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I didn't know that my father had a Wikipedia page and when I followed the link on Charles Ives Second Piano Sonata I saw that the page had been deleted! :-( On further investigation, it seems that there were questions about copyright infringement. I love Wikipedia and use it all the time, but know nothing about contributing. I would like to see this page restored, with different content if that was what caused problems.
What, if anything, would it be appropriate for me to do about this? I appreciate your help. thank you,
You can reply to me at dkirkpatrick1 at stny.rr.com
Daisy Kirkpatrick
69.205.159.111 ( talk) 13:28, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed that last month you handled all the cases at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2013 January 14 except for one: Armalite AR-50, which had been copied from http://azfirearms.com/index.php/rifles/all.html?dir=asc&order=name. I was wondering if perhaps you had overlooked it, or if there is some other reason why it couldn't be processed. — Psychonaut ( talk) 18:21, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Could you check copyvio of second paragraph of Alasinga Perumal with this forum post. I am reluctant to think we copied from a user forum. But, the forum message was posted in 2006 and we started the Wikipedia article in 2010! --08:17, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
For later, I'm out of time. Contribution surveyor participated briefly. :/ But i can't get the wikitext, so no diffs.
Are u good at "Whitelisting" sources? If yes, the online source for Galatta.com is blacklisted even though it is notable. Pls whitelist it after seeing this discussion. Kailash29792 ( talk) 19:59, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl, I haven't bothered you in a while. :) I updated some statistics in the Jacksonville Bolles School article, and noticed that their football coach, Corky Rogers, was red-linked. When I checked for the article (which I created four years ago) it had been deleted by user Fastily, who has since retired from Wikipedia. His stated reason was: "I honestly don't see any reason this person could be notable and meet the guidelines." Would you restore this to my sandbox, or direct me to another admin if you don't have time? This coach has been inducted into the Florida High School Hall of Fame and has over 400 wins in his career. Thanks for your help. Mgrē@sŏn 16:50, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Would you mind giving your expert assessment at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Copyright_violations_by_User:Danish_Expert? I feel that the examples I've provided are pretty clear-cut, but this has been disputed. Thanks! TDL ( talk) 23:53, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
If you have some time from you busy schedule, could you check if there is any copyvio in this article (specially Sanjay_Dutt#Illegal_possession_of_arms section? Seeing the numerous basic fmt errors and writing style, I have a doubt that some portion have close paraphrasing or some other issue. In addition, the article is a super busy article right now. Dutt is going to surrender to jail today, so even if you find issues, (if possible) don't hide with investigationCCI template! -- Tito Dutta ( contact) 10:43, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
I want this photo for an article I am writing on the Women of Sierra Leone. Can you tell me if I can use in under fair use? I have no idea who took it, nor when they died so do not know if it is PD. Darkness Shines ( talk) 15:57, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Looking for some help from an experienced wiki contributor, please write on my talk page if you have some time to provide some advice and answer some questions concerning wikipedia guidelines. Cheers Galadedrid Damodred ( talk) 19:35, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
I need a small held on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._P._Yohannan . I had added a section controversies over there a few days back and based on some reputed media published articles. Some people are continuously removing that section. What should I do remove it ?
Would you consider the thread at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Copyright concerns regarding User:USchick, I am keenly curious as to your guidance in its regard. Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 03:14, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
That's fantastic. :) Thank you so much! -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:46, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, you come highly recommended and I would like to seek your counsel. I had a minor editing dispute with another editor and he refused to discuss it on the talk page. He threatened to take me to ANI, like that's supposed to solve something, and now I'm afraid we reached the same impasse there as well, since the original dispute was never resolved on the talk page. Would you be interested in getting involved? You can follow the links from my talk page to the ANI dispute. USchick ( talk) 00:27, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl I need your help since I heard that you are known as the copyright expert around here. I took a picture of my iPod U2 Special edition and I want to upload it for future uses (in the U2 article or iPod's article). What liscence should I upload it under?? I don't mean to do wrong things so that's why I am asking. Cheers! PS: reply at my talk page Miss Bono (zootalk) 18:06, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
You may wish to peek at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Canoe1967/Sculptors I am told it should be a good thing if we can get it working. It is copyright stuff so I thought I would spam your page with it. Mr. Wales' talk page may be next.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 03:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, could you help with Circle of Life - Collaborate Masterpiece, and suggest the best way to proceed? User doesn't get copyright or original research guidelines. Thank you, 99.149.85.229 ( talk) 12:48, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
Long time. Do you remember me? You gave me my first barnstar ever. Thanks for that. It really encouraged me to go forward.
I've been asked to run for RfA for quite some time. Now, someone just nominated me. I was just chatting with My76Strat at IRC about nominators, and he suggested that I talk to you. He said that you are one of the most respected admins, and I ought to ask you what you think of my qualifications. I agreed because I too value your opinion.
Please feel free to opt out. If you do comment, please be perfectly frank. Sorry to impose upon you. I know you're always busy.
Please see: User:Anna Frodesiak/Gold sandbox for the IRC discussion.
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 07:37, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm realIy sorry, but I can't work it out: Maud Tindal Atkinson. I think it needs your detective skills. I'm pretty sure the stuff has not evolved in normal article fashion, but I can't put my finger on it. This diff looks suspect; could it be taken from a book? This blog may be relevant in view of the contributions of the creator of the article. Or am I just plain wrong again? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 20:48, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
A good part of This edit from this article was directly copied, reverted! -- Tito Dutta ( contact) 18:57, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I recently noticed an edit that I think is from User:Wyvren. I do not know the procedure to check sockpuppetry and am contacting you given your signature on the user block talk page of Wyvern. The account I suspect is user:Solntsa90. The edit that alerted mr is this. revisiting a favorite subject of Wyvern. I noticed that user:Solntsa90 is doing a great deal of edits on antisemitism, and I think this extract on a users talk page may also help to link the two acconts:
note also this
Yours ever, Czar Brodie ( talk) 08:18, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've contacted DaDoc540 ( talk · contribs) re: their history of edits, some of which feature text identical to that found at the NBA website cited as the source. Before I start removing them lock, stock and barrel I wanted to check with you. Some of this [4] has been cut and pasted from another Wiki article by the same editor [5]. As well, the NBA site is copyright 2013, so I want to be sure we know which came first. But overall the prose is fanzine, which is what raised my suspicions to begin with. Thanks in advance for taking the trouble, 99.149.85.229 ( talk) 20:31, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
The entry states "The artist retains the copyright unless the artist is commissioned, or is an employee as with magazine illustrators or book cover artists when the publisher is assigned the ownership of the copyright". ARR is 'normally' viewed as a inalienable economic right, and as best as I can understand it, being the owner of copyright in a artwork is not necessarily the same as being entitled to a right to resale royalties on that artwork.... can you help me on how to phrase this in normal legal copyright terms? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedestrian1957 ( talk • contribs) 00:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
The 'phrasing'(and source) problem I have is that; whilst normal Copyright and ARR 'overlap' in application they are also in important ways antithetical? in operation.
I have changed the Wikki entry I quoted above to this: The situation as to how ARR applies in situations where an art work is physically made by a person or persons who are not the 'name artist' who first exhibits and sells the work is not clear. In particular whilst ARR is inalienable it seems conceivable that in cases where the copyright on a artwork is transferred/sold, prior to the first sale of an artwork, the inalienable ARR right is also effectively sold transferred.
I know it sounds a bit like the quantum particle that is at the same time.. its anti-particle. :-) What do you think? Pedestrian1957 ( talk) 02:16, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
You asked to participate in dispute resolution noticeboard. I thought to make our Wikipedia is a Teamwork own! Joking, not serious. But, the topic of the message IS serious. You don't need to read the whole discussion, read only first two messages
here. Now, as far as I know, an initiative to resolve all disputes and attempt to strengthen relationship between two country's WikiProjects is not a common act in Wikipedia.
Now, in case you have some time I want you to lead/govern the initiative, for the following reasons a) we want a neutral editor (non Indian, non Bangladesh) to draw conclusions b) the editor should be experienced and should be aware of Wiki rules and policies c) the editor should have the power to ban/block editors (in short "admin")!
Consider this as a request from the initiative's front, nothing forced or mandatory! You can surely reject the request. --
Tito Dutta (
contact) 17:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC) --
Tito Dutta (
contact) 00:27, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Thegn is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI. |
-- Wizardman 15:03, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi again MRG! There's an ongoing "puzzlement" (as the King of Siam would have had it) that I thought you'd have some perspective on. Organizations often put out press releases such as this which are in due order picked up by news aggregators in cases such as this. I think you'll agree that there is very little doubt about where the creative content lies, but I'm not sure whether the latter link would constitute a genuine linkvio, inasmuchas there is an implicit intent in the press release. Of course the PhysOrg bit does (in this case) credit the Max Planck Institute, but they are often even less rigorous. It's a pity, because they often are the easiest way to find half-decent coverage on physics developments, but they are regularly popping up in rather dicey areas too. Some editors are now trying to use their coverage of the Energy catalyzer in that article... Ideas on how to address this? LeadSongDog come howl! 17:17, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to give you a heads-up that I have put in a request for the admin bit back on WP:BN. Please express your thoughts on the matter there if you wish. If you object, I will understand. I just figured it was worth a try to see if there was an easy path back to adminship. Thanx. -- Pseudo-Richard ( talk) 23:02, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Never mind... the feedback was that the admin bit was given up "under a cloud" and therefore should go through a new RfA. -- Pseudo-Richard ( talk) 22:33, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
NatureSam ( talk) 05:25, 29 May 2013 (UTC)just a quick thank you for bringing my page in to the fold, I am very grateful for all that you have contributed behind the scenes to get this page looking right. I am so proud of the house so really do appreciate your patience. Yours somewhat of a novice contributor NatureSam
At 2013 Woolwich attack, the Islamic militant who murdered an off-duty soldier made a speech justifying his actions on video to an amateur. The entire transcript has been copied verbatim into the article. Only one online source has the speech transcribed accurately, although the video can be seen freely but its copyright status isn't clear. Most non-tabloid media and news broadcasts have published excerpts only. I had/have concerns that this may constitute excessive use of quotation and may be in violation of WP:QUOTEFARM and WP:COPYVIO. I trimmed it but was met with objections. I just wanted your view as to whether the use of the entire text can be considered "reasonable". In any event, it's been reinstated and I won't be reverting. For more information, kindly visit 2013 Woolwich attack#The entire rant. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 07:14, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Don't know if Jalexander is active in Wikipedia! Tito Dutta ( contact) 22:50, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Kittybrewster ☎ 21:45, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, if you're up for some sleuthing, I have a question re: The Three M's, which I've prodded for deletion. I can not find a source, but I'm wondering if much of the content was copied from elsewhere--certainly the phrasing suggests either it's a copyvio or the product of a professional scribe, though too slang-pitched for an encyclopedia by half. Thank you and cheers, 99.149.85.229 ( talk) 21:45, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if I used the data here to make a map of Cotton Production by US state, would that be considered a derivative work or would that be allowable here if I released it as CC-BY-SA or as fair use? Thanks.-- Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 22:02, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, the user Expatkiwi is having trouble understanding copyright issues with regards to some images he has added to articles. He is getting quite frustrated and seems to feel the entire mission of other editors is to thwart his edits by wrapping him in red tape. I'll be up front, he has lashed out at other editors, opened an issue at WP:3RR (declined) and been reported at WP:ANI. I've tried to add calming and encouraging words to his talk page. Might you review his article space contributions and use your copyright policy expertise to explain with a minimum of jargon and maximum of patience how he may be able to find some acceptable images for the pages he's concentrating on? Thank you. JanetteDoe ( talk) 23:07, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Got your message. Thank you ! (Like I said, I had a lot of problems with NFCC (I'm still shaky about it, so I avoid adding any image unless I created it :) ).
