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Greetings, MRG, I would like some advice. I noticed a fair amount of copyrighted material at Society for Scholarly Publishing. (much of its content appears to have been pasted from the org's website by one of its volunteers.) There is some seemingly non-infringing content, but it is too promotional/unsourced to be useful, in my opinion. Given that I don't think there is much worth keeping, I would like to delete the article in order to expunge the history and then recreate a new article about the subject. I've done something similar to an article about the org's blog, Scholarly Kitchen, which had very little non-infringing content, but Society for Scholarly Publishing doesn't seem to meet G12 as clearly, so as far as I can tell it might not be ok for me to delete this one. I've listed the article at Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2014_January_8, but I'm wondering if there's a quicker solution. What would you advise? Delete and start a new page? revdel everything prior to now and start a new page? Wait for the copyright investigation? Undo everything I've done because I'm way out in the weeds? I'd love to get the page for this subject back in business. Thanks for any input, ErikHaugen ( talk | contribs) 21:18, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG - I hope you have been having a lovely holiday season, full of whatever weather and food you may prefer :) (I'm a snow and cheesecake sort of girl, but maybe that's just me...) I'm back with one of those "the CCI is down to the last article and I don't know what to do with it" situations. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20131014b has one left - the contributor added a fairly massive amount of text, and copyvio was found in most of his other large contributions, but I can't find the source for this one, and there have been a lot of edits in the intervening few years. Thoughts? Dana boomer ( talk) 01:45, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Still. I've reworked much of the article, but not all, and I need to check what I've got now against what he wrote. Just haven't had much time the last few days. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:04, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
An "uninvolved admin" seems to be making thoroughly negative and disruptive removal of key material that was partially sourced to independent press sources (which you also removed). The "copyvio" was two or three short sentences from a college webpage that is no longer live (it's been archived). Do you really think it's going to help improve the article by removing reliable secondary sources - something which the article is visibly lacking for 5 years?! It takes 30 seconds to reword the material. To be honest, I can't even see the copyvio for the second paragraph. Sionk ( talk) 14:17, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
You learn something new every day (well, I do, at least). Working my way through the licence migration documents now - can't believe I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for correcting me. Yunshui 雲 水 13:27, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I had listed Category:Tamil films remade to other languages for renaming long ago, but no response yet. Bcos there is some grammatical error, it needs to be renamed urgently. Same case with Category:Malayalam films remade to other languages. ---- Kailash29792 ( talk) 18:30, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
MRG, would you or one of your talk page watchers carry on at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 January 13 on intercostal nerve block (ICNB) and Aeromobil? I'm not sure what's next. I came to ICNB only because I was pinged to check the DYK, and based on what I found, I checked another DYK by the same editor. As I've suggested on the Copyright discussion, I have concerns that this editor's command of the English language doesn't allow for adequate paraphrasing, and I'm not sure what should be done next there, but there was originally significant cut-and-paste or very marginal paraphrasing from every source I checked. Aeromobil has been rewritten and I think can be moved to mainspace, while I've been unsuccessful at finding anyone at WT:MED interested in rewriting ICNB, so I think it will need to be massively stubbed. [1] (I have no interest in trying to write on a topic that is over my head so someone can get DYK credit.) Best, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:53, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for helping improve the article. Would you be open to considering restoring the external link to the blacklisted webpage. The webpage is only used in the 'External links' section of the article. In my view the webpage provides a highly educational, informative and insightful practical example of the Abilene paradox. This practical example is also fun and entertaining to read. In my view, restoring the external link would not damage the article in any way, and would only help improve and strengthen the article. Thanks and warm regards, IjonTichy ( talk) 20:45, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, please look over /info/en/?search=Bienvenido_%E2%80%9CBones%E2%80%9D_Banez,_Jr.
I have removed all references to the "close connection" immonuclear, one of the contributors of the entry except in the reviews and publications section (should I remove this, too?).
Thank you.
Cblanglois ( talk) 01:29, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl, thank you, I'm working on the citations in the Work and Life section although I have already found one re Aida Rivera Ford and Victorio Edades. I have revised the Themes section, moved the sentence about Satan giving color to the world and added a citation. Also added another sentence with a citation. Re reviews, I have deleted two which I realized were not reviews but mere announcements to an exhibit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cblanglois ( talk • contribs) 04:05, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl,when you have the time, kindly please look over the article again so we can finalize. Let me know what needs to be deleted, if needed, as the ones I have posted are the only verifiable references or citations that I could find. Thanks a lot! Cblanglois ( talk) 05:52, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl this is done. Found a citation for where and when he was born. If there isn't anything else, would appreciate it if we could already take out the note about the article needing more citations. Thanks a lot! 66.177.185.143 ( talk) 01:51, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
At WP:ANI#Breach of copyright in a locked article there's a discussion about whether you can use rev/del in a situation which although leaving the names of editors no longer makes it possible for non-Admins to see the text that they contributed. You may have seen this as I mentioned you there. I'm not sure if there is any guidance on this anywhere. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 21:52, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl,
Thank you for verifying that MusicBlvd.com is a licensed lyrics publisher. It takes a lot of hard work to get validated on Wikipedia and in this case MusicBlvd.com is one of the few that have gone through so much work to get verified. I would like to motion to add MusicBlvd.com to this resource list Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs#Lyrics and music videos so editors can choose at their own will to include MusicBlvd.com as a resource. We would like to add the resource link here to clarify to the community that it is indeed validated.
Do you think you can add it? Or shall I?
Trystanburke( talk) 18:37, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Turning up yet again. When, if ever, you have a moment, could I ask you to look (again!) at St. Michael's Choir School, where you cleared out FreshCorp619's stuff a while ago. Because it looks to me as if there are older problems there, which perhaps at that time you were not looking for? Specifically, I can't see how this could have got there if it wasn't copied from here. I'm also bothered by this block of non-encyclopaedic content, and by the resemblance of this to this. Some of that stuff is still in the article today. Or am I tilting at windmills? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:46, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm, fuzzy welcome! I'm glad I could be an early part of something so important in your life and am happy to see you being a part of the Wikimedia Foundation. See you around. -- Jreferee ( talk) 02:26, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
For images uploaded to En/WP, can I add a "commons ok" template like I did for Gold Hawn? Thanks. -- Light show ( talk) 07:33, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Just came across this article: The Shame of the Nation. AioftheStorm ( talk) 03:27, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Kozol (2005) reveals the poor conditions and state of disrepair many urban schools are now in. The physical appearance of these schools negatively impacts the students desire to be in school and the way that they feel while they are present. In Oklahoma City, for example, the schools are overcrowded, lined with insufficient trailers that are not heated or cooled and often leak. He further portrays how in some schools in California, the overcrowding is so severe that students have to attend schools in monthly shifts year round. Some schools lack even the basic supplies such as text books, chairs, and desks for their students. Many students do not even attempt to eat lunch because the cafeteria is so overcrowded and the lines are so long.
In this chapter, Kozol reveals the poor conditions and state of disrepair many of the segregated schools are now in. The physical appearance of these schools negatively impacts the students desire to be in school and the way that they feel while they are present. In Oklahoma City for example, the schools are overcrowded, lined with insufficient trailers that were not heated or cooled and often leak. In California, the overcrowding was so severe that students had to attend schools in monthly shifts year round. Some schools lack even the basic supplies such as textbooks, chairs, and desks for their students. Many students do not even attempt to eat lunch because the cafeteria is so over crowded and the lines are so long.
I saw that you talked about this music writer several times. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums#Piero_Scaruffi_-_Final_Verdict_on_using_him_as_a_source_in_reviews There's a final discussion about this, at the moment. Could you explain why here in a few words? Thanks. Woovee ( talk) 17:29, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Are you the author of the Harissa page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrisjones212 ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
During my regular new Poland-articles review, this one passed notability, but it appears to be copied partially from [2] ("In 1998 Kalinowski built and hung a spatial object between three poles crowned with propellers of windmills. The Cloud Room – a cuboid with metal edge" is the sentence that google picked up immediately). Likely the author is the same, but we need to go through the motions of getting them to license their work, OTRS, yadda yadda. I am sure you or one of your page watchers can get the ball rolling (I am not sure where I should report it so as usual I leave this here :>). PS. There's also a bunch of problematic images: way too many for fair use, and the occasional OTRS is dubious: File:THE SKY REACHING RAILWAY TRACK 2004.jpg labelled as "Own work" and from 2004 - is this really the author who gave permission, nearly 10 years before this article was created - I think all images need careful review there... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:58, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
wikt: NE Ent 01:34, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
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One of the oldest is finally taken care of. Since the other copyright backlogs are well in hand hopefully closing these are a new trend. Wizardman 16:53, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Greetings,
Last year I attempted to update the RealTime Racing /info/en/?search=RealTime_Racing page, but it was removed due to copyright infringement, as much of it was taken from the RealTime Racing website (www.realtimerl.com). You posted on my Talk page how I could correct this, as I did have the Team Owner's permission to use the text. The team owner, who is the owner of the website and its contents, followed the directions outlined and sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org and I posted the correct note in the RealTime Racing Talk page. I haven't seen any progress on this matter. Is there something else that needs to be done? EMCracing ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I must apologise, as I am not familiar with using Wikipedia and hope I am doing this correctly. I am writing about the page which is supposed to be about myself, Adele C. Geraghty, but which actually doesn't have that name as a heading. Instead it has the name or names of the person who set it up, which are: Pohick2/Susan Alice Buffett. I am an author and editor and this article has been on Wikipedia for several years. I would like it to be removed or redone correctly. It is very embarassing to have people find this when they search for me. The content is incomplete, poorly stated and not sourced correctly. Also, it appears that whoever this person or persons is, they have been blocked for being a sock puppet. I am not completely familiar with this term. Can you help me, please, to do away with this page and perhaps someone else may redo it correctly one day? I would appreciate any assistance you can give me and thank you very much, for your time. Intimatewitch ( talk) 07:07, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)The page in question appears to be a sandbox that was used for various drafts without being renamed from the first one. I see it has been deleted now. The latest draft—the one in question—was also edited by a couple of other users, Democ53 and Intimatewitch13.— Odysseus 147 9 08:06, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
From WP:ANI new report of AirportExpert ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) copyvio of many aircraft related images scraped and falsely attributed. There was a case with a serial sockpuppeteer who did that many dozens of times, from years ago, which I worked on and I think you did. Can't recall the case / user name. Do you remember anything? Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 04:16, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I have no clue who that even is! I have just began editing on Wikipedia about 5 months ago! Do not accuse me of a crime that I did not commit! If it is such a problem, I will stop uploading pictures, but do not accuse me of being a sock puppet!-- AirportExpert ( talk) 12:25, 6 February 2014 (UTC)AirportExpert
My old account was User:Msloewengart and has been retired and has not been used since the creation of AirportExpert, and would never be used again. I am not a sock puppet! -- AirportExpert ( talk) 19:23, 6 February 2014 (UTC)AirportExpert
Please see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution/archive1.
I came across at least one instance, so far, of close-paraphrasing.
I could use your expertise with evaluating the article or helping defer to where else this could be reported for additional help.
FYI, it wasn't the nominator's fault, the current nominator is relatively new to the article itself, and unfortunately the prior user that had contributed significantly to the article, has since retired.
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 03:34, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm taking notes. It entered the article here. I am now running contribution surveyor so that I can more easily isolate and analyze edits to the article by the editor who introduced it. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:40, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
PooH16 ( talk) 13:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)Hello , Could you please state what is exact problem with this page? And with this article ?
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Great job on cleaning up copy-violations btw. ( t) Josve05a ( c) 18:21, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
I can find material from this set of edits [3] at IMDB [4] but I haven't a clue as to which came first. As the editor has had problems before, I don't want to suggest that this is copyvio without being very sure. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 16:08, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Looks like you did a a great job with the article. Thanks for responding to my request. — Sean Whitton / 09:23, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
We hope ( talk) 16:04, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
We hope ( talk) 15:39, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
I added Special:AbuseFilter/606, which warns a person that their edit may be bugged, so maybe we won't see many/any more of that stupid glitch. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 21:24, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, MRG! I was looking at Ħaġar Qim, where Pietru was a major contributor and indeed copyright violator. But I found that the article was a copyvio (by someone else) from the day it was created, so I went ahead and blanked it. Now I'm wondering if that was the right course to take on a high-profile page (these are the oldest buildings in the world, bar none), and if maybe I have over-reacted. Advice? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 20:42, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
This attribution templates states that the book was out of UK copyright as of 2005, which seems correct as far as UK copyright applies - however, do we need to worry about URAA here, could the book still be potentially in copyright in the US? If so, this could be a problem if articles have copied text extensively. Nigel Ish ( talk) 11:10, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
{{#expr: 60 / 24 }} = 2.5 ;) NE Ent 12:50, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
There was info also removed that had good sources not questionable — Preceding unsigned comment added by $indbad 408 ( talk • contribs) 03:44, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
You have important e-mail 135.196.170.214 ( talk) 17:21, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
135.196.170.214 ( talk) 16:18, 16 February 2014 (UTC)I am not "reaching out for support outside of Wikipedia" as you publicly stated here. I was merely following *your* own advice on how to contact YOU - and I was civil at that. What gives? Yes I do have "good points", so at least we agree on that. The reason I wrote to you is because you re-wrote this page. Fyi, that makes you responsible, so again, I would ask you to kindly address the matters that I have raised.
