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Thank you Moonriddengirl for responding to Talk:Türkvizyon Song Contest 2014 earlier today, I really appreciate it, and sincerely apologise for linking your name in the conversation. The issue that sparked it all off is an editor wanted to include information regarding composers and lyricists; however such information is not available on the internet. A different user said they had obtained screenshots from the contest broadcast itself, and had uploaded them onto an image storing website, and insisted those screenshot could be used as citation for verification. My concern of this was it could be seen as original research, especially as we would have no way of saying who the author is, and it could also be seen as WP:SELFCITE. Would the way I am thinking be correct, or is the use of screenshots in this manner OK? Wes Mouse | T@lk 14:51, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm curious if there is a compromise possible, such as where I am only allowed to upload an image after it's been approved as PD. An example would be a photo such as this one from ebay, which I would send someone a link to.
On another matter, I mentioned that I would pay to have WP find an expert copyright attorney to review some of my previous deleted images, especially ones I disputed. I also asked whether a scan of the reverse for all future uploads was a requirement, if that would be acceptable. Neither of those questions was answered at the ANI. We Hope includes reverse side scans with no issues.
As for copyright searches, the online U.S. database covers everything since 1978. That would mean that images with a notice between 1950 and 1963 would need a renewal registration, which would show up in the search. I mentioned that I already do that for photos which need it, but you never responded whether that kind of search was acceptable. If not, can someone else do it to check my results, which would also then act as a pre-approval? Consideration about these questions would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Light show ( talk) 23:00, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm going to propose that before any uploading commences, we list all questionable uploaded files both here and at Commons at FFD and DR. There are many photos like this File:Judy Garland - publicity.JPG in both places where the author is listed as "unknown", there's nothing to substantiate the date claim, and there's no back uploaded. They're uploaded under the old user name and the current one.
Regardless of the user's thoughts and feelings on the subject of PD, items like this aren't suitable to be licensed as PD for WP or the other projects. I see where he says WP has hundreds of "PD" images with a "red box". Many of these lack the needed proof just mentioned and my thought is--how we can prevent this from happening again if the user returns to uploading?
If the user is ever to get back to uploading on his own again, he has to understand what the project rules are and follow them. All of us have spent a lot of time sending photos to both FFD and PD and then we have the user failing to listen to what our PD rules are and arguing that they should be changed to fit his standards. My personal thought is that if the user can't or won't accept the project's rules for uploading photos, he should give up doing it, but if he can learn to work within our "system" for it, then he should be able to upload again at some point. We hope ( talk) 14:01, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
@MRG: I'm sorry if this seems to become a circular discussion, but there may be some fundamental WP policy issues involved, all brought up in previous discussions in my "Oppose" comments, but have not been dealt with. The key one is that WP relies on U.S. law in its tagging system, which is further detailed in a clear outline of U.S. copyright law, but is then ignored. In the ANI, the only person, believe it or not, who dealt with that contradiction was User:Masem, who sums it up nicely explaining, "we are purposely stricter than that". That contradictory policy results in giving all editors arbitrary power over uploads, which then undermines the U.S. law and PW policies it supposedly relies on.
The result, IMO, is that we create a situation where WP displays a pretense of having a foundation policy based on real laws, but then lets any editor arbitrarily override them. That effectively becomes a trap, whereby a GF editor can add a U.S. image relying on both WPs tags and U.S. law and still be censured. The problem is noticeably worse in the Commons, where they stood by and let a regular non-U.S. editor delete 60 images at one swipe, with the only the rationale, "probably not PD." Another Commons editor was allowed to delete 600 PD images with a bot and no rationale, apparently feeling grumpy. They were eventually all restored, but no one in the Commons said or did anything. So the circular situation exists that should be dealt with: Can you have image copyright policy based on U.S. laws and then allow any editor to ignore them at will? Obviously not. WP should delete its U.S. based tagging system and create its own tags based on whatever criteria it wants, making clear that copyright law is essentially irrelevant. At that point, We Hope's premise, that I "won't accept the project's rules for uploading photos," will make sense. And we can stop running circles. Just a thought. -- Light show ( talk) 19:08, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) (Disclaimer: I know nothing of the underlying issue here) One important point seems to be getting glossed over: While WP's image use policy begins with US copyright law, it does not end there. As a private entity, they can set any use policy they want... they could (extremely hypothetically) ban all B/W photos, for example. That's not undermining US copyright law; an image illegal under copyright law is similarly disallowed here. The converse though is not necessarily true: that just because it passes US or Berne copyright muster that it is automatically ok here. Good or bad, right or wrong, that is the policy this private company chooses to have for their website. Crow Caw 23:28, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
If you want to import media (including text) that you have found elsewhere, and it does not meet the non-free content policy and guideline, you can only do so if it is public domain or available under terms that are compatible with the CC BY-SA license.... You must also in most cases verify that the material is compatibly licensed or public domain.
It was tagged for copyvio of a .mil site. I added G11 to the G12 as I considered it promotional and not written in an encyclopaedic way. Could you have a look at the copyvio aspect for me as the page doesn't say either copyright or public domain, and the page I got to about copyright seemed more concerned with copyright stuff they might be using (and see if you agree with my addition to the reason)? The unit possibly merits an article, but I feel that a fresh start would be better than the previous text. Peridon ( talk) 11:05, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
First of all, Basie, Moonriddengirl. MRG, Basie. He's helping out with SCV! Now then: I saw the section a few days ago about conflicting license tags, CC vs. "All rights", but another has popped up that causes even more eyebrows to pop. This and other pages from the City of Olympia contain a copyright - all rights reserved on the page, but then This page suggests that everything is PD with 1 or 2 exceptions. How to reconcile this wider discrepancy of permissions? Thanks as always! Crow Caw 23:07, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
I find it quite strange that what I have written and posted in my own website http://badaga.wordpress.com and specifically related to http://badaga.co/badaga-villages-nakku-betta-hattis/, needs copy right permission or other wise, some wise person like you can delete the whole thing. God bless wikipedia. I laugh at the irony that my website which is 'copy righted' cannot be reproduced by myself. Days are not far off when I have to prove to myself that I am me. Why bother to get into wiki in the first place. - Wing Commander Bellie Jayaprakash http://www.badaga.co
At the request of Cirt ( talk · contribs) I had a look at Tertulius ( talk · contribs) and his editing activity at the page Guerrilla filmmaking ( Left is Tertulious, Right is Cirt), but in a not-very thorough but enough to know something is wrong review I found a lot of little stuff that appears to be cut and pasted form copyright sources such as Facebook, Amazon, and other blogs ( [2] [3] [4]). I don't want to unnecessarily alarm anyone here, but I would like a second opinion on whether my concern is justified because if it is then the edits Tertulius has made over the years may need a very close review in the name of avoiding copyright. For what its worth, I've handled a few cases of copyright on my own these past few months, but I genuinely feel out of my league on this one. TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:38, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Please see this and if please possible endorse it User_talk:Titodutta#WMIN_Infrastructure_Scholarship_endorsements -- Tito☸ Dutta 11:51, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I've been editing the Ernest Lawlars article, and noticed when looking for new sources that the text the article was created with under "Life and career" here (much of which was still in the article) was almost word for word from a published source (Lawlars' entry in the Virgin Encyclopedia of the Blues). I've rephrased/rewritten the Lawlars article and I think it is now OK, but I notice that the same editor had added large amounts of text to other pages in 2007-2008 (they don't seem to have been active much since then, and haven't edited at all since last December). I've had a look at a couple, and at least some of the text appears in books available on Google Books, for example on Joe Williams (jazz singer) the two sentences starting "During his mid-teens...", and at least one of the sentences Pony Blues was created with seems to be from a book (this one has already been dealt with and no longer appears in the same form). I notice quite a lot of notices to do with images on their User talk page, as well as a note on the deletion discussion for an article they created that "this article has content copyvioed", so I suspect that they may not have been particularly concerned about copyright issues when adding content. I'm not sure exactly how to proceed with this, so I thought I'd ask you about it since you seem to be involved in copyright stuff. Brunton ( talk) 08:56, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Oh, I see, Brunton. Thanks. I did misunderstand that. If you're able to help out with the CCI, you would be very welcome. We have quite a backlog there, and all willing participants are needed. :) I was hoping that we could easily identify some of the content if you had the book in question, but we routinely do these without access. Alas, we just have to remove if there is reasonable doubt. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:33, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
I have just stubbed the Suraj Mal article after spending a lot of time looking into potential copyvio issues over many months. Much of the problematic stuff seems to owe its origin to LRBurdak ( talk · contribs), with whom you have had past dealings in relation to copyright issues. A person using the same name, and who has in the past claimed to be the same person, has transcribed copyrighted books to the notorious Jatland open wiki and the same stuff appears in assembled form in articles such as this one. (I'm not saying LRBurdak added every bit of copyvio to this particular article: copy/pasting from jatland.com is common here).
A lot of LRBurdak's past article creations have already been deleted but I'm wondering whether this particular one needs at least a massive admin action to hide the history. - Sitush ( talk) 15:58, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
May you please send the text of the deleted page Parvis Emad to my email for me to modify it? -- Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 14:05, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
Ok. Please restore it. Thank you. -- Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 15:44, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello MRG. Long time no talk, I hope all is well. Changes in my life have reduced how often I edit but I occasionally get pinged for a copyvio issue on my talk. I always help but in the case of Khukhrain, it appears an old copyvio may have been reintroduced. You cleaned this one up in May 2012 but I cannot see your deleted edits. Suspected source is the same now as it was in 2012. Looks like a large swath of text was added in November 2013. I spot-checked some of it and it is directly from the suspected source. Do you mind taking a quick (I hope) peek at the deleted and new edits? Thanks.-- NortyNort (Holla) 02:13, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey
Moonriddengirl Thanks for helping in resolving the Copyright issue.
I'll Soon Be Improving The Page
Khukhrain.
Thanks Again
Mayank.94 (
talk) — Preceding
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19:57, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Again Moonriddengirl Sited a page that is unusable and not needed because it already have placed on wikipedia as Rama. I would request you to guide me how to delete this page Bhagwan Ramji. Thanks Again!! Mayank.94 ( talk) 16:00, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[Rama]]
. However, please be sure that you are correct that the pages are on the same subject. I note that the second page claims it is about a specific man born in 1937 and died in 1992 - specifically,
this guy - while the first page seems to be about an avatar of Vishnu. To somebody unfamiliar with the subject, it is difficult to see how they are connected. You will want to explain thoroughly at the talk page why you think they are. --
Moonriddengirl
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14:41, 9 December 2014 (UTC)Hello Moonriddengirl. This isn't really question 42, but; a good answer is no-less appreciated. If an article is created as an unambiguous copyvio, and: for various reasons, its title would best and properly serve as a redirect, is it problematic to correct the copyvio by blanking while simultaneously converting the page to a redirect, or should it be deleted instead, especially if it may have been tagged {{ db-g12}} or some-such? Thank you.— John Cline ( talk) 19:40, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Greetings Moonriddengirl! I got an update on
ticket:2014111710007512, the user confirms that content published at
saltonline
The very first edit to Madhusudan Rao was in 2009 and appears to have been taken from this, archived in 2002. Although there was some copyvio cleanup later in 2009, the original edit is still there. I've found a few mentions of the subject - eg: in [9] - but not a tremendous amount. I'm not sure whether it is worth investing time when the base is so obviously dodgy. Might it be better to delete the entire thing and then recreate? I could certainly knock out a sourced stub. - Sitush ( talk) 17:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Since there are a number of images being tagged and deleted based partly on what seems to be a misinterpretation of "types" of copyright registrations, your opinion is requested. I tried to explain the issue last March in this discussion, but with no reply. You can check this topic here, and maybe offer an opinion or resolution. A recently tagged image, of Garbo states, "The film is still copyrighted," as one of the rationales for deleting it, for example. Thanks. -- Light show ( talk) 20:36, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
RE: KERMA PAGE
Hi Moonriddengirl. I received an email from you about the Kerma page. I'm a bit puzzled as the whole page is now gone, though my contribution was rather minor (i.e. not the whole page), and certainly not on (or from) the sources mentioned but actually on the pre-Kushite phases of the City. That was all my own work and I quoted the sources appropriately but they seem to have been step-by-step removed. I should explain I am an accredited senior historian who voluntarily added some recent findings on areas I know a bit about, for the edification of the general public. I have tried doing similar on other sites, but continually encouter "gatekeepers" who think they know better and who even distort references to their own ends... I find Wikipedia processes very curious and would like it noted that it's hardly been encouraging for us who ARE qualified in these fields. I no longer contribute to any site because this seems to occur frequently. Good luck and it's a pity someone will now need re-do the Kerma site (and probably get it wrong).