Listen though, about Expatwiki (no, he didn't me to talk to you, and I have no dogs in the fight in the flags article he edited, I'm an American, not an Aussie ). I can see how he'd be confused, as there's already a list on the page with flag icons, he seems to have been adding flags to that list. I'd want to say that his additions constitute a valid exception to NFCC in that the flags have no free equivalent, it's used in that article only and as a small image, and thus fullfilling NFCC exception #2 and #3, it's previously published in Australia (exception #4 ) Seems to meet #5 as well , just as the other images in that article do. Seems to meet #6 as well, it was intended to be used in one article so it meets # 7 , # 8 , #9 and #10.
Don't worry, I won't put them back in myself, but it looks like it meets those exceptions, what do you think ? KoshVorlon. We are all Kosh ... 12:20, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Congrats on making the 550,000,000th edit a few weeks ago! — PinkAmpers & (Je vous invite à me parler) 16:40, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
I was expanding Sister Gargi, it seems a part of the article was copied from this article. Can you start a check please? -- Tito Dutta ( talk • contributions • email) 04:44, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I just signed up, absolute newbie. My name is apparently wrong as it has my workplace title in, so my (unbiased) content about Artrix Arts Centre on the Bromsgrove page have been deleted. I went to the 'change name' page but it was completely impenetrable. Can you help? I'd like to repost the content under a new name or whatever I have to do. I understand you might be able to retrieve the content? I'd appreciate any input. Hope this works ArtrixChick ( talk) 18:51, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. I hate to bother you with this, but since I know enough to know that I do not know how to handle and or deal with every problem here I figure its best to let those in the know deal with their area of expertise, and you happen to be the person I know to deals best with copyright issues, so here I am. I've been on a music kick since I am out of town and the laptop I have is - well lets just say it doesn't run anything released recently at gamestop :). While looking for information on the song Inama Nushif (its a pretty song by the way, if oyu haven't heard it I would recommend listening to it once) I was led to the page Azam Ali, but the page didn't feel right to me so I checked the external links and sure enough whats there in the article now is lifted (looks like verbatim) from here. Like I said, I know enough to know that I do not know what to do, so I like to bother people who do know what they are doing so things get fixed correctly the first time around, and in this case you're the person I know I can count on to look into copyright matters, so I'll leave this in your hands (or tps hands, if they are watching) and let you handle this. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, and thanks in advance for the help. TomStar81 ( Talk) 20:02, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone here have time to take a look at WT:CP section Help needed on how to properly paraphrase dense science/technology description? I have come here after Demiurge1000 told me on my talk page to ask for advice here. Please reply either at WT:CP or at my talk page section May 2013. Your advice/suggestions will be a lot helpful. Thank You and Regards. - Jayadevp 13 03:51, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
HI There My name is Azam Ali and I am an artist. A profile along with photos has been created on Wikipedia on my behalf with totally wrong information. Months ago I created a user account under the name "Beggar's hut", in order to fix this problem. I've uploaded correct information and photos of myself(which I own), but someone at Wikipedia keeps deleting it and telling me I am violating copyright laws. If I am not mistaken you may be this person.
How is it possible that someone else has the right over my identity and information on Wikipedia? How can I get control of my own identity & information on your site? Do you guys not have a way to verify content? PLEASE help me to fix this. As it has been going on for too long and it is extremely upsetting.
Azam
Moonriddengirl: If you are busy, I would be happy to handle this. Azam: Would that be okay with you? And don't worry. I'm sure we can sort this out. :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 17:38, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was referred to you from User:Orangemike- nice to meet you... I edit biographies of musicians, negotiate photos for upload to Commons and work in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles. I frequently run into articles that are either just self-promotion from the subject of the article, stubs that contain no more than two or three sentences, etc. I don't want to dump all of these on Orangemike's virtual doorstep, or those of a few others. Would it be OK with you if I occasionally bring up one to you, here? Today I'm doubtful about Viswanatha Sastri-- I question it's notability. There seem to have been dozens of hands in that pie, producing... what? -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 02:51, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Mayuram Viswanatha Sastri, composer of the popular Jayati jayati Bhaiata Mata, had set the verses of Tirukkural to tune in kriti ... G.T. Sastri, the then Station Director invited Viswanatha Sastri to teach them to some artists he would engage.
Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 05:43, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Do you use:
...for your Wikipedia editing? I use:
Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 14:53, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
I am just surveying the operating system and browser that Wikipedians use. Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 01:59, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Recently one of my DYK has been removed from queue and DYK credit has been taken back from my talk page. Very embarrassing. The two most important issues they mentioned— a) the hook did not cover real-world topic (that's not entirely nominator's fault, I suggested ALT, reviewer and closer too did not notice too) b) copyvio issue, I have tried to talk to editor, please see if you can add some good advices here: User_talk:Bubaikumar#Care_of_Sir -- Tito Dutta ( talk • contributions • email) 06:51, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
See this. I already tagged it for copy vio but nobody seems noticing! Note: I already removed chunks of promotional material. Solomon 7968 08:07, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
My attention has been drawn to an editor - Flags33 ( talk · contribs) - who has added descriptions of coats of arms and blazons of various organisations, which may be exact copies of published descriptions and thus possible copyright violations. You have had some contact with this editor before. They appear to argue that such descriptions must follow a precise formula and that copyright does not apply. Please see the discussion at my talk page and give me your insight on this.- gadfium 20:26, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
This is my new signature. I was looking for a good place to use it for the first time. I firstly wanted to post it at "WikiProject India Noticeboard" — my favourite place, but actually there is nothing to post at this moment. If you see the code of my signature, you'll find there is an unnecessary otit;
. That is actually my name written from reverse tito>>otit. Last year I created a nice signature and later I found at least 10—12 people copying and using that. This time I am a bit more careful. --
Tito ↂ
Dutta 20:06, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, perhaps you can have a look at this when you have the time: I've reverted all edits by a COI account, because many of them were copyright violations. Along the way I surely removed some constructive edits, but I couldn't imagine picking through each revision individually. If you can recommend a better approach I'm all ears. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Cheers, 76.248.151.159 ( talk) 20:34, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddden girl.
Thanks for the message about the Jacques Duphly article. Buy the way I didn't initiate that article, I just revised it as lots was missing. It's so long ago now that I don't recall what I did - sorry. I probably won't have much time to revise it so if you want to remove or re-do stuff, just go ahead. Sorry if my additions caused any problems. It was one I did early on in my Wiki life, so wasn't totally au fait with procedures etc.
Ian (Juvancis)
I stated in a recent copyvio issue about this diff, "The text transformation is not cut and paste." An admin who seeks an adversarial relationship with me (diffs on request) replied, "... this is blatant copy-pasting..." In the 2nd diff already provided I asked four questions that I thought would help clarify the matter, but the admin characterized these four questions as going off on a vector. Without analysis, the admin concludes that the usage is, "violation of copyright", which appears to me to be an unsupportable legal opinion. The word "blatant" is used repeatedly without being defined. The OP opines that the words of the admin are "wise". Please review and advise. Thank you, Unscintillating ( talk) 23:11, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 07:26, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
You are a talk page stalker. I will add the stalker userbox onto your user page. Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 12:05, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
No, I didn't.
I just wanted to say Hi! I haven't had reliable Internet access for 3+ years, but never have forgotten you, (although I may have been forgotten!) just wanted to drop you a note saying hi, glad to see you still here and being awesome, as always! Hugs! Ariel ♥ Gold 08:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Just to be quite certain, am I right that the "Plot" section of this, copied from here, is too long (especially as being a major part of the article) to be an acceptable quote for copyvio purposes? There is a series article at Dark Shadows (audio drama) which contained them all, and they have been removed from that: I am considering nominating all the individual episode articles for deletion, because with the plot summaries gone there is nothing left worth having individual articles for. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 17:44, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, As you appear to be an expert regarding Copyright Violations could you please have a look at the above page when you get a chance, your views are most welcome.
Can you say if they are copying us Mahaakshay Chakraborty or the vice versa? -- Tito☸ Dutta 12:43, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
I investigated Interpublic Group of Companies and reverted to the last clean version. I've done this before, and usually check to see what is affected in the intervening edits. In most cases, there are some maintenance type edits, which if tweaking the copyvio text, aren't needed anyway. In this case, I think there was some legitimate additions of content that are now gone. I'm reluctant to ask what you think standard practice should be, I fear you will say that all intervening edits should be checked, and restored by the editor doing the cleaning. I took a lazier approach, identifying the larger contributors, notifying them and offering to help (as they cannot see the revdeled diffs, they may not remember what they added, so I can tell them).
If that is an acceptable course of action, I noticed one thing worth mentioned. I thought it would make sense to check the article history and uses the contributors option to identify the main contributors,especially those editing after the last clean version. I did that, and came up empty. I think what happens is that the contributor option does not check revdeled edits, which seems plausible, so I should have checked the contributions before doing the revdel.
How do you handle situations like this?-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:36, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
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Dutta 13:11, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
I've got it on my watchlist, any suggestions on how to work with the article and User:Liberty444?
Namaste, you are invited to visit the Kitchen of WikiProject India where you'll find many delicious Indian cuisines to have yourself or to share with others. Thank you. Tito☸ Dutta 01:23, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi MRG! I'm sorry to bother you with what is probably a simple copyvio misunderstanding on my part, but I have read through various policies and did not find the answer I was looking for. There was a question posed on the WikiProject:TV talk page ( Can official TV episode loglines be used on Wikipedia under the umbrella of fair use?) about what is allowed for television episode summaries which are copied from elsewhere. Part of the answer given was "One or two lines of text, with citation, is not a copyright violation, it is simply a fair use quotation." Also, it was stated that if an episode summary is copy/pasted from elsewhere, it needs a citation, otherwise it is a copyvio. I truly did not think this was allowed. (Other choices given where to strip it, or reword, both of which I understand.) I was always under the impression that a copyvio was a copyvio, regardless of whether an editor cites where it was copied from. What am I missing here? Can you clarify this for me? When can "fair-use" be claimed? One or two lines of text can lead to an awful lot which is allowed copied. Again, sorry to bother you, but like I said, I wasn't able to find any definitive answer when searching various guidelines myself. Thanks in advance. -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 18:38, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
The original version of this file on Wikimedia Commons is not copyright violation (the Android OS is licensed under the Apache License). Please restore it. Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 11:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
I have reuploaded the original version, at a higher resolution. Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 12:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi -
As per your instructions, I'm posting a note here. Please see private message sent to Md.. at wikimedia.org.
Thanks!