135.196.170.214 ( talk) 18:21, 16 February 2014 (UTC)round and round we go, playing the Wikipedia game. I don't own it, he doesn't own it, she deosn't own it, no one owns it, not my fault, it wasn't me, no one's accountable... not that e-mail, this e-mail, not there, here, don't have to prove a quote because it was probably right five years ago, trust me, I'm busy, gotta take the dog for a walk... wuf! boy oh boy :-) Outrageously funny, I have to say.
135.196.170.214 ( talk) 22:55, 16 February 2014 (UTC) If you see my humour as an insult then perhaps you should take that dog for walk instead :) ...humour aside, do remember that you must PROVE EACH WORD of a quote, not just that a story exists. Errors occur all the time. For example, you have The Times link from "The Telegraph". That is an error. No worries. That's life, but if you are unable to prove the quote then EXPECT that someone will ask for it to be removed, as I have. The more discerning of readers already know that's not vandalism any more than it's an insult. It's a fair request. Let's just leave it at that. I will pursue this another way.
The full text of this [6] was included in Wiccan Rede. I hadn't seen that and the decision that it isn't copyvio and was working from Lady Gwen Thompson. Do we thus agree it can be used in toto? I've never run into this sort of issue before. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 16:50, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Just over a year ago you marked an edit as an unattributed translation in a CCI: [7]. However, the page itself has a notice that the article contains information from the equivalent article on the other-language wiki:
![]() | This page contains a translation of Rodolphe Wytsman from nl.wikipedia. |
It seems to me that this fulfills the requirements of the license. However, a strict reading of [8], where it says "should be included in the edit summary" may make the subject of the CCI's edit a violation of Wikipedia guidelines.
I'm curious if you agree that the notice on the article fulfills the copyright requirements, and that no edit on your part was necessary? I ask because I recently OKed a diff [9] from the same CCI which has similar circumstances. I'm wondering if that was in error, and additional edit summary attribution is necessary. It turns out that it is a moot point because a bot removed the content some time ago ( [10]), but I would like your opinion on the correct thing to do in the future. ParacusForward ( talk) 15:33, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
![]() | Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20091230 is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI. |
That was a tough one, but at least 2009 is done. Hopefully the next few oldest won't be as tough. Wizardman 03:00, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello and warm wishes from Santa Barbara...
I am dismayed that my Wikipedia listing has been deleted....
I do believe this is in error...
What might we do to reinstate this?
Thank you, with best wishes
WILLIAM TOMICKI Editor and Publisher, ENTREE Travel; Newsletter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.99.125.71 ( talk) 21:12, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've eviscerated much of Cathy Cassidy as unsourced and unencyclopedic, and wonder about the related articles on her books, which are models of fancruft. My hunch is that much of the content in articles like Cherry Crush (book) has been lifted from somewhere else, but I'm not able to find the sources. Perhaps your extraordinary faculties of discernment can be of assistance. Thank you, JNW ( talk) 17:47, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
See User talk:Guillermo Ramos Flamerich. This is User:Caracas 2000/ User:GJRFMorelligu. I've blocked him for now -- any input re: the block message? I haven't gone through his new contributions yet but came across him while going through the remaining copyright violations that I'm trying to finish removing... Calliopejen1 ( talk) 21:38, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I have been having the flu for weeks and I need some WikiLove, Mood Ridden. Can you use something like the template on this page: User:Arknascar44/Love Cabal/Template? You can even give me a cupcake too, if you want. Kitty53 ( talk) 02:12, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Copyright concerns at Definitions of pogrom. I posted this some days ago, hoping someone familiar with copyright issues would respond, but so far there has been no outside input. Could you take a look? AndyTheGrump ( talk) 00:23, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
No rush, but if you get a moment, could you take a look at: VRTS ticket # 2014020710015791
Short version - a person wants to use a longish quote, with attribution. I think it is too long to be permitted, but hoped you might have some suggestions.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 19:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia must be ran by communists. "You limit people to much, how can people learn if knowledge is limited" - ME — Preceding
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174.134.41.255 (
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17:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. I'm a PhD student at the University of Washington working on an interview-based study of women and Wikipedia. I'd love to chat with you if you've the time and interest. Thanks for your work here in general! -- Mssemantics ( talk) 19:34, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi again, MRG. There's discussion on at wt:WikiProject Medicine w.r.t. this mess re apparent misuse of Caister_Academic_Press sources. Your input would be valued. LeadSongDog come howl! 20:15, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, a new one for your perusal, when time allows. The recent spate of edits by the university's employee appears to include a lot of copyright violations, but the article has gotten long and complex enough to render a simple mass reversion difficult. It's also possible that copyvio problems predate the latest edits. Any light you can shed will be helpful. Thank you, JNW ( talk) 16:31, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Jeona Morh has text sourced to [15]. I want to be sure I'm on firm ground before deleting it. The editor may be a sock - they've certainly recreated one article that has been deleted several times by other socks. Dougweller ( talk) 06:28, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
My understanding is that the license for this image is not acceptable. If I'm right, what am I supposed to do about it? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 02:44, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for handling that, User:Dpmuk. :) I'm traveling and challenged to get Wikipedia time. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:21, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl!
Looks like our old "friend" Roman888 is back and both violating copyright on Malaysia-related articles (see the sequence of edits from multiple Australian IP's geolocating to the Sydney area beginning here), and stirring the usual pot on the Kitchen Nightmares article. I reverted the edit related to Abdul Gani Patail linked above, which was immediately reverted with the edit summary "bad faith edit", a Roman888 classic. He's stopped for the moment, but it won't last long, we know that. I know you take a particular interest in the Malaysian articles and keep an eye on his activities, so I thought a heads up wouldn't be a bad idea. The back-up at SPI is incredible, so it will go stale long before anyone gets to a report there. -- Drmargi ( talk) 16:29, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, could you clear
Charles Cheffins from the copyright restrictions to mirror this article (or take another kind of action). I already notified that (the first version of) this article is based on a pd-source (and is developed from there), but there has been no response since over a week. Thank you. --
Mdd (
talk)
20:50, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
What's going on with the ticket for this image? Obviously PD-USGov is not the correct tag. Do we have permission from someone else? Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 22:07, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Hey, is there some sort of template for when a new source closely paraphrases or even copies wikipedia so that it is clear that our edit was the first one and theirs was the copy - so as not to claim the wiki editor who did the original work was copying? Here's my situation: Some wording I used in the article Mucho Macho Man was closely paraphrased by an article in Blood-Horse magazine that came out yesterday. What complicates the matter is that Blood-Horse - but a different reporter - was one of three sources for some of the material I wrote earlier. How do I tag this for a future time when someone might think there is a potential copyvio? {{ online source}} doesn't seem to quite cut it, because the article doesn't *say* it's citing WP, though I popped that template into hidden text on the talk page to have some sort of ref recorded. The way the reporter worded one paragraph of her article would gut US busted for close paraphrasing, and their last sentence is a cut and paste of ours. Here's the details:
"The Rios sold a majority share in the horse to Jim Culver of Dream Team One Racing Stable, keeping a share for themselves.[13] After Mucho Macho Man's first race, a majority share in the colt was sold to Dean and Patti Reeves' Reeves Thoroughbred Racing of Atlanta, Georgia.[18] In 2012 Reeves Thoroughbred Racing bought out Dream Team One's 30 percent interest and became the sole owners of the colt.[5]"
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/83466/adena-buys-interest-in-mucho-macho-man?source=rss "The Rios sold a majority share in Mucho Macho Man to Jim Culver of Dream Team One Racing Stable before he started in 2010, keeping a small portion for themselves. After his first race, a majority share was sold to Reeves Thoroughbred Racing. In 2012 Reeves Thoroughbred Racing bought out Dream Team One's 30% interest."
Any help or pointers to a proper template welcomed. I'd like to take this article to FAC and I suspect this will get flagged in that review, so thanks in advance for any pointers. Montanabw (talk) 21:29, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, User:Odysseus1479 and User:Demiurge1000. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:22, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG! Here with another of those CCIs where I'm down to the last couple of articles and can't decide what to do with them, this time in Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20140224. The vast majority of this editor's prose contributions have been copyvio, but I can't find specifically where these articles came from, if they were copied. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 13:42, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
And now it's Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Lionhead99 that I'm coming begging for :) Again, down to the last few, don't know what to do... The few that are left include some pretty major articles, and ones that have had a lot of edits made since the potentially copyvio edits. Thoughts? A straight reversion would be easy, but not sure if it's the best option for these articles... Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 18:32, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Right, but in this case, an external website copied the content from Wikipedia. The bot detected that the content was from an external source when in fact it was from Wikipedia and copied by the external website. The external website itself indicates this by the copied content, under the article title, being preceded by "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" on that external website page. -- Shruti14 talk • sign 13:23, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I tried reaching you on the Jen Hudak talk page. I wish to begin working on a new version of that article, but would like to use what I'd previously written as a guide. I will be rewriting everything so that it's all in my own words. I'm currently in talks with Jen to get more information about her, but would like to have access to the information and sources I'd used. Is this possible? I understand that what I had previously written was against the Wikipedia policy and understand why, but just want to open a Word document and paste it in to use that as a framework. It would be a big help. Please and thank you. ( EGorodetsky ( talk) 03:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC))
[[User:Moonriddengirl]]
works. But there are also specific templates if you want to get fancy with it, like {{ping:Moonriddengirl}}
and {{U|Moonriddengirl}}
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Frankly, every one of the 17,000,000+ users or however many we are up to these days could give you a barnstar, and it still would not be sufficient thanks for the tireless work you do behind the scenes at CCI. I appreciate your efforts; thanks to people like you doing that "grunt work", people like me can have fun writing articles on topics we enjoy ... I appreciate that opportunity. I don't understand copyright rules to a sufficient degree so as to feel comfortable assisting at CCI, however in the event you would ever, say, be watching baseball and find a player that you want to know more about, I would be happy to write/expand the article on said player. In all seriousness, if there is something basic I can do that would make your life easier at CCI, please let me know. Thanks again for all you do; without editors such as yourself keeping us legal, this project would not exist. So when I say thank you, I would like to think I do so on behalf of the roughly 116 million people who visit Wikipedia on a monthly basis who have no idea the hard work that you and others perform at CCI on a daily basis. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and did I forget to say thank you. Go Phightins ! 03:58, 6 March 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Moonriddengirl. I have a question related to LINKVIO posted at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems. Can you please take a look at it? Thanks -- SMS Talk 14:15, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello MRG, I have what I hope will be a quick question. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lewis Earle Sandt, Pioneer Aviator was speedy deleted as a copyright violation, however the nominator did not provide a source of the copyright. The article (while still needs work) is well referenced with about 26/30 references coming from the 1912/1913. Further to this, the AfC was declined because the nominator thought the text sounded like it might have been copy/pasted from source material (a stock decline through AFC Helper script). So, I have reversed the delete, as if it were copy/pasted the source material is in the public domain and thus ineligible for copyright. My question is: If it were copy/paste Is all that is required a PD-old-text template at the bottom for the sources, or did I just make a grand error. Much thanks for your input, I hope not to take up too much of your time. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 01:54, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'm hoping you would waive your magic wand and userfy EDGE on the Net to User:Sportfan5000/Edge on the Net? I'm convinced that more sources are available, especially reviews on their dozens of apps, so would like to keep adding items as I find them. Sportfan5000 ( talk) 11:03, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Am I just being crazy here?
A Commons admin is arguing that the particular sketch duplicating a photomicrograph doesn't result in a derivative work / copyright infringement on the theory that the sketch is too trivial to be copyright eligible. I really don't see it. I'm tired of arguing, and we could use a fresh opinion as the two of us clearly aren't going to agree. Dragons flight ( talk) 08:35, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Would someone take a look at the text I reverted here [16] which is copied from [17]. The IP, 50.157.103.28 ( talk · contribs) believes it is copyright free, but I see a copyright tag. In any case it was a huge chunk of copy/paste, even if referenced to the source. A response at the IP's page might be helpful (he's appealing my block). Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 16:50, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Sovereignty of Puerto Rico during the Cold War has well over 150 citations to the same book, almost one per sentence. Is this covered by our copyvio policy? Dougweller ( talk) 12:24, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
More information at your talk page. :) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk)
09:33, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please provide me a copy of List of Iranian International footballers with dual Nationality in my own sub-userpage? Amirreza talk 08:59, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Technically, films like Predator are a variation of Man vs Man anyway... maybe I should mention it there.-- Dr who1975 ( talk) 03:19, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG. I've recently deleted the page Malin Craig as a copyright violation of this book. However I was fairly unsure at the time, and another editor has also questioned my decision, so I thought I'd check with someone who knew what they were doing (that's you, BTW). The book in question is published by a US Government body, and so may fall within the public domain, although it's not clear to me whether the author retains a copyright on his work in these circumstances ( WP:PD is fairly unedifying on the subject). Would the copied text be usable under PD terms, and if so, would you mind letting me know so that I can put the article back? Much obliged, Yunshui 雲 水 08:08, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Unless otherwise noted, information presented on CMH Online is considered public information and may be distributed or copied for non-commerical purposes.�Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested. If copyrighted or permission restricted materials are posted on CMH Online, the appropriate credit is given. Visitors wishing to repost or use such materials for their own projects should make separate arrangements for permission with the owner.
Please see Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Plagiarism_of_Ostensibly_Unreliable_Sources:_Eight_Examples. You may be interested in this WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:11, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi I am upset that you have removed my content from ultimate fight night as it was not copyrighted I changed it and made it my own. Lukejordan02 ( talk) 21:41, 17 March 2014 (UTC).