Dr Ray Kerkhove PS Sorry - I don't kn ow how to "sign" this and really at this point I'm no longer interested. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.161.228.53 ( talk) 13:10, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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The southern border of the cemetery is distinguished by dozens of enormous mounds, four of which are about 300 ft. (90 m) in diameter. These belonged to the most powerful kings of Kerma during the last century of the city's existence. They are clustered around the remains of the large brick building known as the "Eastern Deffufa," thought to have been a funerary chapel connected with the royal tombs. All across the cemetery smaller graves seem to cluster around larger graves, which undoubtedly belonged to those of the highest rank. ( http://www.nubianet.org/about/about_history4.html) | The southern border of the cemetery is distinguished by dozens of enormous mounds, four of which are about 300 ft. (90 m) in diameter. These belonged to the most powerful kings of Kerma during the last century of the city's existence. They are clustered around the remains of the large brick building known as the "Eastern Deffufa," thought to have been a funerary chapel connected with the royal tombs. All across the cemetery smaller graves seem to cluster around larger graves, which undoubtedly belonged to those of the highest rank. |
Thanks Moonriddengirl.Well I didn't write that bit! This is what I mean about Wikki being so confused... I wrote some material about Kerma City having unique industries in glazing; having gold-processing; the centralized nature of the society; the Biblical association etc - and I gave a reference for each of these additions, but all that seems to have evaporated. Dr Ray Kerkhove 58.161.228.53 ( talk) 13:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC) - is that a signing?
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The capital was defended by substantial city walls. At least two miles of ramparts and dozens of bastions protected it from attack. Yet by around 1500 B.C., the defences failed and Kerma was conquered and occupied by the Egyptians, led by Pharaoh Tuthmosis I. Kerma's subsequent fight to protect its independence and its resistance against Egyptian occupation was one of the longest military struggles of the ancient world, lasting some 220 years (roughly 1550-1330 B.C.). http:// wysinger.homestead.com /kerma.html | The kingdom’s capital was defended by substantial city walls. At least two miles of ramparts and dozens of bastions protected it from attack. Yet by around 1500 B.C., the defences failed and Kerma was conquered and occupied by the Egyptians, led by Pharaoh Tuthmosis I, one of the most militarily aggressive rulers the world had ever seen. Bronze Age Sudan’s fight to protect its independence and its resistance against Egyptian occupation was one of the longest military struggles of the ancient world, lasting some 220 years (roughly 1550-1330 B.C.). |
Hi Moonriddengirl. I appreciate your efforts and find all this rather extraordinary. I've not looked at the Kerma site for a long time, but certainly don't recognize ANY of what you've just attributed to me - it's not even the kind of language I'd use (e.g. "bronze age...storming city walls") - how odd.... I didn't write on ceramics - only about blue glazing. I'm tiring of this - not sure how or why I'm getting accused or how my name got dragged into this. Can others sign in using my name? It baffles me. Also "Baba is Love" as you can see by the earlier talk hasn't been used for a couple of years - I've not contributed anything to Wikki for about 2-3 years. When were the dates of the suspicious/ plagaristic quotes? It's all to me a bit odd as I've never needed to "plagarize" as I am a professional writer and have never lacked for ideas - also I'm academically trained so I habitually reference. It's a pity the site itself went down - it does seem to have (if what you wrote is correct) morphed hugely since I last viewed it, and probably contained little of what I originally submitted. Regards Ray Kerkhove58.161.228.53 (talk) 13:58, 17 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.161.228.53 ( talk)
Being based on this original, would the rights to the image shown to the right belong to the owner of the original design (exemplified in the image I linked to), or would they devolve to creator of the image shown? Thanks! Herostratus ( talk) 17:47, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
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To MRG, Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year. SW3 5DL ( talk) 18:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hope that Santa | |
brings everything on your Christmas list! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We hope ( talk) 19:47, 19 December 2014 (UTC) |
May you have very Happy Christmas, Maggie...
and a New Year filled with peace, joy, and plenty!
A big Thank You too for everything you do here.
Best wishes, Voceditenore ( talk) 18:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
To you and yours
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 15:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey, Merry Christmas! Some days ago, I found some copy righted and copy-pasted material in Tatbir and requested it to be addressed. Fortunately, you did the job and thanks for your attention. Now, there's another case which should be checked. Ma malakat aymanukum contains some copy-pasted materials according to my findings. I only checked one sentence while there might be some other parts with the same problem. Thanks Mhhossein ( talk) 04:11, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
This part also seems problematic. Mhhossein ( talk) 04:15, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
MRG, could you peek in at Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller and this thread? I'd really appreciate it, as it has gotten quite awkward (copyvio issues complicated by COI tagging on article pages), and I'd rather bow out. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:20, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, thanks for the reminder... -- Bermicourt ( talk) 14:49, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. I just came across edits by 46.162.31.100 which restored some content originally added by FreshCorp619. I've reverted these edits for now, and thought I'd bring them to your attention to determine whether they should be deleted, as you seem to be most involved in Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/FreshCorp619. Mind matrix 16:37, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
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Most of this article looks like it was copied and pasted from here, but I know from experience (Red Skelton) that it can be the other way around too. Not sure who had the text first, but both articles are very much alike. Thanks for taking a look, We hope ( talk) 03:39, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
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Little is known about his early life, but we can safely assume that he learned to play the cornet. With the outbreak of the Civil War and despite his parents' protests, at the age of seventeen he enlisted on 18 May 1861 and became a Private the following 14 June in Company B, 15th Indiana Infantry, and shortly afterwards was assigned to a regimental band. | Little is known about his early life, other than that he learned to play the cornet. With the outbreak of the American Civil War he enlisted in the army on 18 May 1861 at the age of seventeen, despite his parents' protests. On 14 June 1861 he became a private in Company B, 15th Indiana Infantry, and shortly afterwards was assigned to a regimental band. | Little is known about C. G. Corn's earliest years, but we can safely assume that at an early age he took up cornet-playing. Despite his parents' protests, at the age of seventeen he enlisted on 18 May 1861 and became a private the following 14 June in Company B of the 15th Indiana Infantry, and shortly afterwards was assigned to a regimental band. |
A page you previously contributed to, Joe Williams (jazz singer), had many prior revisions deleted due to copyright issues. For details please see Talk:Joe Williams (jazz singer). Your prior version may be temporarily restored upon request if you need it for reference to re-incorporate constructive edits that do not make use of the copyright infringing material. Please feel free to leave me a talk message if you need this done. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 22:29, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, sorry for the ping, but I realize that I'm running out of patience because I'm tired of the animosity and in the inability to have a discussion without a TLDR rant as a reply. I need you to see the discussion I pinged you about ASAP.
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 08:49, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Another thing that Skookum does that it may not be a personal attack per se, but something I consider to be highly disruptive, is misusing policy tags. He refers to splitting "Chinese in Vancouver" and "Chinese in British Columbia" as a WP:POV Fork even though it's clearly not, it's just a "delineation question". The way that his replies are structured and how they go off tangent make it difficult for other Wikipedians to respond to him and I think it's discouraging other people from participating in the discussion. Example: Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard/Archive_31#Is_it_WP:SYNTH_to_make_an_article_on_the_Indo-Canadian_population_in_Greater_Vancouver_separate_from_that_of_the_Indo-Canadian_population_of_British_Columbia.3F WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:25, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the note! I agree that an interaction ban would not be a desirable outcome for any party. I want to focus on the content and how to best express it rather than the person. I want to improve the articles in the subject and to do so cordially. I hope this isn't too much for you, but would it be alright if you look at this content dispute? I think that asking you would help me determine what the next step should be.
The edits also replaced instances of "Whites felt..." with "British Columbians felt" because he said First Nations (Natives) and Blacks felt the same way. I have not seen page numbers or other sources which explicitly say this and many of the sources explicitly refer to White British Columbians feeling this way (I refer to them in the edit analysis I did).
I want to know what my next step should be. Should I take it to the OR noticeboard? RFC? Third opinion? WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:37, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the advice! I added it to Wikipedia:Third_opinion#Active_disagreements WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:56, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi
I saw that you have deleted the page I created for the band Drifting Sun. How do I recreate and resubmit the page with modified content to comply with Wikipedia's rules? As I can't see the article online anymore, I have lost all the links, references etc that were in the article.
Is there any way to get all those back for a resubmission?
Regards
Pat
DriftingSunWeb ( talk) 14:30, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Maggie. No frills - just a quiet ‘’all the best’’ to you for 2015, thanks for all you do on and for Wikipedia/Wikimedia and I hope you’ll continue to be around on for a long time to come. Chris ( Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 15:54, 1 January 2015 (UTC))
Dear Moonriddengirl,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
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21:05, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hello
I saw that you have deleted the text I wrote for The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. This article's material was not copied from: http://www.sustc.edu.cn/en/about/intro/ or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed as you mentioned in the talk page of this article. As I cannot see the article online anymore, I have lost all the links, references etc that were in the article.
Please give back the complete article I contributed, which took me more than a week to do so.
Sincerely
William
William Wang ( talk)William Qichao Wang 12:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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As an institution in Hong Kong where resource is narrowly limited, CUHK must tap into resources outside Hong Kong to scale up the research for achieving its aspiration of excellence | As an institution in Hong Kong where resource is narrowly limited, CUHK must tap into resources outside Hong Kong to scale up the research for achieving its aspiration of excellence (see quote here) |
These funding opportunities can contribute to the establishment of hardware-oriented disciplines and enhance our academic and research level. Besides, the rapid development of manufacturing industries in PRD region will also provide ample opportunities for CUHK’s R&D’s initiatives, employment and internship for our students in both Longgang, Shenzhen and Sha Tin, Hong Kong. It will reinforce Hong Kong’s role as an international metropolis and bring long-term benefits to CUHK. | These funding opportunities can contribute to the establishment of hardware-oriented disciplines and enhance our academic and research level. Besides, the rapid development of manufacturing industries in PRD region will also provide ample opportunities for CUHK’s R&D’s initiatives, employment and internship for our students in both Shenzhen and Shatin. It will reinforce Hong Kong’s role as an international metropolis and bring long-term benefits to CUHK. source |
The plethora of non-formal learning opportunities offered by the colleges complement the formal curricula, nurture students' interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity, and build up their confidence and sense of social responsibility. Scholarship and financial aid schemes may also be available to enable students to fully exploit the potential for personal growth. | The plethora of non-formal learning opportunities offered by the Colleges complement the formal curricula, nurture students' interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity, and build up their confidence and sense of social responsibility. And scholarship and financial aid schemes are available to enable one to fully exploit the potential for personal growth. source |
Hi there,
You blocked Mirno ( talk · contribs) on 12 December 2014. The user then made unblock requests on their talk page until their last activity on 17 December. Seto2001 ( talk · contribs), clearly an experienced editor, began editing on 26 December editing only longevity-related articles almost exclusively the same articles as the blocked user. Their editing has not included the same activity which got Mirno blocked (copyright infringement) but the so I can't be certain that it is the same person. Do you think a sock investigation is justified? Cheers, DerbyCountyinNZ ( Talk Contribs) 21:39, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl, wishing you all the best for 2015. – I feel a bit unsettled about having to do that to a colleague from Portal:Poland who does a lot of good work elsewhere, but this one (+18,655) slip, which is a massive WP:COPYVIO from http://www.katedra-wawelska.pl/english/brief_history_of_wawel_cathedral,32.html seems serious enough to warrant an investigation into possible other breaches of copyright law genuinely misunderstood by the user who just reverted it back. [11] You decide. Thanks in advance, Poeticbent talk 01:15, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the help, Moonriddengirl, much obliged. I will definitely try to help for the lasting benefit of our project. At a glance, the issues you raised in the new investigation seem to go way further than what I thought might have been happening. This is possibly the worst case scenario. I tried to use the Earwig's Copyvio Detector to make comparisons. I found out that ECD would not recognize complex URLs leading directly to machine translated text. So, therefore, the actual comparison needs to be performed manually. Here's the relevant example from Jan Dobrogost Krasiński per your request.
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Towards the end of his life, Krasiński became an ardent Catholic, but never fell into fanaticism, as evidenced by his friendly relations with the local Protestants. He banned the repression against the Reformed Church. Jan Dobrogost Krasiński died on February 21, 1717. His body was buried in a copper coffin in the crypt of the local monastery. His last will was a proof of his strong relationship with the city of Węgrów - he was the only one of the family to chose the monastery as his final resting place rather than temple in Krasne, traditional mausoleum of the Krasiński family.[5] |
At the end of life Krasinski became an ardent Catholic, but never fell into fanaticism, as evidenced by the friendliness [toward] Protestants. [He] Banned repression against Protestants [] John Krasinski Dobrogost died February 21, 1717 year. His body was buried in a copper coffin in the crypt of the church fathers, the reformers. This is a proof of its strong relationship with Wegrow, as the only one of the family to his eternal resting place chosen team monastery in our city and not a temple in Krasne, traditional mausoleum Krasinski. |
U schyłku życia Krasiński stał się gorliwym katolikiem, nigdy jednak nie popadł w fanatyzm, czego dowodem była życzliwość dla [] protestantów. Zakazywał represji przeciw ewangelikom [] Jan Dobrogost Krasiński zmarł 21 lutego 1717 roku. Jego ciało zostało pochowane w miedzianej trumnie, w krypcie kościoła ojców reformatów. Jest to dowód jego silnego związku z Węgrowem, ponieważ jako jedyny z rodu na miejsce swojego wiecznego spoczynku wybrał zespół klasztorny w naszym mieście a nie świątynię w Krasnem, tradycyjnym mauzoleum Krasińskich. |
Please tell me, how do you know these things without the knowledge of a language? Poeticbent talk 17:38, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for notifying me.