-- JayKay999 ( talk) 17:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, you once helped clean this bio of promotional content and copyright violations--it's a pressrelease again, with all the deleted content re-added. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thank you, 76.248.151.159 ( talk) 00:57, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I need your help regarding possible copyvio or close paraphrasing. Recently, I came across few articles which are developed and pushed for GA/FA. The articles have more than 50 references and its painstaking to check each of them with dup detector. Is there any tool which can help in identifying such possible copyvio or close paraphrasing? Thanks in advance. :) - Vivvt ( Talk) 00:19, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, this is a question that I suspect I just haven't dug deep enough myself for an answer, so please tell me to go do so if the answer is accessible for a wan body like mine with a bit more effort. I'm working on my own website, on which I'd like to include images that I've uploaded to Commons myself and the images of others, but I'm unclear about the necessary attribution method, or rather the necessary access to attribution for the end-user. I see three options, in the order I'd prefer as a graphic–web designer:
Any guidance you could offer will be much appreciated, including the guidance to keep on reading through our documentation myself. davidiad { t } 03:31, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi MRG, hope you enjoyed your time off. I recently came across the leavings of User:Nuklear ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs), a now-indeffed sock interested in synthetic chemistry who seems to have been a chronic copyright violator. The former puppetmaster has been inactive for some months, but is not blocked. Also left numerous contribs on commons and wikibooks, often with a bogus "minor edit" flag. Any chance you could use some of your superpowers to help sort out the mess left (assuming you haven't already done so)? I'll be out of regular circulation for a while by the time you return, but will try to check in. LeadSongDog come howl! 18:41, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Can you please assist me in bringing back an SVG file to Wikipedia. The issue is the article Arms of Canada. For years we have had a highly detailed accurate SVG of the image under the name File:Coat of arms of Canada.svg here on Wikipedia under a non-free use rationale. Then last night it was replaced with a horrible version from Commons, and the SVG got deleted for not being in use. Naturally that Commons file was not accepted because of it's lower quality and inaccuracies, but because the SVG was deleted, now the article is using a blury PNG version of the image which you can see there now. Please use your admin powers to restore the SVG under it's non-free use rationale. I previously asked Bbb23, however he felt you would be more the more appropriate person to ask. I can absolutely assure you this was simple a matter of not being in use that caused it to be deleted, it had nothing to do with copyright or the Non-free use rationale, as it had been here for several years. Fry1989 eh? 01:16, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Lionhead99 ( talk · contribs)'s edits seem to be mainly copy and paste from the web. He is creating articles on Australian subjects by copying from government sources, which is legal if attributed correctly [12] but a lot of his other edits are just straight copyvio. His talk page shows a lot of image copyvio problems, and he seems to have never responded on his talk page to anyone. I've just warned him and told him I may block him. Cleanup will be necessary I'm afraid. I ran into him earlier today removing some fringe stuff which included some minor copyvio and then found a lot more when I took a quick look at his edits. Dougweller ( talk) 08:13, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Ladyof Shalott suggested I ask you this question regarding the practical interpretation of Adelman v. Christy as it applies to WP:WikiProject Bibliographies. Any comments you'd care to add would be appreciated.
Best,
Lesser Cartographies ( talk) 21:05, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
I cannot see the sources but the additions in this set of diffs concern me. The phrasing, especially in an Indic-related article, just scream "copyright violation" to me. I'd appreciate comments from yourself and stalkers. - Sitush ( talk) 10:32, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi-I started an article about Osro Cobb. I noticed you deleted an article about Osro Cobb that a banned editor had started. Cobb served in the Arkansas House of Representatives and was on the Arkansas Supreme Court and is notable. There was 6-7 redlinks for Osro Cobb so the article had to be started. I wanted to let you know. Many thanks- RFD ( talk) 13:51, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi MRG. I just did a major clean up of a very crufty fictional characters list, List of Skylanders characters, but everything I cut away was descriptions from the official game site Skylanders.com. They can be found by clicking the characters tab and then the story button for each character. The article has only been around for a couple months, and the descriptions were in from the beginning. Would this require nuking all previous versions, or is there another way to handle this? Thanks! — Torchiest talk edits 13:42, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
My apologies, friend. I was not the one who plagiarized, I merely took a massive section from the page List of Spyro the Dragon characters and created a separate page for it, cutting and pasting the text there wholesale. I had no idea any of it was taken from official sources, and would not have left said text intact if I had known. Master Deusoma ( talk) 21:54, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
I verified the split by looking at the cross-page diff. The official biographies were inserted in two edits ( 1, not sure if adequately paraphrased; 2) in February 2012. Flatscan ( talk) 04:45, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but I didn't just copy the text from one Wikipedia page to another, I cut the text out of one and pasted it into another one in order to create a new article. Just wanted to be clear. But thank you for setting everything in order, regardless. :-) Master Deusoma ( talk) 22:33, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
The Kraken has finally been vanquished :) Wizardman 19:58, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
as Catface00 ( talk · contribs) - obvious sock - I@d hoped the original block of Lionhead, which blocked the IP, would do it, but obviously not. Anyway, I saw no need for an SPI so have blocked. Dougweller ( talk) 10:28, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
On 2 July 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sister Gargi, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Sister Gargi, an American, wrote a highly regarded six-volume book on Swami Vivekananda? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sister Gargi. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Tito☸ Dutta 00:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi - I think your input is needed at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 60#RfC: Use of non-free Bible translations. Dougweller ( talk) 05:55, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Dear Maggie, Hello, I hope you are well. If you remember I had an article on "Islamic Azad University Khorasgan Branch Isfahan" which its license was confirmed by you. But Unfortunately despite of many times changing, editing and reducing the text but it rejected by different Wikipedia admins. I checked some Universities on Wikipedia which has promotive words .But I dont know why mine is not confirmed as I think my article is just informative and neutral. Please guide me if its possible for you. Thanks for your time and kind attention. Mehrnazar ( talk) 07:58, 6 July 2013 (UTC)Mehrnazar
AnOpenMedium ( talk) 08:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I really hate to bring these things here, but don't know best how to handle this. It seems to have been copied wholesale from Celebrities, then edited a bit (which it sorely needed!). I removed the bulk of the text and the reference, which is obviously unreliable. The author has now restored it as hidden text. Does it matter? Do we care? I've also tagged the article for deletion as non-notable, btw. I'd like some advice, so here I am asking probably the busiest person on the whole wiki to take a look at it. Or maybe some kind watcher? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:06, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Can you please check: Talk:Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University/Temp? -- Tito☸ Dutta 06:23, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've just noticed that a lot of text from Brothers Grimm was copied directly to Grimms' Fairy Tales in in this series of edits. I added a copied from template to the talk page, [13], but in the end decided it's not really optimal to have both articles with portions of the exact same text so I've reverted to a previous version, [14]. Not sure what the policy is now in terms of the template: the copied text still lives in history but is no longer on the page. Do we need it or not? Not in rush btw - I know you are very busy. Thanks in advance. TK/ Victoria ( talk) 18:56, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I came across the article Izaak Walton Cottage, which was created on June 21 and the text of which matches text from the fifth paragraph of this blog post, dated March 22, 2012. I have a feeling that the latter is not, however, the original source, but rather that both our article and that page are copied from some third source. I'm not really sure how to tag it for speedy deletion with an explanation of that; would you please deal with the article as you see fit? Deor ( talk) 23:41, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl,
Can you review the talk section on the above page (Pádraig Mac Lochlainn). I understand that the copyright issue has now been addressed. Thanks Atticus Maycomb ( talk) 03:12, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that Batte Mann is another Lionhead99 sockpuppet; see, for example, here and here. Flyer22 ( talk) 03:06, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi -- do you have time to answer a copyright question? I would like to use cover images of the magazine Fantastic Novels in that article, so I checked the copyright renewals per the instructions here. The first five issues (1940 and 1941) were renewed, but I found nothing under the individual year renewals for the second series (1948-1951) (e.g. this page would show a renewal if one existed).
However, a search in the post-1977 database finds what appear to be mass renewals, in 1990, of multiple titles, including Fantastic Novels. Can I ignore these as invalid? Or do they actually count as renewals?
Thanks for any help -- and if you're too busy, no problem. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 23:15, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I have a question re: the content of this article, much of which appears to have been copied from a defense department page [15]; are such government pages unfettered by copyright restrictions? The article probably has other issues as well, but the issue of copied text needs to be addressed first. Thank you, 76.248.144.216 ( talk) 15:46, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
(
talk page stalker) I had look at this because MRG is up to her eyeballs at the moment over at the VE feedback page. The original pasted-in chunk on 15 April 2013
[17], was simply a verbatim but slightly updated version of
this US government bio, which was in place on 11 February 2013. Since that's a government site, it is public domain, but the text must be attributed to the source to comply with our copyright requirements. My impression is that the three two of the editors involved in that article are closely associated with the subject and probably employees of his consulting firm who have been tasked with updating his biographies in tandem. The headings were added to Wikipedia, and then the article on his consulting firm website was updated to match it, rather than the other way around. Note
this version of their website on 17 June 2013. However, I'm going to leave a note about all this on the talk page of the article, and remind the editors about our COI and copyright guidelines. Best,
Voceditenore (
talk) 07:13, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 60#RfC: Use of non-free Bible translations which also raises some clearly copyvio issues. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 10:39, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Best wishes on a happy day | |
This is a day worth celebrating! I hope that you have a very happy birthday and remember how glad we all are that you were born and came into our wiki-lives. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 14:05, 12 July 2013 (UTC) |
Yes, happy birthday, Moonriddengirl. Flyer22 ( talk) 20:51, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Oh, let me contribute! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. The rest of the song may be copyrighted, so I'll just whistle for you! — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 07:23, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to be belated! Dougweller ( talk) 09:34, 15 July 2013 (UTC) |
If you have the time, what with VE and everything, could you ask legal to look into whether minors could be legally considered competent to release contributions under an irrevocable CC license? I brought up this possibility at this mess of a deletion request in response to some particularly hard-line "tough luck, its irrevocable" votes, and considering the possible implications if such a possibility were a reality... it would be nice to have a firm answer. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 01:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
UNESCO content is not pd/free license, right? So I think that the lead UNESCO para at Zamość is copyvio'd - too much taken verbatim from the UNESCO page used a source. Would you agree? (for warning/educating purposes, this content was added with those diffs) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:47, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello again. I have removed some copyvio from Ehrenberg Castle, taken from this page. Please review the change and hide the revisions skipped in this diff (previous OK --> my update) if you agree. Thanks. -- Mirokado ( talk) 22:19, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm semi-retiring. My reasons are on my user page but given the timing I suspect one of the reasons won't be too much of a surprise given the number of complaints it seems to have generated. As the person I've interacted most with here I wanted to let you know and thank you for your help over the years. Dpmuk ( talk) 04:49, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
I have proposed a means of preventing copyvio plot summaries that requires changing the site-wide Javascript. Your feedback is appreciated at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Editintro for fiction articles?, before I take this to a wider audience. MER-C 06:55, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
I appreciate your efforts trying to check on copyright issues in the article Vertical sound localization. That's hard and thankless work, so you deserve a "thank you" for it! I did not post the original cv tag, but I have noted on that article's Talk page that, copyrighted or not, most of the content is covered in the more general article on Sound localization (where it appears as "Sound localization in the median plane"). I have suggested merging the two pages, and would welcome your reaction to that idea, if you care to weigh in on the topic.
