote their email address, so I think it would fall under Wikipedia:Revision_deletion#HIDINGBEFORESIGHT. I have removed the email address, but I think it would still require oversight. Thanks! Crisco 1492 ( talk) 01:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
When you have time, and if it's not too much trouble, could you please provide some input here? Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 07:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
It's hard for me to tell, but it looks like the copyright issues you identified [29] and deleted in 2009 [30] have been restored. Could you or someone else take another look? Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 11:31, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering – when using RevDel on multiple revisions for a copyvio that's been in an article for quite a long time, this may entail hiding revisions where non-infringing content which remains after the copyvio is cleaned was added. Does this cause attribution problems? January ( talk) 18:53, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
re List of highest-grossing Bollywood films - if I contact the site and ask them for permission to let us present all their data, will it be acceptable? Shahid • Talk2me 07:08, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Tracking gross income of films in Bollywood is complicated by the fact that there are no official sources to list income, although there are two prominent sources that publish estimates: IBOS Network and Box Office India.( [31]) The rankings provided by the two sources do not agree, and neither source adjusts their estimates for inflation, which skews the results for recent years.([url]) The two sources can diverge widely in their estimates as well, with IBOS suggesting that top-ranking film 3 Idiots had earned 202,57,00,000 Indian rupees as of [date], while Box Office India estimates 189,38,74,729. Both lists show a tendency in recent years of [genre] to dominate the list. Among the top ten are four examples of [genre], Title 1, Title 2, Title 3 and Title 4, which combined grossed XXX to XXX, more than twice as much as the next ranking genre, [genre].
Hi, MRG!
I have a French magazine (Jan 1932) and I'd like to use the cover to illustrate an article I'm working up. The reason I ask is that I've spoken to a French publisher friend about this and she says she would reproduce scaled-down images of pre-World War II book jackets, magazine covers, newspaper front pages etc without a moment's hesitation and has done so on hundreds of occasions. Any idea how this would be viewed here, given US law may be involved? Have you any idea whether this is now PD for Wikipedia purposes? Or whether it qualifies otherwise? Many thanks in advance, Roger Davies talk 11:57, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
(od) Thank you both for your very helpful input. In fact, there are a run of covers about an event serialised across six issues. The subject of the article (Michel Vieuchange) died in Nov 1929 (so pictures he took are okay) but I cannot readily establish the DOD of his guide/companion (El Mahboul) who took many of the others. The route forward seems to be to rely solely on covers using images by Vieuchange until and unless the DOD of El Mahboul turns up. A further complicating factor is that some of the images themselves were taken in the Spanish Sahara (then a Spanish protectorate) and others in French Morocco (then a French protectorate). An interesting issue here, I suppose, is not the technical and theretical issue about whether copyright subsists in El Mahboul but whether in practical terms there is anyone to enforce his rights. I mention this because the pictures he took he did at Vieuchange's request, using Vieuchange's equipment and film stock, and passed to Jean Vieuchange (Michel's brother) for processing and publication. Roger Davies talk 16:25, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Did some research on this item: NBC Parade of Stars 1947. Have located the Billboard articles that detail how the images were heavily promoted in 1947. Checked for copyright renewals for Sam Berman and National Broadcasting Company for 1975 (huge list--needed to use year of possible renewal). There was no information that the series' copyright(s) were renewed, and it's understandable as network radio had vastly changed by then.
Will be using some of these as "copyright not renewed", but see we already have quite a few of the caricatures from the portfolio on articles about the older stars. Would like to change any I find to free use, copyright not renewed. Would this be OK after I get my rationale "hammered out" :) and the images I want to use uploaded with the "not renewed" free license? Thanks, We hope ( talk) 19:04, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Again he has remolved the name "Robert Garside" from http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Circumnavigation&action=history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.153.138.23 ( talk) 13:43, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
ROBERT GARSIDE completed the first run around the world and has an official Guinness World Record. The references are there. It has been properly cited. He also EXCEEDED the distance necessary for a circumnavigation. You have not explained *why* you would remove a foot circumnavigation. You can remove Jesper Olsen because he has not achieved the distance necessary for a circumnavigation but Robert Garside has. Please expand on your "editorial decision". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.196.122.103 ( talk) 19:20, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
hello,
I want to copy and paste most of the text in [35] to Cal Lampley. Yes it is copyrighted, but is it possible to bypass the copyright? Should I send them an e mail? Please I need your advice. Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ Share– a– Power [citation needed] 14:46, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Quran and science or this document? I can't figure it out. Our article's pretty naff. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 20:52, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl - You commented on Palazzolo before, so I want to bring your attention to a new BLPN section I have presented at - Neutral BLP for Palazzolo
Struggling to find equity for this case, I was advised by an editor (after a long wiki journey) to give a few pithy examples of what has been written that is wrong, and then offer an alternative BLP, which I have done.
Thanks in advance for considering this case. I merely ask that someone adjudicate as my pleas to the present author fall on deaf ears.
-- Fircks ( talk) 11:44, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I have been looking around but could not find any guidelines on the copyright rules specific for awards & medals articles. My feeling says that:
-- SchreyP ( talk) 21:19, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
I just deleted an article as a copyvio of an entry in LinkedIn. My full response is User_talk:Rolf.Reinhardt#Why_the_article_was_deleted. Note that the user purports to be the author, and did add a release to the talk page, which I concluded was inadequate, but that's not my question.
Mt question is whether we know the copyright status of material posted on LinkedIn. I read the LinkedIn copyright policy but the emphasis there is on material which may be added to LinkedIn in violation of copyright. I don't see any discussion about whether contributors retain any rights over material they add.
I realize that LinkedIn does not qualify as a reliable source (except for very narrow use), so perhaps this is a moot point, but it is a big enough site that we may have addressed this issue before. It occurs to me it is possible that LinkedIn might retain overall copyright of the entire site, but allow contributors to reuse material they contribute elsewhere. Do we know one way or the other?-- SPhilbrick T 13:06, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
I Appeal to administrators and moderators and even other users to make notes of following 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=J._Jayalalithaa&action=historysubmit&diff=434791233&oldid=434790873 This link given clearly shows that I have provided all the necessary references and added lots of valid information. But the user is smartly trying to make excuse to block me and removing information from the wiki article on Jayalalithaa. Dont know whether this user Sodabottle is an anti Jaya, but its a blame on me that iam reverting. Iam searching for an interview which was telecast on Jaya TV of an eminent journalist and director (Chitra Lakshmanan) on 16th June 2011 saying Jaya was not born in Mysore but in Sriranagam. 2) Also do read this para.. In her 2011 campaign, she will be focusing on corruption. With DMK’s A Raja jailed in connection with the 2G scam, Karunanidhi may find it tough to counter her allegations. Opponents may ask whether she has any locus standi to speak about corruption since she herself has been an accused in many cases. “The DMK foisted some 11 cases over her. She has been acquitted in nine of those. She is fighting the remaining cases,” says Cho, who rates Amma as the best bet for Tamil Nadu politics. source http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_jayalalithaa-mother-of-comebacks_1524790 3)_ Read this link. Jayalalitha in interview to Times of India says herself that all cases foisted by DMK against her were false http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/DMK-spent-Rs-57-crore-to-foist-cases-against-me-Jaya/articleshow/6995405.cms continuing her tirade against the previous dmk government for the financial crisis being faced by the state, tamil nadu chief minister j. jayalalitha on monday accused the karunanidhi government of wasting nearly rs 57 crore in foisting false cases and fabricating evidence against her. but various courts finally acquitted her, jayalalitha said in theni, inaugurating various projects for her andipatti constituency. Paglakahinka ( talk) 17:52, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. As my normal goto guy on image issues, Verno, is quite busy I thought I'd ask you. How do will deal with images were there's a credible claim of permission. Obviously for text I'd just use {{ copyvio}} but I have no idea what to do with images and this case seems to be ingnored at Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion. The uploads in question are here which I came across because of the Elizabeth II coin being tagged for speedy yesterday (now been re-uploaded and tagged again by me) which is an obvious infringement given the coin is copyrighted. Given the age of the other coins we're OK in that regard but given the source given doesn't release the photos we need some proof of permission. Dpmuk ( talk) 13:12, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi again! I found some copyvio images which have been tagged with a CC license, so I have nominated them for Speedy. Please spare a look:
See you around. GaneshBhakt ( talk) 06:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have raised the same issue on this list as the previous larger list based on BOI. As it relates to the same legal advice, you may want to keep an eye on it. Cheers Fæ ( talk) 09:51, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you (or an admin tps) be so kind to delete the history of the non-free file File:Sesamstraatident.png? I couldn't find the right template or board to request this. Yoenit ( talk) 21:57, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Well, there's two different ways. I used both of them.:) You can either delete the whole thing and restore just the version you want--I did that with the first image because it had 176 edits--or you can selectively delete the version you don't want. I did that with the one you listed, because there's only the one problem. It's actually much easier to do this with images than with text; it's a simple click of a button and an explanation (if the pull down reasons don't quite fit).