Ok I understand I just didn't like being threatened with being blocked as I am new to editing and didn't mean to, Lukejordan02 ( talk) 21:51, 17 March 2014 (UTC).
Could you think about restoring the match listings please As that is verified info and quite important as well thank you Lukejordan02 ( talk) 21:54, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Ok thank you and apologies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lukejordan02 ( talk • contribs) 22:02, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG. Would you mind taking a look at
File:Postnow Angst book cover German translation of Postnov, Strah.jpg? We don't have an article on the book, so fair use isn't applicable, but I'm thinking it might be acceptable as the image is almost certainly PD. That leaves the typeface and publisher's logo - the type doesn't look as though it's complex enough to create a new copyright, and I believe {{
PD-textlogo}}
might well apply if the logo appeared on its own. Do you think this is a useable image, or should it stay off until the book has an article and it can be uploaded under fair use? Cheers,
Yunshui
雲
水
07:59, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
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...stand that T.P. guy. Cheers. Hispalois ( talk) 00:10, 21 March 2014 (UTC) |
One of your discussions seems to have gone offwiki. Bazj ( talk) 20:13, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Template:The_Tudors_of_Penmynydd
Please advise how to set it to display properly or do it for me. This lineage appears in various articles but is all jumbled up and I would like it corrected.
Thanks. Mhakcm ( talk) 09:35, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Seems like a clear copyvio from [20] (a bit less know after my c/e of first sentence or two), do you concur? I have looked at author's other recent articles and they seem fine, so hopefully an explanatory note on this will prevent this from happening again. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:50, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I am Shuvo Saha made this new page named Manikganj Govt. High School, and the writings you have saw that you think I've copied are absolutely wrong. I wrote that description from where i have copied this. I didn't think, for a school i have to write the same thing again. The whole articles and information was in Bangla. So, I had to translate them into english. The page i have created is for my school, which established in 1884, and no one yet created any page in wikipedia. So at first i made a map where i put all the description in wikimapia. Then i have created a facebook page of my school https://www.facebook.com/MGBHS , i used the same description as i have no other source of information. and then when i came to wikipedia, i have seen no pages been created in wiki, so i did. If you want a clean article, please help me regarding that with your information and you can correct it by writing the actual facts. Why did you removed it. I appreciate that you work hard for wikipedia, but you should realize that correcting things never mean to delete. Correct it if i made any spelling mistake or anything. Here no copy right has been issued. The author is me. and no one else. Please give the source document of problem. Otherwise do not remove or delete anything. Please, leave a message Shuvo Saha( Talk)
Thanks. --Shuvo 07:15, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear, I'm really sorry. Maybe i was bit rude when i wrote my message to you. Please help me regarding this. Yes I wrote that and i do have the copyright. Please undo that Remove by doing whatever it requires. Please help me. If you want, I can delete the source article from where i have copied this. Please undo the thing you did on
Manikganj Govt. High School .
Thanks a lot --Shuvo 17:30, 23 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saha7 ( talk • contribs)
Dear Moon, I hope its your name :) Okay so this is where i wrote that description from where i copied it to wikipedia >
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=23.860339&lon=90.002945&z=18&m=b&show=/object/history/list/?object_type=1&id=12494869&lng=en&search=manikganj%20govt%20high%20school see you will get my user name. And i have translated it from our school book. It was in Bangla, So I had to translate it in english. If you say, i can delete the one i have posted in Wikimapia as i was the person who wrote that. Sorry, that I'm taking your time. And thanks a lot as you are replying me so fast. Hope I'm not disturbing you.
Thanks Shuvo 20:35, 24 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saha7 ( talk • contribs)
If you can remember back close to 3 years ago, we had a foundational copyright in the article that dated from 2006. The vio came from Red Skelton's official site in 2006. I worked with the article a lot to replace what had to be deleted and added my own information & refs.
I haven't done any real work on it for a while, but was taking a look at it, thinking about whether to submit it for GA. Now the reverse is true--the Skelton website has copied a section of the WP article and put a 2014 copyright notice on it.
Start reading at: "Skelton introduced the first two of his many characters during the show's first season. Clem Kadiddlehopper was based on a Vincennes neighbor named Carl Hopper, who was hard of hearing." and continue down to the end of the section there and here on the article.
This was my own work over a period of time and my edits can be checked--they pre-date the Skelton website. This was the only 2014 edit I've made so far--replacing a dead link.
How do we set the record straight?
Thanks!! We hope ( talk) 20:54, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
It's sort of a matter of "self defense" because many times, I have bunches of tabs open from places like Google News Archive and am trying to make sure I don't get too close with paraphrasing. :) The most recent article I've done a lot of editing on is Ruth Etting, and trying to keep what happened there straight was a job. Days after the shooting, she was sued for "alienation of affections" by her pianist's second wife, so you had 2 things happening--the shooting aftermath and the lawsuit against her. It's good to know all of my habits aren't bad ones! Thanks a bunch once again ! :) We hope ( talk) 22:41, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Where someone requests a copy of a deleted article in order to post it elsewhere, e.g. to Wikia, what if anything needs to be done about attribution? Do the original authors lose any CC-BY-SA rights when their material is deleted, even if it is resuscitated elsewhere? That seems wrong, but I don't see how to provide an attribution trail. JohnCD ( talk) 14:49, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
I removed the paragraph stating you copied (thief!!) from another Wikipedia article. Per
Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Proper attribution, you add in the edit summary that you "stole" from the hard work of others or add the {{
copied}} template to the talk page. I'm not sure what is the best way, but the few times I've come across this, it was added in the edit summary.
I keep seeing you around, but I've never been on your talk page before. Finally nice to say hello. I do have one problem. I see that devious
Crisco 1492 hangs out here. Now I know where you get your "ripped off" style of writing. :)
Bgwhite (
talk)
05:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}
. That shouldn't go in articles. I changed it to use [[Special:Diff/297548840|this edit]]
(
this edit). It is trivial in this case, but I try to keep template programming code out of articles. There are some wild ways people attempt to use the code.
Bgwhite (
talk)
17:50, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG - This article (currently nominated for GAN, which is how I stumbled across it), was substantially copied from an article published in 1980. The main editor of the article notes on the talk page that he was given permission by the author (via e-mail) to copy the article to WP. Do we need an OTRS ticket from the original article author for this, or can the editor forward the e-mail to OTRS? Without OTRS verification, isn't it copyvio? Pinging User:Gating as the main author of the article; I'm also going to be posting on the talk page. Dana boomer ( talk) 14:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Back at Red Skelton. Am trying to enlarge the lead and was doing some lookups when I hit this "bump".
The site has a 2014 copyright notice (hello, again? :)). Wayback Machine has only 1 crawl and it's from February of this year. I went back to where it had been cleaned of vios in 2011 and the first paragraph of the article plus the first paragraph of "Early years" are a match for the ones on the Walk of Fame. I think it's another case of reverse copyright but need your opinion and help for it. And I'm beginning to think someone doesn't want me to finish this and put it up for GA. :/ Thanks, We hope ( talk) 22:16, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
This has been quite a problem for some time, see WP:ANI#Europa Universalis vandalism and copyvio from Charles Esdaile - need range block. Dougweller ( talk) 18:11, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm wondering if we should indef this editor, see User_talk:Canadaolympic989. What do you think? On another tack, you might want to look at WP:RSN#Is an anti-Mosque organisation a reliable source for Child Grooming. Dougweller ( talk) 15:04, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Ditto. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:20, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
There is no Wiki article on the famous organist Diane Meredith Belcher, and I would like to create one.
In starting to do so, I came across this info: "22:01, 17 December 2007 Moonriddengirl (talk | contribs) deleted page Diane Meredith Belcher (CSD G12: Blatant Copyright infringement)"
I'm wondering if this is pertinent to the article I want to write.
Thank you.
Giovanni GiovLDL ( talk) 12:32, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I'm sorry but I only now got your recommendations regarding the article "European Commodity Clearing (ECC) I wrote and which you deleted because of copyright problems you were assuming. In fact there is no copyright problem because I wrote the original text myself. I know you can't verify that. That's why I placed a release on the external website the text was taken from ( http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/European_Commodity_Clearing_AG_(ECC). On the bottom you can find the copyright guideline. Now that I did this, I would like to write the article again. Do I have to write the article again or is it stored somewhere? I hope there won't be any further mistakes.
Thank you Ursula Goetze ( talk) 11:35, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
An email was sent to your wikimedia account a few hours ago requesting for an office action on an urgent basis. TrangDocVan ( talk) 16:31, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
By any chance do you know about non-Wikimedia copyright issue?
My
this post was entirely copied by someone
here. Firstly I posted at their comment section and asked them to remove the post. They gave one of the weirdest reply I have ever heard I will not remove because I have written the URL from where I copied
(please check comment section of the second link)
Now I tried to follow the second option, reporting to the host, i. e. Wordpress. There I need to file a formal DMCA notice.
Here is the DMCA form. There in the form I must provide my full residential address, phone number. But the surprising thing is, at the end of the form they are asking to me to acknowledge I acknowledge that a copy of this infringement notice, including any contact information I provided above (address, telephone number, and email address), will be forwarded to the user who uploaded the content at issue.
. Now, why should I share my full contact details with that pirate? I'm stumped. --
Tito☸
Dutta
20:32, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions. Please note in Wikipedia we follow some
Manual of Style guidelines to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Unfortunately some of your edits did not follow MoS guidelines. According to
WP:OVERLINK— A link should appear only once or twice in a page. You should not link every time.
But I have noticed every time you sign your posts, you link your user page and talk page. The worstly affected page is your own talk page, there you have linked your user page and talk page in your every message. I think it is a clear violation of WP:OVERLINK. -- Tito☸ Dutta 15:23, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Disclaimer: For clarification, it was a joke, do not take it seriously. Source: Original creation.
Man: whence, how and whither, a record of clairvoyant investigation is a recreation of an article I deleted for copyvio when it had a different title. Admins can see the old article at [26]. At first glance a lot of it seems unattributed quotes, some material copied from [27] and possibly from and other pages at this url. I'm also concerned about K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater. Hate to be a pain, but I really feel I need a second opinion. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 09:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Well, it's not to be done anyway without attribution. :) But I've left a personal note supplemental to your earlier one explaining the specific issues of plagiarism and licensing violations. Let's see if he fixes the content. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:29, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to point out this discussion of a recent article: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2014_March_24 As explained in that thread by both me (law student) and user Brianwc (law professor), the article ( /info/en/?search=Illinois_v._Hemi_Group_LLC) was incorrectly flagged as infringing copyright. The article is about a federal court opinion, which is not copyrightable. Furthermore, there was already correct attribution and citation. I'm having a hard time convincing Justlettersandnumbers that the article is beyond simply fair use -- it CANNOT be infringement when all federal court opinions are not copyrightable and hence in the public domain, which means it can be freely copied, even without attribution, anywhere at any time, no matter who hosts the text.
I have an assignment due for a class ( /info/en/?search=Education_Program:University_of_California,_Berkeley/Cyberlaw_(Spring_2014)) which requires me to edit this article. Please unlock it and restore it to the last version.
Thank you! Bundaberger ( talk) 07:35, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
{{PD-notice}}
placed next to the reference tells people that the source is public domain and that substantial content is duplicated or closely followed from it.Dear Madam,
With good will, I tried to put on wikipedia the beginning two personalities profiles , William Mandeville AUSTIN and John Alfred Hipple. The systhem swept this effort, I am sorry. Please accept, Madam, my respectful greetings. Pierre-Francois Puech — Preceding unsigned comment added by PUECH P.-F. ( talk • contribs) 13:12, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl:
I am informed by Lars Curfs of WIKIPEDIA that you have edited the article on me. If you indeed are responsible putting this article into shape I would ask you please to consider four corrections:
1. On page 1 under MAIN INTERESTS the article lists aesthetics. This is ironic because while I have written extensively on every other area of philosophy I have done virtually nothing with aesthetics. Instead, the field that should be lists is EPISTEMOLOGY (or, if one prefers, Theory of Knowledge), where I have done a great deal of work.
2. The entry CAREER says I began my career as an academic at Lehigh University in 1957. Actually, my first teaching appointment was as an Instructor in Philosophy at Princeton for the 1951-1952 academic year.
3. The entry PHILOSOPHY speaks in line 7 of “medieval and late Arabic logic.” The expression “and late” should be deleted. All the texts I dealt with were medieval.
4. The entry PHILOSOPHY speaks in the last line of model syllogistic. This, however, should read MODAL syllogistic with an A in place of E.
That’s it as far as correction goes. Many thanks for attending to these points.