Let me also just add that I admire the philosophy you advocate ("Presume good intentions and treat others with respect until they force you to think otherwise"). I know that the assumption of good faith is WP policy, but it may be the most-frequently-forgotten of WP guidelines. Thanks for keeping the flag of civil discourse flying. Brazzit ( talk) 19:00, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
In June, you blocked User:Salora for copyvios. Since then, [18] was copied from [19] and [20] was copied from [21]. I've opened a CCI at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Salora. On a related note, Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story needs a history purge. MER-C 14:11, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Just a heads up, can of worms just got a lot bigger. Jimbo's weighed in and discussion started at Commons (as Jimbo said he was going to contact legal, you may already know of this development... just think it would have been a smaller can of worms if they had entertained such possibilities before Jimbo's involvement). — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:57, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I am reaching out to you because talk page of Parsons Paris (2013) has not been responded to. There are several inaccuracies associated with the Parsons page versus Paris College of Art that I am attempting to correct but have continuously run into trouble. I have tried to reach out to other editors but have not heard back. Let me know what you think about the changes I have proposed on the Parsons Paris talk page and if you need any clarification on the proof of the validity of the proposed edits or the history of Parsons Paris itself (or direct me to a more appropriate editor). Thank you. Mickey Lukens 13:39, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Moon. Last November, you blocked Timmy43 for copyright violations. I think you also stubbed an article that was started as a copyright violation by the same user (I can't seem to find it but I went through at least 15 articles that Timmy43 created). You can see at the bottom of his talk page, it hasn't stopped.
I tried to start a discussion on their talk page but given that the user has never spoken to anyone in the two years that they've been editing, I doubt that I will receive a response. I'm not sure what else to do than ask for another block to get their attention so that we can start a discussion.
On a side note, it looks like Timmy is publishing these articles first on various Wikias then on WP. Wikia, as I'm sure you know, has a compatible license but there's no attribution being given. OlYeller21 Talktome 20:33, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
OK, me again, once again in search of advice from MRG or the faithful watchers. it:Thomas Hanbury was created in 2008 by an (apparently) serial copyright violator; like some of his other copyvios, the content was probably lifted from here. Recently Thomas Hanbury was created here by copy-pasting the it.wiki content. What I don't know: should the article here be deleted to allow a fresh start, or just cleaned up? And should some sort of investigation be started on it.wiki? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 09:05, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I'm reviewing the GA nomination for
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In one part the article
here duplicates in full a list of symptoms found
here, which is a publication produced by the
National Institute of Mental Health, an agency of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Quite a bit of text is quoted. This text is hard to paraphrase without losing the specific medical meanings. My understanding is that work produced by employees of the US Government in the course of their public duties is public domain and can be quoted at length with attribution. Is what the article is doing OK to do as long as it's attributed? I took a quick look at your copyright advice and didn't see this addressed, so asking you here, hope that's OK. Thanks...
Zad
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— Bill william compton Talk 16:57, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Level 99 coconut of health | |
MRG has gained 5000 HP. She is revitalized!
Oh, if only life were so easy. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 10:58, 1 August 2013 (UTC) |
May i request to move the page title back to Andrea Sala (footballer). I was going to translate it:Andrea Sala as the volleyball player seems far more notable than the footballer. Matthew_hk t c 19:11, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Long time no see, MRG. Hope you are well.
Drmies (
talk) 03:03, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
I just saw your were out sick. Hope your feeling better soon. The project needs you! Kumioko ( talk) 03:27, 6 August 2013 (UTC) |
I just ended up at your several discussions at User talk:82.18.121.77. discussing his/her edits around Art Garfunkel and I was amazed and impressed by the patient and persistent way that you dealt with that editor. It is way too late for me to try and figure out how to give you an award, but pick the one you'd most like to get for some edits that you did years ago and wear it with pride. Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 06:22, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Greetings, MRG! Do you remember me? We worked together on copyright-cleanup concerns several times a couple years ago. Anyway, I have been reviewing a FAC nomination for Hungarian occupation of Yugoslav territories, and I found issues of close paraphrasing from the sources. The nominator has attempted to address these concerns, but I was hoping to get an outside opinion. In particular, the final paragraph of the "Administration" section is sourced from the first full paragraph in page 172 in this book (and that page is available for preview). The article's paragraph no longer uses the same wording as the source, but it arguably has many of the same ideas in the same order.
So my questions are: Is this still a close-paraphrasing concern, or has the issue been fixed? And is the level of rewriting sufficient (in your opinion) for the quality we expect in featured articles?
Thanks so much for your time! – Quadell ( talk) 16:16, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, MRG! I'd like to ask if you or one of the faithful watchers could find time for a quick look at Malek Jandali, where I had, after some consideration, placed a copyvio tag even though our article appeared (ready-made) five weeks before the more extensive published version. My thought was that a common but unidentified earlier source was the probable explanation; a common author would also explain it. The tag has now been removed and replaced a number of times, and I'm not sure what, if anything, should be done about that. Thanks yet again, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 08:56, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi MG, can you help by implementing a copyvio solution that has been agreed to by the tagger? It's an old archived CP discussion, and I don't know if admins are looking at those so I'm reaching out to you on this Talk page. Here is the discussion: WP:Copyright_problems/2013_June_12. Thanks if you can help. Sincerely, -- Softlavender ( talk) 03:40, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
I'm sometimes glad I don't have a girly username like you. I don't get called "dear" as often! [22] Bishonen | talk 20:07, 17 August 2013 (UTC).
OK, I had a quick look at what I did about contributions by User:Blakeblakeblake12345. There are quite a lot of edits, with some very evident copyvios, and I think it would presumptuous in the extreme for me to claim that I "got them all". I remember that I looked at some new articles with suspiciously complete text, such as Bet Israel Synagogue (Izmir), History of the Jews in southern Florida, Pletzel, Prune compote and Antakya Synagogue. I think I probably cleaned those up OK. Obviously I couldn't revdelete as I believe you might have done in those cases. I'm afraid that someone a lot cleverer than me should probably cast an eye over them and over the rest of his edits. As I recall, I certainly suspected but did not either confirm or tag History of the Jews in New York City.
A question: is there some standard way that I don't know about for non-admins to request revdeletion after a cleanup? If there isn't, might it be possible to have something like a maintenance template that when added to the article would make it automatically appear in, say, Category:Articles requiring revdeletion, which admins could then be asked to keep an eye on? And perhaps even take action on from time to time? And might that be useful? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 21:29, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
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May I send I an email with a question type confession which I am unable to discuss here for someone else's privacy and personally I might require later? -- Tito☸ Dutta 02:58, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Check out section #1 above. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi! You are one of the very few admins i know from the Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles and hence thought of requesting you. May i have the article List of songs recorded by Abhijeet Bhattacharya which is deleted post Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs recorded by Abhijeet Bhattacharya moved to my user space? Something like User:Dharmadhyaksha/List of songs recorded by Abhijeet Bhattacharya would be fine. Or choose a name which suits you or the usual norms. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 11:05, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
We are children of Nachiketa and followers of Phoenix. Following Swami Vivekananda, it is like that very old palace, where you go and start repairing one portion expecting to save the palace and when you finish your works, you find, meanwhile, few other portions of the big palace have gone to same condition and are going to be shattered to dust if they are not repaired immediately. This goes on forever. Yet, I suggest to create a page like Wikipedia:Points to note while debating in WikIProject India related AFDs and add the most common points like (don't count Google News hits, don't solely rely on Google News, please search in local Indian language too etc). If such an article is created we can ask to add the link of the article with every WP:India AFD discussion. Anyone wants to start writing? -- Tito☸ Dutta 14:47, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl. Would you please help me out with the mess described at Talk:Treblinka extermination camp#Wholesale stealing of copyrighted article from the internet? I don't even know where to start. You have the experience, so please take a look. Thanks in advance, Poeticbent talk 16:18, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
I believe Dougweller is nitpicking too much on my content (the ad hominem thing also applies - he is judging my character and not what I'm doing). If he continues reverting my content, I would do so too. He seems to be picking on my edits a little too much. Nothing on the Kariong, New South Wales page is copyrighted (sure, maybe a word or two - that's enough I guess). If the 'Egyptian glyph' section is a fringe theory, then why was the early version of the paragraph at Kariong there the whole time? All I did was source it and expand it.
Did Doug to go to Batman with my month old edit and revert it whilst slamming it as 'copyright'?
If you are top contributor or the manager of this, please look into it. I have the right to fight back and it's unfair if I, a regular contributor, get blocked.
Thank you.( talk) 10:28, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
If there are any admin stalkers here then please could you fully protect Aam Aadmi Party pending a result at Wikipedia:Non-free_content_review#Multiple_non-free_logos_for_same_organisation. I could take this to WP:RFPP but there has already been a lot of warring about one particular image (the election symbol), which was deleted from Commons a few days ago. I've mentioned the NFR discussion on the article talk page, where I have explained the copyright exception to 3RR. - Sitush ( talk) 11:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Coasttrip has started a complaint at AN and an SPI against another editor related to this issue. You might be interested. Dougweller ( talk) 12:07, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey MRG, is there a bot or tool to check talk page additions for copyvios? While I was gone walkabout a lot of copyvio was added to Talk:History of India (though some could be reverse copies from mirrors I removed most of them) and I'm sure there must be others -- especially in these topics where people want to push one version over another. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 14:20, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, please excuse me for invading your talkpage yet again. Perhaps one of the watchers will pick this up? Question: how likely is it that the United Nations copies its bios from us? Please compare
Dr. Carlos Lopes with
Carlos Lopes
Carlos Lopes (Guinea Bissau). The UN website is not archived on archive.org before 2 May 2013. My inclination is to revert to
this version, but I'm hesitating because of lack of proof, and because it isn't word-for-word. Can you, or perhaps someone else, advise?
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk) 23:30, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
I saw it fitting to share a belated LOL with you; courtesy of Bishonen's insightful regards above. I am certain however, that I did not require the metaphoric contrast to hold you endeared. Make no mistake; your girly username has no claim to your reputation; deservedly earning my highest esteem, and unfettered admiration. I feel no disadvantage endeavoring to emulate your example, for being male—nor, dare I say, an inkling of curious thought to imagine us on "a date". Nevertheless, I have considered asking the band, Dishwalla to stop " Counting Blue Cars" so they could hear my thoughts on God. :) John Cline ( talk) 08:44, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
I will check the Truan article and rewrite it with new sources, etc., in the next day or so. I was unaware of following too closely from another article. You can depend on me to present good quality articles without following the words of others. Billy Hathorn ( talk) 13:25, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Most contributions and articles created by Hadden ( talk · contribs) seem to be either straight copyvio or quotations. Some of his quotations far exceed what we allow. Nagash painting for instance is almost all quotations although probably not to the extent that we would call it copyvio, but others are far over the number of words. [23] I've removed a lot of copyvio at King Abdulaziz Public Library. He didn't respond to earlier comments on copyvio. Dougweller ( talk) 18:58, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
W. F. Paterson, ?T.aybugha- - 1970 "In this connexion it is worth noting that the Muslim horse-archer was not merely a bowman; his prowess also ... The right-handed Oriental archer, who holds the bow in his left hand, must set the arrow on the right-hand side of the bow." [25]. Dougweller ( talk) 21:07, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
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I didn't know that my father had a Wikipedia page and when I followed the link on Charles Ives Second Piano Sonata I saw that the page had been deleted! :-( On further investigation, it seems that there were questions about copyright infringement. I love Wikipedia and use it all the time, but know nothing about contributing. I would like to see this page restored, with different content if that was what caused problems.