Yoenit, I almost overlooked the licensing question. Yes, I think it needs a licensing tag. I added one. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:20, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
A quick query - Can BBC.co.uk's content reused under a CC BY SA 3.0 licence in wikipedia?. I am not able to make out from their terms of use. Can you take a look?-- Sodabottle ( talk) 18:49, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. User:Taketa left this message on my talk page about this file:
Here is my reply on his talk page:
Since the otrs ticket names a different source (not used by me), I am unable to tell what the copyright issues here are. Please could you help clarify this? Thanks in advance, Mathsci ( talk) 06:58, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
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Dear Moonriddengirl,
from the edit history of the Clan Of Xymox page it seems you are the only one who can prevent this page from being vandalized by the likes of Dr.mies who seems to revert versions to his own outdated versions all the time without being constructive. Please have a look at this editing behavior and maybe lock the page till the last time you had a look and say in it .
thank you 72.13.91.134 ( talk) 11:40, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, it's me again. Hopefully this one will be easier. Do you think that this would qualify as public domain? I am looking at the letter from Ester Jusuf. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 15:32, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, an uninvolved admin is needed to take a look at this.
I previously started a discussion about articles calling places in West Jerusalem "in Israel": [3] there is also discussion here: [4]
I asked for evidence showing that West Jerusalem is internationally recognized as part of Israel, and I don't believe I have received it.
I believe the point has now been reached were no one could confirm that West Jerusalem is internationally recognized as part of Israel, and therefore I believe that I can now remove this what I believe is a non neutral pov from articles.
Do you think you can take a look at this and see where to go from now? You can reply here. -- Supreme Deliciousness ( talk) 15:54, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey MRG. Could you delete One Tree Hill (Season 9) for me please. There is already a page called One Tree Hill (season 9), a user made a page using a capital letter because I redirected the original. Thanks. Jayy008 ( talk) 21:34, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I don't care what's done with the original page, my only issue was a new one being made with a capital letter as that's not what the name's supposed to be for any television page. Either way, thank you everyone for your help :) and thanks MRG for making the correct changes. Jayy008 ( talk) 16:04, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Sorry for troubling you again but could you (or someone else watching this page) please take a look at User talk:Thewar364 and the contributions of this user. I have tried to be non-" bitey" and started by leaving a personal message rather than one of those officious-sounding templates. -- Hegvald ( talk) 18:05, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
I do not understand why you have eliminated my photos of Pengov's paintings in Bled, in Žale and in the Parliament House of Slovenia. I have made these photos myself and I have dedicated a lot of my time to recover the work of this slovenian artist. I am very dissapointed with this violation of my work.-- Oliver-Bonjoch ( talk) 22:18, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Have you got time to look at the conversation at User_talk:TransporterMan#Ruth_Glass about a close paraphrase situation at Ruth Glass - it is fairly short conversation. I think someone may have over-reacted here, especially as it was clear that I was looking at it. - Sitush ( talk) 20:20, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
I, too, would like to thank Moonriddengirl for her caring and thoughtful analysis. I don't entirely agree with everything that was said, but you might be surprised at just how much with which I do agree. On the quickness / biting issue and what might be done to be more welcoming to newcomers I've stated my opinion and reservations in this thread and won't belabor the point further here. While this instance with Ruth Glass may make me look a bit bitey, I'd like to point out that I have a track record of trying to give newcomers who show some bona fide interest in really improving the encyclopedia at least some advice and encouragement. See, for example, this and this and this. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 14:19, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
PS: I do have to admit that I got one thing wrong in this case. I was, perhaps, a bit more certain in my reaction to the close paraphrase copyvio than I might have otherwise have been with some other editor because of the number of copyvio (and other warnings) on Msrasnw's talk page. I came away from seeing them with the impression that s/he was cavalier, frivolously sloppy, or had a "if you catch me I'll fix it" attitude, indeed to the point that in the heat of things I was considering reporting him/her to WP:CCI. Having taken a closer look I've now come to believe that those problems were far more innocent than they appeared on first blush and that the creator appears to be a good-faith, hard-working editor with a enviable sense of kindness. I was wrong, I believe, about him/her and I'd like to admit it here and apologize to him/her for my false impression even though I never expressed it before now. That is not to say that I would have done anything different if I had had the correct impression about Msrasnw from the beginning, but I do want to admit and apologize for misjudging him. Respectfully, TransporterMan ( TALK) 15:21, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
I've done some general rewording and rearranging to make the meaning and instruction of the examples a bit more clear. Let me know what you think. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 15:25, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
PS: Can someone familiar with template editing figure out why the {{ quotebox}} template — at least I think that's the villain — causes the following See also heading to disappear? — TransporterMan ( TALK) 15:36, 23 May 2011 (UTC) PPS: I've kludged around it but it needs to be fixed properly. TM 15:45, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Facts cannot be copyrighted. It is legal to read an encyclopedia article or other work, reformulate the concepts in your own words, and submit it to Wikipedia, although the structure, presentation, and phrasing of the information should be your own original creation. The United States Court of Appeals noted in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service that factual compilations of information may be protected with respect to "selection and arrangement, so long as they are made independently by the compiler and entail a minimal degree of creativity," as "[t]he compilation author typically chooses which facts to include, in what order to place them, and how to arrange the collected data so that they may be used effectively by readers." [5] You can use the facts, but unless they are presented without creativity (such as an alphabetical phone directory), you may need to reorganize as well as restate them to avoid substantial similarity infringement. It can be helpful in this respect to utilize multiple sources, which can provide a greater selection of facts from which to draw. (With respect to paraphrasing works of fiction, see derivative works section below.)
Just FYI, I did an end run around the foreign language problem by trying
this at the Swedish Wikipedia and it may have worked. Best regards,
TransporterMan (
TALK) 18:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC) PS: If we keep hanging around the same places, people are going to say we're in love.