Sincerely, Nicholas Rescher
P.S. As regards that entry “Notable Ideas” at the outset of the article, it is not really for me to say. But if someone did ask me I would myself list primarily two items:
Is there a place on Commons like WP:Copyright problems where things can be reported for investigation? There is a user who has input several images claiming "Own work". One had a copyright notice in the metadata and has been speedied; the others look very professional, and Tineye finds some of them elsewhere on the internet, but I don't think I have enough evidence actually to nominate for deletion. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 15:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
You know a copied plot is not worth deleting a whole article. If you see something you think is a copyvio then just remove it there is no need to try and get the page deleted. Koala15 ( talk) 23:29, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. You deleted a part of the article K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater. I’m sorry, it is wrong. Author of the first Letter Kuthumi gave a permit on free using all his Letters. He wrote in Letter XXXIX (Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series, Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, p. 106) that "everyone can take free something, the whole pages, from any my copied letter." Make undo please. Thank you. SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 08:41, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, you wrote, "I'd recommend that you scan the page and email it to the volunteer response team who process and log copyright permissions. If you'd like to go that route, I'll be happy to give you the address." I've Letters (including Letter XXXIX) in PDF; it's need to examine Letter XXXIX for a permit of the Master Kuthumi. Thank you. SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 15:31, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Appendix (transferred from PDF)
LETTER XXXIX 1
YOU may, if you choose so, or find necessity for it, use in "Man"2 or in any other book you may chance to be collaborating for, anything I may have said in relation to our secret doctrines in any of my letters to Messrs. Hume or Sinnett. Those portions that were private have never been allowed by them to be copid by anyone; and those which are so copied have by the very fact become theosophical property. Besides, copies of my letters – at any rate those that contained my teachings – have always been sent by my order to Damodar and Upasika, and some of the portions even used in The Theosophist. You are at liberty to even copy them verbatim and without quotation marks – I will not call it "plagiarism". . . . From the right point of view, if you will know, it is only the expression of another person's original ideas, some independent sentence, a thought, which in its brief completeness is capable of being constructed into a wise motto or maxim, that could be constituted into what is regarded as plagiarism – the pilfering of another person's "brain property". There is not a book but is the shadow of some other book, the concrete image, very often, of the astral body of it in some other work upon the same or approximate subject. I agree entirely with Dr. Cromwell when he says that "true talent" will become original in the very act of engaging itself with the ideas of others"; nay, will often convert the dross of previous authors into the golden ore that shines forth to the world as its own peculiar creation. "From a series of extravagant and weak Italian romances, Shakespeare took the plots, the characters, and the major part of the incidents of those dramatic works which have exalted his name, as an original writer, above that of every other in the annals of literature." Thus not only you, a chela of mine, but anyone else is at liberty to take anything, whole pages, if thought proper, from any of my "copied" letters and convert their "dross" into pure ore of gold, provided they have well grasped the thought. Show this to . . . who was already told the same
K. H.
1 Transcribed direct from the original at Adyar.
2 The book, Man : Fragments of Forgotten History, by Two Chelas in the Theosophical Society, published in 1885.
SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 03:21, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. You wrote, "If the page is published legitimately online (that is, if the book is printed somewhere licensed to display it and we can see it there), then that may suffice." It's Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom 1881—1888. It's labeled, "Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from Microsoft Corporation". All right? SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 12:03, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi. The book there is in Open Library under CCo 1.0 Universal license i.e. Public Domain Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom. Let me make undo in K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater, please. Thank you. SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 14:55, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Please see in K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater (modification on 2 April 2014 at 09:02) references №№ 10-15 basing upon Jinarajadasa (1919) i.e. Jinarajadasa, Curuppumullage, ed. (1919) Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series, Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House. In 1941 Jinarajadasa was quoting the Letters first published in 1919. If summarize it, copyvio was not. SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 04:13, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Would you please help me out? I always assume good faith, but I also know how hard it is to write original articles based on multiple references, free of copyright violations. That's why all instantaneous entries are a red flag for me, warranting further analysis. Ozhistory ( talk · contribs) created Rescue of Jews by Catholics during the Holocaust in one sweep on 12:02, 4 April 2014, with +113,615 characters. He/she also created Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany in one sweep on 12:18, 22 November 2013, with +42,887 characters. I'd like to make sure that we have the legal right to keep it, after what I've run into at the "List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust." See my post at Talk:List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust#Copying within Wikipedia for my Detector results. Thanks in advance, Poeticbent talk 15:04, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Fair enough. I did a spot check - nowhere near a major portion of the text given its size - and did not find any copying through Google or Google books. I only found the content in Wikipedia articles (and mirrors), and only Wikipedia articles that he had edited. :) This of course can't preclude copying, but it's a good sign. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:12, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
User:G S Palmer's desire to push his OR POV returns, reverting twice(so far) a valid template [34], [35]. (This after he deleted all the tags such as "citation needed" for totally unsourced OR sentences! I brought this up on the discussion page.. [36]. But fear not, because there is a WP:MEAT at hand... [37]!
Also, after he removed a WP:RS that would have provided WP:NPOV [38], I brought it up on the discussion page [39]. Whereupon, he almost immediately did this [40]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.132.48.255 ( talk) 12:45, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
, Well, User:G S Palmer, that's frustrating. :/ Looking at the listing, I wonder if the problem is that it focused too much on who is doing what and not enough on what the actual dispute is about the material. Concrete issues are easier for people to address - "Is this a reliable source for that statement?"
And, oh, I find the listing, and that seems to be quite a bit of the problem:
The problem seems to be exactly that - focusing on the issues might get some progress here. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:16, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
By the way, the IP has reached three reverts again: 1A and 1B, 2, 3A and 3B. G S Palmer ( talk) 14:54, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, Please can you restore Harvington School. 1> There is no 'copyright' on the page and 2> I have been acting as an agent thereof. I have left messages on the talk page, but have not heard anything back. If in doubt please contact admin@harvingtonschool.com, aevans@harvingtonschoo.com or tweet @harvingtonprep
Brtles ( talk) 20:07, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, me again. So what is the process? The Head of Harvington School has sent an email to the email address via that 'blanked' page that leads to the copyright confirming the situation. Please can you put the page back now. Or if not please can you detail instructions as in a, b, c ? Brtles ( talk) 19:07, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, only the history was taken from the school page. Everything else I wrote myself utilising other sources such as the department of education and the independent schools association etc etc. I was going to add the references on but am unable to edit it as you have locked the page. I used other schools as a template for the wikipedia style also. Brtles ( talk) 22:10, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
As an additional please can you add the school to this footer as i'm having difficulties. /info/en/?search=List_of_schools_in_Ealing Brtles ( talk) 22:14, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Say, what's your take on including parts of lists in articles such as The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History and Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank and 100 Greatest Britons and List of 100 greatest NHL players by The Hockey News and so forth? All four of those articles are about publications where the core of the work is a list of 100 things, and we include the first 10.
IMO this is pushing the edges of fair use and I'm agin it. But I haven't haven't gotten any traction in the (very unpopulated) discussions at the pages in question.
My take is that in one sense giving the top ten of list of 100 is 10% of the whole work (which is an awful lot for fair use), in another sense it is more than 10% of the work by value (1-10 are probably "worth more" than say 61-70), in another sense it's only a small fraction of the work since the works also includes a great deal of text. Additionally, fair use claims are pretty weak IMO since we're pretty much going "Hey, here's a list!" rather than "Here's a list, and we will now proceed to discuss the factors and prejudices and so forth that might have contributed to the list having the form it does, and compare it to earlier similar lists and discuss how the rankings have changed over time, and so forth".
Going around on this in my head, there are very many complicated issues here, and each case is different. I'm sure that two Philadelphia lawyers could have an interesting discussion on the question "If a list is the purely mechanical result of a poll, does the copyright of just the list itself devolve to the entities who published the article containing the list, or to the the mass of people who voted (which would mean 'no copyright' since copyrights cannot be held by a mob)?" (This applies to some but not all of the cases linked above.)
It looks like we're all over the place on this. It looks like for Time 100, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists of all time we publish no part of the lists. On the other hand for the articles mentioned above we provide the top ten, and at World Soccer (magazine)#The Greatest Players of the 20th century we publish the entire list of 100, ditto at World Team of the 20th Century we publish the entire list (which is only 11 entries long).
There's also the question of respect for commercial opportunities. However, realistically any sales impact is probably minimal (although we can't be sure it's absolutely zero) and for all I know a net positive.
Is this worth worrying about or not, in your view? Am I overthinking this? Is this a sort of least-of-our-worries no-harm-no-foul situation maybe? Herostratus ( talk) 20:56, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I am Tamravidhir. I hope that you remember me. Anyway, Moonriddengirl I need help from you. Nowadays I hardly get time to edit, and even if I do then I edit occasionally. After a lot of effort I had tried to reconstruct the article, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. But later when I came back after nearly one year I saw that most of the references and the information has been deleted so I again reconstructed it. But recently there have been some edits which I fear may lead to an edit war. There is an IP address user ( 117.203.114.134) who has been trying to overlink the article by adding links to the pages of major geographical places such as Dubai, UAE and even terms such as TRPs. He also made certain edits to the plot, but that was not the basic outline, if that would be added then other IP address users would try to recreate the entire plot. I have summarise the plot to a large extent, well as much as I could. I had left a welcome message on the user's talk page and had also left the links of some pages which may help him or her. Except this I had also made the user about overlinking warned the user not to over link the article. The user has also been editing the cast section of the article. He has been deleting information, adding information and rearranging the entire section which makes it look clumsy and confusing. For e.g. in India, many Hindu (not in every regional Hindu culture) children, especially those in west India, carry the name of their father as their middle name and all women after marriage carry the name of their husband as their middle name and also their surname. But as Bade Achhe Lagte Hain is a soap opera, a character has got divorced, remarried or their marriage is in ruins thus many add several names for a single character. The middle names of few important characters have been included but the user has been deleting info, adding wrong info and making it look clumsy and confusing even after a warning. And this has been done for some two to three times. And what is more mysterious that there have been similar edits by several other IP address users, soon after the edits by 117.203.114.134. for evidence you can refer the following links:
I fear that these are sockpuppets. I am also afraid that this may lead to an edit war. As you are an admin and you have been helping since the time I joined, I would like you to look into the matter. Thank you so much!-- Tamravidhir ( ২০১৪) 08:42, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Okay, when an IP is editing articles, it generally isn't sock puppetry even when the IP changes unless the IP is a registered editor who is editing logged out or unless he has been blocked under one of those IPs and is working around it. Some people just don't have accounts, and some people have IPs that change regularly.
It is hard to talk to IPs that change regularly. We do block them sometimes when they are vandalizing articles, obviously, but we can't block them just because somebody disagrees with them even if we think that somebody is right, because it shouldn't matter if I think you are right. As an administrator, I'm not supposed to decide that. (It's different if it's clear vandalism, as we define it at WP:V. That is community consensus, and I can act on that.)
The thing to do is show if you are right by getting other editors to review your reasoning. If they agree and the IP keeps editing against that agreement, then we can semi-protect the page in the hopes that the IP will come back, see they can't edit, and go to the talk page and find out why.
Please let me know if that's not clear, User:Tamravidhir. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:15, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you so much Moonriddengirl for your guidance. Tamravidhir ( talk) 13:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC) |
User Moonriddengirl Wikipedia Rewriter /info/en/?search=User_talk:Moonriddengirl
Hi Moonriddengirl:
I am informed by Lars Curfs of WIKIPEDIA that you have edited the article on me. If you indeed are responsible putting this article into shape I would ask you please to consider four corrections:
1. On page 1 under MAIN INTERESTS the article lists aesthetics. This is ironic because while I have written extensively on every other area of philosophy I have done virtually nothing with aesthetics. Instead, the field that should be lists is EPISTEMOLOGY (or, if one prefers, Theory of Knowledge), where I have done a great deal of work.
2. The entry CAREER says I began my career as an academic at Lehigh University in 1957. Actually, my first teaching appointment was as an Instructor in Philosophy at Princeton for the 1951-1952 academic year.
3. The entry PHILOSOPHY speaks in line 7 of “medieval and late Arabic logic.” The expression “and late” should be deleted. All the texts I dealt with were medieval.
4. The entry PHILOSOPHY speaks in the last line of model syllogistic. This, however, should read MODAL syllogistic with an A in place of E.
That’s it as far as correction goes. Many thanks for attending to these points.
Sincerely, Nicholas Rescher
P.S. As regards that entry “Notable Ideas” at the outset of the article, it is not really for me to say. But if someone did ask me I would myself list primarily two items:
Is it weird to feel respect and caring for someone you have never met?
Don`t think so.
So I took this yearly tradition one step further and I baked "cough" bought "cough" just for you (in a sense, my wife and i will eat it but you get the point).
Sorry is turned and just in case you can`t read it it says "Happy W Bday MRG"
I hope you appreciate it as much as I anticipated this day for the last twelve months.