What, if anything, would it be appropriate for me to do about this? I appreciate your help. thank you,
You can reply to me at dkirkpatrick1 at stny.rr.com
Daisy Kirkpatrick
69.205.159.111 ( talk) 13:28, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed that last month you handled all the cases at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2013 January 14 except for one: Armalite AR-50, which had been copied from http://azfirearms.com/index.php/rifles/all.html?dir=asc&order=name. I was wondering if perhaps you had overlooked it, or if there is some other reason why it couldn't be processed. — Psychonaut ( talk) 18:21, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Could you check copyvio of second paragraph of Alasinga Perumal with this forum post. I am reluctant to think we copied from a user forum. But, the forum message was posted in 2006 and we started the Wikipedia article in 2010! --08:17, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
For later, I'm out of time. Contribution surveyor participated briefly. :/ But i can't get the wikitext, so no diffs.
Are u good at "Whitelisting" sources? If yes, the online source for Galatta.com is blacklisted even though it is notable. Pls whitelist it after seeing this discussion. Kailash29792 ( talk) 19:59, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl, I haven't bothered you in a while. :) I updated some statistics in the Jacksonville Bolles School article, and noticed that their football coach, Corky Rogers, was red-linked. When I checked for the article (which I created four years ago) it had been deleted by user Fastily, who has since retired from Wikipedia. His stated reason was: "I honestly don't see any reason this person could be notable and meet the guidelines." Would you restore this to my sandbox, or direct me to another admin if you don't have time? This coach has been inducted into the Florida High School Hall of Fame and has over 400 wins in his career. Thanks for your help. Mgrē@sŏn 16:50, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Would you mind giving your expert assessment at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Copyright_violations_by_User:Danish_Expert? I feel that the examples I've provided are pretty clear-cut, but this has been disputed. Thanks! TDL ( talk) 23:53, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
If you have some time from you busy schedule, could you check if there is any copyvio in this article (specially Sanjay_Dutt#Illegal_possession_of_arms section? Seeing the numerous basic fmt errors and writing style, I have a doubt that some portion have close paraphrasing or some other issue. In addition, the article is a super busy article right now. Dutt is going to surrender to jail today, so even if you find issues, (if possible) don't hide with investigationCCI template! -- Tito Dutta ( contact) 10:43, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
I want this photo for an article I am writing on the Women of Sierra Leone. Can you tell me if I can use in under fair use? I have no idea who took it, nor when they died so do not know if it is PD. Darkness Shines ( talk) 15:57, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Looking for some help from an experienced wiki contributor, please write on my talk page if you have some time to provide some advice and answer some questions concerning wikipedia guidelines. Cheers Galadedrid Damodred ( talk) 19:35, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
I need a small held on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._P._Yohannan . I had added a section controversies over there a few days back and based on some reputed media published articles. Some people are continuously removing that section. What should I do remove it ?
Would you consider the thread at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Copyright concerns regarding User:USchick, I am keenly curious as to your guidance in its regard. Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 03:14, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
That's fantastic. :) Thank you so much! -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:46, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, you come highly recommended and I would like to seek your counsel. I had a minor editing dispute with another editor and he refused to discuss it on the talk page. He threatened to take me to ANI, like that's supposed to solve something, and now I'm afraid we reached the same impasse there as well, since the original dispute was never resolved on the talk page. Would you be interested in getting involved? You can follow the links from my talk page to the ANI dispute. USchick ( talk) 00:27, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl I need your help since I heard that you are known as the copyright expert around here. I took a picture of my iPod U2 Special edition and I want to upload it for future uses (in the U2 article or iPod's article). What liscence should I upload it under?? I don't mean to do wrong things so that's why I am asking. Cheers! PS: reply at my talk page Miss Bono (zootalk) 18:06, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
You may wish to peek at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Canoe1967/Sculptors I am told it should be a good thing if we can get it working. It is copyright stuff so I thought I would spam your page with it. Mr. Wales' talk page may be next.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 03:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, could you help with Circle of Life - Collaborate Masterpiece, and suggest the best way to proceed? User doesn't get copyright or original research guidelines. Thank you, 99.149.85.229 ( talk) 12:48, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
Long time. Do you remember me? You gave me my first barnstar ever. Thanks for that. It really encouraged me to go forward.
I've been asked to run for RfA for quite some time. Now, someone just nominated me. I was just chatting with My76Strat at IRC about nominators, and he suggested that I talk to you. He said that you are one of the most respected admins, and I ought to ask you what you think of my qualifications. I agreed because I too value your opinion.
Please feel free to opt out. If you do comment, please be perfectly frank. Sorry to impose upon you. I know you're always busy.
Please see: User:Anna Frodesiak/Gold sandbox for the IRC discussion.
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 07:37, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm realIy sorry, but I can't work it out: Maud Tindal Atkinson. I think it needs your detective skills. I'm pretty sure the stuff has not evolved in normal article fashion, but I can't put my finger on it. This diff looks suspect; could it be taken from a book? This blog may be relevant in view of the contributions of the creator of the article. Or am I just plain wrong again? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 20:48, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
A good part of This edit from this article was directly copied, reverted! -- Tito Dutta ( contact) 18:57, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I recently noticed an edit that I think is from User:Wyvren. I do not know the procedure to check sockpuppetry and am contacting you given your signature on the user block talk page of Wyvern. The account I suspect is user:Solntsa90. The edit that alerted mr is this. revisiting a favorite subject of Wyvern. I noticed that user:Solntsa90 is doing a great deal of edits on antisemitism, and I think this extract on a users talk page may also help to link the two acconts:
note also this
Yours ever, Czar Brodie ( talk) 08:18, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've contacted DaDoc540 ( talk · contribs) re: their history of edits, some of which feature text identical to that found at the NBA website cited as the source. Before I start removing them lock, stock and barrel I wanted to check with you. Some of this [4] has been cut and pasted from another Wiki article by the same editor [5]. As well, the NBA site is copyright 2013, so I want to be sure we know which came first. But overall the prose is fanzine, which is what raised my suspicions to begin with. Thanks in advance for taking the trouble, 99.149.85.229 ( talk) 20:31, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
The entry states "The artist retains the copyright unless the artist is commissioned, or is an employee as with magazine illustrators or book cover artists when the publisher is assigned the ownership of the copyright". ARR is 'normally' viewed as a inalienable economic right, and as best as I can understand it, being the owner of copyright in a artwork is not necessarily the same as being entitled to a right to resale royalties on that artwork.... can you help me on how to phrase this in normal legal copyright terms? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedestrian1957 ( talk • contribs) 00:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
The 'phrasing'(and source) problem I have is that; whilst normal Copyright and ARR 'overlap' in application they are also in important ways antithetical? in operation.
I have changed the Wikki entry I quoted above to this: The situation as to how ARR applies in situations where an art work is physically made by a person or persons who are not the 'name artist' who first exhibits and sells the work is not clear. In particular whilst ARR is inalienable it seems conceivable that in cases where the copyright on a artwork is transferred/sold, prior to the first sale of an artwork, the inalienable ARR right is also effectively sold transferred.
I know it sounds a bit like the quantum particle that is at the same time.. its anti-particle. :-) What do you think? Pedestrian1957 ( talk) 02:16, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
You asked to participate in dispute resolution noticeboard. I thought to make our Wikipedia is a Teamwork own! Joking, not serious. But, the topic of the message IS serious. You don't need to read the whole discussion, read only first two messages
here. Now, as far as I know, an initiative to resolve all disputes and attempt to strengthen relationship between two country's WikiProjects is not a common act in Wikipedia.
Now, in case you have some time I want you to lead/govern the initiative, for the following reasons a) we want a neutral editor (non Indian, non Bangladesh) to draw conclusions b) the editor should be experienced and should be aware of Wiki rules and policies c) the editor should have the power to ban/block editors (in short "admin")!
Consider this as a request from the initiative's front, nothing forced or mandatory! You can surely reject the request. --
Tito Dutta (
contact) 17:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC) --
Tito Dutta (
contact) 00:27, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Thegn is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI. |
-- Wizardman 15:03, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi again MRG! There's an ongoing "puzzlement" (as the King of Siam would have had it) that I thought you'd have some perspective on. Organizations often put out press releases such as this which are in due order picked up by news aggregators in cases such as this. I think you'll agree that there is very little doubt about where the creative content lies, but I'm not sure whether the latter link would constitute a genuine linkvio, inasmuchas there is an implicit intent in the press release. Of course the PhysOrg bit does (in this case) credit the Max Planck Institute, but they are often even less rigorous. It's a pity, because they often are the easiest way to find half-decent coverage on physics developments, but they are regularly popping up in rather dicey areas too. Some editors are now trying to use their coverage of the Energy catalyzer in that article... Ideas on how to address this? LeadSongDog come howl! 17:17, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to give you a heads-up that I have put in a request for the admin bit back on WP:BN. Please express your thoughts on the matter there if you wish. If you object, I will understand. I just figured it was worth a try to see if there was an easy path back to adminship. Thanx. -- Pseudo-Richard ( talk) 23:02, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Never mind... the feedback was that the admin bit was given up "under a cloud" and therefore should go through a new RfA. -- Pseudo-Richard ( talk) 22:33, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
NatureSam ( talk) 05:25, 29 May 2013 (UTC)just a quick thank you for bringing my page in to the fold, I am very grateful for all that you have contributed behind the scenes to get this page looking right. I am so proud of the house so really do appreciate your patience. Yours somewhat of a novice contributor NatureSam
At 2013 Woolwich attack, the Islamic militant who murdered an off-duty soldier made a speech justifying his actions on video to an amateur. The entire transcript has been copied verbatim into the article. Only one online source has the speech transcribed accurately, although the video can be seen freely but its copyright status isn't clear. Most non-tabloid media and news broadcasts have published excerpts only. I had/have concerns that this may constitute excessive use of quotation and may be in violation of WP:QUOTEFARM and WP:COPYVIO. I trimmed it but was met with objections. I just wanted your view as to whether the use of the entire text can be considered "reasonable". In any event, it's been reinstated and I won't be reverting. For more information, kindly visit 2013 Woolwich attack#The entire rant. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 07:14, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Don't know if Jalexander is active in Wikipedia! Tito Dutta ( contact) 22:50, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Kittybrewster ☎ 21:45, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, if you're up for some sleuthing, I have a question re: The Three M's, which I've prodded for deletion. I can not find a source, but I'm wondering if much of the content was copied from elsewhere--certainly the phrasing suggests either it's a copyvio or the product of a professional scribe, though too slang-pitched for an encyclopedia by half. Thank you and cheers, 99.149.85.229 ( talk) 21:45, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if I used the data here to make a map of Cotton Production by US state, would that be considered a derivative work or would that be allowable here if I released it as CC-BY-SA or as fair use? Thanks.-- Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 22:02, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, the user Expatkiwi is having trouble understanding copyright issues with regards to some images he has added to articles. He is getting quite frustrated and seems to feel the entire mission of other editors is to thwart his edits by wrapping him in red tape. I'll be up front, he has lashed out at other editors, opened an issue at WP:3RR (declined) and been reported at WP:ANI. I've tried to add calming and encouraging words to his talk page. Might you review his article space contributions and use your copyright policy expertise to explain with a minimum of jargon and maximum of patience how he may be able to find some acceptable images for the pages he's concentrating on? Thank you. JanetteDoe ( talk) 23:07, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Got your message. Thank you ! (Like I said, I had a lot of problems with NFCC (I'm still shaky about it, so I avoid adding any image unless I created it :) ).