. TM
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 21:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I just learned of your promotion. Wonderful, wonderful news! Sad to say, I already have a request. You have likely heard of the hard-banned user Bambifan101. This is a ninth-grade boy in Mobile, Alabama who is single-handedly responsible for staggering cross-wiki abuse and he's returned to wreak more havoc. Check the ANI board to see what I mean. I tried three times to mentor him and three times he continued to create abusive, insulting socks while pretending to accept my offers. Worse, he followed another hard-banned and truly dangerous user who had me in his sights across several Wikia projects and other wikis. BF followed his example and I lived a nine-week-long nightmare last summer over this idiot child. It was only when he'd wreaked that havoc via his school IP that I got the district's IT department to step in and they did so immediately. They're the ones who told me that he was a student and his computer privileges were revoked but of course could not elaborate further, nor did I pry further as to his identity. He hasn't attacked me yet, but he just got through with yet another cross-wiki rampage with machine translated garbage on non-English WP projects. I'd contacted Bell South to no avail. Perhaps you'll have better luck if you decide to step in. Thank you SO much. All my best, PMDrive1061 ( talk) 14:38, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
PS: Here's the ANI discussion. Take care and congratulations once more. [6] PMDrive1061 ( talk) 14:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I was momentarily confused by the table in FAQ/Copyright. Not a big deal, but I left a suggestion for improvement on the talk page. Yes, I know about bold, but when something has been around this long, and possibly the result of solid discussions, I want to talk about it before doing it, in case there are solid reasons for the existing presentation I missed.-- SPhilbrick T 11:45, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I already posted this on
PBS's talk page -- but he's too busy to help --
It seems to be that the editor
Boleyn is using incorrect information and creating pages that are under the incorrect title. I have found two HUGE mistakes lately. One having to do with
Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh in which the page she started was originally named Thomas Burgh, 7th Baron Strabolgi. I had to move the page and re-do it! I now find that she edited the page
Kirton in Lindsey putting incorrect information which she quoted from a book -- only problem being it was not what was written in the book, it was completely wrong. She quotes that Catherine Parr and her second husband, the 3rd Baron of Gainsborough lived there -- er, incorrect and not even what it says in Porter's Katherine, the Queen. I corrected her info and put another source by it. I have the two books right here in front of me and I can tell you that what she quoted was/is completely false -- and I'm pretty sure that there is a snippet of Porter's book on
Google ebooks which states the correct husband but does not have pg 55 -- it's blocked. To see what she originally put in there -- see Revision as of 13:19, 29 March 2011 -- should I address this person or leave it to you because I am really starting to get annoyed with her -- she doesn't use correct sources, quotes what's not even in the book, creates pages with titles that are incorrect, and is spreading the wrong information around Wiki. I'm frankly tired of cleaning up her mess (which seems to have to do with
Catherine Parr and her husband's families). --
Lady Meg (
talk) 21:11, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
For now I think I will just let it go. I might say something, but I don't feel like dealing with confrontation right now. I'll check her editing in the future and confront her if I see anything else. Thanks for your input. -- Lady Meg ( talk) 01:10, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Surat al-Muddaththir see [7] and Surat Qaf see [8] - this bit about see someone for detailed analysis is the giveaway, although the first article has a lot of other text that's pretty clearly copied. I've got to get out of the house shortly or I'd deal with it myself. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 12:54, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I need some advice from you, please have a look: [9], I had a big and tedious argument with user:ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ(Dungane) over Boxer Rebellion. It will take forever to read through it, but basically, I was advocating implementation of WP Neutrality, and he was:
“ | what I want is for an admin to make clear any kind of unsubstantiated fringe conspiracy theory pushing involving ad hominem attacks of marxism, black panthers, communists, or the chinese government/chinese textbooks is forbidden as off topic on the talk page of the Boxer Rebellion article,ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ (talk) 02:55, 24 May 2011 (UTC) | ” |
User Dungane had written more than 10,000 words of argument, mostly consist of personal attacks against me and user John Smith's, and just refuse to calm down to join me on discussion on how to implement WP rules. Since no admin had even care to make any statement on this ANI, let alone any decision, I hereby come here to seek your advice. Arilang talk 05:18, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
User A Thousand Doors is making article after article of nothing but lists of top-chart songs taken from, in each instance, a single chart source. See Special:Contributions/A_Thousand_Doors. These sources seem to me to be the exact type of source which was described in your last quote in our Ruth Glass discussion, above, and to merely copy them from that source and relist them here seems to me to be a copyvio. What do you think (before I make a fool of myself at WP:CCI)? Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 17:55, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
This is more for my future reference than immediate (because I think the article isn't long for this world on other grounds), but I removed a long copyvio at McMaster Association of Part-Time Students as a copyvio of http://www.mcmaster.ca/maps/history.html. The last section of that was a long list of past and current officers. The editor rewrote a chunk of it adequately to avoid the copyvio but restored most of the officers list character-for-character verbatim. Is there any Wikipolicy or Wikiprecedent for whether those kinds of list constitute a copyvio? (Oh, and much belatedly, congrats on the new job.) Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 20:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi;
Could I bother you for some suggestions?
A long-term editor has produced a large volume of edits, of which a small subset seem to be... unhelpful (not copyvio per se). I'm wrestling with a huge Excel spreadsheet, trying to separate positive edits from a minority which are problematic. Edits to well-trafficked articles will have been seen by others and probably fixed where necessary; so it would be helpful to identify obscure articles which have been edited solely or mainly by this editor (apart from bots and the occasional passerby who fixes spelling/categories &c) as these are likely to pose quality problems. Maybe copyright-cleanup can involve some similar work; so are there any tools/scripts/whatever which I could use? Simply looking at article creations isn't helpful, as there are cases where this editor added the vast majority of the content to an article which somebody else started as a microstub.
Are there any tools from the world of copyright cleanup which could be helpful here? Feel free to say "No"
bobrayner (
talk) 13:39, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
A discussion about improving the help documentation inspired an idea--Wikipedia tutorials would be best if they were interactive and immersive. The thought of a learning-teaching game came up, one based on a real interface with realistic 'missions'. Would you be interested in providing some feedback or helping work on it, or know editors who might? The idea is just getting started and any assistance with the help/policy side, the experienced-editor side, or the coding/game-making side would be great. Cheers, Ocaasi c 03:08, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
For copy editing the No. 79 Squadron RAAF - much appreciated. Nick-D ( talk) 10:26, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Sorry to bother you, but could you please edit "www.robertgarside.com" back onto the "Robert Garside" page? It is the official web portal and was recently (sneakily) deleted by CanadianLinuxUser. No surprises there! Many thanks. It was in the box on the left hand side of the page, underneath where the photo is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.196.122.103 ( talk) 11:06, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I realize you're very busy, but wanted to bring your attention to this ANI thread. Specifically I'd like to know how we deal with persistent copyvio vandals and what to do about the pages they edit. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 ( talk) 12:38, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi - I have another question. Under the user name SusanneNYC2009, ILT took The Story of Miss Moppet to FAC and it passed. Later, I scrubbed the page, removed the plagiarism, and rewrote sections with the copyvio. I documented what I found in my edit summaries and on the talkpage. However, the plagiarism still exists in the page's history which has not been scrubbed. In my view that should have been done, and should be done now. Then I'd like to send the page to FAR. How do I go about having the all of Susanne's edits deleted? Truthkeeper88 ( talk) 01:13, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
It may be a good idea to use Wikipedia:Revision deletion on the versions that contain the copyright infringement to help avoid inadvertent restoration in the future if the copyrighted content is extensive. Otherwise, so long as the infringing text is removed from the public face of the article, it may not need to be removed/deleted permanently unless the copyright holder complains via OTRS or unless other contributors persist in restoring it.
Not sure if the issue about using ads has ever been resolved or not. Had copied my findings to the page after bringing them up with you here. Haven't uploaded or transferred anything like this to Commons since because I'm not certain it's settled.