If you want more information, here is the beginning in October: Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#If_you_make_articles_on_ethnic_Indian_populations_in_Canada.2C_be_sure_to_include_info_on_Air_India_182.27s_impact_on_the_community.
For full disclosure: There was one edit in October I made where I was criticized by User:Antidiskriminator, in Talk:Indo-Canadians#Merge_discussion (background is in the first post about Air India) - He argued that I had made an error in conduct
It concerns this text that I made at (WhisperToMe (talk) 10:09, 18 October 2014 (UTC) ): "Oops. I didn't mean to imply that I'm of Indian heritage. I'm not of Indian heritage. Nonetheless, I have a revelation that you may be interested in. Let's discuss a lovely thing called WP:GNG. Let's review what it says. "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list." So what do we have? [...]"
Talk page discussions about the reply:
I don't recall receiving any messages like that since October
In November a user reported that there were no issues on my end in that discussion: Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Third opinion
"Comment 4: Skookum1's behaviour here has been pretty awful. Skookum1 should review WP:CIVIL and take it seriously. I commend WhisperToMe for keeping remarkably calm in the face of Skookum1's provocations, and for not being drawn into the cesspool of personal attacks and obscenities. We really don't need that in Wikipedia. Ground Zero | t 13:59, 14 November 2014 (UTC)" WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:42, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. I'll post it in the thread itself WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:55, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, hope you are having a good holiday, and Happy New Year 2015!! I'm looking at the Bwmoll3 CCI, as I have some expertise to help with that one. My question is how did you identify and track some of the original text sources (like at User_talk:Bwmoll3#Copyright_concerns) - was there some sort of tool? I'm having no luck. Best wishes Buckshot06 (talk) 23:31, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
I was multitasking when I read your comment and didn't pick-up on the fact that was posted in article space, versus Talk space. In view of that you're undoubtedly correct. DOCUMENT ★ ERROR 12:28, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. Hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I was wondering if you could find the time to take a look at an image I uploaded to commons, File:Chief Irataba of the Mojave Nation, February 1864, artist's impression.jpg. The original is obviously PD, but I want to make sure that I handled the paperwork adequately. Thanks! Rationalobserver ( talk) 19:59, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you about this. I appreciate your work with removing copyright issues, but I believe there were other sections on the page (such as notable alumni) and was wondering if you can restore those and any others that didn't violate copyrights (if there are any). Or even if you can provide me with the reference links and previous formatting so I can try to recreate the page in an acceptable way. Itshardfindingafreeusername ( talk) 03:13, 9 January 2015 (UTC)Itshardfindingafreeusername
Would you check if this edit [20] violates copyright? See WP:YOUTUBE, these videos are copyrighted and used as sources. Thanks OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 02:31, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I notice that User:MuZemike seems to be on a Wikibreak, and because of your prior involvement I would like to request your assistance with the conversation I just started on their User talk page in link. I have also left a similar note at User talk:Nick-D. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:56, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG! There is a new article, Practical Approximation Algorithms Library (PAAL) using content from Here. That page says that the software library being discussed, "and accompanying documentation" are covered by This License, which looks free-ish, with some small requirements. Would this be a compatible license to re-use that documentation in the local article? Thanks! Crow Caw 22:08, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, MRG! Can you please take a look on my response regarding copyright issue about Plemelj's geometrical constructions at article talk page? I would like to update and extend the article with new text, but some new (for me) strange copyright policies divert me of doing so. As Plemelj was in best world league of mathematicians, we at least owe him to construct a decent article about him. You can also give a note to suitable persons, who were involved in revert. You can reply on article's talk page. Best regards. -- xJaM ( talk) 12:28, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG. Could you please look at this and tell me if I've misunderstood the issue. LeadSongDog come howl! 20:20, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I have a question. File:Kalacakra Mandala construction by Lobsang Samten El Paso TX US 2012 (CE).ogv is labeled as "direct transfer". Does the WMF or OTRS have any record of an explicit release being made? — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 17:40, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Tito☸ Dutta 20:58, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl
I am sorry for violating the "copyvio rules" and copying and pasting the information from several sources on the internet. I would like to point out that not all of the Stanisław Kostka Potocki information has been entirely and directly copied from the internet. Mostly the last paragraphs and topics, i.e the architecture part, have been translated from Polish Wikipedia, which wouldn't be a violation of the code. Also I would like to point out that it is an important article, and blanking is not the best idea in this case, therefore I'd rather see the content deleted rather than blanked.
Thank you for cooperation, Oliszydlowski (TALK) 15:01, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl I write with regard to /info/en/?search=Practical_Approximation_Algorithms_Library_%28PAAL%29. Only part of the aricle was copy pasted. I'd like to remove this part and maybe replace it. Is it possible to restore (partialy) the previous page? AFAIK I do not have appropriate permission. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vwygos ( talk • contribs) 13:26, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, got a question on Image copyrights, one for my own consumption actually. I've got an article pending DYK for someone who died in 1904 ( Ernest Cashel). There are a few pictures of him out on the net, but the source pages claim copyright (such as [24]) or are unclear ( [25] sourced from [26]). I haven't really delved into image copyright as of yet, so I'm not sure what the standard is. Crow Caw 18:27, 20 January 2015 (UTC) Hi, User:Crow! Image copyright is not my area, but two things to consider there: people lie (or misunderstand copyright or come from different jurisdictions with different laws), and sometimes people who do have big budgets. The basic question is not when the man died, but when the pictures were originally published. As far as we're concerned (see wP:PD), content published before 1923 is public domain. (There is a very rare exception explained at that page.) The newspaper wanted picture should be public domain, by my understanding. (IANAL, and I cannot give legal advice and etc.) I'd upload it cheerfully. The other picture, it would depend not on when it was taken but when it was published. The expiration of copyright depends on publication date, which complicates old photographs. Usually, I'd trot things past the people at WP:MCQ, if in doubt. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:18, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
At User talk:Erica Blatt Harkins I (and a couple of others) am trying to advise a lady who has uploaded here on en.wiki photographs of her father and mother from the 1920s through the 1950s, mostly taken in Romania, which were given or bequeathed to her. She has problems with template syntax. I've advised her to e-mail OTRS and found what I believe is the form she needs to fill out; I would much appreciate it if you would cast an eye over the lower sections of her user talk page in case I've given bad or incomplete advice. If you can, thanks in advance. Yngvadottir ( talk) 06:03, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi again, Moonriddengirl!
I raised an issue at Wikipedia talk:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License § Numbered headings but thought I would mention it here for your attention as I have realised it has legal implications regarding Wikipedia's license terms. It's to do with a feature that automatically numbers headings which are different from those in the license text, which could cause ambiguity over which sections apply in particular contexts. Hopefully this will be clear from my comments at the above discussion page.
Thanks! — sroc 💬 14:47, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
A protocol question here. I identified the problems at this article and Bitburg Air Base (or was closely associated in identifying them). With the elapse of time, is it good practice for the identifying editor/admin to delete the articles, or should I leave them for others? Kind regards and best wishes with all your work... Buckshot06 (talk) 20:07, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Go to your archives and see, there is more. Bladesmulti ( talk) 16:06, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
You had somewhere said that copying quotes is allowed only if: # Its usage would be considered fair use in United States copyright law, #It's used for a purpose that can't be fulfilled by free material (text or images, existing or to be created) #The usage of the non-free media complies with the above and the rest of the Non-free content criteria, and #It has a valid rationale indicating why its usage would be considered fair use within Wikipedia policy and US law.
Are these rules relevant in practice? And also on talk pages, as I was told that copyright violation in just any diff is condemned. Bladesmulti ( talk) 00:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
It's a while that things are out of control in ISIL. One of the major problems is the texts which violate the copy right and the article is being viewed many times nowadays. I've already tagged a section, but I'm sure there are still other parts to be investigated. Some of my findings (only my findings) are as follows:
As you see, the main concern is with "Sexual violence and slavery" section. Mhhossein ( talk) 03:57, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Hi...can you please do something about the Beyonce awards page. FUSE never confirmed that she was the most awarded female artist of all time..that list was proven to be inaccurate and no search engine or respected citation supports it. The amount of awards on that page does not add up to 500 and her career awards (the ones with DC) does not add up to 500. Also her awards with DC (aside from the ones from ASCAP and the Grammys) need to be moved back to the DC page. Kendallxoxo ( talk) 08:47, 23 January 2015 (UTC) |
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I read your assessment on the talk page for the draft of Dark regarding the copyright of the film's synop originally included in the draft which has since been edited out. I do own the copyright on the synop and have followed your advice to resend the email stating such to permissions at wikipedia. Hopefully, the synop will be able to be added back in. My question is when will the current draft be added publicly to Wikipedia as an article? Are there any other steps I need to take first, before it is published?
much appreciated,
Quatticapic Quatticapic ( talk) 11:16, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
On film article pages isn't it customary to include a synop among other pertinent information about the title? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quatticapic ( talk • contribs) 08:48, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi there Moonriddengirl, could you please take a look at this article Bahla Fort and see if there are any copyvios? Thank you. Gryffindor ( talk) 08:58, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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I see you are active in dealing with copyright violations. I have found that the article Symbiodinium contains a lot of material identical to this Marine Biology Resource Network site. Large chunks of this information were added by Allisonmlewis to Wikipedia in March 2012, with 34,000 bytes added in a single day.
If this is a copyright violation I could remove the information and replace it with something acceptable. However, I am a bit puzzled. Both places mention things in parenthesis such as (Fig. 2A). Wikipedia has figures 2A & B (apparently Allisonmlewis' own work), but the Marine Biology source does not, as far as I can see. So is the Marine Biology source copying Wikipedia rather than the other way round? For the moment, I have added the article to the "Copyright problems" page but am happy to improve the article myself if it really is a copyright violation. The editor concerned no longer seems to be active. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:03, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Okay, so here is a change that moves the content away from the source. That's not good for the article. But this is a change that moves it towards the source. Which is. Another change away. And another change towards. Change towards. Change towards.
Here, I think, we have our rosetta stone: [33] - in the edit summary. :) At this point, I'm convinced that this content was on Wikipedia before it was on that external site, but that it was a document being collaborated on both elsewhere and here. I'd bet that the people who developed it together in said Word document and on Wikipedia where then involved in publishing it at marinebio.ca and if I were to spend more time would be looking for signs that the primary contributors here incorporate their changes, but not changes supplied by others. I don't think that's strictly necessary, though, because the incremental changes to this article that made their way into that external site more or less eliminate copying from them to us.
I'm going to put a note on the talk page explaining why I think this is okay and offering directions for further steps in case my conclusion is in error.
That one was an interesting challenge, Cwmhiraeth. :) Thanks for finding something out of the run of the mill. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:14, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi MRG! I could do with your assistance at Foam Concrete. It was created by a new editor who basically copy and pasted most of it. It has been nominated for speedy deletion under G12, but I removed that tag after the author re-wrote sections of the article to the point that I felt G12 no longer applied. I have pointed out that they need to re-write other sections of the article too — see User talk:Siva175 and Talk:Foam Concrete. They have done this, but seem to have exchanged parts of of the copy and paste text for 'new' copy and paste text; see [34] in conjunction with http://blite.in/tech.html. What concerns me is that some of the matched phrases are coming up on a large variety of different websites. It's almost as though they have copy and pasted some kind of 'product blurb' from somewhere I can't pin down. The other issue is that every version of page history has infringing material in it. So, I'm just looking for some advice/assistance really. Many thanks. Bellerophon talk to me 21:56, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello MRG, I've rewritten a basic draft of the Foam Concrete article at
Talk:Foam Concrete/Temp. Would you mind giving it the once over in case I've not done a very good job (I am rather tired) and if its acceptable I could do with your assistance in moving the contents and history to the moonscape mainspace article.
Bellerophon
talk to me
22:58, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
I think it eliminates the problem. I've put it into article space. Thanks for your patience and work there. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:23, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, this article was found to have some significant copypaste from the tagged source listed in the copypaste template up top: these paragraphs were removed by the person who found the problem. I started a Good Article reassessment that has just concluded with the article being delisted. However, I suspect that stronger measures are in order.
First, the copypaste source also has been closely paraphrased elsewhere in the article. Also, another source from that same site was copied to a somewhat lesser extent (though I think stretches of 17, 24, and 31 words are clearly excessive). I couldn't get the direct URLs to work for some reason, but searching the relevant article title at the site does turn the article up at the same URL.
When removing the article from the Good Article pages, I discovered that there was another Texan schooner Good Article, Texan schooner Independence, and a quick check shows some similar problems, though not as acute. Indeed, there are four schooner articles started by the same user, Argos'Dad, in September and October 2007, though I didn't find anything clear on Texan schooner Liberty, and haven't checked Texan schooner Brutus. I also haven't checked any other articles by this user.