Listen though, about Expatwiki (no, he didn't me to talk to you, and I have no dogs in the fight in the flags article he edited, I'm an American, not an Aussie ). I can see how he'd be confused, as there's already a list on the page with flag icons, he seems to have been adding flags to that list. I'd want to say that his additions constitute a valid exception to NFCC in that the flags have no free equivalent, it's used in that article only and as a small image, and thus fullfilling NFCC exception #2 and #3, it's previously published in Australia (exception #4 ) Seems to meet #5 as well , just as the other images in that article do. Seems to meet #6 as well, it was intended to be used in one article so it meets # 7 , # 8 , #9 and #10.
Don't worry, I won't put them back in myself, but it looks like it meets those exceptions, what do you think ? KoshVorlon. We are all Kosh ... 12:20, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Congrats on making the 550,000,000th edit a few weeks ago! — PinkAmpers & (Je vous invite à me parler) 16:40, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
I was expanding Sister Gargi, it seems a part of the article was copied from this article. Can you start a check please? -- Tito Dutta ( talk • contributions • email) 04:44, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I just signed up, absolute newbie. My name is apparently wrong as it has my workplace title in, so my (unbiased) content about Artrix Arts Centre on the Bromsgrove page have been deleted. I went to the 'change name' page but it was completely impenetrable. Can you help? I'd like to repost the content under a new name or whatever I have to do. I understand you might be able to retrieve the content? I'd appreciate any input. Hope this works ArtrixChick ( talk) 18:51, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. I hate to bother you with this, but since I know enough to know that I do not know how to handle and or deal with every problem here I figure its best to let those in the know deal with their area of expertise, and you happen to be the person I know to deals best with copyright issues, so here I am. I've been on a music kick since I am out of town and the laptop I have is - well lets just say it doesn't run anything released recently at gamestop :). While looking for information on the song Inama Nushif (its a pretty song by the way, if oyu haven't heard it I would recommend listening to it once) I was led to the page Azam Ali, but the page didn't feel right to me so I checked the external links and sure enough whats there in the article now is lifted (looks like verbatim) from here. Like I said, I know enough to know that I do not know what to do, so I like to bother people who do know what they are doing so things get fixed correctly the first time around, and in this case you're the person I know I can count on to look into copyright matters, so I'll leave this in your hands (or tps hands, if they are watching) and let you handle this. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, and thanks in advance for the help. TomStar81 ( Talk) 20:02, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone here have time to take a look at WT:CP section Help needed on how to properly paraphrase dense science/technology description? I have come here after Demiurge1000 told me on my talk page to ask for advice here. Please reply either at WT:CP or at my talk page section May 2013. Your advice/suggestions will be a lot helpful. Thank You and Regards. - Jayadevp 13 03:51, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
HI There My name is Azam Ali and I am an artist. A profile along with photos has been created on Wikipedia on my behalf with totally wrong information. Months ago I created a user account under the name "Beggar's hut", in order to fix this problem. I've uploaded correct information and photos of myself(which I own), but someone at Wikipedia keeps deleting it and telling me I am violating copyright laws. If I am not mistaken you may be this person.
How is it possible that someone else has the right over my identity and information on Wikipedia? How can I get control of my own identity & information on your site? Do you guys not have a way to verify content? PLEASE help me to fix this. As it has been going on for too long and it is extremely upsetting.
Azam
Moonriddengirl: If you are busy, I would be happy to handle this. Azam: Would that be okay with you? And don't worry. I'm sure we can sort this out. :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 17:38, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was referred to you from User:Orangemike- nice to meet you... I edit biographies of musicians, negotiate photos for upload to Commons and work in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles. I frequently run into articles that are either just self-promotion from the subject of the article, stubs that contain no more than two or three sentences, etc. I don't want to dump all of these on Orangemike's virtual doorstep, or those of a few others. Would it be OK with you if I occasionally bring up one to you, here? Today I'm doubtful about Viswanatha Sastri-- I question it's notability. There seem to have been dozens of hands in that pie, producing... what? -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 02:51, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Mayuram Viswanatha Sastri, composer of the popular Jayati jayati Bhaiata Mata, had set the verses of Tirukkural to tune in kriti ... G.T. Sastri, the then Station Director invited Viswanatha Sastri to teach them to some artists he would engage.
Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 05:43, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Do you use:
...for your Wikipedia editing? I use:
Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 14:53, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
I am just surveying the operating system and browser that Wikipedians use. Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 01:59, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Recently one of my DYK has been removed from queue and DYK credit has been taken back from my talk page. Very embarrassing. The two most important issues they mentioned— a) the hook did not cover real-world topic (that's not entirely nominator's fault, I suggested ALT, reviewer and closer too did not notice too) b) copyvio issue, I have tried to talk to editor, please see if you can add some good advices here: User_talk:Bubaikumar#Care_of_Sir -- Tito Dutta ( talk • contributions • email) 06:51, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
See this. I already tagged it for copy vio but nobody seems noticing! Note: I already removed chunks of promotional material. Solomon 7968 08:07, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
My attention has been drawn to an editor - Flags33 ( talk · contribs) - who has added descriptions of coats of arms and blazons of various organisations, which may be exact copies of published descriptions and thus possible copyright violations. You have had some contact with this editor before. They appear to argue that such descriptions must follow a precise formula and that copyright does not apply. Please see the discussion at my talk page and give me your insight on this.- gadfium 20:26, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
This is my new signature. I was looking for a good place to use it for the first time. I firstly wanted to post it at "WikiProject India Noticeboard" — my favourite place, but actually there is nothing to post at this moment. If you see the code of my signature, you'll find there is an unnecessary otit;
. That is actually my name written from reverse tito>>otit. Last year I created a nice signature and later I found at least 10—12 people copying and using that. This time I am a bit more careful. --
Tito ↂ
Dutta 20:06, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, perhaps you can have a look at this when you have the time: I've reverted all edits by a COI account, because many of them were copyright violations. Along the way I surely removed some constructive edits, but I couldn't imagine picking through each revision individually. If you can recommend a better approach I'm all ears. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Cheers, 76.248.151.159 ( talk) 20:34, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddden girl.
Thanks for the message about the Jacques Duphly article. Buy the way I didn't initiate that article, I just revised it as lots was missing. It's so long ago now that I don't recall what I did - sorry. I probably won't have much time to revise it so if you want to remove or re-do stuff, just go ahead. Sorry if my additions caused any problems. It was one I did early on in my Wiki life, so wasn't totally au fait with procedures etc.
Ian (Juvancis)
I stated in a recent copyvio issue about this diff, "The text transformation is not cut and paste." An admin who seeks an adversarial relationship with me (diffs on request) replied, "... this is blatant copy-pasting..." In the 2nd diff already provided I asked four questions that I thought would help clarify the matter, but the admin characterized these four questions as going off on a vector. Without analysis, the admin concludes that the usage is, "violation of copyright", which appears to me to be an unsupportable legal opinion. The word "blatant" is used repeatedly without being defined. The OP opines that the words of the admin are "wise". Please review and advise. Thank you, Unscintillating ( talk) 23:11, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 07:26, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
You are a talk page stalker. I will add the stalker userbox onto your user page. Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 12:05, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
No, I didn't.
I just wanted to say Hi! I haven't had reliable Internet access for 3+ years, but never have forgotten you, (although I may have been forgotten!) just wanted to drop you a note saying hi, glad to see you still here and being awesome, as always! Hugs! Ariel ♥ Gold 08:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Just to be quite certain, am I right that the "Plot" section of this, copied from here, is too long (especially as being a major part of the article) to be an acceptable quote for copyvio purposes? There is a series article at Dark Shadows (audio drama) which contained them all, and they have been removed from that: I am considering nominating all the individual episode articles for deletion, because with the plot summaries gone there is nothing left worth having individual articles for. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 17:44, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, As you appear to be an expert regarding Copyright Violations could you please have a look at the above page when you get a chance, your views are most welcome.
Can you say if they are copying us Mahaakshay Chakraborty or the vice versa? -- Tito☸ Dutta 12:43, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
I investigated Interpublic Group of Companies and reverted to the last clean version. I've done this before, and usually check to see what is affected in the intervening edits. In most cases, there are some maintenance type edits, which if tweaking the copyvio text, aren't needed anyway. In this case, I think there was some legitimate additions of content that are now gone. I'm reluctant to ask what you think standard practice should be, I fear you will say that all intervening edits should be checked, and restored by the editor doing the cleaning. I took a lazier approach, identifying the larger contributors, notifying them and offering to help (as they cannot see the revdeled diffs, they may not remember what they added, so I can tell them).
If that is an acceptable course of action, I noticed one thing worth mentioned. I thought it would make sense to check the article history and uses the contributors option to identify the main contributors,especially those editing after the last clean version. I did that, and came up empty. I think what happens is that the contributor option does not check revdeled edits, which seems plausible, so I should have checked the contributions before doing the revdel.
How do you handle situations like this?-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:36, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
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Dutta 13:11, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
I've got it on my watchlist, any suggestions on how to work with the article and User:Liberty444?
Namaste, you are invited to visit the Kitchen of WikiProject India where you'll find many delicious Indian cuisines to have yourself or to share with others. Thank you. Tito☸ Dutta 01:23, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi MRG! I'm sorry to bother you with what is probably a simple copyvio misunderstanding on my part, but I have read through various policies and did not find the answer I was looking for. There was a question posed on the WikiProject:TV talk page ( Can official TV episode loglines be used on Wikipedia under the umbrella of fair use?) about what is allowed for television episode summaries which are copied from elsewhere. Part of the answer given was "One or two lines of text, with citation, is not a copyright violation, it is simply a fair use quotation." Also, it was stated that if an episode summary is copy/pasted from elsewhere, it needs a citation, otherwise it is a copyvio. I truly did not think this was allowed. (Other choices given where to strip it, or reword, both of which I understand.) I was always under the impression that a copyvio was a copyvio, regardless of whether an editor cites where it was copied from. What am I missing here? Can you clarify this for me? When can "fair-use" be claimed? One or two lines of text can lead to an awful lot which is allowed copied. Again, sorry to bother you, but like I said, I wasn't able to find any definitive answer when searching various guidelines myself. Thanks in advance. -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 18:38, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
The original version of this file on Wikimedia Commons is not copyright violation (the Android OS is licensed under the Apache License). Please restore it. Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 11:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
I have reuploaded the original version, at a higher resolution. Czech is Cyrillized ( talk) 12:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi -
As per your instructions, I'm posting a note here. Please see private message sent to Md.. at wikimedia.org.
Thanks!