Happy WikiBirthday my dear mentor and friend. Zidane tribal ( talk) 05:26, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I have a question for you concerning copyright, particularly whether images and audio created by Federal employees of prisoners in Federal custody are public domain by our standards. If an audiovisual conversation solely documented by the Federal Bureau of Prisons is released anywhere (in this case the subject is John Gotti in recorded interviews with his visiting daughter): who really owns the copyrights to the images and audio? Gotti, the daughter, or whomever records it? We would have no record, even a written transcript of the conversations, but for the source. And if it were recorded by the U.S. Government, would the audio portions be not PD when the images are by our strict standards? It's their (or our if you're a U.S. citizen) audio equipment they're using to begin with, and in the course of their official duties using government resources. Doc talk 09:33, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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Wishing you a happy wiki anniversary. Thank you for all you do for the projects. You are an inspiration. :) Msannakoval ( talk) 03:06, 9 April 2014 (UTC) |
Just found [57] - do you know anything about the site? Dougweller ( talk) 16:42, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
May I ask for your help, please? The article of Raba has been tagged recently because of copyright violation. However, I would like to tell you that I have just moved an old text recently from page of Rába (automobile) (it has been there since 2009, see its revision history [58]). I do not what to do it is not clear for me where I can "defend" myself before someone starts to accuse me. Thank you. Fakirbakir ( talk) 10:42, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
If the text of an article entitled "Foo" includes the statement "Foo is a registered trademarked term of XYZ Corp", is there a problem, if the article is otherwise OK for references, notability etc? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 15:33, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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Greetings, MRG, I would like some advice. I noticed a fair amount of copyrighted material at Society for Scholarly Publishing. (much of its content appears to have been pasted from the org's website by one of its volunteers.) There is some seemingly non-infringing content, but it is too promotional/unsourced to be useful, in my opinion. Given that I don't think there is much worth keeping, I would like to delete the article in order to expunge the history and then recreate a new article about the subject. I've done something similar to an article about the org's blog, Scholarly Kitchen, which had very little non-infringing content, but Society for Scholarly Publishing doesn't seem to meet G12 as clearly, so as far as I can tell it might not be ok for me to delete this one. I've listed the article at Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2014_January_8, but I'm wondering if there's a quicker solution. What would you advise? Delete and start a new page? revdel everything prior to now and start a new page? Wait for the copyright investigation? Undo everything I've done because I'm way out in the weeds? I'd love to get the page for this subject back in business. Thanks for any input, ErikHaugen ( talk | contribs) 21:18, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG - I hope you have been having a lovely holiday season, full of whatever weather and food you may prefer :) (I'm a snow and cheesecake sort of girl, but maybe that's just me...) I'm back with one of those "the CCI is down to the last article and I don't know what to do with it" situations. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20131014b has one left - the contributor added a fairly massive amount of text, and copyvio was found in most of his other large contributions, but I can't find the source for this one, and there have been a lot of edits in the intervening few years. Thoughts? Dana boomer ( talk) 01:45, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Still. I've reworked much of the article, but not all, and I need to check what I've got now against what he wrote. Just haven't had much time the last few days. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:04, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
An "uninvolved admin" seems to be making thoroughly negative and disruptive removal of key material that was partially sourced to independent press sources (which you also removed). The "copyvio" was two or three short sentences from a college webpage that is no longer live (it's been archived). Do you really think it's going to help improve the article by removing reliable secondary sources - something which the article is visibly lacking for 5 years?! It takes 30 seconds to reword the material. To be honest, I can't even see the copyvio for the second paragraph. Sionk ( talk) 14:17, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
You learn something new every day (well, I do, at least). Working my way through the licence migration documents now - can't believe I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for correcting me. Yunshui 雲 水 13:27, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I had listed Category:Tamil films remade to other languages for renaming long ago, but no response yet. Bcos there is some grammatical error, it needs to be renamed urgently. Same case with Category:Malayalam films remade to other languages. ---- Kailash29792 ( talk) 18:30, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
MRG, would you or one of your talk page watchers carry on at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 January 13 on intercostal nerve block (ICNB) and Aeromobil? I'm not sure what's next. I came to ICNB only because I was pinged to check the DYK, and based on what I found, I checked another DYK by the same editor. As I've suggested on the Copyright discussion, I have concerns that this editor's command of the English language doesn't allow for adequate paraphrasing, and I'm not sure what should be done next there, but there was originally significant cut-and-paste or very marginal paraphrasing from every source I checked. Aeromobil has been rewritten and I think can be moved to mainspace, while I've been unsuccessful at finding anyone at WT:MED interested in rewriting ICNB, so I think it will need to be massively stubbed. [1] (I have no interest in trying to write on a topic that is over my head so someone can get DYK credit.) Best, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:53, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for helping improve the article. Would you be open to considering restoring the external link to the blacklisted webpage. The webpage is only used in the 'External links' section of the article. In my view the webpage provides a highly educational, informative and insightful practical example of the Abilene paradox. This practical example is also fun and entertaining to read. In my view, restoring the external link would not damage the article in any way, and would only help improve and strengthen the article. Thanks and warm regards, IjonTichy ( talk) 20:45, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, please look over /info/en/?search=Bienvenido_%E2%80%9CBones%E2%80%9D_Banez,_Jr.
I have removed all references to the "close connection" immonuclear, one of the contributors of the entry except in the reviews and publications section (should I remove this, too?).
Thank you.
Cblanglois ( talk) 01:29, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl, thank you, I'm working on the citations in the Work and Life section although I have already found one re Aida Rivera Ford and Victorio Edades. I have revised the Themes section, moved the sentence about Satan giving color to the world and added a citation. Also added another sentence with a citation. Re reviews, I have deleted two which I realized were not reviews but mere announcements to an exhibit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cblanglois ( talk • contribs) 04:05, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl,when you have the time, kindly please look over the article again so we can finalize. Let me know what needs to be deleted, if needed, as the ones I have posted are the only verifiable references or citations that I could find. Thanks a lot! Cblanglois ( talk) 05:52, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl this is done. Found a citation for where and when he was born. If there isn't anything else, would appreciate it if we could already take out the note about the article needing more citations. Thanks a lot! 66.177.185.143 ( talk) 01:51, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
At WP:ANI#Breach of copyright in a locked article there's a discussion about whether you can use rev/del in a situation which although leaving the names of editors no longer makes it possible for non-Admins to see the text that they contributed. You may have seen this as I mentioned you there. I'm not sure if there is any guidance on this anywhere. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 21:52, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl,
Thank you for verifying that MusicBlvd.com is a licensed lyrics publisher. It takes a lot of hard work to get validated on Wikipedia and in this case MusicBlvd.com is one of the few that have gone through so much work to get verified. I would like to motion to add MusicBlvd.com to this resource list Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs#Lyrics and music videos so editors can choose at their own will to include MusicBlvd.com as a resource. We would like to add the resource link here to clarify to the community that it is indeed validated.
Do you think you can add it? Or shall I?
Trystanburke( talk) 18:37, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Turning up yet again. When, if ever, you have a moment, could I ask you to look (again!) at St. Michael's Choir School, where you cleared out FreshCorp619's stuff a while ago. Because it looks to me as if there are older problems there, which perhaps at that time you were not looking for? Specifically, I can't see how this could have got there if it wasn't copied from here. I'm also bothered by this block of non-encyclopaedic content, and by the resemblance of this to this. Some of that stuff is still in the article today. Or am I tilting at windmills? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:46, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm, fuzzy welcome! I'm glad I could be an early part of something so important in your life and am happy to see you being a part of the Wikimedia Foundation. See you around. -- Jreferee ( talk) 02:26, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
For images uploaded to En/WP, can I add a "commons ok" template like I did for Gold Hawn? Thanks. -- Light show ( talk) 07:33, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Just came across this article: The Shame of the Nation. AioftheStorm ( talk) 03:27, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Kozol (2005) reveals the poor conditions and state of disrepair many urban schools are now in. The physical appearance of these schools negatively impacts the students desire to be in school and the way that they feel while they are present. In Oklahoma City, for example, the schools are overcrowded, lined with insufficient trailers that are not heated or cooled and often leak. He further portrays how in some schools in California, the overcrowding is so severe that students have to attend schools in monthly shifts year round. Some schools lack even the basic supplies such as text books, chairs, and desks for their students. Many students do not even attempt to eat lunch because the cafeteria is so overcrowded and the lines are so long.
In this chapter, Kozol reveals the poor conditions and state of disrepair many of the segregated schools are now in. The physical appearance of these schools negatively impacts the students desire to be in school and the way that they feel while they are present. In Oklahoma City for example, the schools are overcrowded, lined with insufficient trailers that were not heated or cooled and often leak. In California, the overcrowding was so severe that students had to attend schools in monthly shifts year round. Some schools lack even the basic supplies such as textbooks, chairs, and desks for their students. Many students do not even attempt to eat lunch because the cafeteria is so over crowded and the lines are so long.
I saw that you talked about this music writer several times. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums#Piero_Scaruffi_-_Final_Verdict_on_using_him_as_a_source_in_reviews There's a final discussion about this, at the moment. Could you explain why here in a few words? Thanks. Woovee ( talk) 17:29, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Are you the author of the Harissa page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrisjones212 ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
During my regular new Poland-articles review, this one passed notability, but it appears to be copied partially from [2] ("In 1998 Kalinowski built and hung a spatial object between three poles crowned with propellers of windmills. The Cloud Room – a cuboid with metal edge" is the sentence that google picked up immediately). Likely the author is the same, but we need to go through the motions of getting them to license their work, OTRS, yadda yadda. I am sure you or one of your page watchers can get the ball rolling (I am not sure where I should report it so as usual I leave this here :>). PS. There's also a bunch of problematic images: way too many for fair use, and the occasional OTRS is dubious: File:THE SKY REACHING RAILWAY TRACK 2004.jpg labelled as "Own work" and from 2004 - is this really the author who gave permission, nearly 10 years before this article was created - I think all images need careful review there... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:58, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
wikt: NE Ent 01:34, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
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One of the oldest is finally taken care of. Since the other copyright backlogs are well in hand hopefully closing these are a new trend. Wizardman 16:53, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Greetings,
Last year I attempted to update the RealTime Racing /info/en/?search=RealTime_Racing page, but it was removed due to copyright infringement, as much of it was taken from the RealTime Racing website (www.realtimerl.com). You posted on my Talk page how I could correct this, as I did have the Team Owner's permission to use the text. The team owner, who is the owner of the website and its contents, followed the directions outlined and sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org and I posted the correct note in the RealTime Racing Talk page. I haven't seen any progress on this matter. Is there something else that needs to be done? EMCracing ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I must apologise, as I am not familiar with using Wikipedia and hope I am doing this correctly. I am writing about the page which is supposed to be about myself, Adele C. Geraghty, but which actually doesn't have that name as a heading. Instead it has the name or names of the person who set it up, which are: Pohick2/Susan Alice Buffett. I am an author and editor and this article has been on Wikipedia for several years. I would like it to be removed or redone correctly. It is very embarassing to have people find this when they search for me. The content is incomplete, poorly stated and not sourced correctly. Also, it appears that whoever this person or persons is, they have been blocked for being a sock puppet. I am not completely familiar with this term. Can you help me, please, to do away with this page and perhaps someone else may redo it correctly one day? I would appreciate any assistance you can give me and thank you very much, for your time. Intimatewitch ( talk) 07:07, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)The page in question appears to be a sandbox that was used for various drafts without being renamed from the first one. I see it has been deleted now. The latest draft—the one in question—was also edited by a couple of other users, Democ53 and Intimatewitch13.— Odysseus 147 9 08:06, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
From WP:ANI new report of AirportExpert ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) copyvio of many aircraft related images scraped and falsely attributed. There was a case with a serial sockpuppeteer who did that many dozens of times, from years ago, which I worked on and I think you did. Can't recall the case / user name. Do you remember anything? Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 04:16, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I have no clue who that even is! I have just began editing on Wikipedia about 5 months ago! Do not accuse me of a crime that I did not commit! If it is such a problem, I will stop uploading pictures, but do not accuse me of being a sock puppet!-- AirportExpert ( talk) 12:25, 6 February 2014 (UTC)AirportExpert
My old account was User:Msloewengart and has been retired and has not been used since the creation of AirportExpert, and would never be used again. I am not a sock puppet! -- AirportExpert ( talk) 19:23, 6 February 2014 (UTC)AirportExpert
Please see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution/archive1.
I came across at least one instance, so far, of close-paraphrasing.
I could use your expertise with evaluating the article or helping defer to where else this could be reported for additional help.
FYI, it wasn't the nominator's fault, the current nominator is relatively new to the article itself, and unfortunately the prior user that had contributed significantly to the article, has since retired.
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 03:34, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm taking notes. It entered the article here. I am now running contribution surveyor so that I can more easily isolate and analyze edits to the article by the editor who introduced it. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:40, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
PooH16 ( talk) 13:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)Hello , Could you please state what is exact problem with this page? And with this article ?
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Thanks, BracketBot ( talk) 14:50, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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I don't want it to come out like I'm criticizing you... I'm just wanted to "teach" you.
Great job on cleaning up copy-violations btw. ( t) Josve05a ( c) 18:21, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
I can find material from this set of edits [3] at IMDB [4] but I haven't a clue as to which came first. As the editor has had problems before, I don't want to suggest that this is copyvio without being very sure. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 16:08, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Looks like you did a a great job with the article. Thanks for responding to my request. — Sean Whitton / 09:23, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
We hope ( talk) 16:04, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
We hope ( talk) 15:39, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
I added Special:AbuseFilter/606, which warns a person that their edit may be bugged, so maybe we won't see many/any more of that stupid glitch. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 21:24, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, MRG! I was looking at Ħaġar Qim, where Pietru was a major contributor and indeed copyright violator. But I found that the article was a copyvio (by someone else) from the day it was created, so I went ahead and blanked it. Now I'm wondering if that was the right course to take on a high-profile page (these are the oldest buildings in the world, bar none), and if maybe I have over-reacted. Advice? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 20:42, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
This attribution templates states that the book was out of UK copyright as of 2005, which seems correct as far as UK copyright applies - however, do we need to worry about URAA here, could the book still be potentially in copyright in the US? If so, this could be a problem if articles have copied text extensively. Nigel Ish ( talk) 11:10, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
{{#expr: 60 / 24 }} = 2.5 ;) NE Ent 12:50, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
There was info also removed that had good sources not questionable — Preceding unsigned comment added by $indbad 408 ( talk • contribs) 03:44, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
You have important e-mail 135.196.170.214 ( talk) 17:21, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
135.196.170.214 ( talk) 16:18, 16 February 2014 (UTC)I am not "reaching out for support outside of Wikipedia" as you publicly stated here. I was merely following *your* own advice on how to contact YOU - and I was civil at that. What gives? Yes I do have "good points", so at least we agree on that. The reason I wrote to you is because you re-wrote this page. Fyi, that makes you responsible, so again, I would ask you to kindly address the matters that I have raised.