I'm hoping I can leave it to you to check this, determine what needs to be done with the original article and the other GA in terms of removing any violations, and proceed as appropriate. I'll stop by again to see what you think. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:36, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Maggie. I've uploaded to Commons a photo of an old music manustript from the 18th century scanned from a book which is younger. May I ask you if is it allowed? I'll ask for deletion if not ... For relevant discussion see User_talk:Gerda_Arendt#A_Bach_featured_day_is_always_a_good_day..._Congrats_on_BWV22_feature.. Thank you for any advice. Best regards. -- Vejvančický ( talk / contribs) 16:46, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl (cc. Justlettersandnumbers). I created a page called Solvatten, which was subsequently removed due to concerns around copyright infringements (some of the text matched that found on www.solvatten.se). An email has now been sent from a representative of Solvatten, which follows the guidelines given here Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. This is all new to me, so I'd be very grateful if you could indicate whether the original entry can now be restored. With thanks, Tmrl84 ( talk) 15:40, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
I notice that the ANI discussion was archived without a resolution. Is this normal? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:24, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm trying to get all of you to listen to my objections to the rule-mongering about page-cites and here you are styling me as not leaving "reasonable replies". What I've been subjected to in the way of demands and claims and distortions by WTM has not been reasonable at all. Now it seems WTM has launched a drive to make citing "rules" all the more inhibitive; if you don't like the "rules" once it's been pointed out making up conflations of them and claiming they are mandatory, then hey, why not write new, stronger ones? The deeper POV issues of his attacks and guideline-SYNTHing are the core issue, and it's not me who's being unreasonable.
Sounding reasonable while talking b.s. is not actual reason, and it's uncivil when it's been so persistent and constant, always painting me as the bad guy when I'm standing up for NPOV and my knowledge of the material, which all those condemning me have little appreciation of, including those who say they don't care about it and refuse to read what I have to say.
The enablement of his ongoing AGF towards me for months now is ongoing, it seems, and increasingly hopeless as so many reasonable (not just reasonable-sounding) editors have given up or been driven out.
Calling my rebuke of his offer to send me copies of a book I've already read and which guidelines DO NOT require page cites for (in spite of his claims to the contrary) "hostility" completely belies the FACT that he's been hostile to a host of issues and sources I've provided while he's been mounting his campaign to silence and/or block me.
you all should give your heads a shake. And at yourselves, not at me. What I see above is rank AGF from all of you, and no understanding whatsoever or a readiness to consider the very real and very important POV/propaganda agenda that is the article's, and WTM's, main problem; the content he adds is POV in the extreme, and uses selective quotes to advance SYNTH of a very negative and one-sided type; and WP:NCET's self-identification guideline is among the many that he ignores in advancing his claim that capital-W "White" should be used because a non-European Canadian author uses it. That and many other rankly POV issues will never be addresse by any of you, while you're busy conferring about how to deal with me.
Best way to do THAT is to give fair consideration to my points about guidelines re instruction creep instead of only discuss your AGF perspectives about my "conduct" and treat him with kid-gloves as if anything I saw were invalid, but everything he says is valid because he sounds reasonable, but he's not. Skookum1 ( talk) 06:52, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I sent a question regarding a deleted page. Thanks. Anilakeo ( talk) 04:54, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
For creating the article on Heidegger scholar
Parvis Emad. — Tom Morris ( talk) 18:32, 15 February 2015 (UTC) |
Can you briefly waive my upload ban so I can add a lead image for the ITN RD bio of Bob Simon? I've posted a request for a non-free photo, which are everywhere, but no efforts have been made. And while you're considering that, how do I request that the full ban be lifted? I don't foresee any future image issues, as I have agreed to post front and back images, include relevant dates, proper licenses, etc. -- Light show ( talk) 23:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Would you have a look at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute? With the nature and amount of unsourced added I found it appropriate to restore your last version. -- Sam Sing! 11:03, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi again! As mentioned in the CP talk page, the issue I'm working is User:Spyda2. He/she creates article lists about seniority in the various US Congress sessions, essentially a large table. The part that is in question is the lead of each page, which would flag the CorenBot nearly every time (I've since whitelisted him, not to excuse the problem but to save SCV volunteer time since I'm watching this case). The text of the lead is fairly factual, but it is the question of creative presentation and word choice. I've asked him a couple of times to just leave an initial edit summary, and even formatted it for him. He's not edited sine my last note, so I'm watching to see what happens before escalation. Thoughts? Recommendations? Thanks as always! Crow Caw 22:53, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Ping doesn't seem to be on, so I'm using tb instead. An interesting little problem brought to me involving pinched barnstars and possible copyright issues on photos, including compatibility with 4.0. Peridon ( talk) 20:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
As the subject says ha!
Ban away I couldn't care less. Only signed up for that one joke.
Enjoy your power trip :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thisisjustajoke ( talk • contribs) 14:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, can you take a look at this. Because I had to type it all from the source I stopped at the top of page 11 and so only tagged a single section. Not sure if I've done this right. Email sent also, to both your accts. Thanks, Victoria ( tk) 17:50, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I'd really appreciate it if you took a look at the article soon, as I'm afraid my hard work will be deleted for non-action. As you probably remember, we've discussed close paraphrasing in depth, and I truly feel that what I've contributed falls well within the acceptable limits as you've explained them to me. At the very worst, a simple copyedit that paraphrases and attributes would solve any actual issues, so it would be a real shame if the article were deleted when all it needs is a minor polishing. More importantly, the crux of Victoria's SPI against me is that I don't properly paraphrase, but she is obviously biased against anyone she suspects of being ILT, so we really need a neutral party to take a look at the paraphrasing and confirm or deny if the problem is as pressing as Victoria says. Rationalobserver ( talk) 17:45, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
reviewing eyes
Your name was mentioned in relation to PumpkinSky ("... someone whose conversant in the copyvio area should be added to his list of mentors, someone like Moonridden girl."). I would appreciate highly if you reviewed just one article in his CCI (of 11 left of 729) and join the distinguished list of reviewers. I have been labelled an "absolute supporter of the copyright violator" and would live happier without that, an absolute supporter of a person. - Repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (21 April 2009, 7 June 2009, 20 January 2011)!
Three years ago, you were the 37th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:24, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello there, Moonriddengirl. I'm contacting you regarding a copyvio violation made by Nardisoero ( talk · contribs) (apart from their addition of unsourced facts) because you had already warned the user about the introduction of copypasted material into articles. Please refer to the last paragraph of the ″History″ section of Surinam Airways. It is almost identical to the content included in the companion two sources. I don't know how to proceed with this. The user has a history of both copyright violations and addition of unsourced material but they doesn't seem to acknowledge the messages left at their talk. Thanks in advance.-- Jetstreamer Talk 13:50, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I've come across an that was lifted nearly verbatim from this version of the person's page on Liquipedia without attribution as requested here. I haven't really dealt with a situation like this before, but all signs point towards this edit being a copyright violation because there is no attribution. Reverting the change and deleting the delinquent revision seems like an appropriate course of action, but I wanted to ask a second opinion because I'm a bit rusty. Cheers, Airplaneman ✈ 07:22, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, As I looked at The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog page on Wikipedia, I understood that a copyvio notice is under the Synopsis. As I double check each page, I and someone rewrote it on the temp page without copyright infringement. Those this page doesn't need a Synopsis even though the information of the show is already up next to the title. The Characters and Episodes are understandable and info is intact. Once you reviewed it and feel that a Synopsis is no longer needed for The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, go ahead and remove the Synopsis part and leave the rest intact without problems. Thanks. Agentmike41 ( talk) 15:18, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl,
Please see the comments on my talk page. Viriditas is requesting help from another administrator. WhisperToMe ( talk) 02:16, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
I approached this with an open mind. I was friendly with both parties and tried to give equal consideration to each side. After examining concerns from both editors I have reached a final conclusion. Skookum1 is engaging in WP:IDHT behavior that makes it impossible to communicate or collaborate with him. He does have moments of lucidity which always surprise me, as if there are two different people using his account (there aren't). Because he is unwilling to change his behavior, there is nothing more to discuss with him. Looking through the archives, there is long-term pattern of WP:DIVA and paranoid behavior, combined with uncontrolled personal attacks that he is unwilling to modify and that the community is also unwilling to address. In my investigation, I found WhisperToMe willing to engage, collaborate, and compromise in a civil manner. I would like to suggest that Skookum1 be given a final warning before receiving a long block. Viriditas ( talk) 06:32, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
I don't have time to read all of the above right now as I'm about to go out, but from your opening I came into this as an administrator because you asked for somebody to review copyright problems" - I'd asked that the massive amounts of info-dumping that were going on (and still continue albeit in sandbox) looked suspiciously like pastiches of copyrighted material; what he does, actually, is often just make one word in quotes and page-cites that one word; that his whole gist is cribbed from a certain body of "racialized" literature (at the expense and to the exclusion of anything that does not meet his approval) is guideline-wise "OK" and I often rephrase or condense what certain sources say myself (e.g. the entries in BCGNIS, or what used to be called that; it's not the BC Names Office of GeoBC); , but his reliance and echoing of the biases in his preferred sources, and his campaign to discredit me got harsher and more prolix than even I have EVER been. He repeatedly rejected and AGFd and sought to guideline-flail sources he should read that I fielded and issues/events he should have spent some time investigating instead of being a parrot for the hate-mongering racialized content of "scholarly" sources and ethno-political diatribes, in all their over-published glory, replete with many easily disprovable FACTS.
That you didn't find any COPYVIOs is fine, that was a side-issue relative to the POV problems you and others continue to ignore and deflect.....but that you ignored my points about POV then and now and wrap yourself in your cloak of admin-ly inviolability on content matters, but turned your guns on me personally without realizing/recognizing that amount of AGF/NPA and obstructive behaviour that was coming at me and about me in DELUGES remains a bone of contention for me about you. Once COPYVIO worries were set aside, that should have ended your involvement.
Instead you threw a one-woman grenade at me and invited others to catcall and berate me without cause related to the dispute about CONTENT and you didn'ty say "boo" about false claims levelled against me in the ANI you launched, which seriously derailed any energy and remaining goodwill for working on improving the mass of POV junk that continued to be built while the campaign to rid me of Wikipedia fovever was mounted....with my posts on ANI fiddled with by somebody who had an ANI against himself open at the same time, and who had no connection with the topic of the dispute; just rank hatred for having shown his POVness and exposed his bias and suspect edit-comment behaviour and more.
So what I read about policy was that NPOV, COPYVIO and VERIFIABILITY were all "non negotiable"...... so if COPYVIO was your purview, whose is NPOV? Or are you only seeing yourself as a "behaviour controller" separate completely from editorial control?
That one policy could be put before any of the others, and that behavioural guidelines could be conflated and one-side-targeted so wantonly is not in anything I've read about policy. And he has been around long enough (since 2007 I think) to know what WP:NPOV and WP:POV fork have to say; and yet he stated outright a rejoinder to the POV fork policy that indicates he either doesn't comprehend it or never read it; and he doesn't understand (or claims not to) what "POV" is, or NPOV either.
I'm going to go out and have a good time with real people and put this out of my mind for the evening; I would have spent today on various article improvements and starts/fixes (interestingly, given the disabusing of capital-W "Whites" and Wikipedia's endemic passion for ethnic breakdowns, British Canadian is a primary-topic dab page long - long - in need of doing.
But tell me this - if you aren't a WMFer able to or equipped to take on NPOV violations, who is. And how many WMF staffers are engaged in content NPOV and quality/literacy/cogency control, and how many (by comparison) spend most of their time on "behavioural guidelines" and/or writing/commenting on same. Is there anyone at WMF's little paid-admin bubble who is a content controller, to coin a term? Or has it just come down to patrolling the community and not giving a fig about the resulting content being politicized and OR'd? Given the continued existence of overt Original Research opuses like Quadripoint and Four corners (Canada) it seems not.
Whatever else you've said above I have no more time to today; spinning off your last line, though, it is open to you to reconsider your role in perpetrating POV by going after the editor whose cause has been NPOV and fair content all along, since long before you weighed in and painted a "hit me" target on his forehead with your ANI. It is open to you to consider the damage to the public record that your standoffishness from editorial matters because of your "rules" ('there are no rules' remember?) by allowing POV to stand untouched, while you support and launch campaigns and comments to indict a long-time editor who is equipped and dedicated to fairness and encylopedically-valid content.
Fine, you've put yourself in some kind of official bubble about keeping behavioural stuff separate from editorial/content problems....... how nice. But why is it that others who similarly have the same capacity as you have weighed in on editorial matters, rather regularly too?