I seem to have some kind of "vio magnet" because it seems like I either am reading for information or trying to expand/ref an article and there's the vio. :( Am now working on restoring my last "find", Red Skelton. Is there possibly some way users could be made aware of the articles that need to be redone after they've been cleared of vios to try to get them back in decent order again, and possibly some type of encouragement for those who would be willing to do this? Seeing what was left of Skelton afterward started me thinking about this. Thanks! We hope ( talk) 17:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Can we come up with a template that would replace the copyvio one after the article has been cleaned which would basically say that the article now needs restoration? If a list of these articles could be found on the project page, it would be a central location where those who want to help get articles back in shape could find them. If we could also come up with another template that can be placed on the article's talk page after it's been restored, saying something to the effect that the article was restored by the copyright project, it would make a bit more "noise" toward awareness. :) If there proves to be enough articles in need of restoration, perhaps a drive to work on them similar to copyedit, wikify and BLPs? We hope ( talk) 15:42, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
If you'll consider a category for them and a link to it, I'll keep my eyes open and see what I can help out with in the way of restoration. (Only fitting since I seem to have a copyvio magnet. :) ) Am about to say "Good night and may God bless" to Red, so I'll be open to lend a hand if needed. We hope ( talk) 18:19, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
I asked a question here on NortyNort's talk page in an attempt not to overburden you. I got some useful advice but (contradiction, I know) am still confused. Do you mind taking a look please, if/when you have some time + are wearing the correct hat ? - Sitush ( talk) 12:04, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Good morning, I made a draft here. It is based off of Advice for admins but with some of my changes, I added some new/different tips that apply to both. Let me know what you think and feel free to make changes.-- NortyNort (Holla) 12:14, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Is the ticket related to image File:HesburghLibrary.jpg having to do with the photo or with the mural? If it has to do with the mural, is it from someone who can legitimately state the copyright status of the mural? Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 15:23, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Congrats on your good news. I have been away for a few days. Please see my reply to email. Best. Off2riorob ( talk) 18:38, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Blatant copyvio is a bit harsh verdict on too close paraphrasing. But you are right that it had to go. Night of the Big Wind ( talk) 19:26, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Please note that your recent link deletion was not explained. There is a Talk page discussion on the link that is still ongoing, and has been added to ENL: Goldie Hawn link. There are two editors that were discussing it, but you simply deleted it with a rationale that is the essence of the discussion, and without any explanation. -- Wikiwatcher1 ( talk) 21:54, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi MRG, somebody has recreated the page with the capitol letter. I'm not touching it as I would ask you to take a look. I thought since you merged it only an admin could bring it back? Jayy008 ( talk) 11:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I have a doozy for you. I know you don't focus on images, but could you help me with this? I recently ( boldly) uploaded this picture to the Commons. It is a Photoshopped combination (i.e. derived work) of two screenshots from The Seven Year Itch's trailer, which seems to be in public domain because it was released prior to 1964 and never copyrighted separately; therefore, the chance to register it for copyright has expired (1955 + 28 = 1983). I am basing my reasoning off of a couple other The Seven Year Itch uploads by other editors and this site. Could you take a look and let me know what you think about the status of the trailer? Should it be on Commons? Thanks. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 15:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Does this help? We hope ( talk) 17:34, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
It looks like she has earned a living with the information. I just started reading things like this and bookmarking them when I started uploading files, so I at least had some guidelines before deciding to use a file or not. :) We hope ( talk) 17:57, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Gamaliel recently blocked the IP address 68.255.4.56, whose single contribution can be seen here. Obviously, this seems like a case of WP:INVOLVED. But, first, backstory time: Yes, the IP address is very likely to be a banned user, known as Victim of Censorship over on WR. Apparently, he and Gamaliel know each other in real life, where a lot of this stems from, and it's been spilling over onto both of their internet activities. There have been numerous other clashes between the two, but I really believe this is a situation where Gamaliel needs to step back and let other admins take care of it. He's only perpetuating the drama by doing things like blocking after VoC makes a rude comment on his talk page.
I just came here to get your opinion on the subject. Oh, and the WR thread about this is here, where VoC is complaining about...something. It's rather incoherent. (Any talk page stalkers, feel free to weigh in) Silver seren C 21:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
This probably isn't the forum to debate any of this, but I did want to say some things for the record:
Please feel free to ask me anything you want to know about this matter. Gamaliel ( talk) 02:54, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
As you may or may not have noticed, VWBot destroyed your nice new changes to this page last night. I'm still not up to speed again, so I'm not sure what's going on with clerking instructions and the like, but feel free to revert the bot - it only edits that page because Zorglbot requires it (should it ever be unblocked and run as primary again), not for any actual functional reason. I don't think I'll be home before VWBot runs again tonight, so it'll probably ruin your layout one more time before I can disable or update that part of the code. VernoWhitney ( talk) 15:12, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps you can assist in this one. In Phoenix Park an anonIP, using a few similar IP addresses, keeps adding material with an Encyclopaedia Brittanica citation that is proven to be in error but he insists on using WP:V as his reason for readding it many times. Even though there has been a full discussion on the talk page at: Talk:Phoenix Park#Europe's largest enclosed urban park he keeps up the same actions; now it is just vandalism to me or at least disruptive editing. Opposed editors have quoted alternate sources and there is a consensus not to have the inaccurate citation, even though EB is generally regarded as a WP:RS, this is an instance where its inclusion is not justified and only this one editors insists. Besides 3RR warnings and the discussion he keeps reverting or refactoring the same error. Mainly Special:Contributions/46.7.29.75, Special:Contributions/46.7.72.30 and most recently Special:Contributions/46.7.72.149. ww2censor ( talk) 16:34, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, this is Survir again. I need your help with the following user who has logged in with the following IP addresses and user names User:71.93.75.114, User:71.93.68.103, User:70.27.13.55, User:188.135.116.29, User:Tamimomari, etc. This user keeps adding Top Shows or whatever list to the following pages: Zee TV, Sahara One, Imagine TV, STAR Plus, STAR One, Aapka Colors, etc... (either under the main page or list of prgrammes page), without any proper references. This is just personal opinion becasuse their is no such list on the Internet exists. He/she keeps adding "Citation needed" tag but not adding any reference, and I don't think that anybody can add a reference to such list because it doesn't exists. Besides, these channels have shown a lot of hit programmes, so it is hard to choose top 10 out of all the programmes they have shown. I have removed this list several times, but he/she keeps adding it back. Just to let you know that there was a user in the past who was doing the same thing. Can you please help me remove this bogus info and stop this user from making such edits. Thank you, your friend, Survir ( talk) 18:44, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Abdul Majid Abdullah was proposed as a CSD G12. I reviewed it, had some questions about whether it was really unambiguous, and shared my concerns with the tagging editor. I intended to return and remove the CSD, then nominate at Copyright problems so someone with more experience could sort it out. However, it wa deleted before I remembered to follow up. I thought perhaps it would be reported to Copyright problems anyway, but it appears not to be in the list. I do see some deleted items in the list, so my first question is simply to confirm process. My guess is that tagging an article with a CSD G12 does not also list it at Copyright problems. My guess is that is someone does list it there, then concludes it is a G12, it gets deleted, but stays in the list.
I do see that some of the items in the list come from CorenSearchBot. I assume those are automatically added by the bot. I'm not sure what happens if CSB tags an article, and someone CSDs it. One possibility is that all CSB items are added to the list, and a CSD action removes it from the list. Another possibility is that CSB adds it to the list and if CSD'd, someone manually removes it from the list.