-- JayKay999 ( talk) 17:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, you once helped clean this bio of promotional content and copyright violations--it's a pressrelease again, with all the deleted content re-added. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thank you, 76.248.151.159 ( talk) 00:57, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I need your help regarding possible copyvio or close paraphrasing. Recently, I came across few articles which are developed and pushed for GA/FA. The articles have more than 50 references and its painstaking to check each of them with dup detector. Is there any tool which can help in identifying such possible copyvio or close paraphrasing? Thanks in advance. :) - Vivvt ( Talk) 00:19, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, this is a question that I suspect I just haven't dug deep enough myself for an answer, so please tell me to go do so if the answer is accessible for a wan body like mine with a bit more effort. I'm working on my own website, on which I'd like to include images that I've uploaded to Commons myself and the images of others, but I'm unclear about the necessary attribution method, or rather the necessary access to attribution for the end-user. I see three options, in the order I'd prefer as a graphic–web designer:
Any guidance you could offer will be much appreciated, including the guidance to keep on reading through our documentation myself. davidiad { t } 03:31, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi MRG, hope you enjoyed your time off. I recently came across the leavings of User:Nuklear ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs), a now-indeffed sock interested in synthetic chemistry who seems to have been a chronic copyright violator. The former puppetmaster has been inactive for some months, but is not blocked. Also left numerous contribs on commons and wikibooks, often with a bogus "minor edit" flag. Any chance you could use some of your superpowers to help sort out the mess left (assuming you haven't already done so)? I'll be out of regular circulation for a while by the time you return, but will try to check in. LeadSongDog come howl! 18:41, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Can you please assist me in bringing back an SVG file to Wikipedia. The issue is the article Arms of Canada. For years we have had a highly detailed accurate SVG of the image under the name File:Coat of arms of Canada.svg here on Wikipedia under a non-free use rationale. Then last night it was replaced with a horrible version from Commons, and the SVG got deleted for not being in use. Naturally that Commons file was not accepted because of it's lower quality and inaccuracies, but because the SVG was deleted, now the article is using a blury PNG version of the image which you can see there now. Please use your admin powers to restore the SVG under it's non-free use rationale. I previously asked Bbb23, however he felt you would be more the more appropriate person to ask. I can absolutely assure you this was simple a matter of not being in use that caused it to be deleted, it had nothing to do with copyright or the Non-free use rationale, as it had been here for several years. Fry1989 eh? 01:16, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Lionhead99 ( talk · contribs)'s edits seem to be mainly copy and paste from the web. He is creating articles on Australian subjects by copying from government sources, which is legal if attributed correctly [12] but a lot of his other edits are just straight copyvio. His talk page shows a lot of image copyvio problems, and he seems to have never responded on his talk page to anyone. I've just warned him and told him I may block him. Cleanup will be necessary I'm afraid. I ran into him earlier today removing some fringe stuff which included some minor copyvio and then found a lot more when I took a quick look at his edits. Dougweller ( talk) 08:13, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Ladyof Shalott suggested I ask you this question regarding the practical interpretation of Adelman v. Christy as it applies to WP:WikiProject Bibliographies. Any comments you'd care to add would be appreciated.
Best,
Lesser Cartographies ( talk) 21:05, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
I cannot see the sources but the additions in this set of diffs concern me. The phrasing, especially in an Indic-related article, just scream "copyright violation" to me. I'd appreciate comments from yourself and stalkers. - Sitush ( talk) 10:32, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi-I started an article about Osro Cobb. I noticed you deleted an article about Osro Cobb that a banned editor had started. Cobb served in the Arkansas House of Representatives and was on the Arkansas Supreme Court and is notable. There was 6-7 redlinks for Osro Cobb so the article had to be started. I wanted to let you know. Many thanks- RFD ( talk) 13:51, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi MRG. I just did a major clean up of a very crufty fictional characters list, List of Skylanders characters, but everything I cut away was descriptions from the official game site Skylanders.com. They can be found by clicking the characters tab and then the story button for each character. The article has only been around for a couple months, and the descriptions were in from the beginning. Would this require nuking all previous versions, or is there another way to handle this? Thanks! — Torchiest talk edits 13:42, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
My apologies, friend. I was not the one who plagiarized, I merely took a massive section from the page List of Spyro the Dragon characters and created a separate page for it, cutting and pasting the text there wholesale. I had no idea any of it was taken from official sources, and would not have left said text intact if I had known. Master Deusoma ( talk) 21:54, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
I verified the split by looking at the cross-page diff. The official biographies were inserted in two edits ( 1, not sure if adequately paraphrased; 2) in February 2012. Flatscan ( talk) 04:45, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but I didn't just copy the text from one Wikipedia page to another, I cut the text out of one and pasted it into another one in order to create a new article. Just wanted to be clear. But thank you for setting everything in order, regardless. :-) Master Deusoma ( talk) 22:33, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
The Kraken has finally been vanquished :) Wizardman 19:58, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
as Catface00 ( talk · contribs) - obvious sock - I@d hoped the original block of Lionhead, which blocked the IP, would do it, but obviously not. Anyway, I saw no need for an SPI so have blocked. Dougweller ( talk) 10:28, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
On 2 July 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sister Gargi, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Sister Gargi, an American, wrote a highly regarded six-volume book on Swami Vivekananda? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sister Gargi. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Tito☸ Dutta 00:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi - I think your input is needed at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 60#RfC: Use of non-free Bible translations. Dougweller ( talk) 05:55, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Dear Maggie, Hello, I hope you are well. If you remember I had an article on "Islamic Azad University Khorasgan Branch Isfahan" which its license was confirmed by you. But Unfortunately despite of many times changing, editing and reducing the text but it rejected by different Wikipedia admins. I checked some Universities on Wikipedia which has promotive words .But I dont know why mine is not confirmed as I think my article is just informative and neutral. Please guide me if its possible for you. Thanks for your time and kind attention. Mehrnazar ( talk) 07:58, 6 July 2013 (UTC)Mehrnazar
AnOpenMedium ( talk) 08:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I really hate to bring these things here, but don't know best how to handle this. It seems to have been copied wholesale from Celebrities, then edited a bit (which it sorely needed!). I removed the bulk of the text and the reference, which is obviously unreliable. The author has now restored it as hidden text. Does it matter? Do we care? I've also tagged the article for deletion as non-notable, btw. I'd like some advice, so here I am asking probably the busiest person on the whole wiki to take a look at it. Or maybe some kind watcher? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:06, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Can you please check: Talk:Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University/Temp? -- Tito☸ Dutta 06:23, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've just noticed that a lot of text from Brothers Grimm was copied directly to Grimms' Fairy Tales in in this series of edits. I added a copied from template to the talk page, [13], but in the end decided it's not really optimal to have both articles with portions of the exact same text so I've reverted to a previous version, [14]. Not sure what the policy is now in terms of the template: the copied text still lives in history but is no longer on the page. Do we need it or not? Not in rush btw - I know you are very busy. Thanks in advance. TK/ Victoria ( talk) 18:56, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I came across the article Izaak Walton Cottage, which was created on June 21 and the text of which matches text from the fifth paragraph of this blog post, dated March 22, 2012. I have a feeling that the latter is not, however, the original source, but rather that both our article and that page are copied from some third source. I'm not really sure how to tag it for speedy deletion with an explanation of that; would you please deal with the article as you see fit? Deor ( talk) 23:41, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl,
Can you review the talk section on the above page (Pádraig Mac Lochlainn). I understand that the copyright issue has now been addressed. Thanks Atticus Maycomb ( talk) 03:12, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that Batte Mann is another Lionhead99 sockpuppet; see, for example, here and here. Flyer22 ( talk) 03:06, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi -- do you have time to answer a copyright question? I would like to use cover images of the magazine Fantastic Novels in that article, so I checked the copyright renewals per the instructions here. The first five issues (1940 and 1941) were renewed, but I found nothing under the individual year renewals for the second series (1948-1951) (e.g. this page would show a renewal if one existed).
However, a search in the post-1977 database finds what appear to be mass renewals, in 1990, of multiple titles, including Fantastic Novels. Can I ignore these as invalid? Or do they actually count as renewals?
Thanks for any help -- and if you're too busy, no problem. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 23:15, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I have a question re: the content of this article, much of which appears to have been copied from a defense department page [15]; are such government pages unfettered by copyright restrictions? The article probably has other issues as well, but the issue of copied text needs to be addressed first. Thank you, 76.248.144.216 ( talk) 15:46, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
(
talk page stalker) I had look at this because MRG is up to her eyeballs at the moment over at the VE feedback page. The original pasted-in chunk on 15 April 2013
[17], was simply a verbatim but slightly updated version of
this US government bio, which was in place on 11 February 2013. Since that's a government site, it is public domain, but the text must be attributed to the source to comply with our copyright requirements. My impression is that the three two of the editors involved in that article are closely associated with the subject and probably employees of his consulting firm who have been tasked with updating his biographies in tandem. The headings were added to Wikipedia, and then the article on his consulting firm website was updated to match it, rather than the other way around. Note
this version of their website on 17 June 2013. However, I'm going to leave a note about all this on the talk page of the article, and remind the editors about our COI and copyright guidelines. Best,
Voceditenore (
talk) 07:13, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 60#RfC: Use of non-free Bible translations which also raises some clearly copyvio issues. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 10:39, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Best wishes on a happy day | |
This is a day worth celebrating! I hope that you have a very happy birthday and remember how glad we all are that you were born and came into our wiki-lives. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 14:05, 12 July 2013 (UTC) |
Yes, happy birthday, Moonriddengirl. Flyer22 ( talk) 20:51, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Oh, let me contribute! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. The rest of the song may be copyrighted, so I'll just whistle for you! — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 07:23, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to be belated! Dougweller ( talk) 09:34, 15 July 2013 (UTC) |
If you have the time, what with VE and everything, could you ask legal to look into whether minors could be legally considered competent to release contributions under an irrevocable CC license? I brought up this possibility at this mess of a deletion request in response to some particularly hard-line "tough luck, its irrevocable" votes, and considering the possible implications if such a possibility were a reality... it would be nice to have a firm answer. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 01:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
UNESCO content is not pd/free license, right? So I think that the lead UNESCO para at Zamość is copyvio'd - too much taken verbatim from the UNESCO page used a source. Would you agree? (for warning/educating purposes, this content was added with those diffs) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:47, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello again. I have removed some copyvio from Ehrenberg Castle, taken from this page. Please review the change and hide the revisions skipped in this diff (previous OK --> my update) if you agree. Thanks. -- Mirokado ( talk) 22:19, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm semi-retiring. My reasons are on my user page but given the timing I suspect one of the reasons won't be too much of a surprise given the number of complaints it seems to have generated. As the person I've interacted most with here I wanted to let you know and thank you for your help over the years. Dpmuk ( talk) 04:49, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
I have proposed a means of preventing copyvio plot summaries that requires changing the site-wide Javascript. Your feedback is appreciated at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Editintro for fiction articles?, before I take this to a wider audience. MER-C 06:55, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
I appreciate your efforts trying to check on copyright issues in the article Vertical sound localization. That's hard and thankless work, so you deserve a "thank you" for it! I did not post the original cv tag, but I have noted on that article's Talk page that, copyrighted or not, most of the content is covered in the more general article on Sound localization (where it appears as "Sound localization in the median plane"). I have suggested merging the two pages, and would welcome your reaction to that idea, if you care to weigh in on the topic.