Is there no one at WMF who actually writes content or do you all spend your time patrplling and condemning and admonishing people who DO? Skookum1 ( talk) 13:27, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you Moonriddengirl for responding to Talk:Türkvizyon Song Contest 2014 earlier today, I really appreciate it, and sincerely apologise for linking your name in the conversation. The issue that sparked it all off is an editor wanted to include information regarding composers and lyricists; however such information is not available on the internet. A different user said they had obtained screenshots from the contest broadcast itself, and had uploaded them onto an image storing website, and insisted those screenshot could be used as citation for verification. My concern of this was it could be seen as original research, especially as we would have no way of saying who the author is, and it could also be seen as WP:SELFCITE. Would the way I am thinking be correct, or is the use of screenshots in this manner OK? Wes Mouse | T@lk 14:51, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm curious if there is a compromise possible, such as where I am only allowed to upload an image after it's been approved as PD. An example would be a photo such as this one from ebay, which I would send someone a link to.
On another matter, I mentioned that I would pay to have WP find an expert copyright attorney to review some of my previous deleted images, especially ones I disputed. I also asked whether a scan of the reverse for all future uploads was a requirement, if that would be acceptable. Neither of those questions was answered at the ANI. We Hope includes reverse side scans with no issues.
As for copyright searches, the online U.S. database covers everything since 1978. That would mean that images with a notice between 1950 and 1963 would need a renewal registration, which would show up in the search. I mentioned that I already do that for photos which need it, but you never responded whether that kind of search was acceptable. If not, can someone else do it to check my results, which would also then act as a pre-approval? Consideration about these questions would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Light show ( talk) 23:00, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm going to propose that before any uploading commences, we list all questionable uploaded files both here and at Commons at FFD and DR. There are many photos like this File:Judy Garland - publicity.JPG in both places where the author is listed as "unknown", there's nothing to substantiate the date claim, and there's no back uploaded. They're uploaded under the old user name and the current one.
Regardless of the user's thoughts and feelings on the subject of PD, items like this aren't suitable to be licensed as PD for WP or the other projects. I see where he says WP has hundreds of "PD" images with a "red box". Many of these lack the needed proof just mentioned and my thought is--how we can prevent this from happening again if the user returns to uploading?
If the user is ever to get back to uploading on his own again, he has to understand what the project rules are and follow them. All of us have spent a lot of time sending photos to both FFD and PD and then we have the user failing to listen to what our PD rules are and arguing that they should be changed to fit his standards. My personal thought is that if the user can't or won't accept the project's rules for uploading photos, he should give up doing it, but if he can learn to work within our "system" for it, then he should be able to upload again at some point. We hope ( talk) 14:01, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
@MRG: I'm sorry if this seems to become a circular discussion, but there may be some fundamental WP policy issues involved, all brought up in previous discussions in my "Oppose" comments, but have not been dealt with. The key one is that WP relies on U.S. law in its tagging system, which is further detailed in a clear outline of U.S. copyright law, but is then ignored. In the ANI, the only person, believe it or not, who dealt with that contradiction was User:Masem, who sums it up nicely explaining, "we are purposely stricter than that". That contradictory policy results in giving all editors arbitrary power over uploads, which then undermines the U.S. law and PW policies it supposedly relies on.
The result, IMO, is that we create a situation where WP displays a pretense of having a foundation policy based on real laws, but then lets any editor arbitrarily override them. That effectively becomes a trap, whereby a GF editor can add a U.S. image relying on both WPs tags and U.S. law and still be censured. The problem is noticeably worse in the Commons, where they stood by and let a regular non-U.S. editor delete 60 images at one swipe, with the only the rationale, "probably not PD." Another Commons editor was allowed to delete 600 PD images with a bot and no rationale, apparently feeling grumpy. They were eventually all restored, but no one in the Commons said or did anything. So the circular situation exists that should be dealt with: Can you have image copyright policy based on U.S. laws and then allow any editor to ignore them at will? Obviously not. WP should delete its U.S. based tagging system and create its own tags based on whatever criteria it wants, making clear that copyright law is essentially irrelevant. At that point, We Hope's premise, that I "won't accept the project's rules for uploading photos," will make sense. And we can stop running circles. Just a thought. -- Light show ( talk) 19:08, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) (Disclaimer: I know nothing of the underlying issue here) One important point seems to be getting glossed over: While WP's image use policy begins with US copyright law, it does not end there. As a private entity, they can set any use policy they want... they could (extremely hypothetically) ban all B/W photos, for example. That's not undermining US copyright law; an image illegal under copyright law is similarly disallowed here. The converse though is not necessarily true: that just because it passes US or Berne copyright muster that it is automatically ok here. Good or bad, right or wrong, that is the policy this private company chooses to have for their website. Crow Caw 23:28, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
If you want to import media (including text) that you have found elsewhere, and it does not meet the non-free content policy and guideline, you can only do so if it is public domain or available under terms that are compatible with the CC BY-SA license.... You must also in most cases verify that the material is compatibly licensed or public domain.
It was tagged for copyvio of a .mil site. I added G11 to the G12 as I considered it promotional and not written in an encyclopaedic way. Could you have a look at the copyvio aspect for me as the page doesn't say either copyright or public domain, and the page I got to about copyright seemed more concerned with copyright stuff they might be using (and see if you agree with my addition to the reason)? The unit possibly merits an article, but I feel that a fresh start would be better than the previous text. Peridon ( talk) 11:05, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
First of all, Basie, Moonriddengirl. MRG, Basie. He's helping out with SCV! Now then: I saw the section a few days ago about conflicting license tags, CC vs. "All rights", but another has popped up that causes even more eyebrows to pop. This and other pages from the City of Olympia contain a copyright - all rights reserved on the page, but then This page suggests that everything is PD with 1 or 2 exceptions. How to reconcile this wider discrepancy of permissions? Thanks as always! Crow Caw 23:07, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
I find it quite strange that what I have written and posted in my own website http://badaga.wordpress.com and specifically related to http://badaga.co/badaga-villages-nakku-betta-hattis/, needs copy right permission or other wise, some wise person like you can delete the whole thing. God bless wikipedia. I laugh at the irony that my website which is 'copy righted' cannot be reproduced by myself. Days are not far off when I have to prove to myself that I am me. Why bother to get into wiki in the first place. - Wing Commander Bellie Jayaprakash http://www.badaga.co
At the request of Cirt ( talk · contribs) I had a look at Tertulius ( talk · contribs) and his editing activity at the page Guerrilla filmmaking ( Left is Tertulious, Right is Cirt), but in a not-very thorough but enough to know something is wrong review I found a lot of little stuff that appears to be cut and pasted form copyright sources such as Facebook, Amazon, and other blogs ( [2] [3] [4]). I don't want to unnecessarily alarm anyone here, but I would like a second opinion on whether my concern is justified because if it is then the edits Tertulius has made over the years may need a very close review in the name of avoiding copyright. For what its worth, I've handled a few cases of copyright on my own these past few months, but I genuinely feel out of my league on this one. TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:38, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Please see this and if please possible endorse it User_talk:Titodutta#WMIN_Infrastructure_Scholarship_endorsements -- Tito☸ Dutta 11:51, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I've been editing the Ernest Lawlars article, and noticed when looking for new sources that the text the article was created with under "Life and career" here (much of which was still in the article) was almost word for word from a published source (Lawlars' entry in the Virgin Encyclopedia of the Blues). I've rephrased/rewritten the Lawlars article and I think it is now OK, but I notice that the same editor had added large amounts of text to other pages in 2007-2008 (they don't seem to have been active much since then, and haven't edited at all since last December). I've had a look at a couple, and at least some of the text appears in books available on Google Books, for example on Joe Williams (jazz singer) the two sentences starting "During his mid-teens...", and at least one of the sentences Pony Blues was created with seems to be from a book (this one has already been dealt with and no longer appears in the same form). I notice quite a lot of notices to do with images on their User talk page, as well as a note on the deletion discussion for an article they created that "this article has content copyvioed", so I suspect that they may not have been particularly concerned about copyright issues when adding content. I'm not sure exactly how to proceed with this, so I thought I'd ask you about it since you seem to be involved in copyright stuff. Brunton ( talk) 08:56, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Oh, I see, Brunton. Thanks. I did misunderstand that. If you're able to help out with the CCI, you would be very welcome. We have quite a backlog there, and all willing participants are needed. :) I was hoping that we could easily identify some of the content if you had the book in question, but we routinely do these without access. Alas, we just have to remove if there is reasonable doubt. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:33, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
I have just stubbed the Suraj Mal article after spending a lot of time looking into potential copyvio issues over many months. Much of the problematic stuff seems to owe its origin to LRBurdak ( talk · contribs), with whom you have had past dealings in relation to copyright issues. A person using the same name, and who has in the past claimed to be the same person, has transcribed copyrighted books to the notorious Jatland open wiki and the same stuff appears in assembled form in articles such as this one. (I'm not saying LRBurdak added every bit of copyvio to this particular article: copy/pasting from jatland.com is common here).
A lot of LRBurdak's past article creations have already been deleted but I'm wondering whether this particular one needs at least a massive admin action to hide the history. - Sitush ( talk) 15:58, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
May you please send the text of the deleted page Parvis Emad to my email for me to modify it? -- Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 14:05, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
Ok. Please restore it. Thank you. -- Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 15:44, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello MRG. Long time no talk, I hope all is well. Changes in my life have reduced how often I edit but I occasionally get pinged for a copyvio issue on my talk. I always help but in the case of Khukhrain, it appears an old copyvio may have been reintroduced. You cleaned this one up in May 2012 but I cannot see your deleted edits. Suspected source is the same now as it was in 2012. Looks like a large swath of text was added in November 2013. I spot-checked some of it and it is directly from the suspected source. Do you mind taking a quick (I hope) peek at the deleted and new edits? Thanks.-- NortyNort (Holla) 02:13, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey
Moonriddengirl Thanks for helping in resolving the Copyright issue.
I'll Soon Be Improving The Page
Khukhrain.
Thanks Again
Mayank.94 (
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Hi Again Moonriddengirl Sited a page that is unusable and not needed because it already have placed on wikipedia as Rama. I would request you to guide me how to delete this page Bhagwan Ramji. Thanks Again!! Mayank.94 ( talk) 16:00, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[Rama]]
. However, please be sure that you are correct that the pages are on the same subject. I note that the second page claims it is about a specific man born in 1937 and died in 1992 - specifically,
this guy - while the first page seems to be about an avatar of Vishnu. To somebody unfamiliar with the subject, it is difficult to see how they are connected. You will want to explain thoroughly at the talk page why you think they are. --
Moonriddengirl
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14:41, 9 December 2014 (UTC)Hello Moonriddengirl. This isn't really question 42, but; a good answer is no-less appreciated. If an article is created as an unambiguous copyvio, and: for various reasons, its title would best and properly serve as a redirect, is it problematic to correct the copyvio by blanking while simultaneously converting the page to a redirect, or should it be deleted instead, especially if it may have been tagged {{ db-g12}} or some-such? Thank you.— John Cline ( talk) 19:40, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Greetings Moonriddengirl! I got an update on
ticket:2014111710007512, the user confirms that content published at
saltonline
The very first edit to Madhusudan Rao was in 2009 and appears to have been taken from this, archived in 2002. Although there was some copyvio cleanup later in 2009, the original edit is still there. I've found a few mentions of the subject - eg: in [9] - but not a tremendous amount. I'm not sure whether it is worth investing time when the base is so obviously dodgy. Might it be better to delete the entire thing and then recreate? I could certainly knock out a sourced stub. - Sitush ( talk) 17:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Since there are a number of images being tagged and deleted based partly on what seems to be a misinterpretation of "types" of copyright registrations, your opinion is requested. I tried to explain the issue last March in this discussion, but with no reply. You can check this topic here, and maybe offer an opinion or resolution. A recently tagged image, of Garbo states, "The film is still copyrighted," as one of the rationales for deleting it, for example. Thanks. -- Light show ( talk) 20:36, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
RE: KERMA PAGE
Hi Moonriddengirl. I received an email from you about the Kerma page. I'm a bit puzzled as the whole page is now gone, though my contribution was rather minor (i.e. not the whole page), and certainly not on (or from) the sources mentioned but actually on the pre-Kushite phases of the City. That was all my own work and I quoted the sources appropriately but they seem to have been step-by-step removed. I should explain I am an accredited senior historian who voluntarily added some recent findings on areas I know a bit about, for the edification of the general public. I have tried doing similar on other sites, but continually encouter "gatekeepers" who think they know better and who even distort references to their own ends... I find Wikipedia processes very curious and would like it noted that it's hardly been encouraging for us who ARE qualified in these fields. I no longer contribute to any site because this seems to occur frequently. Good luck and it's a pity someone will now need re-do the Kerma site (and probably get it wrong).