135.196.170.214 ( talk) 18:21, 16 February 2014 (UTC)round and round we go, playing the Wikipedia game. I don't own it, he doesn't own it, she deosn't own it, no one owns it, not my fault, it wasn't me, no one's accountable... not that e-mail, this e-mail, not there, here, don't have to prove a quote because it was probably right five years ago, trust me, I'm busy, gotta take the dog for a walk... wuf! boy oh boy :-) Outrageously funny, I have to say.
135.196.170.214 ( talk) 22:55, 16 February 2014 (UTC) If you see my humour as an insult then perhaps you should take that dog for walk instead :) ...humour aside, do remember that you must PROVE EACH WORD of a quote, not just that a story exists. Errors occur all the time. For example, you have The Times link from "The Telegraph". That is an error. No worries. That's life, but if you are unable to prove the quote then EXPECT that someone will ask for it to be removed, as I have. The more discerning of readers already know that's not vandalism any more than it's an insult. It's a fair request. Let's just leave it at that. I will pursue this another way.
The full text of this [6] was included in Wiccan Rede. I hadn't seen that and the decision that it isn't copyvio and was working from Lady Gwen Thompson. Do we thus agree it can be used in toto? I've never run into this sort of issue before. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 16:50, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Just over a year ago you marked an edit as an unattributed translation in a CCI: [7]. However, the page itself has a notice that the article contains information from the equivalent article on the other-language wiki:
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It seems to me that this fulfills the requirements of the license. However, a strict reading of [8], where it says "should be included in the edit summary" may make the subject of the CCI's edit a violation of Wikipedia guidelines.
I'm curious if you agree that the notice on the article fulfills the copyright requirements, and that no edit on your part was necessary? I ask because I recently OKed a diff [9] from the same CCI which has similar circumstances. I'm wondering if that was in error, and additional edit summary attribution is necessary. It turns out that it is a moot point because a bot removed the content some time ago ( [10]), but I would like your opinion on the correct thing to do in the future. ParacusForward ( talk) 15:33, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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That was a tough one, but at least 2009 is done. Hopefully the next few oldest won't be as tough. Wizardman 03:00, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello and warm wishes from Santa Barbara...
I am dismayed that my Wikipedia listing has been deleted....
I do believe this is in error...
What might we do to reinstate this?
Thank you, with best wishes
WILLIAM TOMICKI Editor and Publisher, ENTREE Travel; Newsletter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.99.125.71 ( talk) 21:12, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've eviscerated much of Cathy Cassidy as unsourced and unencyclopedic, and wonder about the related articles on her books, which are models of fancruft. My hunch is that much of the content in articles like Cherry Crush (book) has been lifted from somewhere else, but I'm not able to find the sources. Perhaps your extraordinary faculties of discernment can be of assistance. Thank you, JNW ( talk) 17:47, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
See User talk:Guillermo Ramos Flamerich. This is User:Caracas 2000/ User:GJRFMorelligu. I've blocked him for now -- any input re: the block message? I haven't gone through his new contributions yet but came across him while going through the remaining copyright violations that I'm trying to finish removing... Calliopejen1 ( talk) 21:38, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I have been having the flu for weeks and I need some WikiLove, Mood Ridden. Can you use something like the template on this page: User:Arknascar44/Love Cabal/Template? You can even give me a cupcake too, if you want. Kitty53 ( talk) 02:12, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Copyright concerns at Definitions of pogrom. I posted this some days ago, hoping someone familiar with copyright issues would respond, but so far there has been no outside input. Could you take a look? AndyTheGrump ( talk) 00:23, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
No rush, but if you get a moment, could you take a look at: VRTS ticket # 2014020710015791
Short version - a person wants to use a longish quote, with attribution. I think it is too long to be permitted, but hoped you might have some suggestions.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 19:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia must be ran by communists. "You limit people to much, how can people learn if knowledge is limited" - ME — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
174.134.41.255 (
talk)
17:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. I'm a PhD student at the University of Washington working on an interview-based study of women and Wikipedia. I'd love to chat with you if you've the time and interest. Thanks for your work here in general! -- Mssemantics ( talk) 19:34, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi again, MRG. There's discussion on at wt:WikiProject Medicine w.r.t. this mess re apparent misuse of Caister_Academic_Press sources. Your input would be valued. LeadSongDog come howl! 20:15, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, a new one for your perusal, when time allows. The recent spate of edits by the university's employee appears to include a lot of copyright violations, but the article has gotten long and complex enough to render a simple mass reversion difficult. It's also possible that copyvio problems predate the latest edits. Any light you can shed will be helpful. Thank you, JNW ( talk) 16:31, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Jeona Morh has text sourced to [15]. I want to be sure I'm on firm ground before deleting it. The editor may be a sock - they've certainly recreated one article that has been deleted several times by other socks. Dougweller ( talk) 06:28, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
My understanding is that the license for this image is not acceptable. If I'm right, what am I supposed to do about it? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 02:44, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for handling that, User:Dpmuk. :) I'm traveling and challenged to get Wikipedia time. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:21, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl!
Looks like our old "friend" Roman888 is back and both violating copyright on Malaysia-related articles (see the sequence of edits from multiple Australian IP's geolocating to the Sydney area beginning here), and stirring the usual pot on the Kitchen Nightmares article. I reverted the edit related to Abdul Gani Patail linked above, which was immediately reverted with the edit summary "bad faith edit", a Roman888 classic. He's stopped for the moment, but it won't last long, we know that. I know you take a particular interest in the Malaysian articles and keep an eye on his activities, so I thought a heads up wouldn't be a bad idea. The back-up at SPI is incredible, so it will go stale long before anyone gets to a report there. -- Drmargi ( talk) 16:29, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, could you clear
Charles Cheffins from the copyright restrictions to mirror this article (or take another kind of action). I already notified that (the first version of) this article is based on a pd-source (and is developed from there), but there has been no response since over a week. Thank you. --
Mdd (
talk)
20:50, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
What's going on with the ticket for this image? Obviously PD-USGov is not the correct tag. Do we have permission from someone else? Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 22:07, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Hey, is there some sort of template for when a new source closely paraphrases or even copies wikipedia so that it is clear that our edit was the first one and theirs was the copy - so as not to claim the wiki editor who did the original work was copying? Here's my situation: Some wording I used in the article Mucho Macho Man was closely paraphrased by an article in Blood-Horse magazine that came out yesterday. What complicates the matter is that Blood-Horse - but a different reporter - was one of three sources for some of the material I wrote earlier. How do I tag this for a future time when someone might think there is a potential copyvio? {{ online source}} doesn't seem to quite cut it, because the article doesn't *say* it's citing WP, though I popped that template into hidden text on the talk page to have some sort of ref recorded. The way the reporter worded one paragraph of her article would gut US busted for close paraphrasing, and their last sentence is a cut and paste of ours. Here's the details:
"The Rios sold a majority share in the horse to Jim Culver of Dream Team One Racing Stable, keeping a share for themselves.[13] After Mucho Macho Man's first race, a majority share in the colt was sold to Dean and Patti Reeves' Reeves Thoroughbred Racing of Atlanta, Georgia.[18] In 2012 Reeves Thoroughbred Racing bought out Dream Team One's 30 percent interest and became the sole owners of the colt.[5]"
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/83466/adena-buys-interest-in-mucho-macho-man?source=rss "The Rios sold a majority share in Mucho Macho Man to Jim Culver of Dream Team One Racing Stable before he started in 2010, keeping a small portion for themselves. After his first race, a majority share was sold to Reeves Thoroughbred Racing. In 2012 Reeves Thoroughbred Racing bought out Dream Team One's 30% interest."
Any help or pointers to a proper template welcomed. I'd like to take this article to FAC and I suspect this will get flagged in that review, so thanks in advance for any pointers. Montanabw (talk) 21:29, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, User:Odysseus1479 and User:Demiurge1000. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:22, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG! Here with another of those CCIs where I'm down to the last couple of articles and can't decide what to do with them, this time in Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20140224. The vast majority of this editor's prose contributions have been copyvio, but I can't find specifically where these articles came from, if they were copied. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 13:42, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
And now it's Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Lionhead99 that I'm coming begging for :) Again, down to the last few, don't know what to do... The few that are left include some pretty major articles, and ones that have had a lot of edits made since the potentially copyvio edits. Thoughts? A straight reversion would be easy, but not sure if it's the best option for these articles... Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 18:32, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Right, but in this case, an external website copied the content from Wikipedia. The bot detected that the content was from an external source when in fact it was from Wikipedia and copied by the external website. The external website itself indicates this by the copied content, under the article title, being preceded by "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" on that external website page. -- Shruti14 talk • sign 13:23, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I tried reaching you on the Jen Hudak talk page. I wish to begin working on a new version of that article, but would like to use what I'd previously written as a guide. I will be rewriting everything so that it's all in my own words. I'm currently in talks with Jen to get more information about her, but would like to have access to the information and sources I'd used. Is this possible? I understand that what I had previously written was against the Wikipedia policy and understand why, but just want to open a Word document and paste it in to use that as a framework. It would be a big help. Please and thank you. ( EGorodetsky ( talk) 03:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC))
[[User:Moonriddengirl]]
works. But there are also specific templates if you want to get fancy with it, like {{ping:Moonriddengirl}}
and {{U|Moonriddengirl}}
.
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The Tireless CCI Contributor Barnstar |
Frankly, every one of the 17,000,000+ users or however many we are up to these days could give you a barnstar, and it still would not be sufficient thanks for the tireless work you do behind the scenes at CCI. I appreciate your efforts; thanks to people like you doing that "grunt work", people like me can have fun writing articles on topics we enjoy ... I appreciate that opportunity. I don't understand copyright rules to a sufficient degree so as to feel comfortable assisting at CCI, however in the event you would ever, say, be watching baseball and find a player that you want to know more about, I would be happy to write/expand the article on said player. In all seriousness, if there is something basic I can do that would make your life easier at CCI, please let me know. Thanks again for all you do; without editors such as yourself keeping us legal, this project would not exist. So when I say thank you, I would like to think I do so on behalf of the roughly 116 million people who visit Wikipedia on a monthly basis who have no idea the hard work that you and others perform at CCI on a daily basis. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and did I forget to say thank you. Go Phightins ! 03:58, 6 March 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Moonriddengirl. I have a question related to LINKVIO posted at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems. Can you please take a look at it? Thanks -- SMS Talk 14:15, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello MRG, I have what I hope will be a quick question. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lewis Earle Sandt, Pioneer Aviator was speedy deleted as a copyright violation, however the nominator did not provide a source of the copyright. The article (while still needs work) is well referenced with about 26/30 references coming from the 1912/1913. Further to this, the AfC was declined because the nominator thought the text sounded like it might have been copy/pasted from source material (a stock decline through AFC Helper script). So, I have reversed the delete, as if it were copy/pasted the source material is in the public domain and thus ineligible for copyright. My question is: If it were copy/paste Is all that is required a PD-old-text template at the bottom for the sources, or did I just make a grand error. Much thanks for your input, I hope not to take up too much of your time. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 01:54, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'm hoping you would waive your magic wand and userfy EDGE on the Net to User:Sportfan5000/Edge on the Net? I'm convinced that more sources are available, especially reviews on their dozens of apps, so would like to keep adding items as I find them. Sportfan5000 ( talk) 11:03, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Am I just being crazy here?
A Commons admin is arguing that the particular sketch duplicating a photomicrograph doesn't result in a derivative work / copyright infringement on the theory that the sketch is too trivial to be copyright eligible. I really don't see it. I'm tired of arguing, and we could use a fresh opinion as the two of us clearly aren't going to agree. Dragons flight ( talk) 08:35, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Would someone take a look at the text I reverted here [16] which is copied from [17]. The IP, 50.157.103.28 ( talk · contribs) believes it is copyright free, but I see a copyright tag. In any case it was a huge chunk of copy/paste, even if referenced to the source. A response at the IP's page might be helpful (he's appealing my block). Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 16:50, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Sovereignty of Puerto Rico during the Cold War has well over 150 citations to the same book, almost one per sentence. Is this covered by our copyvio policy? Dougweller ( talk) 12:24, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
More information at your talk page. :) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk)
09:33, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please provide me a copy of List of Iranian International footballers with dual Nationality in my own sub-userpage? Amirreza talk 08:59, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Technically, films like Predator are a variation of Man vs Man anyway... maybe I should mention it there.-- Dr who1975 ( talk) 03:19, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG. I've recently deleted the page Malin Craig as a copyright violation of this book. However I was fairly unsure at the time, and another editor has also questioned my decision, so I thought I'd check with someone who knew what they were doing (that's you, BTW). The book in question is published by a US Government body, and so may fall within the public domain, although it's not clear to me whether the author retains a copyright on his work in these circumstances ( WP:PD is fairly unedifying on the subject). Would the copied text be usable under PD terms, and if so, would you mind letting me know so that I can put the article back? Much obliged, Yunshui 雲 水 08:08, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Unless otherwise noted, information presented on CMH Online is considered public information and may be distributed or copied for non-commerical purposes.�Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested. If copyrighted or permission restricted materials are posted on CMH Online, the appropriate credit is given. Visitors wishing to repost or use such materials for their own projects should make separate arrangements for permission with the owner.
Please see Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Plagiarism_of_Ostensibly_Unreliable_Sources:_Eight_Examples. You may be interested in this WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:11, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi I am upset that you have removed my content from ultimate fight night as it was not copyrighted I changed it and made it my own. Lukejordan02 ( talk) 21:41, 17 March 2014 (UTC).