Separate form understanding the interaction between Automated duplication detectors such as Duplication Detector report or CSB and the list at Copyright problems, I'm not sure how to handle Abdul Majid Abdullah. I'd like some other eyes to look at it, to see if my suspicion about reverse copyvio is a possibility. Should I:
SPhilbrick T 23:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, I wonder if in your new-found role you could do anything in relation to the suggestion at Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost#Developer_communication_suggestion, or whether you could nudge some people who might be interested? Rd232 talk 00:44, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey there! My Wikipedia profile for "Trevor Wayne" was deleted over a year ago. The problem is Wikipedia created a Facebook page for "Trevor Wayne" (me) and won't delete it! Facebook keeps linking my official public page to it and calling me a "Community Created" page. That is not true. I have asked Facebook to delete the Wikipedia made Facebook page and they just don't answer. It is really messing with my actual official page. I am at my end.. is there anyway Wikipedia will delete it from their end? Thank you so much! The URL for my Wikipedia Facebook created page is: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Trevor-Wayne/113239452022740?sk=info — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.124.56.207 ( talk) 04:10, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
MRG, I think you've got more on your plate at the moment than is good for you, so perhaps you could place this with someone else to deal with, but you're obviously my first port of call!
User:OpenScience has just posted a message noting that the Srebrenica Genocide article is a (partial)copy - or vice versa - of the webpage at http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/srebrenica_massacre.html
There's certainly duplication of material but having been involved with the article for several years I'd be pretty certain that the material added to the article during that time was assembled at the article rather than being lifted from elsewhere - the process has been too much like hand-to-hand combat for anything else. I can't speak for earlier content but for obvious reasons reflected in the fact that it wasn't until yesterday that Ratko Mladic arrived in The Hague I imagine that the earlier development of the article was a similarly organic process. I did a quick breeze through the martinfrost.ws material and it doesn't appear to mention the outcome of the the ICTY Krstic appeal findings in 2004 but does include reference to the video of the Trnovo killings which Natasa Kandic submitted to the ICTY in 2005. The lacuna suggests that it's not an authoritative original source. There's no mention of the International Court of Justice ruling in 2007 so it's presumably older than that. I'd appreciate it if someone can help check User:OpenScience's implicit copyright violation suggestion. Opbeith ( talk) 07:19, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Good to hear about your new role. Stifle ( talk) 09:20, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I had a doubt about copyright stuff, but in connection with another Wikipedia project. The thing is: I have a few verses of text, which are in the public domain. Now, I want to copy that text on to Wikipedia. But, all text in Wikipedia comes under CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL (if i'm not wrong). So, this being the case, is it necessary to specify explicitly that those verses (which are in the Public Domain) are under the Public Domain?
I hope you got my question properly; will offer a better explanation if needed. Thanks :) Lynch 7 11:42, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations on your new job! I believe you will be an excellent liason. I would have used a fancy template for this message, but could not find anything appropriate. Instead you get some homemade Dutch apple pie, like my grandma used to make them. Yoenit ( talk) 22:38, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations on the new job. Good luck. Racepacket ( talk) 22:30, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Don't know if you can help, but is there a problem with File:Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui.jpg and copying it from [14] ? Mtking ( talk) 11:25, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
{{
db-f9}}
, following up by giving the uploader the notice that it generates. Given that he is a
WP:SPA (or seems to be, at this point), he may have permission to use this image. I don't remember what the F9 deletion warning looks like, but if it does not include a link to
Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries, I'd recommend dropping a little note underneath the template pointing it out, in case he can verify license. Let me know if you'd like assistance with this. :) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 11:51, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all of that, can you suggest how to approach User:BenJBass and his picture uploads, he is just copying them off websites. 11:41, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Can you look at File:ForeclosureRescueAd.jpg and tell me if there is an issue, the uploader took it himself, but I think the sign it'self is copyright of the sign's creator. Mtking ( talk) 22:29, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
I have added the following comment to the copyright violation page and hope you will agree. I have notified User:Kirk who brought the original complaint and will notify others who have commented. I might add that this is a lengthy article or list of events with many discrete entries and many references (about 8 or 10 are most cited; many entries have more than one reference). That is why it took some time to go through it all. Also, with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War upon us, a few articles about events which took place 150 years ago needed a little attention. Thanks.: "The two editors who have worked on this article most recently have reviewed the entries and checked them against the citations; and added additional citations and a few entries. We believe there should now be no objection to restoration of this article." Donner60 ( talk) 23:34, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
I have a complicated question. It is to me, at least.
So a froofraw has occurred at AN where User:Damiens.rf nominated dozens of nonfree images to be deleted for not complying with NFCC policy. I got into it because he tagged three images in articles I wrote. (These are the images: 1, 2, and 3) I feel rather certain that I fully justified the inclusion of these images based on my experience writing FAs and GAs. In fact, the third image there was included in a 2009 Featured contact Dispatch about how to write a fair use rationale. But now I get from the disjointed discussion that the issue of "transformative use" is undecided and without consensus. According to those pushing for transformative use, a historical image has to be involved in the article, which qualifies for the historical images in Birmingham campaign, which I wrote.
I apologize because this is now so spread out I can't keep track of it anymore. There is the AN discussion here, an RfC about the issue of transformative use, which I can't even track it's so all over the place, and the discussions about each of the images that were tagged for deletion (start there and scroll down).
I learned how to justify images by being schooled by User:Elcobbola, who is semi-retired. He did pop into the FfD discussion for the Stonewall riots image to say that the "transformative use" interpretation of the NFCC rule is "a profound misunderstanding and misapplication of NFCC and sourcing policies". I'm not a copyright attorney. I can't parse all this. I just don't want the articles' qualities decreased because someone went on a deletion tear when none of the rules are clear. -- Moni3 ( talk) 20:45, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
You undoubtedly have more of a sense of NFC philosophies than I do, Carcharoth. :) I've only kind of tangentially paid attention to it in doing my text based copyright, and I haven't often participated in conversations related to developing it. Moni3, I know it would be really reassuring if there were clear-cut guidelines from the US courts, but, alas, there's not much we can do about that. :/ On a meta sense, the question plays nationally much like it does here; there are vague guidelines, and we are expected to do our best to comply with them. If these were not so vague, there'd probably be far fewer lawsuits.
In terms of the attorneys, Wikimedia has two attorneys serving every project WMF sustains--English Wikipedia is, obviously, the biggest of these, but there are over 270 other language versions in addition to the other projects (Commons, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, Wikinews, etc.). Two attorneys simply could not micromanage on such scale, but, again, that's not to address the major point that they don't want to. If WMF became a publisher rather than a service provider, the entire project would change. They would no longer be able to allow contributors to post content without screening it, because they would be directly liable for content that was placed here. I suspect it would kill the website.
That's not to say that WMF doesn't care about these issues. For instance, the Board has recently passed several image-related resolutions, based on Controversial content and Images of identifiable people.
Just as with the exemption doctrine policy, they put out the principles and trust us to work out a sensible approach within them. The community has done a really good job, I think, of working with the WMF over the years, but that's not to say it's without difficulty. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:25, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
A user, User:Paul Stephen Farmer has uploaded a "self portrait", for use on an article about himself, setting aside WP:COI issues, and the fact the article is at AfD at the moment, he with this edit asserts his copyright over the file, my question is, is this allowed ? Mtking ( talk) 11:36, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
My congratulations on your new role. A few months ago you very nicely recreated the Max Conrad article after it was deleted and I appreciated this. Thank you again for what you do for Wikipedia. RFD ( talk) 16:51, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
For the benefit of my talk page stalkers (hi!), who I presume are generally interested in copyright, we're talking about revising the copyright problem template to make it more user friendly (literally). See the copyclean discussion and the mock-up at User:MLauba/Copyviocore, please, if you want to provide input. I'm hoping that we can keep it informative (it's actually more informative; the directions for cleanup have been expanded behind their little hide boxes) but make it less accusatory and officious, at the same time avoiding watering down its message or making it seem like we aren't serious about the issue. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:02, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Congrats on the Community Liaison thingy! :) I've been working through some image backlogs today [19] and I came across File:Portrait of tommy allen.jpg. Is the copyright stuff here really correct? This doesn't seem to be right: "i have no knowledge of the author but as this is a family member we have rights of the deceased in the photo". Have a look whenever you have time! Thanks, Theleftorium (talk) 14:29, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Buster Seven Talk 15:07, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
hey, I commended you to wikipedia, my account is either block or compromised, or perhaps both! sorry, I did not know how else to let you know! Someone said I said some mean things about you, this is not true!