Dr Ray Kerkhove PS Sorry - I don't kn ow how to "sign" this and really at this point I'm no longer interested. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.161.228.53 ( talk) 13:10, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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The southern border of the cemetery is distinguished by dozens of enormous mounds, four of which are about 300 ft. (90 m) in diameter. These belonged to the most powerful kings of Kerma during the last century of the city's existence. They are clustered around the remains of the large brick building known as the "Eastern Deffufa," thought to have been a funerary chapel connected with the royal tombs. All across the cemetery smaller graves seem to cluster around larger graves, which undoubtedly belonged to those of the highest rank. ( http://www.nubianet.org/about/about_history4.html) | The southern border of the cemetery is distinguished by dozens of enormous mounds, four of which are about 300 ft. (90 m) in diameter. These belonged to the most powerful kings of Kerma during the last century of the city's existence. They are clustered around the remains of the large brick building known as the "Eastern Deffufa," thought to have been a funerary chapel connected with the royal tombs. All across the cemetery smaller graves seem to cluster around larger graves, which undoubtedly belonged to those of the highest rank. |
Thanks Moonriddengirl.Well I didn't write that bit! This is what I mean about Wikki being so confused... I wrote some material about Kerma City having unique industries in glazing; having gold-processing; the centralized nature of the society; the Biblical association etc - and I gave a reference for each of these additions, but all that seems to have evaporated. Dr Ray Kerkhove 58.161.228.53 ( talk) 13:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC) - is that a signing?
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The capital was defended by substantial city walls. At least two miles of ramparts and dozens of bastions protected it from attack. Yet by around 1500 B.C., the defences failed and Kerma was conquered and occupied by the Egyptians, led by Pharaoh Tuthmosis I. Kerma's subsequent fight to protect its independence and its resistance against Egyptian occupation was one of the longest military struggles of the ancient world, lasting some 220 years (roughly 1550-1330 B.C.). http:// wysinger.homestead.com /kerma.html | The kingdom’s capital was defended by substantial city walls. At least two miles of ramparts and dozens of bastions protected it from attack. Yet by around 1500 B.C., the defences failed and Kerma was conquered and occupied by the Egyptians, led by Pharaoh Tuthmosis I, one of the most militarily aggressive rulers the world had ever seen. Bronze Age Sudan’s fight to protect its independence and its resistance against Egyptian occupation was one of the longest military struggles of the ancient world, lasting some 220 years (roughly 1550-1330 B.C.). |
Hi Moonriddengirl. I appreciate your efforts and find all this rather extraordinary. I've not looked at the Kerma site for a long time, but certainly don't recognize ANY of what you've just attributed to me - it's not even the kind of language I'd use (e.g. "bronze age...storming city walls") - how odd.... I didn't write on ceramics - only about blue glazing. I'm tiring of this - not sure how or why I'm getting accused or how my name got dragged into this. Can others sign in using my name? It baffles me. Also "Baba is Love" as you can see by the earlier talk hasn't been used for a couple of years - I've not contributed anything to Wikki for about 2-3 years. When were the dates of the suspicious/ plagaristic quotes? It's all to me a bit odd as I've never needed to "plagarize" as I am a professional writer and have never lacked for ideas - also I'm academically trained so I habitually reference. It's a pity the site itself went down - it does seem to have (if what you wrote is correct) morphed hugely since I last viewed it, and probably contained little of what I originally submitted. Regards Ray Kerkhove58.161.228.53 (talk) 13:58, 17 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.161.228.53 ( talk)
Being based on this original, would the rights to the image shown to the right belong to the owner of the original design (exemplified in the image I linked to), or would they devolve to creator of the image shown? Thanks! Herostratus ( talk) 17:47, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
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To MRG, Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year. SW3 5DL ( talk) 18:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hope that Santa | |
brings everything on your Christmas list! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We hope ( talk) 19:47, 19 December 2014 (UTC) |
May you have very Happy Christmas, Maggie...
and a New Year filled with peace, joy, and plenty!
A big Thank You too for everything you do here.
Best wishes, Voceditenore ( talk) 18:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
To you and yours
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 15:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey, Merry Christmas! Some days ago, I found some copy righted and copy-pasted material in Tatbir and requested it to be addressed. Fortunately, you did the job and thanks for your attention. Now, there's another case which should be checked. Ma malakat aymanukum contains some copy-pasted materials according to my findings. I only checked one sentence while there might be some other parts with the same problem. Thanks Mhhossein ( talk) 04:11, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
This part also seems problematic. Mhhossein ( talk) 04:15, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
MRG, could you peek in at Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller and this thread? I'd really appreciate it, as it has gotten quite awkward (copyvio issues complicated by COI tagging on article pages), and I'd rather bow out. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:20, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, thanks for the reminder... -- Bermicourt ( talk) 14:49, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. I just came across edits by 46.162.31.100 which restored some content originally added by FreshCorp619. I've reverted these edits for now, and thought I'd bring them to your attention to determine whether they should be deleted, as you seem to be most involved in Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/FreshCorp619. Mind matrix 16:37, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
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Most of this article looks like it was copied and pasted from here, but I know from experience (Red Skelton) that it can be the other way around too. Not sure who had the text first, but both articles are very much alike. Thanks for taking a look, We hope ( talk) 03:39, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
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Little is known about his early life, but we can safely assume that he learned to play the cornet. With the outbreak of the Civil War and despite his parents' protests, at the age of seventeen he enlisted on 18 May 1861 and became a Private the following 14 June in Company B, 15th Indiana Infantry, and shortly afterwards was assigned to a regimental band. | Little is known about his early life, other than that he learned to play the cornet. With the outbreak of the American Civil War he enlisted in the army on 18 May 1861 at the age of seventeen, despite his parents' protests. On 14 June 1861 he became a private in Company B, 15th Indiana Infantry, and shortly afterwards was assigned to a regimental band. | Little is known about C. G. Corn's earliest years, but we can safely assume that at an early age he took up cornet-playing. Despite his parents' protests, at the age of seventeen he enlisted on 18 May 1861 and became a private the following 14 June in Company B of the 15th Indiana Infantry, and shortly afterwards was assigned to a regimental band. |
A page you previously contributed to, Joe Williams (jazz singer), had many prior revisions deleted due to copyright issues. For details please see Talk:Joe Williams (jazz singer). Your prior version may be temporarily restored upon request if you need it for reference to re-incorporate constructive edits that do not make use of the copyright infringing material. Please feel free to leave me a talk message if you need this done. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 22:29, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, sorry for the ping, but I realize that I'm running out of patience because I'm tired of the animosity and in the inability to have a discussion without a TLDR rant as a reply. I need you to see the discussion I pinged you about ASAP.
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 08:49, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Another thing that Skookum does that it may not be a personal attack per se, but something I consider to be highly disruptive, is misusing policy tags. He refers to splitting "Chinese in Vancouver" and "Chinese in British Columbia" as a WP:POV Fork even though it's clearly not, it's just a "delineation question". The way that his replies are structured and how they go off tangent make it difficult for other Wikipedians to respond to him and I think it's discouraging other people from participating in the discussion. Example: Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard/Archive_31#Is_it_WP:SYNTH_to_make_an_article_on_the_Indo-Canadian_population_in_Greater_Vancouver_separate_from_that_of_the_Indo-Canadian_population_of_British_Columbia.3F WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:25, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the note! I agree that an interaction ban would not be a desirable outcome for any party. I want to focus on the content and how to best express it rather than the person. I want to improve the articles in the subject and to do so cordially. I hope this isn't too much for you, but would it be alright if you look at this content dispute? I think that asking you would help me determine what the next step should be.
The edits also replaced instances of "Whites felt..." with "British Columbians felt" because he said First Nations (Natives) and Blacks felt the same way. I have not seen page numbers or other sources which explicitly say this and many of the sources explicitly refer to White British Columbians feeling this way (I refer to them in the edit analysis I did).
I want to know what my next step should be. Should I take it to the OR noticeboard? RFC? Third opinion? WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:37, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the advice! I added it to Wikipedia:Third_opinion#Active_disagreements WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:56, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi
I saw that you have deleted the page I created for the band Drifting Sun. How do I recreate and resubmit the page with modified content to comply with Wikipedia's rules? As I can't see the article online anymore, I have lost all the links, references etc that were in the article.
Is there any way to get all those back for a resubmission?
Regards
Pat
DriftingSunWeb ( talk) 14:30, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Maggie. No frills - just a quiet ‘’all the best’’ to you for 2015, thanks for all you do on and for Wikipedia/Wikimedia and I hope you’ll continue to be around on for a long time to come. Chris ( Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 15:54, 1 January 2015 (UTC))
Dear Moonriddengirl,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
FWiW Bzuk (
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21:05, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
This message promotes WikiLove. Originally created by Nahnah4 (see "invisible note").
Hello
I saw that you have deleted the text I wrote for The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. This article's material was not copied from: http://www.sustc.edu.cn/en/about/intro/ or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed as you mentioned in the talk page of this article. As I cannot see the article online anymore, I have lost all the links, references etc that were in the article.
Please give back the complete article I contributed, which took me more than a week to do so.
Sincerely
William
William Wang ( talk)William Qichao Wang 12:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Article | Source |
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As an institution in Hong Kong where resource is narrowly limited, CUHK must tap into resources outside Hong Kong to scale up the research for achieving its aspiration of excellence | As an institution in Hong Kong where resource is narrowly limited, CUHK must tap into resources outside Hong Kong to scale up the research for achieving its aspiration of excellence (see quote here) |
These funding opportunities can contribute to the establishment of hardware-oriented disciplines and enhance our academic and research level. Besides, the rapid development of manufacturing industries in PRD region will also provide ample opportunities for CUHK’s R&D’s initiatives, employment and internship for our students in both Longgang, Shenzhen and Sha Tin, Hong Kong. It will reinforce Hong Kong’s role as an international metropolis and bring long-term benefits to CUHK. | These funding opportunities can contribute to the establishment of hardware-oriented disciplines and enhance our academic and research level. Besides, the rapid development of manufacturing industries in PRD region will also provide ample opportunities for CUHK’s R&D’s initiatives, employment and internship for our students in both Shenzhen and Shatin. It will reinforce Hong Kong’s role as an international metropolis and bring long-term benefits to CUHK. source |
The plethora of non-formal learning opportunities offered by the colleges complement the formal curricula, nurture students' interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity, and build up their confidence and sense of social responsibility. Scholarship and financial aid schemes may also be available to enable students to fully exploit the potential for personal growth. | The plethora of non-formal learning opportunities offered by the Colleges complement the formal curricula, nurture students' interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity, and build up their confidence and sense of social responsibility. And scholarship and financial aid schemes are available to enable one to fully exploit the potential for personal growth. source |
Hi there,
You blocked Mirno ( talk · contribs) on 12 December 2014. The user then made unblock requests on their talk page until their last activity on 17 December. Seto2001 ( talk · contribs), clearly an experienced editor, began editing on 26 December editing only longevity-related articles almost exclusively the same articles as the blocked user. Their editing has not included the same activity which got Mirno blocked (copyright infringement) but the so I can't be certain that it is the same person. Do you think a sock investigation is justified? Cheers, DerbyCountyinNZ ( Talk Contribs) 21:39, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl, wishing you all the best for 2015. – I feel a bit unsettled about having to do that to a colleague from Portal:Poland who does a lot of good work elsewhere, but this one (+18,655) slip, which is a massive WP:COPYVIO from http://www.katedra-wawelska.pl/english/brief_history_of_wawel_cathedral,32.html seems serious enough to warrant an investigation into possible other breaches of copyright law genuinely misunderstood by the user who just reverted it back. [11] You decide. Thanks in advance, Poeticbent talk 01:15, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the help, Moonriddengirl, much obliged. I will definitely try to help for the lasting benefit of our project. At a glance, the issues you raised in the new investigation seem to go way further than what I thought might have been happening. This is possibly the worst case scenario. I tried to use the Earwig's Copyvio Detector to make comparisons. I found out that ECD would not recognize complex URLs leading directly to machine translated text. So, therefore, the actual comparison needs to be performed manually. Here's the relevant example from Jan Dobrogost Krasiński per your request.
en.wiki | google translate [13] | original |
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Towards the end of his life, Krasiński became an ardent Catholic, but never fell into fanaticism, as evidenced by his friendly relations with the local Protestants. He banned the repression against the Reformed Church. Jan Dobrogost Krasiński died on February 21, 1717. His body was buried in a copper coffin in the crypt of the local monastery. His last will was a proof of his strong relationship with the city of Węgrów - he was the only one of the family to chose the monastery as his final resting place rather than temple in Krasne, traditional mausoleum of the Krasiński family.[5] |
At the end of life Krasinski became an ardent Catholic, but never fell into fanaticism, as evidenced by the friendliness [toward] Protestants. [He] Banned repression against Protestants [] John Krasinski Dobrogost died February 21, 1717 year. His body was buried in a copper coffin in the crypt of the church fathers, the reformers. This is a proof of its strong relationship with Wegrow, as the only one of the family to his eternal resting place chosen team monastery in our city and not a temple in Krasne, traditional mausoleum Krasinski. |
U schyłku życia Krasiński stał się gorliwym katolikiem, nigdy jednak nie popadł w fanatyzm, czego dowodem była życzliwość dla [] protestantów. Zakazywał represji przeciw ewangelikom [] Jan Dobrogost Krasiński zmarł 21 lutego 1717 roku. Jego ciało zostało pochowane w miedzianej trumnie, w krypcie kościoła ojców reformatów. Jest to dowód jego silnego związku z Węgrowem, ponieważ jako jedyny z rodu na miejsce swojego wiecznego spoczynku wybrał zespół klasztorny w naszym mieście a nie świątynię w Krasnem, tradycyjnym mauzoleum Krasińskich. |
Please tell me, how do you know these things without the knowledge of a language? Poeticbent talk 17:38, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for notifying me.