Ok I understand I just didn't like being threatened with being blocked as I am new to editing and didn't mean to, Lukejordan02 ( talk) 21:51, 17 March 2014 (UTC).
Could you think about restoring the match listings please As that is verified info and quite important as well thank you Lukejordan02 ( talk) 21:54, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Ok thank you and apologies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lukejordan02 ( talk • contribs) 22:02, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG. Would you mind taking a look at
File:Postnow Angst book cover German translation of Postnov, Strah.jpg? We don't have an article on the book, so fair use isn't applicable, but I'm thinking it might be acceptable as the image is almost certainly PD. That leaves the typeface and publisher's logo - the type doesn't look as though it's complex enough to create a new copyright, and I believe {{
PD-textlogo}}
might well apply if the logo appeared on its own. Do you think this is a useable image, or should it stay off until the book has an article and it can be uploaded under fair use? Cheers,
Yunshui
雲
水
07:59, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
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...stand that T.P. guy. Cheers. Hispalois ( talk) 00:10, 21 March 2014 (UTC) |
One of your discussions seems to have gone offwiki. Bazj ( talk) 20:13, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Template:The_Tudors_of_Penmynydd
Please advise how to set it to display properly or do it for me. This lineage appears in various articles but is all jumbled up and I would like it corrected.
Thanks. Mhakcm ( talk) 09:35, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Seems like a clear copyvio from [20] (a bit less know after my c/e of first sentence or two), do you concur? I have looked at author's other recent articles and they seem fine, so hopefully an explanatory note on this will prevent this from happening again. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:50, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I am Shuvo Saha made this new page named Manikganj Govt. High School, and the writings you have saw that you think I've copied are absolutely wrong. I wrote that description from where i have copied this. I didn't think, for a school i have to write the same thing again. The whole articles and information was in Bangla. So, I had to translate them into english. The page i have created is for my school, which established in 1884, and no one yet created any page in wikipedia. So at first i made a map where i put all the description in wikimapia. Then i have created a facebook page of my school https://www.facebook.com/MGBHS , i used the same description as i have no other source of information. and then when i came to wikipedia, i have seen no pages been created in wiki, so i did. If you want a clean article, please help me regarding that with your information and you can correct it by writing the actual facts. Why did you removed it. I appreciate that you work hard for wikipedia, but you should realize that correcting things never mean to delete. Correct it if i made any spelling mistake or anything. Here no copy right has been issued. The author is me. and no one else. Please give the source document of problem. Otherwise do not remove or delete anything. Please, leave a message Shuvo Saha( Talk)
Thanks. --Shuvo 07:15, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear, I'm really sorry. Maybe i was bit rude when i wrote my message to you. Please help me regarding this. Yes I wrote that and i do have the copyright. Please undo that Remove by doing whatever it requires. Please help me. If you want, I can delete the source article from where i have copied this. Please undo the thing you did on
Manikganj Govt. High School .
Thanks a lot --Shuvo 17:30, 23 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saha7 ( talk • contribs)
Dear Moon, I hope its your name :) Okay so this is where i wrote that description from where i copied it to wikipedia >
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=23.860339&lon=90.002945&z=18&m=b&show=/object/history/list/?object_type=1&id=12494869&lng=en&search=manikganj%20govt%20high%20school see you will get my user name. And i have translated it from our school book. It was in Bangla, So I had to translate it in english. If you say, i can delete the one i have posted in Wikimapia as i was the person who wrote that. Sorry, that I'm taking your time. And thanks a lot as you are replying me so fast. Hope I'm not disturbing you.
Thanks Shuvo 20:35, 24 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saha7 ( talk • contribs)
If you can remember back close to 3 years ago, we had a foundational copyright in the article that dated from 2006. The vio came from Red Skelton's official site in 2006. I worked with the article a lot to replace what had to be deleted and added my own information & refs.
I haven't done any real work on it for a while, but was taking a look at it, thinking about whether to submit it for GA. Now the reverse is true--the Skelton website has copied a section of the WP article and put a 2014 copyright notice on it.
Start reading at: "Skelton introduced the first two of his many characters during the show's first season. Clem Kadiddlehopper was based on a Vincennes neighbor named Carl Hopper, who was hard of hearing." and continue down to the end of the section there and here on the article.
This was my own work over a period of time and my edits can be checked--they pre-date the Skelton website. This was the only 2014 edit I've made so far--replacing a dead link.
How do we set the record straight?
Thanks!! We hope ( talk) 20:54, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
It's sort of a matter of "self defense" because many times, I have bunches of tabs open from places like Google News Archive and am trying to make sure I don't get too close with paraphrasing. :) The most recent article I've done a lot of editing on is Ruth Etting, and trying to keep what happened there straight was a job. Days after the shooting, she was sued for "alienation of affections" by her pianist's second wife, so you had 2 things happening--the shooting aftermath and the lawsuit against her. It's good to know all of my habits aren't bad ones! Thanks a bunch once again ! :) We hope ( talk) 22:41, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Where someone requests a copy of a deleted article in order to post it elsewhere, e.g. to Wikia, what if anything needs to be done about attribution? Do the original authors lose any CC-BY-SA rights when their material is deleted, even if it is resuscitated elsewhere? That seems wrong, but I don't see how to provide an attribution trail. JohnCD ( talk) 14:49, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
I removed the paragraph stating you copied (thief!!) from another Wikipedia article. Per
Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Proper attribution, you add in the edit summary that you "stole" from the hard work of others or add the {{
copied}} template to the talk page. I'm not sure what is the best way, but the few times I've come across this, it was added in the edit summary.
I keep seeing you around, but I've never been on your talk page before. Finally nice to say hello. I do have one problem. I see that devious
Crisco 1492 hangs out here. Now I know where you get your "ripped off" style of writing. :)
Bgwhite (
talk)
05:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}
. That shouldn't go in articles. I changed it to use [[Special:Diff/297548840|this edit]]
(
this edit). It is trivial in this case, but I try to keep template programming code out of articles. There are some wild ways people attempt to use the code.
Bgwhite (
talk)
17:50, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG - This article (currently nominated for GAN, which is how I stumbled across it), was substantially copied from an article published in 1980. The main editor of the article notes on the talk page that he was given permission by the author (via e-mail) to copy the article to WP. Do we need an OTRS ticket from the original article author for this, or can the editor forward the e-mail to OTRS? Without OTRS verification, isn't it copyvio? Pinging User:Gating as the main author of the article; I'm also going to be posting on the talk page. Dana boomer ( talk) 14:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Back at Red Skelton. Am trying to enlarge the lead and was doing some lookups when I hit this "bump".
The site has a 2014 copyright notice (hello, again? :)). Wayback Machine has only 1 crawl and it's from February of this year. I went back to where it had been cleaned of vios in 2011 and the first paragraph of the article plus the first paragraph of "Early years" are a match for the ones on the Walk of Fame. I think it's another case of reverse copyright but need your opinion and help for it. And I'm beginning to think someone doesn't want me to finish this and put it up for GA. :/ Thanks, We hope ( talk) 22:16, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
This has been quite a problem for some time, see WP:ANI#Europa Universalis vandalism and copyvio from Charles Esdaile - need range block. Dougweller ( talk) 18:11, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm wondering if we should indef this editor, see User_talk:Canadaolympic989. What do you think? On another tack, you might want to look at WP:RSN#Is an anti-Mosque organisation a reliable source for Child Grooming. Dougweller ( talk) 15:04, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Ditto. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:20, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
There is no Wiki article on the famous organist Diane Meredith Belcher, and I would like to create one.
In starting to do so, I came across this info: "22:01, 17 December 2007 Moonriddengirl (talk | contribs) deleted page Diane Meredith Belcher (CSD G12: Blatant Copyright infringement)"
I'm wondering if this is pertinent to the article I want to write.
Thank you.
Giovanni GiovLDL ( talk) 12:32, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I'm sorry but I only now got your recommendations regarding the article "European Commodity Clearing (ECC) I wrote and which you deleted because of copyright problems you were assuming. In fact there is no copyright problem because I wrote the original text myself. I know you can't verify that. That's why I placed a release on the external website the text was taken from ( http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/European_Commodity_Clearing_AG_(ECC). On the bottom you can find the copyright guideline. Now that I did this, I would like to write the article again. Do I have to write the article again or is it stored somewhere? I hope there won't be any further mistakes.
Thank you Ursula Goetze ( talk) 11:35, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
An email was sent to your wikimedia account a few hours ago requesting for an office action on an urgent basis. TrangDocVan ( talk) 16:31, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
By any chance do you know about non-Wikimedia copyright issue?
My
this post was entirely copied by someone
here. Firstly I posted at their comment section and asked them to remove the post. They gave one of the weirdest reply I have ever heard I will not remove because I have written the URL from where I copied
(please check comment section of the second link)
Now I tried to follow the second option, reporting to the host, i. e. Wordpress. There I need to file a formal DMCA notice.
Here is the DMCA form. There in the form I must provide my full residential address, phone number. But the surprising thing is, at the end of the form they are asking to me to acknowledge I acknowledge that a copy of this infringement notice, including any contact information I provided above (address, telephone number, and email address), will be forwarded to the user who uploaded the content at issue.
. Now, why should I share my full contact details with that pirate? I'm stumped. --
Tito☸
Dutta
20:32, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions. Please note in Wikipedia we follow some
Manual of Style guidelines to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Unfortunately some of your edits did not follow MoS guidelines. According to
WP:OVERLINK— A link should appear only once or twice in a page. You should not link every time.
But I have noticed every time you sign your posts, you link your user page and talk page. The worstly affected page is your own talk page, there you have linked your user page and talk page in your every message. I think it is a clear violation of WP:OVERLINK. -- Tito☸ Dutta 15:23, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Disclaimer: For clarification, it was a joke, do not take it seriously. Source: Original creation.
Man: whence, how and whither, a record of clairvoyant investigation is a recreation of an article I deleted for copyvio when it had a different title. Admins can see the old article at [26]. At first glance a lot of it seems unattributed quotes, some material copied from [27] and possibly from and other pages at this url. I'm also concerned about K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater. Hate to be a pain, but I really feel I need a second opinion. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 09:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Well, it's not to be done anyway without attribution. :) But I've left a personal note supplemental to your earlier one explaining the specific issues of plagiarism and licensing violations. Let's see if he fixes the content. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:29, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to point out this discussion of a recent article: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2014_March_24 As explained in that thread by both me (law student) and user Brianwc (law professor), the article ( /info/en/?search=Illinois_v._Hemi_Group_LLC) was incorrectly flagged as infringing copyright. The article is about a federal court opinion, which is not copyrightable. Furthermore, there was already correct attribution and citation. I'm having a hard time convincing Justlettersandnumbers that the article is beyond simply fair use -- it CANNOT be infringement when all federal court opinions are not copyrightable and hence in the public domain, which means it can be freely copied, even without attribution, anywhere at any time, no matter who hosts the text.
I have an assignment due for a class ( /info/en/?search=Education_Program:University_of_California,_Berkeley/Cyberlaw_(Spring_2014)) which requires me to edit this article. Please unlock it and restore it to the last version.
Thank you! Bundaberger ( talk) 07:35, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
{{PD-notice}}
placed next to the reference tells people that the source is public domain and that substantial content is duplicated or closely followed from it.Dear Madam,
With good will, I tried to put on wikipedia the beginning two personalities profiles , William Mandeville AUSTIN and John Alfred Hipple. The systhem swept this effort, I am sorry. Please accept, Madam, my respectful greetings. Pierre-Francois Puech — Preceding unsigned comment added by PUECH P.-F. ( talk • contribs) 13:12, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl:
I am informed by Lars Curfs of WIKIPEDIA that you have edited the article on me. If you indeed are responsible putting this article into shape I would ask you please to consider four corrections:
1. On page 1 under MAIN INTERESTS the article lists aesthetics. This is ironic because while I have written extensively on every other area of philosophy I have done virtually nothing with aesthetics. Instead, the field that should be lists is EPISTEMOLOGY (or, if one prefers, Theory of Knowledge), where I have done a great deal of work.
2. The entry CAREER says I began my career as an academic at Lehigh University in 1957. Actually, my first teaching appointment was as an Instructor in Philosophy at Princeton for the 1951-1952 academic year.
3. The entry PHILOSOPHY speaks in line 7 of “medieval and late Arabic logic.” The expression “and late” should be deleted. All the texts I dealt with were medieval.
4. The entry PHILOSOPHY speaks in the last line of model syllogistic. This, however, should read MODAL syllogistic with an A in place of E.
That’s it as far as correction goes. Many thanks for attending to these points.