Again, the airrunwesker account does appear compromised!
Someone did promised me a "lifehack" and I have filed a police report against them.
I am sure you already know both I appreciate your help, and that I also use better grammar :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.24.128.225 ( talk) 04:14, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop a note of thanks for your help with Dr. Blofield. I got an email from him, and it appears things aren't nearly as dire as I first thought. OHHHH ... and by the way ... congratulations (although a bit late) on that job/promotion thing too. Always glad to see someone getting ahead in life. Cheers and best MRG. :) — Ched : ? 14:09, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Greetings! I was talking with La goutte de pluie about a copyright violation I spotted and how to handle it. I showed her what evidence I'd taken with me, with the potential that I'd need to go back to the library for a full scan. She said we may need more expertise. I also received a message at NFCR suggesting that I put a tag on it so it gets a proper review. I'm unsure how to proceed. But I noticed you're somewhat of a specialist in this area, if not an expert. Keep in mind that the article is currently at AFD for a combination of reasons, including but not limited to WP:COPYVIO.
I've sent you an email so that I'm not posting huge copyrighted quotes on your talkpage. Would appreciate any guidance on the next appropriate step. Shooterwalker ( talk) 20:18, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
{{
copyvio}}
and at the talk page explain that the timeline is copied. I have verified, for instance, through Google books beyond what you've e-mailed me that such content as "The Calormenes in Telmar behave very wickedly and Aslan turns them into dumb beasts. The country lies waste. King Gale of Narnia delivers the Lone Isiands from a dragon and is made emperor by their grateful inhabitants" is entirely reproduced. This is not permitted by policy, whether the article itself stands. Make a note at the AfD of what you've done and why, in case people are confused. If the article is retained, the copyright investigation will be completed after a week. --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 20:36, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
File:Holy Wood logo.jpg This is listed here as not free and "not replaceable" with free media. But go to Commons and it has a free license. ???? Thanks, We hope ( talk) 21:15, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
About a year ago you intercepted an article on Antonio Paoli I had edited using some material you identified as CR violation. While I meant no harm or malice with my actions, and had always thought I was actually -helping- the encyclopedia, I learnt quite a bit from that experience. In particular, I wanted to thank you for having provided me the opportunity to fix the article (Tony the Marine did most of the fixing) in such gracious manner. Your approach, which involved no chastisement (as it unvaribly always occurs with every other CR-protestionist at WP), did not go unnoticed. Thank you.
Now I have come across an edit in an article I had edited in the past called Puerto Rican citizenship and which contains THIS edit that, based on whatever little I learned from my own experience before, appears to be CR violation. I did not want to undo those edits since I don't have the expertise in CR vio that you seem to have. The information seems to have been all taken verbatim from these 2 sources: 1 and 2. And the editor then appears to have just mingled the 2 sources interchangably into the wikipedia article. If you can take a look at this and determine if there was a CR vio, I would appreciate it as I was looking to take this article to GA status. Regards, Mercy11 ( talk) 01:41, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
What happens about this now the seven days have gone past ? Mtking ( talk) 06:59, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl (or any helpful talk-page stalker), I'm having a discussion with a user who appears to have some misunderstandings about copyright. I think I've explained everything to him correctly, but it might be good if someone else also clarifies things to him. The copyright violation I found was in this version. Ucucha 15:51, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. Is this [23] statement of faith on the Eston College website [24] copyrighted? How am I supposed to know? Thanks for your help. Kenatipo speak! 19:40, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Am I right in thinking the lyrics should be removed from Ich will? The source [25] says " Lyrics by Rammstein are the property of the respective authors, artists and labels, Ich Will (Actually English) Lyrics by Rammstein are provided for educational purposes only" and is used in a number of other articles. Do we consider it a copyvio site? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 12:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
The correct regex is \bherzeleid\.com/en/lyrics\b. Don't forget to log the addition. MER-C 10:59, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl,
I am looking to create an article/page for OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, but I think the previous page that has been deleted may have had similar information that I want to post. Should I continue to create it, or will that cause a problem?
Thanks for your help!
Aschrader18 ( talk) 20:10, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I was given your name as a person to possibly help confirm that I have taken adequate steps to eliminate any copyright problems associated with my Wikipedia entries.
My entries are for public places in Austin Texas and the content is taken from a website that I have authored. I live in the neighborhood and I have done extensive research on these topics. The intention is not to “advertise” for the neighborhood or parks, rather create/start Wikipedia entries and let others contribute. Although I am the author, the material is not copyrighted and the content is to be considered that of the public domain. To make certain however, I have added the following statement “The text of this web page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License” to the web pages used as source information for the Wikipedia articles. I have read the Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials page and I *think* that I have taken necessary/required action.
My Wikipedia entries are : • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brykerwoods/Bryker_Woods • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brykerwoods/Bailey_Park • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seider's_Springs
My associated web pages: • http://www.txinfo.com/brykerwoods/BWNA/index.html • http://www.txinfo.com/brykerwoods/History/index.html • http://www.txinfo.com/brykerwoods/Parks/index.html • http://www.txinfo.com/brykerwoods/Parks/BaileyPark.html
Please take a look and let me know if I am in full compliance. Many thanks for any time you can give this request. Brykerwoods ( talk) 21:21, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. Now that I have eliminated the copyright problems associated with my Wikipedia entries, how can the articles be made active again? Can you republish and make official the Wikipedia entries listed below?
Many thanks again for helping me with this important and fundamental issue. Brykerwoods ( talk) 17:02, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Do you know any good copyright admins at Commons? (I don't want to bother you all the time!) I don't really know how they handle copyright problems over there but I keep finding images that need to be taken care of... Theleftorium (talk) 13:40, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Posting here rather than replying on my talk page as I want to suggest something about clerking that I'd be interested in any talk page stalker's views of. Sorry for not replying earlier, I wanted to give it some thought and I've been busy arguing with LaTeX to sort out the formatting for my thesis. Yes, I would be interested in clerking, although as you rightly assumed I may not be that active over the next few months (I would imagine I'll be dipping in for a few minutes at a time to escape writing).
It occurs to me that we now have clerks for CCI and CP and that there is a significant amount of overlap between them (especially as the new CP clerk page gives as one of the tasks "Evaluating if repeated prior issues warrant contributor copyright investigation and requesting an investigation if so"). I've also been dealing a bit with C:CVSD removing the G12 tag from pages where it doesn't apply (PD source, backwards copy etc). Would it be sensible to combine the two clerking roles into one? Even if people don't think that's sensible is it worth including in the CP Clerk page that they can also deal with G12 tagging as much as a non-admin can. In essential what I'm suggesting is a single (text) copyright clerk role. Dpmuk ( talk) 17:25, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
He's now back as Goldfinger123 ( talk · contribs). This set of edits intro'd some copyvios (the section on Second admin commission is enmasse copyvio). I'll look up and clean soon, but if you get a chance to clean the rest, please feel free. Now he has three accounts on Commons for us to keep track of, though no copyvios on this one yet. — Spaceman Spiff 14:07, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
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The Socratic Barnstar | |
I hereby award you this barnstar for all the time and effort you take to eloquently provide wisdom and knowledge to inquiring editors.-- NortyNort (Holla) 12:43, 12 June 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks in particular for answering all my copyright questions and helping me learn a lot. I originally wanted to make this a 'Yoda award' but I couldn't find an image of Yoda that would pass the fair-use/license test, especially on this talk page.-- NortyNort (Holla) 12:43, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your copyright cleanup efforts at business broker! I am frankly floored by your diligence, dedication, and hard work. — Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 16:51, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
I know images aren't really your area but I still feel you may have something useful to add so would you mind taking a look at the conversation at User_talk:J_Milburn#Question and comment if you feel you have anything to add. (Don't worry it's not a non-free use issue). Dpmuk ( talk) 20:47, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Would you or one of your talk page stalkers mind giving a second opinion here. I'm pretty certain about what I've said but that one phrase makes me think getting a second opinion is worthwhile as I'm still not that confident when it comes to questionable close paraphrasing issues. Dpmuk ( talk) 13:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Moonriddengirl,
The person himself wants it to be Joey Foster Ellis.... So I delete Joey Ellis....Sorry for the short notice, as I am new to Wikipedia... Thanks for paying attention. And I change it back!