If you want more information, here is the beginning in October: Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#If_you_make_articles_on_ethnic_Indian_populations_in_Canada.2C_be_sure_to_include_info_on_Air_India_182.27s_impact_on_the_community.
For full disclosure: There was one edit in October I made where I was criticized by User:Antidiskriminator, in Talk:Indo-Canadians#Merge_discussion (background is in the first post about Air India) - He argued that I had made an error in conduct
It concerns this text that I made at (WhisperToMe (talk) 10:09, 18 October 2014 (UTC) ): "Oops. I didn't mean to imply that I'm of Indian heritage. I'm not of Indian heritage. Nonetheless, I have a revelation that you may be interested in. Let's discuss a lovely thing called WP:GNG. Let's review what it says. "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list." So what do we have? [...]"
Talk page discussions about the reply:
I don't recall receiving any messages like that since October
In November a user reported that there were no issues on my end in that discussion: Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Third opinion
"Comment 4: Skookum1's behaviour here has been pretty awful. Skookum1 should review WP:CIVIL and take it seriously. I commend WhisperToMe for keeping remarkably calm in the face of Skookum1's provocations, and for not being drawn into the cesspool of personal attacks and obscenities. We really don't need that in Wikipedia. Ground Zero | t 13:59, 14 November 2014 (UTC)" WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:42, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. I'll post it in the thread itself WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:55, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, hope you are having a good holiday, and Happy New Year 2015!! I'm looking at the Bwmoll3 CCI, as I have some expertise to help with that one. My question is how did you identify and track some of the original text sources (like at User_talk:Bwmoll3#Copyright_concerns) - was there some sort of tool? I'm having no luck. Best wishes Buckshot06 (talk) 23:31, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
I was multitasking when I read your comment and didn't pick-up on the fact that was posted in article space, versus Talk space. In view of that you're undoubtedly correct. DOCUMENT ★ ERROR 12:28, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. Hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I was wondering if you could find the time to take a look at an image I uploaded to commons, File:Chief Irataba of the Mojave Nation, February 1864, artist's impression.jpg. The original is obviously PD, but I want to make sure that I handled the paperwork adequately. Thanks! Rationalobserver ( talk) 19:59, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you about this. I appreciate your work with removing copyright issues, but I believe there were other sections on the page (such as notable alumni) and was wondering if you can restore those and any others that didn't violate copyrights (if there are any). Or even if you can provide me with the reference links and previous formatting so I can try to recreate the page in an acceptable way. Itshardfindingafreeusername ( talk) 03:13, 9 January 2015 (UTC)Itshardfindingafreeusername
Would you check if this edit [20] violates copyright? See WP:YOUTUBE, these videos are copyrighted and used as sources. Thanks OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 02:31, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I notice that User:MuZemike seems to be on a Wikibreak, and because of your prior involvement I would like to request your assistance with the conversation I just started on their User talk page in link. I have also left a similar note at User talk:Nick-D. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:56, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG! There is a new article, Practical Approximation Algorithms Library (PAAL) using content from Here. That page says that the software library being discussed, "and accompanying documentation" are covered by This License, which looks free-ish, with some small requirements. Would this be a compatible license to re-use that documentation in the local article? Thanks! Crow Caw 22:08, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, MRG! Can you please take a look on my response regarding copyright issue about Plemelj's geometrical constructions at article talk page? I would like to update and extend the article with new text, but some new (for me) strange copyright policies divert me of doing so. As Plemelj was in best world league of mathematicians, we at least owe him to construct a decent article about him. You can also give a note to suitable persons, who were involved in revert. You can reply on article's talk page. Best regards. -- xJaM ( talk) 12:28, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG. Could you please look at this and tell me if I've misunderstood the issue. LeadSongDog come howl! 20:20, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I have a question. File:Kalacakra Mandala construction by Lobsang Samten El Paso TX US 2012 (CE).ogv is labeled as "direct transfer". Does the WMF or OTRS have any record of an explicit release being made? — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 17:40, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Tito☸ Dutta 20:58, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl
I am sorry for violating the "copyvio rules" and copying and pasting the information from several sources on the internet. I would like to point out that not all of the Stanisław Kostka Potocki information has been entirely and directly copied from the internet. Mostly the last paragraphs and topics, i.e the architecture part, have been translated from Polish Wikipedia, which wouldn't be a violation of the code. Also I would like to point out that it is an important article, and blanking is not the best idea in this case, therefore I'd rather see the content deleted rather than blanked.
Thank you for cooperation, Oliszydlowski (TALK) 15:01, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl I write with regard to /info/en/?search=Practical_Approximation_Algorithms_Library_%28PAAL%29. Only part of the aricle was copy pasted. I'd like to remove this part and maybe replace it. Is it possible to restore (partialy) the previous page? AFAIK I do not have appropriate permission. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vwygos ( talk • contribs) 13:26, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, got a question on Image copyrights, one for my own consumption actually. I've got an article pending DYK for someone who died in 1904 ( Ernest Cashel). There are a few pictures of him out on the net, but the source pages claim copyright (such as [24]) or are unclear ( [25] sourced from [26]). I haven't really delved into image copyright as of yet, so I'm not sure what the standard is. Crow Caw 18:27, 20 January 2015 (UTC) Hi, User:Crow! Image copyright is not my area, but two things to consider there: people lie (or misunderstand copyright or come from different jurisdictions with different laws), and sometimes people who do have big budgets. The basic question is not when the man died, but when the pictures were originally published. As far as we're concerned (see wP:PD), content published before 1923 is public domain. (There is a very rare exception explained at that page.) The newspaper wanted picture should be public domain, by my understanding. (IANAL, and I cannot give legal advice and etc.) I'd upload it cheerfully. The other picture, it would depend not on when it was taken but when it was published. The expiration of copyright depends on publication date, which complicates old photographs. Usually, I'd trot things past the people at WP:MCQ, if in doubt. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:18, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
At User talk:Erica Blatt Harkins I (and a couple of others) am trying to advise a lady who has uploaded here on en.wiki photographs of her father and mother from the 1920s through the 1950s, mostly taken in Romania, which were given or bequeathed to her. She has problems with template syntax. I've advised her to e-mail OTRS and found what I believe is the form she needs to fill out; I would much appreciate it if you would cast an eye over the lower sections of her user talk page in case I've given bad or incomplete advice. If you can, thanks in advance. Yngvadottir ( talk) 06:03, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi again, Moonriddengirl!
I raised an issue at Wikipedia talk:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License § Numbered headings but thought I would mention it here for your attention as I have realised it has legal implications regarding Wikipedia's license terms. It's to do with a feature that automatically numbers headings which are different from those in the license text, which could cause ambiguity over which sections apply in particular contexts. Hopefully this will be clear from my comments at the above discussion page.
Thanks! — sroc 💬 14:47, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
A protocol question here. I identified the problems at this article and Bitburg Air Base (or was closely associated in identifying them). With the elapse of time, is it good practice for the identifying editor/admin to delete the articles, or should I leave them for others? Kind regards and best wishes with all your work... Buckshot06 (talk) 20:07, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Go to your archives and see, there is more. Bladesmulti ( talk) 16:06, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
You had somewhere said that copying quotes is allowed only if: # Its usage would be considered fair use in United States copyright law, #It's used for a purpose that can't be fulfilled by free material (text or images, existing or to be created) #The usage of the non-free media complies with the above and the rest of the Non-free content criteria, and #It has a valid rationale indicating why its usage would be considered fair use within Wikipedia policy and US law.
Are these rules relevant in practice? And also on talk pages, as I was told that copyright violation in just any diff is condemned. Bladesmulti ( talk) 00:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
It's a while that things are out of control in ISIL. One of the major problems is the texts which violate the copy right and the article is being viewed many times nowadays. I've already tagged a section, but I'm sure there are still other parts to be investigated. Some of my findings (only my findings) are as follows:
As you see, the main concern is with "Sexual violence and slavery" section. Mhhossein ( talk) 03:57, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi...can you please do something about the Beyonce awards page. FUSE never confirmed that she was the most awarded female artist of all time..that list was proven to be inaccurate and no search engine or respected citation supports it. The amount of awards on that page does not add up to 500 and her career awards (the ones with DC) does not add up to 500. Also her awards with DC (aside from the ones from ASCAP and the Grammys) need to be moved back to the DC page. Kendallxoxo ( talk) 08:47, 23 January 2015 (UTC) |
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I read your assessment on the talk page for the draft of Dark regarding the copyright of the film's synop originally included in the draft which has since been edited out. I do own the copyright on the synop and have followed your advice to resend the email stating such to permissions at wikipedia. Hopefully, the synop will be able to be added back in. My question is when will the current draft be added publicly to Wikipedia as an article? Are there any other steps I need to take first, before it is published?
much appreciated,
Quatticapic Quatticapic ( talk) 11:16, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
On film article pages isn't it customary to include a synop among other pertinent information about the title? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quatticapic ( talk • contribs) 08:48, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi there Moonriddengirl, could you please take a look at this article Bahla Fort and see if there are any copyvios? Thank you. Gryffindor ( talk) 08:58, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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Marge6914 ( talk) 19:44, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
I see you are active in dealing with copyright violations. I have found that the article Symbiodinium contains a lot of material identical to this Marine Biology Resource Network site. Large chunks of this information were added by Allisonmlewis to Wikipedia in March 2012, with 34,000 bytes added in a single day.
If this is a copyright violation I could remove the information and replace it with something acceptable. However, I am a bit puzzled. Both places mention things in parenthesis such as (Fig. 2A). Wikipedia has figures 2A & B (apparently Allisonmlewis' own work), but the Marine Biology source does not, as far as I can see. So is the Marine Biology source copying Wikipedia rather than the other way round? For the moment, I have added the article to the "Copyright problems" page but am happy to improve the article myself if it really is a copyright violation. The editor concerned no longer seems to be active. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:03, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Okay, so here is a change that moves the content away from the source. That's not good for the article. But this is a change that moves it towards the source. Which is. Another change away. And another change towards. Change towards. Change towards.
Here, I think, we have our rosetta stone: [33] - in the edit summary. :) At this point, I'm convinced that this content was on Wikipedia before it was on that external site, but that it was a document being collaborated on both elsewhere and here. I'd bet that the people who developed it together in said Word document and on Wikipedia where then involved in publishing it at marinebio.ca and if I were to spend more time would be looking for signs that the primary contributors here incorporate their changes, but not changes supplied by others. I don't think that's strictly necessary, though, because the incremental changes to this article that made their way into that external site more or less eliminate copying from them to us.
I'm going to put a note on the talk page explaining why I think this is okay and offering directions for further steps in case my conclusion is in error.
That one was an interesting challenge, Cwmhiraeth. :) Thanks for finding something out of the run of the mill. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:14, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi MRG! I could do with your assistance at Foam Concrete. It was created by a new editor who basically copy and pasted most of it. It has been nominated for speedy deletion under G12, but I removed that tag after the author re-wrote sections of the article to the point that I felt G12 no longer applied. I have pointed out that they need to re-write other sections of the article too — see User talk:Siva175 and Talk:Foam Concrete. They have done this, but seem to have exchanged parts of of the copy and paste text for 'new' copy and paste text; see [34] in conjunction with http://blite.in/tech.html. What concerns me is that some of the matched phrases are coming up on a large variety of different websites. It's almost as though they have copy and pasted some kind of 'product blurb' from somewhere I can't pin down. The other issue is that every version of page history has infringing material in it. So, I'm just looking for some advice/assistance really. Many thanks. Bellerophon talk to me 21:56, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello MRG, I've rewritten a basic draft of the Foam Concrete article at
Talk:Foam Concrete/Temp. Would you mind giving it the once over in case I've not done a very good job (I am rather tired) and if its acceptable I could do with your assistance in moving the contents and history to the moonscape mainspace article.
Bellerophon
talk to me
22:58, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
I think it eliminates the problem. I've put it into article space. Thanks for your patience and work there. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:23, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, this article was found to have some significant copypaste from the tagged source listed in the copypaste template up top: these paragraphs were removed by the person who found the problem. I started a Good Article reassessment that has just concluded with the article being delisted. However, I suspect that stronger measures are in order.
First, the copypaste source also has been closely paraphrased elsewhere in the article. Also, another source from that same site was copied to a somewhat lesser extent (though I think stretches of 17, 24, and 31 words are clearly excessive). I couldn't get the direct URLs to work for some reason, but searching the relevant article title at the site does turn the article up at the same URL.