Sincerely, Nicholas Rescher
P.S. As regards that entry “Notable Ideas” at the outset of the article, it is not really for me to say. But if someone did ask me I would myself list primarily two items:
Is there a place on Commons like WP:Copyright problems where things can be reported for investigation? There is a user who has input several images claiming "Own work". One had a copyright notice in the metadata and has been speedied; the others look very professional, and Tineye finds some of them elsewhere on the internet, but I don't think I have enough evidence actually to nominate for deletion. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 15:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
You know a copied plot is not worth deleting a whole article. If you see something you think is a copyvio then just remove it there is no need to try and get the page deleted. Koala15 ( talk) 23:29, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. You deleted a part of the article K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater. I’m sorry, it is wrong. Author of the first Letter Kuthumi gave a permit on free using all his Letters. He wrote in Letter XXXIX (Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series, Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, p. 106) that "everyone can take free something, the whole pages, from any my copied letter." Make undo please. Thank you. SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 08:41, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, you wrote, "I'd recommend that you scan the page and email it to the volunteer response team who process and log copyright permissions. If you'd like to go that route, I'll be happy to give you the address." I've Letters (including Letter XXXIX) in PDF; it's need to examine Letter XXXIX for a permit of the Master Kuthumi. Thank you. SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 15:31, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Appendix (transferred from PDF)
LETTER XXXIX 1
YOU may, if you choose so, or find necessity for it, use in "Man"2 or in any other book you may chance to be collaborating for, anything I may have said in relation to our secret doctrines in any of my letters to Messrs. Hume or Sinnett. Those portions that were private have never been allowed by them to be copid by anyone; and those which are so copied have by the very fact become theosophical property. Besides, copies of my letters – at any rate those that contained my teachings – have always been sent by my order to Damodar and Upasika, and some of the portions even used in The Theosophist. You are at liberty to even copy them verbatim and without quotation marks – I will not call it "plagiarism". . . . From the right point of view, if you will know, it is only the expression of another person's original ideas, some independent sentence, a thought, which in its brief completeness is capable of being constructed into a wise motto or maxim, that could be constituted into what is regarded as plagiarism – the pilfering of another person's "brain property". There is not a book but is the shadow of some other book, the concrete image, very often, of the astral body of it in some other work upon the same or approximate subject. I agree entirely with Dr. Cromwell when he says that "true talent" will become original in the very act of engaging itself with the ideas of others"; nay, will often convert the dross of previous authors into the golden ore that shines forth to the world as its own peculiar creation. "From a series of extravagant and weak Italian romances, Shakespeare took the plots, the characters, and the major part of the incidents of those dramatic works which have exalted his name, as an original writer, above that of every other in the annals of literature." Thus not only you, a chela of mine, but anyone else is at liberty to take anything, whole pages, if thought proper, from any of my "copied" letters and convert their "dross" into pure ore of gold, provided they have well grasped the thought. Show this to . . . who was already told the same
K. H.
1 Transcribed direct from the original at Adyar.
2 The book, Man : Fragments of Forgotten History, by Two Chelas in the Theosophical Society, published in 1885.
SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 03:21, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. You wrote, "If the page is published legitimately online (that is, if the book is printed somewhere licensed to display it and we can see it there), then that may suffice." It's Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom 1881—1888. It's labeled, "Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from Microsoft Corporation". All right? SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 12:03, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi. The book there is in Open Library under CCo 1.0 Universal license i.e. Public Domain Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom. Let me make undo in K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater, please. Thank you. SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 14:55, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Please see in K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater (modification on 2 April 2014 at 09:02) references №№ 10-15 basing upon Jinarajadasa (1919) i.e. Jinarajadasa, Curuppumullage, ed. (1919) Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series, Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House. In 1941 Jinarajadasa was quoting the Letters first published in 1919. If summarize it, copyvio was not. SERGEJ2011 ( talk) 04:13, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Would you please help me out? I always assume good faith, but I also know how hard it is to write original articles based on multiple references, free of copyright violations. That's why all instantaneous entries are a red flag for me, warranting further analysis. Ozhistory ( talk · contribs) created Rescue of Jews by Catholics during the Holocaust in one sweep on 12:02, 4 April 2014, with +113,615 characters. He/she also created Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany in one sweep on 12:18, 22 November 2013, with +42,887 characters. I'd like to make sure that we have the legal right to keep it, after what I've run into at the "List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust." See my post at Talk:List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust#Copying within Wikipedia for my Detector results. Thanks in advance, Poeticbent talk 15:04, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Fair enough. I did a spot check - nowhere near a major portion of the text given its size - and did not find any copying through Google or Google books. I only found the content in Wikipedia articles (and mirrors), and only Wikipedia articles that he had edited. :) This of course can't preclude copying, but it's a good sign. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:12, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
User:G S Palmer's desire to push his OR POV returns, reverting twice(so far) a valid template [34], [35]. (This after he deleted all the tags such as "citation needed" for totally unsourced OR sentences! I brought this up on the discussion page.. [36]. But fear not, because there is a WP:MEAT at hand... [37]!
Also, after he removed a WP:RS that would have provided WP:NPOV [38], I brought it up on the discussion page [39]. Whereupon, he almost immediately did this [40]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.132.48.255 ( talk) 12:45, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
, Well, User:G S Palmer, that's frustrating. :/ Looking at the listing, I wonder if the problem is that it focused too much on who is doing what and not enough on what the actual dispute is about the material. Concrete issues are easier for people to address - "Is this a reliable source for that statement?"
And, oh, I find the listing, and that seems to be quite a bit of the problem:
The problem seems to be exactly that - focusing on the issues might get some progress here. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:16, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
By the way, the IP has reached three reverts again: 1A and 1B, 2, 3A and 3B. G S Palmer ( talk) 14:54, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl, Please can you restore Harvington School. 1> There is no 'copyright' on the page and 2> I have been acting as an agent thereof. I have left messages on the talk page, but have not heard anything back. If in doubt please contact admin@harvingtonschool.com, aevans@harvingtonschoo.com or tweet @harvingtonprep
Brtles ( talk) 20:07, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, me again. So what is the process? The Head of Harvington School has sent an email to the email address via that 'blanked' page that leads to the copyright confirming the situation. Please can you put the page back now. Or if not please can you detail instructions as in a, b, c ? Brtles ( talk) 19:07, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, only the history was taken from the school page. Everything else I wrote myself utilising other sources such as the department of education and the independent schools association etc etc. I was going to add the references on but am unable to edit it as you have locked the page. I used other schools as a template for the wikipedia style also. Brtles ( talk) 22:10, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
As an additional please can you add the school to this footer as i'm having difficulties. /info/en/?search=List_of_schools_in_Ealing Brtles ( talk) 22:14, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Say, what's your take on including parts of lists in articles such as The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History and Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank and 100 Greatest Britons and List of 100 greatest NHL players by The Hockey News and so forth? All four of those articles are about publications where the core of the work is a list of 100 things, and we include the first 10.
IMO this is pushing the edges of fair use and I'm agin it. But I haven't haven't gotten any traction in the (very unpopulated) discussions at the pages in question.
My take is that in one sense giving the top ten of list of 100 is 10% of the whole work (which is an awful lot for fair use), in another sense it is more than 10% of the work by value (1-10 are probably "worth more" than say 61-70), in another sense it's only a small fraction of the work since the works also includes a great deal of text. Additionally, fair use claims are pretty weak IMO since we're pretty much going "Hey, here's a list!" rather than "Here's a list, and we will now proceed to discuss the factors and prejudices and so forth that might have contributed to the list having the form it does, and compare it to earlier similar lists and discuss how the rankings have changed over time, and so forth".
Going around on this in my head, there are very many complicated issues here, and each case is different. I'm sure that two Philadelphia lawyers could have an interesting discussion on the question "If a list is the purely mechanical result of a poll, does the copyright of just the list itself devolve to the entities who published the article containing the list, or to the the mass of people who voted (which would mean 'no copyright' since copyrights cannot be held by a mob)?" (This applies to some but not all of the cases linked above.)
It looks like we're all over the place on this. It looks like for Time 100, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists of all time we publish no part of the lists. On the other hand for the articles mentioned above we provide the top ten, and at World Soccer (magazine)#The Greatest Players of the 20th century we publish the entire list of 100, ditto at World Team of the 20th Century we publish the entire list (which is only 11 entries long).
There's also the question of respect for commercial opportunities. However, realistically any sales impact is probably minimal (although we can't be sure it's absolutely zero) and for all I know a net positive.
Is this worth worrying about or not, in your view? Am I overthinking this? Is this a sort of least-of-our-worries no-harm-no-foul situation maybe? Herostratus ( talk) 20:56, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I am Tamravidhir. I hope that you remember me. Anyway, Moonriddengirl I need help from you. Nowadays I hardly get time to edit, and even if I do then I edit occasionally. After a lot of effort I had tried to reconstruct the article, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. But later when I came back after nearly one year I saw that most of the references and the information has been deleted so I again reconstructed it. But recently there have been some edits which I fear may lead to an edit war. There is an IP address user ( 117.203.114.134) who has been trying to overlink the article by adding links to the pages of major geographical places such as Dubai, UAE and even terms such as TRPs. He also made certain edits to the plot, but that was not the basic outline, if that would be added then other IP address users would try to recreate the entire plot. I have summarise the plot to a large extent, well as much as I could. I had left a welcome message on the user's talk page and had also left the links of some pages which may help him or her. Except this I had also made the user about overlinking warned the user not to over link the article. The user has also been editing the cast section of the article. He has been deleting information, adding information and rearranging the entire section which makes it look clumsy and confusing. For e.g. in India, many Hindu (not in every regional Hindu culture) children, especially those in west India, carry the name of their father as their middle name and all women after marriage carry the name of their husband as their middle name and also their surname. But as Bade Achhe Lagte Hain is a soap opera, a character has got divorced, remarried or their marriage is in ruins thus many add several names for a single character. The middle names of few important characters have been included but the user has been deleting info, adding wrong info and making it look clumsy and confusing even after a warning. And this has been done for some two to three times. And what is more mysterious that there have been similar edits by several other IP address users, soon after the edits by 117.203.114.134. for evidence you can refer the following links:
I fear that these are sockpuppets. I am also afraid that this may lead to an edit war. As you are an admin and you have been helping since the time I joined, I would like you to look into the matter. Thank you so much!-- Tamravidhir ( ২০১৪) 08:42, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Okay, when an IP is editing articles, it generally isn't sock puppetry even when the IP changes unless the IP is a registered editor who is editing logged out or unless he has been blocked under one of those IPs and is working around it. Some people just don't have accounts, and some people have IPs that change regularly.
It is hard to talk to IPs that change regularly. We do block them sometimes when they are vandalizing articles, obviously, but we can't block them just because somebody disagrees with them even if we think that somebody is right, because it shouldn't matter if I think you are right. As an administrator, I'm not supposed to decide that. (It's different if it's clear vandalism, as we define it at WP:V. That is community consensus, and I can act on that.)
The thing to do is show if you are right by getting other editors to review your reasoning. If they agree and the IP keeps editing against that agreement, then we can semi-protect the page in the hopes that the IP will come back, see they can't edit, and go to the talk page and find out why.
Please let me know if that's not clear, User:Tamravidhir. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:15, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you so much Moonriddengirl for your guidance. Tamravidhir ( talk) 13:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC) |
User Moonriddengirl Wikipedia Rewriter /info/en/?search=User_talk:Moonriddengirl
Hi Moonriddengirl:
I am informed by Lars Curfs of WIKIPEDIA that you have edited the article on me. If you indeed are responsible putting this article into shape I would ask you please to consider four corrections:
1. On page 1 under MAIN INTERESTS the article lists aesthetics. This is ironic because while I have written extensively on every other area of philosophy I have done virtually nothing with aesthetics. Instead, the field that should be lists is EPISTEMOLOGY (or, if one prefers, Theory of Knowledge), where I have done a great deal of work.
2. The entry CAREER says I began my career as an academic at Lehigh University in 1957. Actually, my first teaching appointment was as an Instructor in Philosophy at Princeton for the 1951-1952 academic year.
3. The entry PHILOSOPHY speaks in line 7 of “medieval and late Arabic logic.” The expression “and late” should be deleted. All the texts I dealt with were medieval.
4. The entry PHILOSOPHY speaks in the last line of model syllogistic. This, however, should read MODAL syllogistic with an A in place of E.
That’s it as far as correction goes. Many thanks for attending to these points.
Sincerely, Nicholas Rescher
P.S. As regards that entry “Notable Ideas” at the outset of the article, it is not really for me to say. But if someone did ask me I would myself list primarily two items:
Is it weird to feel respect and caring for someone you have never met?
Don`t think so.
So I took this yearly tradition one step further and I baked "cough" bought "cough" just for you (in a sense, my wife and i will eat it but you get the point).
Sorry is turned and just in case you can`t read it it says "Happy W Bday MRG"
I hope you appreciate it as much as I anticipated this day for the last twelve months.
Happy WikiBirthday my dear mentor and friend. Zidane tribal ( talk) 05:26, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I have a question for you concerning copyright, particularly whether images and audio created by Federal employees of prisoners in Federal custody are public domain by our standards. If an audiovisual conversation solely documented by the Federal Bureau of Prisons is released anywhere (in this case the subject is John Gotti in recorded interviews with his visiting daughter): who really owns the copyrights to the images and audio? Gotti, the daughter, or whomever records it? We would have no record, even a written transcript of the conversations, but for the source. And if it were recorded by the U.S. Government, would the audio portions be not PD when the images are by our strict standards? It's their (or our if you're a U.S. citizen) audio equipment they're using to begin with, and in the course of their official duties using government resources. Doc talk 09:33, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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Wishing you a happy wiki anniversary. Thank you for all you do for the projects. You are an inspiration. :) Msannakoval ( talk) 03:06, 9 April 2014 (UTC) |
Just found [57] - do you know anything about the site? Dougweller ( talk) 16:42, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
May I ask for your help, please? The article of Raba has been tagged recently because of copyright violation. However, I would like to tell you that I have just moved an old text recently from page of Rába (automobile) (it has been there since 2009, see its revision history [58]). I do not what to do it is not clear for me where I can "defend" myself before someone starts to accuse me. Thank you. Fakirbakir ( talk) 10:42, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
If the text of an article entitled "Foo" includes the statement "Foo is a registered trademarked term of XYZ Corp", is there a problem, if the article is otherwise OK for references, notability etc? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 15:33, 7 April 2014 (UTC)