Hope you had a nice day!
Ellen.clementia ( talk) 14:16, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
atleast update the list.. ready is the new highly grossing movie.. i dont know how the current list is legal.. and the list is not so useful.. dabangg is not there in the list.. atleat update the list with new grossers.. User talk:Geocraze ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Here. → ROUX ₪ 22:45, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
CANADIAN LINUX USER IS VANDALISING "ROBERT GARSIDE"-RELATED PAGES ON WIKIPEDIA. IN THIS CASE HE HAS DELETED AN ENTIRE ENTRY ABOUT ROBERT GARSIDE ON THIS PAGE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_run_across_Australia. Robert Garside was the first person to run around the world, including Australia. This is public knowledge and there are numerous media stories on the Internet. In this case I feel he has finally revealed his intentions against Robert Garside, as I stated in December 2010. Why is he allowed to hide behind the mask of an established editor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.196.122.103 ( talk) 00:09, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
All content from User:Dromeaz is suspect as he is banned user. As per policy, it is WP:BRI, therefore I am reverting all his edits first and asking questions later as per all blocked users. CanadianLinuxUser ( talk) 01:54, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, my gripe is with the Jesper Olsen (runner) page. If you look at the pattern of edits by CanadianLinuxUser, you will see that he is promoting the "Jesper Olsen (runner)" page. When I initially complained and resisted he simply tricked me into getting blocked. He made sure to elect himself as an 'established editor' first by editing other pages and then drew me into an "edit war". It was a trap that I assumed you would see through.
CanadianLinuxUser's edits are signature of who he really is and he is promoting Jesper Olsen, pure and simple. Now he appears to have complete control of the Jesper Olsen (runner) page and any other page related to the name Jesper Olsen (runner). It's a marketing campaign, that simple!
He also has a control on Robert Garside pages and regularly tries to play down Robert's success in any way he can get away with it. My only way to deal with this guy is to encourage you (Moonriddengirl) in the hope that you will ensure articles are fair. I sensed you had a strict sense of fairness and impartiality. I hope I'm right.
Is it not offensive to me that this other editor is allowed a free reign to re-write history however he chooses? Of course it is. It is propaganda. CanadianLinuxUser uses shaky references to puport the Jesper Olsen (runner) page, that should not even exist.
FACTS THAT HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED:
1. Jesper Olsen has NO world record or Guinness World Record and he has NOT circumnavigated the world either. His distance was far too short and there is no proof that he has actually even done the distance he said, except his own web site. Propaganda. 2. Talk Archives on the Jesper Olsen (runner) page have been concealed. Is it not because that it says there that he takes taxi cabs across bridges? 3. The person protecting the Jesper Olsen (runner) page is a part of his team. Bias. 4. The Jesper Olsen (runner) page is an advert, wholly controlled by CanadianLinuxUser. Try editing it and you will see that he'll be there observing you. WHY?
Requesting block for block evasion, Edit warring and personal attacks. here here as well as here CanadianLinuxUser ( talk) 10:04, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Desired changed: Robert Garside, also known as "The Runningman"
References (from AP, PA to CNN and Reuters): http://www.deseretnews.com/article/786406/British-runner-hoofs-it-in-LA-during-42000-mile-footrace.html http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1019897/index.htm http://www.deseretnews.com/article/775603/Runningman-get-chased-on-bad-days.html http://printstore.pressassociation.com/round_the_world_run_robert_garside_piccadilly_circus/print/1922323.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/815052/Running-Man-runs--from-Colombia.html http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PlanetaBizarro/0,,MUL15762-6091,00-BRITANICO+DA+A+VOLTA+AO+MUNDO+CORRENDO.html http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/53/53379_running_man_still_on_for_record.html http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/24/i_at.09.html http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/27403_race_to_finish_for_global_marathon_man — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.153.138.23 ( talk) 11:44, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey there! I uploaded a file similar to this file, because it was of a higher resolution, but the uploader keeps reverting my edits saying no guideline stipulate that all non-free images must not be in high resolution. What do I do? Appreciate your help. GaneshBhakt ( talk) 06:25, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Could you take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plastic Recycling and the need for Bio-polymers in India. My view is that the administrator who originally removed the {{ db-g12}} from the article was in error. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 16:19, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I just wandered across the images [27] and [28]. They seem to be the same, but the one on enwiki has a fair use tag, while the one on commons is licensed under free licenses. Is there something I am missing, or is there a problem with the licensing part somewhere? I also left a note on the commons helpdesk, but I've seen that you answer better and faster than helpdesks :P , so here I am. Lynch 7 19:52, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl (or a stalker). I was wondering if you could delete all revisions prior to the current one at Talk:Morotai Island Regency. An IP user wrote their email address, so I think it would fall under Wikipedia:Revision_deletion#HIDINGBEFORESIGHT. I have removed the email address, but I think it would still require oversight. Thanks! Crisco 1492 ( talk) 01:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
When you have time, and if it's not too much trouble, could you please provide some input here? Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 07:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
It's hard for me to tell, but it looks like the copyright issues you identified [29] and deleted in 2009 [30] have been restored. Could you or someone else take another look? Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 11:31, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering – when using RevDel on multiple revisions for a copyvio that's been in an article for quite a long time, this may entail hiding revisions where non-infringing content which remains after the copyvio is cleaned was added. Does this cause attribution problems? January ( talk) 18:53, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
re List of highest-grossing Bollywood films - if I contact the site and ask them for permission to let us present all their data, will it be acceptable? Shahid • Talk2me 07:08, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Tracking gross income of films in Bollywood is complicated by the fact that there are no official sources to list income, although there are two prominent sources that publish estimates: IBOS Network and Box Office India.( [31]) The rankings provided by the two sources do not agree, and neither source adjusts their estimates for inflation, which skews the results for recent years.([url]) The two sources can diverge widely in their estimates as well, with IBOS suggesting that top-ranking film 3 Idiots had earned 202,57,00,000 Indian rupees as of [date], while Box Office India estimates 189,38,74,729. Both lists show a tendency in recent years of [genre] to dominate the list. Among the top ten are four examples of [genre], Title 1, Title 2, Title 3 and Title 4, which combined grossed XXX to XXX, more than twice as much as the next ranking genre, [genre].
Hi, MRG!