When removing the article from the Good Article pages, I discovered that there was another Texan schooner Good Article, Texan schooner Independence, and a quick check shows some similar problems, though not as acute. Indeed, there are four schooner articles started by the same user, Argos'Dad, in September and October 2007, though I didn't find anything clear on Texan schooner Liberty, and haven't checked Texan schooner Brutus. I also haven't checked any other articles by this user.
I'm hoping I can leave it to you to check this, determine what needs to be done with the original article and the other GA in terms of removing any violations, and proceed as appropriate. I'll stop by again to see what you think. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:36, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Maggie. I've uploaded to Commons a photo of an old music manustript from the 18th century scanned from a book which is younger. May I ask you if is it allowed? I'll ask for deletion if not ... For relevant discussion see User_talk:Gerda_Arendt#A_Bach_featured_day_is_always_a_good_day..._Congrats_on_BWV22_feature.. Thank you for any advice. Best regards. -- Vejvančický ( talk / contribs) 16:46, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl (cc. Justlettersandnumbers). I created a page called Solvatten, which was subsequently removed due to concerns around copyright infringements (some of the text matched that found on www.solvatten.se). An email has now been sent from a representative of Solvatten, which follows the guidelines given here Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. This is all new to me, so I'd be very grateful if you could indicate whether the original entry can now be restored. With thanks, Tmrl84 ( talk) 15:40, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
I notice that the ANI discussion was archived without a resolution. Is this normal? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:24, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm trying to get all of you to listen to my objections to the rule-mongering about page-cites and here you are styling me as not leaving "reasonable replies". What I've been subjected to in the way of demands and claims and distortions by WTM has not been reasonable at all. Now it seems WTM has launched a drive to make citing "rules" all the more inhibitive; if you don't like the "rules" once it's been pointed out making up conflations of them and claiming they are mandatory, then hey, why not write new, stronger ones? The deeper POV issues of his attacks and guideline-SYNTHing are the core issue, and it's not me who's being unreasonable.
Sounding reasonable while talking b.s. is not actual reason, and it's uncivil when it's been so persistent and constant, always painting me as the bad guy when I'm standing up for NPOV and my knowledge of the material, which all those condemning me have little appreciation of, including those who say they don't care about it and refuse to read what I have to say.
The enablement of his ongoing AGF towards me for months now is ongoing, it seems, and increasingly hopeless as so many reasonable (not just reasonable-sounding) editors have given up or been driven out.
Calling my rebuke of his offer to send me copies of a book I've already read and which guidelines DO NOT require page cites for (in spite of his claims to the contrary) "hostility" completely belies the FACT that he's been hostile to a host of issues and sources I've provided while he's been mounting his campaign to silence and/or block me.
you all should give your heads a shake. And at yourselves, not at me. What I see above is rank AGF from all of you, and no understanding whatsoever or a readiness to consider the very real and very important POV/propaganda agenda that is the article's, and WTM's, main problem; the content he adds is POV in the extreme, and uses selective quotes to advance SYNTH of a very negative and one-sided type; and WP:NCET's self-identification guideline is among the many that he ignores in advancing his claim that capital-W "White" should be used because a non-European Canadian author uses it. That and many other rankly POV issues will never be addresse by any of you, while you're busy conferring about how to deal with me.
Best way to do THAT is to give fair consideration to my points about guidelines re instruction creep instead of only discuss your AGF perspectives about my "conduct" and treat him with kid-gloves as if anything I saw were invalid, but everything he says is valid because he sounds reasonable, but he's not. Skookum1 ( talk) 06:52, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I sent a question regarding a deleted page. Thanks. Anilakeo ( talk) 04:54, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
For creating the article on Heidegger scholar
Parvis Emad. — Tom Morris ( talk) 18:32, 15 February 2015 (UTC) |
Can you briefly waive my upload ban so I can add a lead image for the ITN RD bio of Bob Simon? I've posted a request for a non-free photo, which are everywhere, but no efforts have been made. And while you're considering that, how do I request that the full ban be lifted? I don't foresee any future image issues, as I have agreed to post front and back images, include relevant dates, proper licenses, etc. -- Light show ( talk) 23:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Would you have a look at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute? With the nature and amount of unsourced added I found it appropriate to restore your last version. -- Sam Sing! 11:03, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi again! As mentioned in the CP talk page, the issue I'm working is User:Spyda2. He/she creates article lists about seniority in the various US Congress sessions, essentially a large table. The part that is in question is the lead of each page, which would flag the CorenBot nearly every time (I've since whitelisted him, not to excuse the problem but to save SCV volunteer time since I'm watching this case). The text of the lead is fairly factual, but it is the question of creative presentation and word choice. I've asked him a couple of times to just leave an initial edit summary, and even formatted it for him. He's not edited sine my last note, so I'm watching to see what happens before escalation. Thoughts? Recommendations? Thanks as always! Crow Caw 22:53, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Ping doesn't seem to be on, so I'm using tb instead. An interesting little problem brought to me involving pinched barnstars and possible copyright issues on photos, including compatibility with 4.0. Peridon ( talk) 20:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
As the subject says ha!
Ban away I couldn't care less. Only signed up for that one joke.
Enjoy your power trip :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thisisjustajoke ( talk • contribs) 14:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, can you take a look at this. Because I had to type it all from the source I stopped at the top of page 11 and so only tagged a single section. Not sure if I've done this right. Email sent also, to both your accts. Thanks, Victoria ( tk) 17:50, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, I'd really appreciate it if you took a look at the article soon, as I'm afraid my hard work will be deleted for non-action. As you probably remember, we've discussed close paraphrasing in depth, and I truly feel that what I've contributed falls well within the acceptable limits as you've explained them to me. At the very worst, a simple copyedit that paraphrases and attributes would solve any actual issues, so it would be a real shame if the article were deleted when all it needs is a minor polishing. More importantly, the crux of Victoria's SPI against me is that I don't properly paraphrase, but she is obviously biased against anyone she suspects of being ILT, so we really need a neutral party to take a look at the paraphrasing and confirm or deny if the problem is as pressing as Victoria says. Rationalobserver ( talk) 17:45, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
reviewing eyes
Your name was mentioned in relation to PumpkinSky ("... someone whose conversant in the copyvio area should be added to his list of mentors, someone like Moonridden girl."). I would appreciate highly if you reviewed just one article in his CCI (of 11 left of 729) and join the distinguished list of reviewers. I have been labelled an "absolute supporter of the copyright violator" and would live happier without that, an absolute supporter of a person. - Repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (21 April 2009, 7 June 2009, 20 January 2011)!
Three years ago, you were the 37th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:24, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello there, Moonriddengirl. I'm contacting you regarding a copyvio violation made by Nardisoero ( talk · contribs) (apart from their addition of unsourced facts) because you had already warned the user about the introduction of copypasted material into articles. Please refer to the last paragraph of the ″History″ section of Surinam Airways. It is almost identical to the content included in the companion two sources. I don't know how to proceed with this. The user has a history of both copyright violations and addition of unsourced material but they doesn't seem to acknowledge the messages left at their talk. Thanks in advance.-- Jetstreamer Talk 13:50, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I've come across an that was lifted nearly verbatim from this version of the person's page on Liquipedia without attribution as requested here. I haven't really dealt with a situation like this before, but all signs point towards this edit being a copyright violation because there is no attribution. Reverting the change and deleting the delinquent revision seems like an appropriate course of action, but I wanted to ask a second opinion because I'm a bit rusty. Cheers, Airplaneman ✈ 07:22, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, As I looked at The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog page on Wikipedia, I understood that a copyvio notice is under the Synopsis. As I double check each page, I and someone rewrote it on the temp page without copyright infringement. Those this page doesn't need a Synopsis even though the information of the show is already up next to the title. The Characters and Episodes are understandable and info is intact. Once you reviewed it and feel that a Synopsis is no longer needed for The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, go ahead and remove the Synopsis part and leave the rest intact without problems. Thanks. Agentmike41 ( talk) 15:18, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl,
Please see the comments on my talk page. Viriditas is requesting help from another administrator. WhisperToMe ( talk) 02:16, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
I approached this with an open mind. I was friendly with both parties and tried to give equal consideration to each side. After examining concerns from both editors I have reached a final conclusion. Skookum1 is engaging in WP:IDHT behavior that makes it impossible to communicate or collaborate with him. He does have moments of lucidity which always surprise me, as if there are two different people using his account (there aren't). Because he is unwilling to change his behavior, there is nothing more to discuss with him. Looking through the archives, there is long-term pattern of WP:DIVA and paranoid behavior, combined with uncontrolled personal attacks that he is unwilling to modify and that the community is also unwilling to address. In my investigation, I found WhisperToMe willing to engage, collaborate, and compromise in a civil manner. I would like to suggest that Skookum1 be given a final warning before receiving a long block. Viriditas ( talk) 06:32, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
I don't have time to read all of the above right now as I'm about to go out, but from your opening I came into this as an administrator because you asked for somebody to review copyright problems" - I'd asked that the massive amounts of info-dumping that were going on (and still continue albeit in sandbox) looked suspiciously like pastiches of copyrighted material; what he does, actually, is often just make one word in quotes and page-cites that one word; that his whole gist is cribbed from a certain body of "racialized" literature (at the expense and to the exclusion of anything that does not meet his approval) is guideline-wise "OK" and I often rephrase or condense what certain sources say myself (e.g. the entries in BCGNIS, or what used to be called that; it's not the BC Names Office of GeoBC); , but his reliance and echoing of the biases in his preferred sources, and his campaign to discredit me got harsher and more prolix than even I have EVER been. He repeatedly rejected and AGFd and sought to guideline-flail sources he should read that I fielded and issues/events he should have spent some time investigating instead of being a parrot for the hate-mongering racialized content of "scholarly" sources and ethno-political diatribes, in all their over-published glory, replete with many easily disprovable FACTS.
That you didn't find any COPYVIOs is fine, that was a side-issue relative to the POV problems you and others continue to ignore and deflect.....but that you ignored my points about POV then and now and wrap yourself in your cloak of admin-ly inviolability on content matters, but turned your guns on me personally without realizing/recognizing that amount of AGF/NPA and obstructive behaviour that was coming at me and about me in DELUGES remains a bone of contention for me about you. Once COPYVIO worries were set aside, that should have ended your involvement.
Instead you threw a one-woman grenade at me and invited others to catcall and berate me without cause related to the dispute about CONTENT and you didn'ty say "boo" about false claims levelled against me in the ANI you launched, which seriously derailed any energy and remaining goodwill for working on improving the mass of POV junk that continued to be built while the campaign to rid me of Wikipedia fovever was mounted....with my posts on ANI fiddled with by somebody who had an ANI against himself open at the same time, and who had no connection with the topic of the dispute; just rank hatred for having shown his POVness and exposed his bias and suspect edit-comment behaviour and more.
So what I read about policy was that NPOV, COPYVIO and VERIFIABILITY were all "non negotiable"...... so if COPYVIO was your purview, whose is NPOV? Or are you only seeing yourself as a "behaviour controller" separate completely from editorial control?
That one policy could be put before any of the others, and that behavioural guidelines could be conflated and one-side-targeted so wantonly is not in anything I've read about policy. And he has been around long enough (since 2007 I think) to know what WP:NPOV and WP:POV fork have to say; and yet he stated outright a rejoinder to the POV fork policy that indicates he either doesn't comprehend it or never read it; and he doesn't understand (or claims not to) what "POV" is, or NPOV either.
I'm going to go out and have a good time with real people and put this out of my mind for the evening; I would have spent today on various article improvements and starts/fixes (interestingly, given the disabusing of capital-W "Whites" and Wikipedia's endemic passion for ethnic breakdowns, British Canadian is a primary-topic dab page long - long - in need of doing.
But tell me this - if you aren't a WMFer able to or equipped to take on NPOV violations, who is. And how many WMF staffers are engaged in content NPOV and quality/literacy/cogency control, and how many (by comparison) spend most of their time on "behavioural guidelines" and/or writing/commenting on same. Is there anyone at WMF's little paid-admin bubble who is a content controller, to coin a term? Or has it just come down to patrolling the community and not giving a fig about the resulting content being politicized and OR'd? Given the continued existence of overt Original Research opuses like Quadripoint and Four corners (Canada) it seems not.
Whatever else you've said above I have no more time to today; spinning off your last line, though, it is open to you to reconsider your role in perpetrating POV by going after the editor whose cause has been NPOV and fair content all along, since long before you weighed in and painted a "hit me" target on his forehead with your ANI. It is open to you to consider the damage to the public record that your standoffishness from editorial matters because of your "rules" ('there are no rules' remember?) by allowing POV to stand untouched, while you support and launch campaigns and comments to indict a long-time editor who is equipped and dedicated to fairness and encylopedically-valid content.
Fine, you've put yourself in some kind of official bubble about keeping behavioural stuff separate from editorial/content problems....... how nice. But why is it that others who similarly have the same capacity as you have weighed in on editorial matters, rather regularly too?
Is there no one at WMF who actually writes content or do you all spend your time patrplling and condemning and admonishing people who DO? Skookum1 ( talk) 13:27, 10 March 2015 (UTC)