Let me also just add that I admire the philosophy you advocate ("Presume good intentions and treat others with respect until they force you to think otherwise"). I know that the assumption of good faith is WP policy, but it may be the most-frequently-forgotten of WP guidelines. Thanks for keeping the flag of civil discourse flying. Brazzit ( talk) 19:00, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
In June, you blocked User:Salora for copyvios. Since then, [18] was copied from [19] and [20] was copied from [21]. I've opened a CCI at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Salora. On a related note, Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story needs a history purge. MER-C 14:11, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Just a heads up, can of worms just got a lot bigger. Jimbo's weighed in and discussion started at Commons (as Jimbo said he was going to contact legal, you may already know of this development... just think it would have been a smaller can of worms if they had entertained such possibilities before Jimbo's involvement). — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:57, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I am reaching out to you because talk page of Parsons Paris (2013) has not been responded to. There are several inaccuracies associated with the Parsons page versus Paris College of Art that I am attempting to correct but have continuously run into trouble. I have tried to reach out to other editors but have not heard back. Let me know what you think about the changes I have proposed on the Parsons Paris talk page and if you need any clarification on the proof of the validity of the proposed edits or the history of Parsons Paris itself (or direct me to a more appropriate editor). Thank you. Mickey Lukens 13:39, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Moon. Last November, you blocked Timmy43 for copyright violations. I think you also stubbed an article that was started as a copyright violation by the same user (I can't seem to find it but I went through at least 15 articles that Timmy43 created). You can see at the bottom of his talk page, it hasn't stopped.
I tried to start a discussion on their talk page but given that the user has never spoken to anyone in the two years that they've been editing, I doubt that I will receive a response. I'm not sure what else to do than ask for another block to get their attention so that we can start a discussion.
On a side note, it looks like Timmy is publishing these articles first on various Wikias then on WP. Wikia, as I'm sure you know, has a compatible license but there's no attribution being given. OlYeller21 Talktome 20:33, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
OK, me again, once again in search of advice from MRG or the faithful watchers. it:Thomas Hanbury was created in 2008 by an (apparently) serial copyright violator; like some of his other copyvios, the content was probably lifted from here. Recently Thomas Hanbury was created here by copy-pasting the it.wiki content. What I don't know: should the article here be deleted to allow a fresh start, or just cleaned up? And should some sort of investigation be started on it.wiki? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 09:05, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I'm reviewing the GA nomination for
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In one part the article
here duplicates in full a list of symptoms found
here, which is a publication produced by the
National Institute of Mental Health, an agency of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Quite a bit of text is quoted. This text is hard to paraphrase without losing the specific medical meanings. My understanding is that work produced by employees of the US Government in the course of their public duties is public domain and can be quoted at length with attribution. Is what the article is doing OK to do as long as it's attributed? I took a quick look at your copyright advice and didn't see this addressed, so asking you here, hope that's OK. Thanks...
Zad
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— Bill william compton Talk 16:57, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Level 99 coconut of health | |
MRG has gained 5000 HP. She is revitalized!
Oh, if only life were so easy. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 10:58, 1 August 2013 (UTC) |
May i request to move the page title back to Andrea Sala (footballer). I was going to translate it:Andrea Sala as the volleyball player seems far more notable than the footballer. Matthew_hk t c 19:11, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Long time no see, MRG. Hope you are well.
Drmies (
talk) 03:03, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
I just saw your were out sick. Hope your feeling better soon. The project needs you! Kumioko ( talk) 03:27, 6 August 2013 (UTC) |
I just ended up at your several discussions at User talk:82.18.121.77. discussing his/her edits around Art Garfunkel and I was amazed and impressed by the patient and persistent way that you dealt with that editor. It is way too late for me to try and figure out how to give you an award, but pick the one you'd most like to get for some edits that you did years ago and wear it with pride. Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 06:22, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Greetings, MRG! Do you remember me? We worked together on copyright-cleanup concerns several times a couple years ago. Anyway, I have been reviewing a FAC nomination for Hungarian occupation of Yugoslav territories, and I found issues of close paraphrasing from the sources. The nominator has attempted to address these concerns, but I was hoping to get an outside opinion. In particular, the final paragraph of the "Administration" section is sourced from the first full paragraph in page 172 in this book (and that page is available for preview). The article's paragraph no longer uses the same wording as the source, but it arguably has many of the same ideas in the same order.
So my questions are: Is this still a close-paraphrasing concern, or has the issue been fixed? And is the level of rewriting sufficient (in your opinion) for the quality we expect in featured articles?
Thanks so much for your time! – Quadell ( talk) 16:16, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, MRG! I'd like to ask if you or one of the faithful watchers could find time for a quick look at Malek Jandali, where I had, after some consideration, placed a copyvio tag even though our article appeared (ready-made) five weeks before the more extensive published version. My thought was that a common but unidentified earlier source was the probable explanation; a common author would also explain it. The tag has now been removed and replaced a number of times, and I'm not sure what, if anything, should be done about that. Thanks yet again, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 08:56, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi MG, can you help by implementing a copyvio solution that has been agreed to by the tagger? It's an old archived CP discussion, and I don't know if admins are looking at those so I'm reaching out to you on this Talk page. Here is the discussion: WP:Copyright_problems/2013_June_12. Thanks if you can help. Sincerely, -- Softlavender ( talk) 03:40, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
I'm sometimes glad I don't have a girly username like you. I don't get called "dear" as often! [22] Bishonen | talk 20:07, 17 August 2013 (UTC).
OK, I had a quick look at what I did about contributions by User:Blakeblakeblake12345. There are quite a lot of edits, with some very evident copyvios, and I think it would presumptuous in the extreme for me to claim that I "got them all". I remember that I looked at some new articles with suspiciously complete text, such as Bet Israel Synagogue (Izmir), History of the Jews in southern Florida, Pletzel, Prune compote and Antakya Synagogue. I think I probably cleaned those up OK. Obviously I couldn't revdelete as I believe you might have done in those cases. I'm afraid that someone a lot cleverer than me should probably cast an eye over them and over the rest of his edits. As I recall, I certainly suspected but did not either confirm or tag History of the Jews in New York City.
A question: is there some standard way that I don't know about for non-admins to request revdeletion after a cleanup? If there isn't, might it be possible to have something like a maintenance template that when added to the article would make it automatically appear in, say, Category:Articles requiring revdeletion, which admins could then be asked to keep an eye on? And perhaps even take action on from time to time? And might that be useful? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 21:29, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
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May I send I an email with a question type confession which I am unable to discuss here for someone else's privacy and personally I might require later? -- Tito☸ Dutta 02:58, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Check out section #1 above. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi! You are one of the very few admins i know from the Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles and hence thought of requesting you. May i have the article List of songs recorded by Abhijeet Bhattacharya which is deleted post Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs recorded by Abhijeet Bhattacharya moved to my user space? Something like User:Dharmadhyaksha/List of songs recorded by Abhijeet Bhattacharya would be fine. Or choose a name which suits you or the usual norms. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 11:05, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
We are children of Nachiketa and followers of Phoenix. Following Swami Vivekananda, it is like that very old palace, where you go and start repairing one portion expecting to save the palace and when you finish your works, you find, meanwhile, few other portions of the big palace have gone to same condition and are going to be shattered to dust if they are not repaired immediately. This goes on forever. Yet, I suggest to create a page like Wikipedia:Points to note while debating in WikIProject India related AFDs and add the most common points like (don't count Google News hits, don't solely rely on Google News, please search in local Indian language too etc). If such an article is created we can ask to add the link of the article with every WP:India AFD discussion. Anyone wants to start writing? -- Tito☸ Dutta 14:47, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl. Would you please help me out with the mess described at Talk:Treblinka extermination camp#Wholesale stealing of copyrighted article from the internet? I don't even know where to start. You have the experience, so please take a look. Thanks in advance, Poeticbent talk 16:18, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
I believe Dougweller is nitpicking too much on my content (the ad hominem thing also applies - he is judging my character and not what I'm doing). If he continues reverting my content, I would do so too. He seems to be picking on my edits a little too much. Nothing on the Kariong, New South Wales page is copyrighted (sure, maybe a word or two - that's enough I guess). If the 'Egyptian glyph' section is a fringe theory, then why was the early version of the paragraph at Kariong there the whole time? All I did was source it and expand it.
Did Doug to go to Batman with my month old edit and revert it whilst slamming it as 'copyright'?
If you are top contributor or the manager of this, please look into it. I have the right to fight back and it's unfair if I, a regular contributor, get blocked.
Thank you.( talk) 10:28, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
If there are any admin stalkers here then please could you fully protect Aam Aadmi Party pending a result at Wikipedia:Non-free_content_review#Multiple_non-free_logos_for_same_organisation. I could take this to WP:RFPP but there has already been a lot of warring about one particular image (the election symbol), which was deleted from Commons a few days ago. I've mentioned the NFR discussion on the article talk page, where I have explained the copyright exception to 3RR. - Sitush ( talk) 11:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Coasttrip has started a complaint at AN and an SPI against another editor related to this issue. You might be interested. Dougweller ( talk) 12:07, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey MRG, is there a bot or tool to check talk page additions for copyvios? While I was gone walkabout a lot of copyvio was added to Talk:History of India (though some could be reverse copies from mirrors I removed most of them) and I'm sure there must be others -- especially in these topics where people want to push one version over another. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 14:20, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, please excuse me for invading your talkpage yet again. Perhaps one of the watchers will pick this up? Question: how likely is it that the United Nations copies its bios from us? Please compare
Dr. Carlos Lopes with
Carlos Lopes
Carlos Lopes (Guinea Bissau). The UN website is not archived on archive.org before 2 May 2013. My inclination is to revert to
this version, but I'm hesitating because of lack of proof, and because it isn't word-for-word. Can you, or perhaps someone else, advise?
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk) 23:30, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
I saw it fitting to share a belated LOL with you; courtesy of Bishonen's insightful regards above. I am certain however, that I did not require the metaphoric contrast to hold you endeared. Make no mistake; your girly username has no claim to your reputation; deservedly earning my highest esteem, and unfettered admiration. I feel no disadvantage endeavoring to emulate your example, for being male—nor, dare I say, an inkling of curious thought to imagine us on "a date". Nevertheless, I have considered asking the band, Dishwalla to stop " Counting Blue Cars" so they could hear my thoughts on God. :) John Cline ( talk) 08:44, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
I will check the Truan article and rewrite it with new sources, etc., in the next day or so. I was unaware of following too closely from another article. You can depend on me to present good quality articles without following the words of others. Billy Hathorn ( talk) 13:25, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Most contributions and articles created by Hadden ( talk · contribs) seem to be either straight copyvio or quotations. Some of his quotations far exceed what we allow. Nagash painting for instance is almost all quotations although probably not to the extent that we would call it copyvio, but others are far over the number of words. [23] I've removed a lot of copyvio at King Abdulaziz Public Library. He didn't respond to earlier comments on copyvio. Dougweller ( talk) 18:58, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
W. F. Paterson, ?T.aybugha- - 1970 "In this connexion it is worth noting that the Muslim horse-archer was not merely a bowman; his prowess also ... The right-handed Oriental archer, who holds the bow in his left hand, must set the arrow on the right-hand side of the bow." [25]. Dougweller ( talk) 21:07, 24 August 2013 (UTC)