I have a French magazine (Jan 1932) and I'd like to use the cover to illustrate an article I'm working up. The reason I ask is that I've spoken to a French publisher friend about this and she says she would reproduce scaled-down images of pre-World War II book jackets, magazine covers, newspaper front pages etc without a moment's hesitation and has done so on hundreds of occasions. Any idea how this would be viewed here, given US law may be involved? Have you any idea whether this is now PD for Wikipedia purposes? Or whether it qualifies otherwise? Many thanks in advance, Roger Davies talk 11:57, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
(od) Thank you both for your very helpful input. In fact, there are a run of covers about an event serialised across six issues. The subject of the article (Michel Vieuchange) died in Nov 1929 (so pictures he took are okay) but I cannot readily establish the DOD of his guide/companion (El Mahboul) who took many of the others. The route forward seems to be to rely solely on covers using images by Vieuchange until and unless the DOD of El Mahboul turns up. A further complicating factor is that some of the images themselves were taken in the Spanish Sahara (then a Spanish protectorate) and others in French Morocco (then a French protectorate). An interesting issue here, I suppose, is not the technical and theretical issue about whether copyright subsists in El Mahboul but whether in practical terms there is anyone to enforce his rights. I mention this because the pictures he took he did at Vieuchange's request, using Vieuchange's equipment and film stock, and passed to Jean Vieuchange (Michel's brother) for processing and publication. Roger Davies talk 16:25, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Did some research on this item: NBC Parade of Stars 1947. Have located the Billboard articles that detail how the images were heavily promoted in 1947. Checked for copyright renewals for Sam Berman and National Broadcasting Company for 1975 (huge list--needed to use year of possible renewal). There was no information that the series' copyright(s) were renewed, and it's understandable as network radio had vastly changed by then.
Will be using some of these as "copyright not renewed", but see we already have quite a few of the caricatures from the portfolio on articles about the older stars. Would like to change any I find to free use, copyright not renewed. Would this be OK after I get my rationale "hammered out" :) and the images I want to use uploaded with the "not renewed" free license? Thanks, We hope ( talk) 19:04, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Again he has remolved the name "Robert Garside" from http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Circumnavigation&action=history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.153.138.23 ( talk) 13:43, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
ROBERT GARSIDE completed the first run around the world and has an official Guinness World Record. The references are there. It has been properly cited. He also EXCEEDED the distance necessary for a circumnavigation. You have not explained *why* you would remove a foot circumnavigation. You can remove Jesper Olsen because he has not achieved the distance necessary for a circumnavigation but Robert Garside has. Please expand on your "editorial decision". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.196.122.103 ( talk) 19:20, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
hello,
I want to copy and paste most of the text in [35] to Cal Lampley. Yes it is copyrighted, but is it possible to bypass the copyright? Should I send them an e mail? Please I need your advice. Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ Share– a– Power [citation needed] 14:46, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Quran and science or this document? I can't figure it out. Our article's pretty naff. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 20:52, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl - You commented on Palazzolo before, so I want to bring your attention to a new BLPN section I have presented at - Neutral BLP for Palazzolo
Struggling to find equity for this case, I was advised by an editor (after a long wiki journey) to give a few pithy examples of what has been written that is wrong, and then offer an alternative BLP, which I have done.
Thanks in advance for considering this case. I merely ask that someone adjudicate as my pleas to the present author fall on deaf ears.
-- Fircks ( talk) 11:44, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I have been looking around but could not find any guidelines on the copyright rules specific for awards & medals articles. My feeling says that:
-- SchreyP ( talk) 21:19, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
I just deleted an article as a copyvio of an entry in LinkedIn. My full response is User_talk:Rolf.Reinhardt#Why_the_article_was_deleted. Note that the user purports to be the author, and did add a release to the talk page, which I concluded was inadequate, but that's not my question.
Mt question is whether we know the copyright status of material posted on LinkedIn. I read the LinkedIn copyright policy but the emphasis there is on material which may be added to LinkedIn in violation of copyright. I don't see any discussion about whether contributors retain any rights over material they add.
I realize that LinkedIn does not qualify as a reliable source (except for very narrow use), so perhaps this is a moot point, but it is a big enough site that we may have addressed this issue before. It occurs to me it is possible that LinkedIn might retain overall copyright of the entire site, but allow contributors to reuse material they contribute elsewhere. Do we know one way or the other?-- SPhilbrick T 13:06, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
I Appeal to administrators and moderators and even other users to make notes of following 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=J._Jayalalithaa&action=historysubmit&diff=434791233&oldid=434790873 This link given clearly shows that I have provided all the necessary references and added lots of valid information. But the user is smartly trying to make excuse to block me and removing information from the wiki article on Jayalalithaa. Dont know whether this user Sodabottle is an anti Jaya, but its a blame on me that iam reverting. Iam searching for an interview which was telecast on Jaya TV of an eminent journalist and director (Chitra Lakshmanan) on 16th June 2011 saying Jaya was not born in Mysore but in Sriranagam. 2) Also do read this para.. In her 2011 campaign, she will be focusing on corruption. With DMK’s A Raja jailed in connection with the 2G scam, Karunanidhi may find it tough to counter her allegations. Opponents may ask whether she has any locus standi to speak about corruption since she herself has been an accused in many cases. “The DMK foisted some 11 cases over her. She has been acquitted in nine of those. She is fighting the remaining cases,” says Cho, who rates Amma as the best bet for Tamil Nadu politics. source http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_jayalalithaa-mother-of-comebacks_1524790 3)_ Read this link. Jayalalitha in interview to Times of India says herself that all cases foisted by DMK against her were false http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/DMK-spent-Rs-57-crore-to-foist-cases-against-me-Jaya/articleshow/6995405.cms continuing her tirade against the previous dmk government for the financial crisis being faced by the state, tamil nadu chief minister j. jayalalitha on monday accused the karunanidhi government of wasting nearly rs 57 crore in foisting false cases and fabricating evidence against her. but various courts finally acquitted her, jayalalitha said in theni, inaugurating various projects for her andipatti constituency. Paglakahinka ( talk) 17:52, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. As my normal goto guy on image issues, Verno, is quite busy I thought I'd ask you. How do will deal with images were there's a credible claim of permission. Obviously for text I'd just use {{ copyvio}} but I have no idea what to do with images and this case seems to be ingnored at Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion. The uploads in question are here which I came across because of the Elizabeth II coin being tagged for speedy yesterday (now been re-uploaded and tagged again by me) which is an obvious infringement given the coin is copyrighted. Given the age of the other coins we're OK in that regard but given the source given doesn't release the photos we need some proof of permission. Dpmuk ( talk) 13:12, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi again! I found some copyvio images which have been tagged with a CC license, so I have nominated them for Speedy. Please spare a look:
See you around. GaneshBhakt ( talk) 06:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have raised the same issue on this list as the previous larger list based on BOI. As it relates to the same legal advice, you may want to keep an eye on it. Cheers Fæ ( talk) 09:51, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you (or an admin tps) be so kind to delete the history of the non-free file File:Sesamstraatident.png? I couldn't find the right template or board to request this. Yoenit ( talk) 21:57, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Well, there's two different ways. I used both of them.:) You can either delete the whole thing and restore just the version you want--I did that with the first image because it had 176 edits--or you can selectively delete the version you don't want. I did that with the one you listed, because there's only the one problem. It's actually much easier to do this with images than with text; it's a simple click of a button and an explanation (if the pull down reasons don't quite fit).
Yoenit, I almost overlooked the licensing question. Yes, I think it needs a licensing tag. I added one. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:20, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
A quick query - Can BBC.co.uk's content reused under a CC BY SA 3.0 licence in wikipedia?. I am not able to make out from their terms of use. Can you take a look?-- Sodabottle ( talk) 18:49, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. User:Taketa left this message on my talk page about this file:
Here is my reply on his talk page:
Since the otrs ticket names a different source (not used by me), I am unable to tell what the copyright issues here are. Please could you help clarify this? Thanks in advance, Mathsci ( talk) 06:58, 20 June 2011 (UTC)